ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Creature Farm
114 Comments
Victoriamangles 10 Feb @ 6:39am 
the gus.ini is the GameUserSettings.ini :steamfacepalm:
aarongia 4 Feb, 2024 @ 1:02pm 
is this mod coming to ASA
captaincage.rh 4 Dec, 2023 @ 11:07am 
This Mod ist awesome but needs a little better explanation:
First of all you need to set your Server to PvP.
In PVE hatchet creatures which are untamed belong to "another Tribe". This ist Basic ark setting and can only be turned by switching to PvP. Otherwise the butcher won't Work properly.

The second thing you need to watch ist The range of the three Machines. The breeding machine must be placed inside the working range of the haching machine and the butcher in oder to Work properly.
alexiel83 8 Jun, 2023 @ 4:59am 
Breeding Place does not increase females' mating range. I have already tested the displayed range and switched the function on and off. I let my chicks grow out in two rows close together, but the back row can't mate with the male.
O_HGamez 7 Jun, 2023 @ 8:15pm 
Having an issue where the dino I set as the "butcher" does NOT kill anything. I have try everything I can think of, and nothing happens.
ttv/smojo1 6 May, 2023 @ 6:07pm 
currently having a probelm with the config, i want the butcher to only drop the dinos when they are adult. Ive added the configs to my gameusersettings howerevr my butcher dino still kills the babies and gets no drops. Im not sure as to why
1234 15 Mar, 2023 @ 3:08pm 
@KAVAN Accept me as a friend, I need to talk to you
Enepfopi 13 Mar, 2023 @ 9:54am 
Hello, it says it "can" insulate but it doesn't work when I try to disable it, is it normal or not ?
Oxana 16 Feb, 2023 @ 12:51pm 
hello, I would like to disable the isolation so that my dino does not stay only in the mod area, but it does not work. Can you help me please ?
NiT 1 Feb, 2023 @ 8:57am 
Hello, can the Breeding place picks up normal eggs on the ground ? It seems not or not working :/
Kharlnor 29 Dec, 2022 @ 3:25pm 
@Shanmanator. In the GameUserSettings.ini file, if you add a "[CreatureFarm]" section and then a "HatchingPlaceImprintQuality=<value>" setting, your creatures should come out as that age.
ie. The below should set your hatched babies to 15% maturity.

[CreatureFarm]
HatchingPlaceEnableSetBabyAge=0.15
Shamanator 15 Dec, 2022 @ 8:55am 
I can't get the butcher to hatch the eggs as adults? Does anyone know how to get this working I have the age set to 1 on the ini file but nothing is working
Graumähne 23 Oct, 2022 @ 2:23am 
I love the concept of the mod but in the end this mod sucks. I tested around for more than 24 hours and come to the following conclusion.

Either the eggs hatch before they are picked up, the eggs are not transferred further to the hatch or slaughter terminal, if it works the hatchlings only hatch and are ejected when you activate the embossing. As soon as you activate this, the slaughter terminal no longer works because it does not allow embossed animals to be killed. The selected dino as a butcher does nothing. If you send the eggs directly to the slaughter terminal, they are either not sent on or the slaughter terminal ejects the eggs, which burst immediately without there being a young animal. Whichever way you look at it, the mod absolutely doesn't work.
Tina 21 Oct, 2022 @ 10:49am 
instantly crashes the server after dropping eggs from the hatching place after receiving build 351.6
Tina 20 Oct, 2022 @ 10:16am 
I just installed this mod, playing around with it for the first time - I really love it. What absolutely bothers me though is, that it's impossible to guess the colors the baby will have because the displayed color chart seems to be completely off. A deep blue (value 2) gets displayed as green ? The colors don't make any sense.
Tina 20 Oct, 2022 @ 10:11am 
the butchers place is not working for me. dinos just remain there without the butcher "doing its job" as stated in the description - any way to fix that ?
Kharlnor 17 Sep, 2022 @ 6:32am 
The update: 14 Jun, 2021 " Fixed: -that the Hatching Place would turn hatched dinos into wild ones if no Player was set as the claimer. "
Can that please be made a setting?

