ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Best Eggs!
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Kozenomenon  [developer] Dec 9, 2019 @ 4:06pm
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If you think you've found something wrong please let me know here.

Include as much detail as you can to help in researching the issue.
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l1234m Dec 12, 2019 @ 9:48am 
"Makes best Eggs" is written twice in the engram description
Kozenomenon  [developer] Dec 12, 2019 @ 10:04am 
Oops- thanks for letting me know!
gitan Dec 13, 2019 @ 10:41am 
Thx for answer. I said i have a problem with the egg maker. I try at sevral times with several dino. I don't found the mother, and she is near the egg. What can i do? Thx
Kozenomenon  [developer] Dec 13, 2019 @ 11:00am 
@gitan please provide more info.
For it to say mom not found means it is reading the mom's dino ID from the egg. And it means that none of the tamed dinos nearby match that dino ID.
I have not come across this issue myself unless I was mistaken and the parents were not nearby. (such as when I had some of my breeders locked away in a cryofridge and had forgotten about that...)
I'm not trying to say its impossible there is a bug- and certainly if there is I would want to get it fixed...
So I am hoping if you can provide more details it can shed more light on what is happening, bug or no..

Here are some things to be aware of as well, in case it helps..
  • The dino names displayed on an egg as 'parents' are the names taken at the time the egg was made. These names do not update on the egg if you later change the parents names. Best Egg Maker does not use these names when looking for nearby parents and other ancestors.
  • Hidden from you, wildcard stores the parent/ancestor dino IDs in the eggs. Best Egg Maker is retrieving these hidden values along with the hidden stat values to do what it does.
  • Dino IDs should not change normally, even if you change a dino's name, put a dino in a cryopod, or server xfer the dino.
  • Dino Clones are -not- the same dino and would have different dino IDs.
  • Mods that store dinos or change dinos could possibly be re-generating the dinos without your knowledge using new dino IDs. I am not sure why a mod author would opt to do this, but mentioning it as a possibility.
gitan Dec 13, 2019 @ 11:21am 
Thx for answer. I give y more information this evening
gitan Dec 14, 2019 @ 1:17am 
Hello
I retested with a couple of triceratops.
https://prnt.sc/qaotmh
The mother is lvl 232 (tamed 202) the father is lvl 264 (tamed 224).
They made two eggs. Here is the egg maker's message on each egg.
https://prnt.sc/qaouqn
https://prnt.sc/qaovbv
Anyway thank you for your work and for responding to me.
Nice day.
Kozenomenon  [developer] Dec 14, 2019 @ 8:00am 
Thanks @gitan - I will test some Trikes just to be sure it works ok with them though I am not sure why it wouldn't.
Were these two Trikes themselves children of mating? Can you show the screen of their ancestors?

Does clicking Refresh do anything?

I should have mentioned before but I decided to cache the egg data, ancestors found and what stat results locally. Looking for all that causes a delay and the cache helps the UI be more responsive. It keeps the data for 60 seconds (this is per player, client side cache) or you can click the Refresh buttons to refresh current select or all of them. Refresh will purge your local cache and force it to rescan for each egg's ancestors when you select them.

I think I will dump the cache when you close the inventory UI so closing the Best Egg Maker and coming back will force new data to display.

And... I think I will make the details UI I originally intended to make. UI will pop up from a button and display stuff in a grid for the Egg's Ancestors, their IDs, if they were found- what stats they have etc. And then perhaps in separate list/tab- show all other tamed dinos of egg's type within range and what IDs they have etc.
gitan Dec 14, 2019 @ 10:06am 
Both parents were tamed. Here is the information of the ancetes. I try the refresh option without getting any changes. Thank you for your work and excuse this translation of French from google.

https://hebergeur-images.com/up/7f746965e87f975e022df1541ee186e3.jpg

https://hebergeur-images.com/up/3ebee5c1b063a87f70e037232ba88be3.jpg
gitan Dec 14, 2019 @ 10:11am 
Before triceratops, i tested with turtles and therizinasaurus. Always the mother is not found. ;)
Kozenomenon  [developer] Dec 14, 2019 @ 11:07am 
I see ty. I wonder now if this is something to do with French unicode characters in the ancestor names. I'll see if I can reproduce the issue using some French dino names maybe.. Thx!
Kozenomenon  [developer] Dec 14, 2019 @ 11:33am 
Thanks @gitan! I was able to reproduce this issue using dino name 'Tricératops' :D
Specifically it is the é character that seems to be causing the problem. I suspect it will be the same or similar result for any characters that aren't from the english alphabet (so unicode vs ascii).

I'll look into fixing it! Thanks for your help with this!

In the meantime, if it is possible for you to name your dinos using just english letters- before you make the eggs- you should not have the problem.

Best Eggs doesn't use the names from the eggs for matching, but it does have to read the raw binary data of the egg because Wildcard does not expose any of this information in the usual fashion. And the names are... in the way so to speak, so it needs to determine "length of name text" to skip past to where the dino ID is at.. anyhoo maybe that's more detail than you wanted haha...
gitan Dec 14, 2019 @ 12:01pm 
You are the best 😊
gitan Dec 14, 2019 @ 2:23pm 
I change the mane "Tricératops" in "Triceratops", same problem. I try to name them "strike" same problem.

I try with "Allosaure" (french name) changed in "Allosaurus" same problem....

Always mother no found. Good luck and good night
Kozenomenon  [developer] Dec 14, 2019 @ 2:28pm 
Thanks again @gitan - I have a fix for this in the devkit, need to do some further testing, but hope to have an update out later tonight or tomorrow.
Here is a screen showing it working in the kit with name Tricératops
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1936892139
Kozenomenon  [developer] Dec 14, 2019 @ 3:28pm 
Hey @gitan I have the fix uploaded to a test version of the mod if you'd like to try that.
I won't be able to fully test this to verify its good until later tonight. Once I know its good I can upload the fix for the actual mod.
Best Eggs Test Version
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