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Smoke signals from your body!

Collection of changes to improve our gameplay experience
- Body and backpack emit smoke signals. Smoke color is configurable.
- Extended corpse and backpack decay to 8 hours
- Dropped items have 30 minute decay
- NPC (dino) dropped packs have a smaller smoke signal

Casual player(s)? Tired of frantically, fruitlessly searching for your body?
This mod slows the decay of your body to 8 hours (real time) and your body will emit a smoke signal. If your body is destroyed via damage (eaten), it drops a backpack as it normally would. Now the backpack decay has been slowed to 8 hours and your backpack will also emit a smoke signal.

MOD ID: 700708030

PLEASE NOTE:
Load this mod first. This mod makes changes to the player pawns. This means it would likely only function with Stackable mods if this is the first mod to load.
ALSO:
Because this mod uses different player pawn sub-classes you may not see the smoke effects until you die and re-spawn. You DON'T need to create a new survivor. The newly spawned player pawn will have the changes from this mod. (the smoke, etc.)

Changes miscellaneous dropped items to a 30 minute decay. (Don't litter excessively or it could pile up.) Not recommended for PVP or large slot servers due to potential for corpse and dropped item clutter.

Players:
There is now a CasPack Mod Options menu. Open the mod options by pressing the "o" key.
You can change the color of your corpse smoke. This change only affects you and is reset to default color when you respawn.

Server Admins:
GameUserSettings.ini options.
All options must be in the [CasPackSettings] section of the ini file.
You will have to add this section. Its not there by default.

Default smoke color
You can set a default player corpse smoke color by setting:
DefaultCasPackCorpseSmokeColorValues=rrr,ggg,bbb
Where each of the values is 0-100.
For example, to set default smoke color to all red:
DefaultCasPackCorpseSmokeColorValues=100,0,0

Disable Mod Options Menu
You can disable the player's mod options menu. (so players can't change smoke color)
bDisableCasPackOptionsMenu=true

Example setting both options:
[CasPackSettings]
DefaultCasPackCorpseSmokeColorValues=100,0,0
bDisableCasPackOptionsMenu=true

Corpse and item decay rates can be adjusted in the game ini file. So, you can reduce or extend them as desired. The settings are in the Game.ini file. The two for decay timers are:
GlobalCorpseDecompositionTimeMultiplier
GlobalItemDecompositionTimeMultiplier
This page linked below covers the GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini files and how to tweak them. There's a lot of good stuff there.
http://ark.gamepedia.com/Server_Configuration

This is a re-implementation of my original Slow Stuff Decay mod that should be more reliable than the old mod.
There are additional mods in the "CasPack" family. I'll add those to the workshop as they become available.