ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Best Eggs!
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Kozenomenon  [developer] Jan 12, 2020 @ 9:04pm
Water Eggs / Gestation Eggs
How To: Gather Water Eggs
To pickup all water eggs in range use the radial menu option 'Gather Water Eggs'.
  • Range is same as used for ancestor search
  • Notification message will tell you how many eggs were found & gathered
  • This will not gather more water eggs than inventory max items allows
  • Water Eggs can be made into Best Eggs like any other egg
  • Make sure you place the Water Egg in the water! Placing Water Eggs outside water will destroy the egg!

How To: Gestation Eggs
Gestation Eggs is enabled at the Best Egg Maker using the radial menu option. Enabling it will cause all tamed, adult, female gestation dinos in range to get a Gestater Egg Buff.
  • Range is same as used for ancestor search
  • Buff will display blinking Best Eggs icon above the female
  • Water Gestaters in range will also get the buff, icon is round like a water egg
  • Buff temporarily makes dino an egg layer
  • Eggs laid will always look the same
  • On Dedicated Server games the Egg's display name will update correctly after it has been picked up
  • Water Gestater Eggs can be retrieved using 'Gather Water Eggs' radial menu option like other water eggs
  • If dino with Gestater Egg Buff leaves range the buff will be removed
  • While this is enabled Best Egg Maker will refresh the buffs or apply it to new dinos in range every 30 seconds
  • When Gestater Egg Buff is removed the dino will once again use gestation
Config 'GestationEggsInterval' allows you to change how frequently the Best Egg Maker will scan for gestaters to apply the egg buff. Default 30s, consider how many Best Egg Makers may exist on your server before you lower this value. There is 'cost' to performance for these scans even if you do not see/feel it and as more structures exist on the server this cost can start to add up. I will be reviewing the logic used for the scan, there is likely ways to make it more efficient and I will. But ultimately, you still do not really want this running every few seconds... :D
Also of note, the Best Egg Maker has been changed more recently so that it does not go into Stasis like most structures and dinos do. This is so that it can still be awake to continue applying gestater egg buffs if you decide to leave this on and let gestaters pump out eggs for you. For the most part this has mitigated for the chance that a gestater completes mating at a moment when it does not have the buff and then gestates instead of laying an egg. It might still be a possible outcome, but I have yet to see it myself.

Last edited by Kozenomenon; Apr 6, 2020 @ 5:26am