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Alpha Dino Loot Remap

This mod aims to overhaul the loot dropped by the Alpha dinos in order to provide advancement and reward appropriate to the level of challenge the dinos represent.

Currently, I've replaced half of the loot rolls for the Alpha Raptor, Carno, and Rex with a chance at 1-3 items or blueprints from a short list of critical weapons, tools, and armors of variable quality. They can range from high ramshackle on a raptor to mastercraft on a carno or rex. The items currently include the metal weapons, tools, and armor and the fabricated weapons and armor. I may expand these out later, but these are the "backbone" of character and tribe advancement and I felt most important, particularly for RP oriented servers that do not use Loot Crates but do retain Alpha spawns.

Retaining some of the original loot rolls was a way to keep part of the original intended feel for Alpha loot and keep a chance at some of the variety the vanilla alpha loot tables contained, while still giving a guarantee at something from the progression oriented list.

Active playtest of this mod is critical to its improvement and advancement. While I typically spend extensive hours testing my mods, this mod requires wild Alpha spawns and frequencies to really understand. Spawning in Alphas to test that the loot drops work does not really produce any understanding of the effect this mod has on the power balance and progression of an active server, and if the quality needs to increase or decrease, or if more guaranteed items are needed. Therefore, your continued playtest feedback is appreciated, even if it is negative, especially if it is positive, and also especially if it is just to say that little to no difference was noticed.

Once the loot tables for these three dinos are tuned to satisfaction, I plan to expand the mod to include some of the other alpha dinos.

Mod ID = 892949321


Update: This mod appears to have been broken by an Ark update, and I'm not sure when I'll be able to fix it. Use at your own risk.