ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Automated Ark 3 RP Edition - Core
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blitzfire911  [developer] Mar 7, 2020 @ 10:10am
How to use the mod and what everything does.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~CORE AA Mod Items~~~~~~~~~~~~~

***AA Control Console
-The AA Control Console is the core of the entire AA Smart Pulling system and is required for almost all pulling in AA. Also has features like being able to disable head movements of all dinos in range and much more. Using a * or ~ in the name of any dino or structure will prevent it from being pulled to/from.

***AA Chem Bench
-A Chemistry Bench that is Refrigerated, faster, and with Auto Pulling

***AA Mortar and Pestle
-Same as AA Chem Bench, but a bit slower and less recipes

***AA Grinder
-A Grinder with a grind all button, and OCD Sorting so you can automatically send your junk straight to the grinder when sorting.

***AA Industrial Forge
-Speed confugurable via ini, Automatically collects metal from dinos when you get back from a farming run. Just wait for the metal to pull, and then tell the console to sort, and you wont have to touch a thing. When making gasoline this also pushes the gas to nearby generators evenly. Also has a manual balance forges button so you can dump a bunch of stuff in one forge, hit the button and it will balance it out between all forges.

***AA Industrial Mini Forge
-Same as the bigger AA Industrial forge except slower, and burns wood incredibly fast for charcoal production. Recommended fuel for metal smelting is Sparkpowder.

***AA Smithicator Bottom
-Can craft all items in your engram list that are not crafted in other AA Stations with auto pulling. If it is showing less engrams than expected, check the ini options for the safety bypass.

***AA Smithicator Top
-Can craft all items in vanilla fabricator, as well as tek. Snaps to the top of the Smithicator bottom. Can run on gas or electricity.

***AA Vacuum
-Picks stuff up off the floor for you. Great to use in conjunction with the AA Control Console. Simply drop everything on the floor, let it get picked up, and then hit sort on your console. Everything is now where it needs to be.

***THATCH OCD VAULT

***MARBLE OCD VAULT

***METAL OCD VAULT

***OCD DROP VAULT
-AA OCD Vaults can be set to store any and all items you want them too. When the AA Control Console Automatically sorts, you hit the manual sort button in the console, or hit N with the AA Helper Remote in your hands it will receive all items set to be stored there from the AA Control Console. A set it and forget it storage solution. This same system applies to all AA OCD Structures.


***AA Oil Drum
- Early game storage for bio oil, that's it. No pulling, mostly decorative.

***AA Polymer Transmuter
- Converts polymer between all 3 forms available, Just make sure its not clipped into the wall if it says you cant access it.

***AA Feeding Trough
- Refrigerated, requires power, multiple troughs can be "chained" and balanced. Simply load one trough up with all of the food, hit balance, and they will be evenly distrubuted between all troughs in range. Note Sweet Veggie Cakes will not be balanced so they will stay near your snails. Does not have an adjustable range, yet.

***AA Trash Can
- Ever wanted a place to just delete stuff? This is it. Sort your implants, recipes, etc here, click the delete button to make them gone. Has OCD Sorting.

***AA Workbench
- This is where you craft most Automated Ark structures, complete with Autopulling.

***AA Building Helper
- Allows picking up building pieces from a distance with right click, can run a manual sort by hitting the N button, pick up objects in an area around you by hitting P, delete the "satchel" for dropped items with right click. Can add a rename option to any structure with an inventory.

***AA Engram Pod
- Save your current engrams to the pod for re-learning later, or (ini selectable) set it up to unlock everything to level. EVERY THING. Has an ini adjustable built in pause time between engram unlocks to prevent lagging servers.






~~~~~~~~~~~~~AA Raiding Add-on~~~~~~~~~~~~~

***AA Medical Station
-Fill it with medical brews and then it will heal any tamed dinos or tribe members that stand on top it at the expense of medical brews. ini configurable

***AA Repair Station
-Through all your broken gear inside and repair it all with the push of a button assuming you have the materials nearby. Will automatically pull all resource required to repair. Will also slowly repair your base using the resources in nearby storage for easier base maintenance without PvP abuse. ini configurable

***AA Blood Bagger
-Park any tamed dino or player on the pad to drain their life in exchange for blood bags. If you put medical brews inside, it will use them before it starts to drain the life of dinos or player.

***AA Plant Commander
-Adjusts settings on all Plant Species X in the area

***AA Turret Genie
-Fills all turrets in range and can adjust all settings on turrets in range. Will fill any turrets with any ammo type, including modded turrets. Can be configured with raiding cooldowns in ini








