Hey everyone. Got a new, more powerful level distribution mod up on the workshop now: Custom Dino Levels. This new one provides several options, is ini configurable, and works with modded dinos!

are the crashes been fixed ?

Appears to be causing crashes again.

Thanks for the updates @KitzyKatty, much appreciated.

Could it be related to the rag/val Ice wyvern changes that WC did a few patches back?
Just guessing, but could be worth lookint at.

@Bunzosteele Glad to hear it. I recreated my old testing mod that the dev kit wiped a while ago to fiddle with the ice wyverns and try to figure out why they are acting so weird. Until then, enjoy the older, non-crashy mod version! :)

Thanks for the quick rollback, server is fixed after it.

This mod seems to be causing crashes on valguero when near ice wyverns with the latest update

@I want to die The rule of thumb is that any mod that adds something new to any spawner won't be affected by this mod. So mods like Primal Fear, Gaia, and ARK: Additions. Mods that are affected are ones that tweak creatures, but don't mess with their spawns (ex. Kraken's Better Dino, Speedy Flyers).

@DovahStud I don't believe it would work for the cross creatures, as they would be adding them to spawners that they would not normally be present in.

What about modded Creatures basing on vanilla ones, e.g. the Concavenator from the ARK:Additions mod is based off a Allo, would that affect them? Or all the Cross DLC mods?

Does this work with Cross Ab on the island?

@kitzykatty you are really good about responding to replies on here. Thanks for replying! That does make sense. I will most likely try the mod out based on what you said. It sounds great! Thanks for being apart of the modding community! Doing great!

@Booker Yep. Due to random chance, they won't be exactly equal, but a level 10 dino has an equal chance to spawn as a max level one, which is the same chance as every other valid level within the range dictated by the difficulty level.

@God Himself For immediate results, a dino wipe is recommended. Otherwise, the levels will equalize slowly over time as new spawns slowly overtake the old, skewed ones.

yes

Do I need to do a dino wipe for this to work

So when you say equalize levels, is it evening out the spawns across the board? like an equal amount of level 10s to level 150s will spawn?

@kitzykatty thanks! I wish I could just Like your comment but this will have to do!

@Booker The mod is dictated by the difficulty level being used. If the difficulty is set to 5, then yes, the levels will be in multiples of 5 and the max level would be 150.

@bald martin I assume so, as this mod works well with mods that tweak existing creatures in the way that Naj's speedy flyers and Kraken's Better Dinos. I would think that Classic Flyers does the same thing.

@gon Depends on the specific things done. In general, tweaking spawn containers via ini would be independent of and supersede my mod, as it has no way of figuring out what people have written in their own ini files concerning spawns.

My favorite mod so far

Does this provide levels in multiples of 5 in Solo mode? How high does the levels go?

does this mod affect classic flyers?

How does this mod interact with the game.ini spawner editing options? I've got some NPCReplacements and ConfigOverrideNPCSpawnEntriesContainer lines that don't seem to be taking effect, but my other .ini settings are working correctly. This is the only mod I have running that I think might be interacting oddly with the spawners, so figured it'd be worth the ask.

I just want to thank you for this awesome mod! <3

@LewdMegumin Glad you like the mod! Little unsure about the question...if you are asking whether ARK patches nullify the mod, then the answer is no. If you are asking whether the mod itself is going away...no, I have no intention of ever removing these mods and will continue to update them as ARK adds new maps.

for 4 days i thank you again for such wonderful work, i know this can be done by self through some reddit search but because i found this i decided to go lazy route, but i ask will this go away after ark updates?

Thank you so much for this mod !!! legit god's work right here ~ <3

@nebbne1st Last I looked at the dev kit, it wasn't possible for me to provide that kind of option for what I have done. You could manually configure the spawners to your liking if you do it via the ini options, so if you want to take the time to do that yourself, there are resources out on the web to allows peeps to do just that.

or at least what can we use to edit the files so we can do it ourselves?

can you have it so we can edit the spawn levels and distributions ourselves?

@KithyKatty that's good to hear :D thank you for your work and this mod :)

@Furry_Ferret Ah, I know what that issue is and can fix it. If my internet holds, I should be able to get an update pushed out in about a day or two. Thanks for letting me know about the problem! :)

Hey there o/
so i have this mod installed on my server on genesis and ran into a problem. the highest level (in our case 300) is completely missing, only 290s are spawning
me and a friend did some testing in singleplayer, and the problem only exists on genesis. we tried it with 150 max level, and 300. with both settings the highest level was completely missing.
loaded the island with exact same settings and everything was working just fine
same problem was with the high levels mod.
anyone else having this problem?
i really love this mod, but that kind of ruins it :D

dude your mod is amazing. it is an absolute must have. i will never play again with out it. i was loosing my mind trying to find a way to make level 150's spawn in my single player island map, the max difficulty setting wasnt working, changing the difficulty slider wasnt working.. but just simply adding this mod completley fixed everything!! Thank you so much, this mod should just be apart of the game already. GREAT WORK

So.....say I were to use this mod in combination with pugnacia which is known to considerably use a higher max wild (override 5 is like 840) will this mod work with creatures from other mods that follow the standard override (5 is 150), or will it increase them to pugnacia's level? caus if so that would be really cool

Would it be possible to exclude alphas? Killing a 120 alpha T-Rex that spawns right outside my base would be quite a pain.

FYI: I am working on updating this mod (and High Levels). However, I am in the process of moving and don't have much time at the moment. I'm shooting for an ETA for the update of about a week or two.

@ThousandCurve30 Yes, a dinowipe would be needed if you add this mod to an existing server and want instant results for the level distributions.

If I had already started my dedicated server, and then added this mod, would I need to dinowipe?

looks like its working again, ty for being a legend

it doesnt look like its working for my atm, could it be because of npcreplacements

Thank you very much for this! It works and just what I've been looking for!

@chemotherapy_cat you need to add OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0 to your gameusersettings.ini

great, thank you :D

@HolyCraptor Yes, I will update the mod when I can. However, the dev kit needs to be updated with the Genesis stuff before that is possible. I am also in the process of moving, so that will make it take longer than usual. It will get done though.

Is this mod going to be updated for the Genesis dlc?

Does this still work? Im using it on abberation and im trying to find high lvl spinos, but no luck at all. Ive gone across the rivers killing all the low levels and rarely does even a lvl 174 spawn (my max lvl is 180) It used to work perfectly on the island map but not as good as luck here..

this mod gives me higher level dinos but its capped at 120 is there a way to fix that

I'm putting the mod on my server now. I will post any bugs in discussions, and will drop a review in a week or so.

Is there a way to configure this, or just simply make a mod yourself that specifically gives Ragnarok/Center/Valguero level ranges to the official maps? Island/Scorched/Ab/Ext?

I love the idea of this mod, but wish I could just have those level ranges on the official maps if that makes sense? I'm not sure if you have had other requests for this or if it's even do able but this would be amazing! ^_^

Compatable with own high level mod I'm assuming?