ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Fertilized Eggs Naturally Spawn
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Buck Fell Sep 3, 2019 @ 10:32am
game settings advice
Can somebody give me some sense of egg spawn rarity. I realize I can change the frequency, I just want to gauge whether I should.

For instance, say you take a normal non-stasis viewable area that contains 8 female parasaurs. Over the coarse of a real life day on a dedicated server how many fertilized eggs would crop up to first order ? 1, 10, 100 ?

I realize that might be a very hard question to answer but if it's answerable I'd love to know. If it's 1 I might turn the spawn rate up so players have a better chance of finding some hidden egg, if it's 100 I might turn it down because it should be at least as hard or harder than just doing bola+tranq to tame a wild dino.

I'd be interested in hearing of others tweaked the values and if so in which direction. I'd like for players to feel some sense of accomplishment when finding an egg without it feeling like they won the lottery.

Lastly I noticed the "UseNest=False" in the pinned example. Is there some reason False is recommended, I feel like I'd prefer True (eggs in nests) but possibly there's some down side I don't see.
Last edited by Buck Fell; Sep 3, 2019 @ 10:34am
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Wyrm  [developer] Sep 3, 2019 @ 12:07pm 
@belthize About UseNest, it because, when mod first versions released, nest was not planned, in this mod. So no there is no downside of this.
khisanth Sep 4, 2019 @ 4:53am 
Same I am interested to know about this, to have an idea of what represent a 0.3 value.

Does it mean that each time the mod spawn an invisible placeholder dino if it is a female there is 30% chance it transform into an egg?

What is the probablity of a specific dino to spawm as a invisible fens compare to normal dino? If a fens parasaur spawn each 5 regular parasaur (so 20% for example for a particular specie, random number) then check if it is female (50% if option chrck gender enable) and then apply the 30% chance for an egg, the final % of finding a specific specie egg will be quite low (do not take into account the rarity of the specie)..

How does the fens dino work? Does it work like this: there is a % of chance for any dino to be selected as a fens dino (invisible placeholder)? And so the number of dino on a map is artificially reduce by this %. Or does fens dino spawn in addition of the regular dinosaur?

I want to know if I will have to.increase dino count to comoensate this phenomenon if it is exist.


Other small question:
If I put a % egg to 0.0 does it is effectively remove the possibility of finding an egg for this dino? Does it still transform/replace some of this dino by fens placeholder which does not transform into egg and increase the rarity of this species (by reducing the number of visible and tameable version) or it just prevent at all fens placeholder for this specie?

Is it possible to configurate the max lvl for fertilized egg if I want player to still prefer to tame them for higher lvl but still give the possibility to find egg of lower lvl than max lvl. I know I can remove the bonus lvl from 100 % effectiveness.
Last edited by khisanth; Sep 4, 2019 @ 4:54am
Wyrm  [developer] Sep 4, 2019 @ 11:26am 
Originally posted by khisanth:
Same I am interested to know about this, to have an idea of what represent a 0.3 value.

Does it mean that each time the mod spawn an invisible placeholder dino if it is a female there is 30% chance it transform into an egg?

Yes it is.

Originally posted by khisanth:
How does the fens dino work? Does it work like this: there is a % of chance for any dino to be selected as a fens dino (invisible placeholder)? And so the number of dino on a map is artificially reduce by this %. Or does fens dino spawn in addition of the regular dinosaur?

As addition to vanilla ones.

Originally posted by khisanth:
Other small question:
If I put a % egg to 0.0 does it is effectively remove the possibility of finding an egg for this dino? Does it still transform/replace some of this dino by fens placeholder which does not transform into egg and increase the rarity of this species (by reducing the number of visible and tameable version) or it just prevent at all fens placeholder for this specie?

It won't spawn any egg anymore (meaning you set chance, to 0%). With next update probably, it is also affects placeholder dinos.

Originally posted by khisanth:
Is it possible to configurate the max lvl for fertilized egg if I want player to still prefer to tame them for higher lvl but still give the possibility to find egg of lower lvl than max lvl. I know I can remove the bonus lvl from 100 % effectiveness.

No levels of the spawned dino will be always randomized.
Buck Fell Sep 4, 2019 @ 12:39pm 
Thank you very much for the explanation Wyrm.
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