ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Better Spawns
131 Comments
CrAzYo_BoY9 30 May @ 3:37pm 
btw fat nonce there is a better way of finding better higher level dinos
Charly 14 Oct, 2024 @ 4:53pm 
I dont know if this is working on host local, I dont see any difference. Can someone confirm?
Fat Nonce 6 Oct, 2024 @ 6:25pm 
i want to kiss you becuase of these mod, i have spent hours trying to find good level managarmars gigas and carchs and i cant
Kid Named Finger 6 Jun, 2024 @ 9:10am 
Does this work in non-dedicated servers?
thedom 25 Feb, 2024 @ 5:56pm 
nvm for some reson is dosent work on the island plz fix this if u can
thedom 25 Feb, 2024 @ 4:58pm 
THANK U SOOOO MUCH
sergioantoniolimaalmeida 22 Feb, 2024 @ 3:34pm 
:steamthumbsup:Thx guy, you solve the bigger problem in ark solo "the island!" haha work fine to me... :)
Darkcitoo 20 Nov, 2023 @ 9:44pm 
I need help with this mod, I installed it and since it didn't convince me so much, I deleted it. The problem is that now all dinos spawn at level 20, 30, 55, 60, 85, etc. Is there any way to fix this error? I want them to come out like the previous levels in vanilla (11, 67, 109, 43...), similar to these. Please, any solution? :steamsad:
MikKing12 18 Nov, 2023 @ 7:16am 
what does it do
KasperskyPenguin 28 Oct, 2023 @ 11:35am 
bro thank you so much for making this mod. you need to make more of these useful mods
PatoA112 2 Sep, 2023 @ 11:35pm 
I guess that I can add this mod to my existent save on The Island without any problem, wish me luck
Recat  [author] 12 Aug, 2023 @ 10:18am 
@123 - No idea, never tested it.

@Final Fantasy - Thank you for that, even though I don't actually mod anymore it's good to see this mod is useful.

@Crabby - No ini settings from this mod. It simply overwrites a single hidden setting in the game. Controlling the max level ratio (like having level 5-150 versus 6-180, etc) is done via difficulty, which is a setting you can change without mods.

@Sir Spoony - It's just meant to change it to more Ragnarok-like settings. Dinos shouldn't exceed level limitations at all, ever, which means there's likely some other mod doing that. And yeah, no ini settings, but if you want to force an overall min/max level use the vanilla difficulty setting.
Sir Spoony 29 Jul, 2023 @ 10:51am 
Not really "Bountiful"....but one thing I do notice is a bunch of lvl 66'ers flodding the maps. A couple other "same" numbers seen more often than not. The 66s and 150s are like half the spawns then random the rest.

One interesting thing though, it Ultra-rarely allows is a Dino to exceed the level limitations, which isn't a bad thing at all, but ultra rare.

I just wish there was a default .ini setup for this to force level ranges MIN/MAX
Crabby 13 Jul, 2023 @ 4:34pm 
is there anyway to control the max level ratio in the ini files?
Joe 9 Jul, 2023 @ 9:36am 
Really good mod, I play on GFN and this helped a lot, thanks man.
Showman 17 Jun, 2023 @ 5:15pm 
it seems that it dosent work on aberrant dinos or is it just me ?
Recat  [author] 26 Aug, 2022 @ 8:24am 
@Vegemite Sandwich - good, I'm glad you found a workaround. My solution has always just been to run a dedicated server on the same machine as my client.

@milk acquired - that's actually not controlled by this mod, but in general the baseline difficulty as seen on official servers puts max level at 150, increments of 5. In singleplayer, the default is max level 30, increments of 1. In ARK Server Manager for dedicated servers, the default is max 120, increments of 4. You can change settings if it's your own world to suit your playstyle and needs better.
Saiko 19 Aug, 2022 @ 12:03am 
what is the difficulty to max level ratio?
Vegemite Sandwich 28 Jul, 2022 @ 10:22am 
Yo! I played with this mod for years and it didn't work on a fresh download. BUT! I fixed it by creating the map data for Ragnarok on my system. Now it works fine, so if you can't get it to work on Singleplayer, just load up Ragnarok, leave, go to the map you wanna play on, do a dino wipe and call it a day!
DISTROJAR 15 Jul, 2022 @ 11:52pm 
@Recat so this mod doesn't work on singleplayer.
Recat  [author] 15 Jul, 2022 @ 12:35pm 
@sonneville09 - it does work. I've tested it myself. Most likely you've got another mod changing the same setting, you didn't wipe wild dinos, or you simply do not know HOW it works, and thus do not know how to recognize when it does.

@Jimmy Buckets - thanks! That's actually why I made it, Aberration's the best map but it was always impossible to find anything good there.