I've used this mod along-side Dino Storage to create the Ultimate Mutation Stacker system, but this relies on hatched Dino's being wild when hatched.
GaymingBear 14 Sep, 2022 @ 2:41pm 
The butchers place is not working for me I have a dino set for it but it is not killing the babies for me. Can anyone help me with this
Grot 2 Sep, 2022 @ 4:16am 
I don't understand how we can sort eggs and see stats. Also eggs sent to the hatch place never pop out despite insulation activated and "drop eggs" activated. It looks like I'm missing some menus
You're Wrong 13 May, 2022 @ 9:38am 
Hello! I have a little problem regarding the butchers place. If I have it setup so a lot of creatures are breeding and sending eggs to the butchers place, my butcher will get overwhelmed. To circumvent this I tamed up some new creatures with considderably lower hp stats so the butcher would be able to 1-2 hit them. Now I have a new problem, which is that if the creature dies too soon after being hatched, the corpse will simple disappear, thus being unharvestable, which is more often than not the case, leaving almost no resources to be harvested. Any idea on how to fix this?
Dark 3 Apr, 2022 @ 5:17am 
that's on purpose because the hatching place doesnt actually "hatch" them, just brings their incubation time to 1%. it's supposed to toss the egg out and with the insolation buff hatches the egg on the ground. if you turned that or the insolation buff off, then the egg will stay in the hatching place and go no lower than 1%.
Credence 13 Mar, 2022 @ 5:44pm 
Stick at 1% in hatcvhing place should i be doing something else?
KAVAN  [author] 11 Mar, 2022 @ 3:28am 
@Everyone

Sry that I dont have the time at the moment to maintain my mods. Most of them I made during the corona lockdown were I had a lot of free time. Also my major depression is giving me a hard time the last few months. I will try to get back to modding as soon as I fell better and have the time to do so. So please be patient.
Добряк 28 Feb, 2022 @ 8:22am 
Мод сломал игру. Мои любые приручаемые дино, всегда 1 уровня.
Smop95 21 Oct, 2021 @ 1:30pm 
Hud for looking at a best stats egg got stuck on me, while I was dropping eggs from my inventory. Hopefully this bug gets fixed soon. Love the mod though, I hope it's still actively maintained.
ggunlics 17 Oct, 2021 @ 10:25am 
Killing the cub by butcher will cause the cub to disappear, resulting in no meat. It requires one-click kill
WolfSin 3 Oct, 2021 @ 2:24pm 
is there a way for using the butchers place on PVE
sashahellsing 19 Sep, 2021 @ 3:06pm 
is this mod abandoned too?
sashahellsing 13 Sep, 2021 @ 11:45pm 
what is the ini settings so it does not need solar power ? we had no problems since b4 the new ark update but now anywhere we put it its stay unpowered.....
sashahellsing 1 Sep, 2021 @ 7:27pm 
could we please get the ini settings to enable and disable the engrams for there? so only admins can use
MageLuo 19 Aug, 2021 @ 8:27pm 
can not collect eggs .
Tox 2 Aug, 2021 @ 7:43pm 
I was thinking that at this point tbh lol. I normally don't have so much to say about a mod and I was thinking to myself earlier "you know at this point i need to start a discussion thread"

but also i've never seen anything about not being allowed to leave multiple comments before?
sashahellsing 2 Aug, 2021 @ 6:38pm 
should u not put your quadruple posts in a discussion as this is for single comments ?
Tox 2 Aug, 2021 @ 3:42pm 
https://i.imgur.com/R2MSoHy.png

I moved to a completely new map, and that solved the lag problem, but for some reason the hatching place just won't work. If a baby haphazardly walks into the circle they're autotamed, but the eggs just won't spawn there. Haven't noticed any luck with the butcher place, either. Aside from eggs not going where they need to, everything seems to be working as intended? I'd love to know how to get this working again, because it was awesome while it was working, aside from the interface stuck on my screen if i accidentally scroll over an egg lol
Tox 1 Aug, 2021 @ 8:29pm 
After using this mod 11 hours, the interface was stuck on my screen the entire time, and then a second egg UI got stuck layered over the top of it. Nearing the end, the egg places suddenly stopped sucking up the babies and there were unclaimed babies left. Additionally, the fps of the game tanked to 1.5fps with no clear cause; i picked up every single dino and all the items in the area and it didnt help, but the pause menu went back up to my normal 15fps before dropping again as soon as i resumed.

The only thing I can think of is that i moved my unused butcher after leaving him still for the majority of the time. I cant figure out how to remove the butcher buff from him either, even though i picked up the butcher place. Though, the option could have been hidden under the egg info UI, since I couldnt see through it anymore.