~~~~~~~~~~~~~AA Power Generation Add-on~~~~~~~~~~~~~

***AA Wireless Generator
-Powers everything wireless, even Tek. Uses gasoline at a steady rate, no matter the range it is set at.







~~~~~~~~~~~~~AA Kitchen Add-on~~~~~~~~~~~~~

***AA Grill
-Full OCD Sorting, Adjustable cooking speed, and refrigerated.

***AA Ice Block
-Early game refrigerator with no pulling or OCD Sorting.

***AA Cauldron
-Basically an Industrial Cooker with Autopulling and recipes inside, so you dont accidently craft all the wrong things.

***AA Kibble Station
-Can be used to craft imprint kibble, as well as cheaper kibbles that use only eggs to make.

***AA Dehydrator
-Uses power, does not require oil or sparkpowder. Slightly faster than vanilla. (This structure is planed for an overhaul soon)

***AA Refrigerator
-Places on the ground or foundation, reduces spoil timers. Full OCD Sorting

***AA Freezer
-Snaps to the top of the AA Refrigerator, massively reduces spoil timers. Full OCD Sorting

***AA Spoiling Bin
-Spoils meat really fast. Preserves split stacks when transferring items. Simple put meat in your inventory, right click on meat and hit split all, then transfer all to spoiling bin and you'll have 300 spoiled meat in a few seconds. Or put stacks in and let them sit for a while for a more afk approach.







~~~~~~~~~~~~~AA Gardening Add-on~~~~~~~~~~~~~

***AA Large Crop Plot
-Basically a vanilla crop plot with snapping

***AA Gardening Station
-Used to craft all AA Seeds to grow resources that imo should be able to be grown in game. (fungal wood, mushrooms, etc.)

***AA Auto Compost Bin
-Collects poop from nearby dinos, pushes fertilizer out to fertilizer silo. Also pushes poop to nearby dung beetles.

***AA Fertilizer Silo
-Collects Fertilizer from nearby Compost bins and Dung Beetles and evenly sorts it out to all nearby crop plots. Has a manual button inside for initial setup, then does it once an hour after that.

***AA Veggie Crate
-Full OCD Sorting, basically a tiny refrigerator for you veggies and berries to save space in massive greenhouses. Also decorative.

***AA Bug Zapper
-Kills all Bog Buggs from Genesis 1 when they come in range if powered. When placing, a green line means its range is overlapping with another light, so you can ensure you dont have any gaps in your coverage. Does not leave a corpse on death of bugs. Does NOT work on the regular bugs in ark, only the Bog Swarms.






~~~~~~~~~~~~~AA Baby Manager Add-on~~~~~~~~~~~~~

***AA Egg Crate
-Collects all eggs around the area dropped by your tribe or your tribes dinos. Will not pick up wild eggs from places like nests. Can enable/Disable the pickup of fertilized or unfertilized eggs. Great options for breeding pens to keep your eggs seperated. Eggs do NOT sort in the Autopulling or OCD system.

***AA Incubator
-Basically a compact, really good air conditioner. Any eggs dropped within a few foundations of an incubator will NOT be picked up by AA Egg Crates so you dont have to worry about constantly disabling them when breeding.








~~~~~~~~~~~~~AA Autocrafting Add-on~~~~~~~~~~~~~

***AA Autocrafter
-Autocrafts whatever item you tell it to. Kinda works, has to be picked up and put back down on server restarts (this is currently being overhauled to work with the new quantum storage system, more on that later)

**AA Ant Hill
-Pug bug repellant inside, and it poops out ants for you to kill and harvest. Recommended to put it in a 3x3 metal box with a couple of aggressive frogs. They kill and harvest the ants, and the auto sorting system keeps them empty and resources put away.
Last edited by blitzfire911; Sep 19, 2022 @ 5:32am