@DISTROJAR - my best guesses are that you've got another difficulty or level changing mod, or you're playing singleplayer. Singleplayer games abide by different rules than dedicated servers, and frankly I have no idea how to make them work better.
DISTROJAR 12 Jul, 2022 @ 12:15am 
how do I make this mod work I have it on max full difficulty 1 (i don't know how to change it to higher ) and all the dinos I find (after the destroy wild dinos command) are level 10-50, barely found creatures over level 100
Hawk Tuah 30 Jun, 2022 @ 7:31pm 
best mod ever made me enjoy abberation being able to actually get good lvl dinos
sonneville09 9 May, 2022 @ 5:05am 
this does not even work
gr8mlangi 23 Apr, 2022 @ 3:23pm 
Guys this mod works with difficulty 10 btw
Term1nat0r 1 Mar, 2022 @ 2:59pm 
I have not been getting "better spawns" and I had difficulty 5 and the difficulty didn't save
Recat  [author] 26 Feb, 2022 @ 10:39pm 
@waffles Yes, it should work the same no matter what difficulty you're on. It just changes the odds, not the scaling of levels.
Valhalla 26 Feb, 2022 @ 8:15pm 
does this mod not work with difficulty six?
Recat  [author] 20 Feb, 2022 @ 8:49am 
@Torpey and @Ichbin, my guess is that's a conflict with a different mod you're using because I've not seen either issue come up on my instances.
Torpey 13 Feb, 2022 @ 9:10pm 
Creatures stopped spawning in caves after adding the mod to my single player The Island, and removing the mod made them start spawning again.
Joe 18 Jan, 2022 @ 9:39am 
Can find all dinos at a high level frequently except for Velos on Extinction. Haven't seen a single one over lvl 100 and I've checked more than a hundred of them.
SKN 𝕃𝕚𝕖𝕎𝕚𝕔𝕙𝕠 11 Jan, 2022 @ 6:54pm 
Is the easy way to tame if you are on single despite of mods and stuff, a "destroywilddinos" can help when it comes to tame or find a dino
ChillChoom 7 Nov, 2021 @ 11:23am 
Do I need to do a "destroywilddinos" to have this take effect? I would guess so?
Redarmy 22 Oct, 2021 @ 9:44pm 
Thank you for the mod,it really helped me enjoy difficulty 0.2 even more.
angel52863 9 Sep, 2021 @ 10:02am 
will it work if you set official difficulty override, like mine is set to difficulty 15 so creatures up to level 450
pakkai 13 Aug, 2021 @ 12:28am 
is it possible to adjust the rates for the spawns? i would like to make max levels incredibly rare to compensate for the many high lvls
Höpere 3 Aug, 2021 @ 8:44am 
What does this mod exactly do? Does it give higher spawn rates to higher leveled Dinos or does it up the difficulty to 10x meaning only level 10,20,30...- 300 Level dinos spawn? Im looking for a mod that keeps the difficulty at 5 but increases the odds of finding 150 or just high leveled Dinos drastically.
Recat  [author] 7 Jun, 2021 @ 9:15pm 
@L. - yes, level 150 was an example. It'll adjust the spawn weights exactly the same way on any other max level. So if your max level is 180, for example, you'll see more in that 156-180 range. If your max level is 300, you'll see more in the 260-300.
sun ★ 7 Jun, 2021 @ 7:27pm 
this is the mod we needed
Indian Oppressor 2 Jun, 2021 @ 5:46pm 
my max level is not 150, will this apply to anything above 150?
Recat  [author] 12 May, 2021 @ 8:35am 
@Wilco_90 - I'm pretty sure Primal Fear just does that by itself, regardless of the levels they spawn at, but I'm no expert on that mod. No, there is no way to exclude a creature. The only thing this mod does is shift the WEIGHTS of spawn levels, but it does NOT change the min or max level that creatures spawn at.

I would recommend checking your server settings.
Wilco_90 12 May, 2021 @ 7:06am 
Is there a way to exclude a mod or modded dino's? For single player I now get primal fear dino's with milions of hp and torpor.
r.maj 3 Mar, 2021 @ 12:48pm 
Super, merci !
Pour info, il fonctionne aussi avec le mod que j'utilise 240 lv max !
@+
Recat  [author] 21 Nov, 2020 @ 10:44pm 
It should work for any modded map.
Alphapowers 21 Nov, 2020 @ 4:16pm 
will this mod work for the caballus map?
Bredant 18 Oct, 2020 @ 8:08pm 
and the otter spawn its fixe
aurah 7 Oct, 2020 @ 1:45pm 
Hey, is there any way to turn level 5 spawns back on to get 0 stats for breeding?
Jyvaine 27 Aug, 2020 @ 10:55am 
yep, grindy and time consumming. i need more quality in this game. like dino's behaviors need to be more realistic, where are the youghs ? any dino groupe ? Just passive/agressive reactions are so annoying and all the shi*. Yes it need to be polished. Definitely. But i think it's (verry slowly huh) granting some quality but somes thinks didn't change.
Tupro 18 Jul, 2020 @ 2:39pm 
yeah its probably due to the recent update then maybe, i havent changed any settings myself.. i just installed the mod then did a dino wipe

its still very much playable anyway
thanks for the reply
Recat  [author] 18 Jul, 2020 @ 2:26pm 
I didn't edit the spawn rates with this mod. If you want to change how many creatures spawn, look to your regular server settings. There have been times in the past when Wildcard's updates cause creature count problems too, so don't rule that out.