ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Upgrade My Dino - Mod Wild Stat Levels, Imprints, & More
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Kozenomenon  [developer] Dec 28, 2020 @ 9:21am
Gacha Features
NOTE: Throughout the below details configuration options are mentioned. Not all config options are mentioned. There are many Gacha related toggles and other settings. See the CONFIG SETTINGS discussion for full details on those settings.

NOTE: These features will work for vanilla Gachas and modded Gachas. Modded Gachas that are created as a child (inherited) of vanilla Gacha should work as-is. Modded Gachas that are created as copies of vanilla will not work with these features unless the mod author opts to implement MOD INTEGRATION.

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🢜 🢝 🢞 🢟 Gacha Features 🢟 🢞 🢝 🢜
UMD automatically adds a buff to Gachas that enables these features. Gachas are not remapped and every attempt has been made for all of these features to not interfere with other mods etc.
  • Production/Emotion HUD
  • Production Radial Selection Colors
  • Food Fix
  • Wild Inventory Taming
  • Reroll Resource Production

Production/Emotion HUD
A HUD (heads up display) is shown over all Gachas that gives you quick insight as to what resources that Gacha has as well as how happy or sad they are. You will see this over tamed Gachas that are yours or part of your tribe when within the configured distance (default is 2000 or just over 6 foundations). Wild Gachas will show this as well when within that same distance, but only when you look directly at them (target them).

The resources displayed will be shown in colored boxes. The colors for the 4 types of resource are configurable- defaults are:
  • Common - White/FFFFFFFF
    • 3x of these
  • Uncommon - Green/00FF00FF
    • 2x of these
  • Rare - Magenta/FF00FFFF
    • 1x of these
  • Very Rare - Cyan/00FFFFFF
    • 1x of these
    • 3% chance to replace 'rare' selection
    • Vanilla only has Element Dust for this type
The current production selection will be shown as a more pronounced box outline around the item icon. If 'any' is selected then none are shown as pronounced.

The current emotion of the Gacha is displayed in the center of the HUD. An emoji icon shows for Happy, Neutral, or Sad depending on the current emotion value. The percentage value is shown below that in a text box. UMD does not change the Gacha's emotion in anyway, it is only providing the information that the Gacha has.

The HUD will fade in/out as you approach or move away from the Gacha.

There are config settings to control server baseline values for the HUD, and then the player can select from radial menu additional changes to the display: scale, opacity, horizontal, and vertical offset.


Production Radial Selection Colors
The Production radial menu is colored so the text is the same colors as the HUD's item icons. Wild Gachas will also have the Production radial menu available, however, it is for viewing purposes only- selecting one does not do anything.


Food Fix
All Gachas will receive a fix to their food settings so that they will not eat UMD items as part of their vanilla digestion features. There may be other items affected by this change that the Gachas will no longer eat- most likely some other mod items.


Wild Inventory Taming
Wild Gachas will have a special inventory available to access. If you place items in that inventory the wild Gacha will immediately begin to consider whether they like the item/s and if it does it will consume them for taming purposes. The taming should work similar to how it does for the items it would normally pickup from the ground. This is intended as QoL change so you do not have to run around and try to drop items in their path, or go back and retrieve items the Gacha missed.
Once taming is successful, any remaining items in this special inventory will be automatically transferred to the Gacha's normal tamed inventory- and access to the special inventory is removed (no longer needed).


Reroll Resource Production
UMD includes an item in the Other category called 'Reroll Gacha Resources'. As the name suggests, it will randomly reselect your Gacha's resources. The change will be immediate and will show on the HUD and radial production menu. Current production selection will be reset to 'any'. It is possible for the same selections to be selected again, though unlikely. The item has dynamic description/tooltip text that will show what the current resources are and additional info below that regarding what server config settings affect the use of the item.
Last edited by Kozenomenon; Dec 28, 2020 @ 9:22am