Im not sure if moving my butcher dino caused the collapse of frames and babies, but its the only thing i did different before it started happening.
Tox 1 Aug, 2021 @ 8:19am 
https://i.imgur.com/J3ciyhY.png

I've only tested on these guys so far but the eggs are hatching faster than the things can pick it up (my bad, should have changed the times, but i didnt think the eggs would hatch in under 30 seconds either lmao) and since there is no gestation they can breed again pretty quickly, which is op (in a good way as far as i'm concerned) for mammal breeding.

It would also be nice if there was an additional machine that could collect unfertilized eggs, if for nothing more than to get them out of the way, with a wide range. If it already has that and I haven't spotted it yet, then that's totally my bad! ;w;
Tox 1 Aug, 2021 @ 8:19am 
So far I REALLY like this mod, but there are a few things I'd noticed and wanted to suggest, if that's okay.

https://i.imgur.com/n2mSCZF.png

That's my screen now, showing my breeding. The egg interface is stuck on my screen, and having a "hatching place" would actually end up creating more work, as I use auto newborn traps with dino storage v2 to keep respective babies together with their parents so it's easier to just focus on one thing at a time. If an ini can be added to have the breeding place also spit out eggs via the radial menu instead of using a hatching place, it would make things easier while still keeping the function totally optional.

Tox 31 Jul, 2021 @ 4:28pm 
does this also collect unfertilized eggs? if so, what's the range?
sashahellsing 30 Jul, 2021 @ 11:48pm 
so far i love the mod
KAVAN  [author] 30 Jul, 2021 @ 9:47pm 
@sashahellsing
Yes you can use this mod without the Butcher.
sashahellsing 30 Jul, 2021 @ 3:44pm 
can i use this and use it as fert eggs hatching only and have the butcher off and no egg collecting ?
kumomoko01 27 Jul, 2021 @ 6:58am 
Hi Kavan, when i tried the butcher place, the butcher that i set is not killing the unclaimed creature, am i doing anything wrong? i even turned off the friendly fire option
violentGoldfish 25 Jul, 2021 @ 4:58pm 
Hey,

My friend and I noticed an issue with the best stats function on our private server. When we use the function and we are both in render range of the breeding dinos, as soon as the egg is laid our server crashes. We tested with only one of us online and with both of us online but one out of render range and had no issues. It was only when we are both in range of the breeding that we crash. We have had the issue with vanilla and mod dinos. Not a huge issue for us since we found a work around but wanted to let you know. Enjoying the mod otherwise
Eule_69 24 Jul, 2021 @ 6:52am 
Hi Kavan,

thanks for the awesome mod and the recent update!

When using best egg option, it seems like the values for OX and FO are swapped.
MageLuo 23 Jul, 2021 @ 6:39pm 
how to close the insulate????
Accidental Genius 17 Jul, 2021 @ 12:06am 
anyone have issues with sea creature eggs popping out of hatchery under water and just disappear? When doing his on land there are no issues just when hatching underwater.
KAVAN  [author] 15 Jul, 2021 @ 11:53pm 
Mod Update !

New Options for the Breeding Place:

-Best stats Option. This will force babys to allways have the best stats of there perants. The egg that will be laied will also show advanced info of the baby. Is option need to be enabled in the gus.ini with the command BreedingPlaceEnableBestStatsOption= ( true for on false for off )

-Has now an option to ggle the egg pick up on and off
Borroleth 11 Jul, 2021 @ 12:19pm 
I think I found a little workaround for egg sending/picking up issues(and maybe it helps finding the source of the (minor) issues, no clue).

I use various small/middle breeding places (with sending to hatching place enabled) and add a hatching place with disabled egg dropping (so always 1 BreedPl + 1HatchPl). Now the hatching place at the various breeding places will receive mutated eggs and keep them. Now get those eggs from inside the hatching places. Then I use one last middle/big hatching place with 3 vanilla incubators in its range. Put the eggs in the vanilla incubator and check their mutation count. If the incubators are in range of the hatching place they will "receive" the GUS settings, like imprint etc.

PS : I love the butcher's place for leveling my tames and their offrspring. Would it maybe be posssible to make the butcher's place acting as a feeding trough. That would be just perfect. but the mod is truly great already anyway. :) Ty much again. :steamhappy:
Batza 10 Jul, 2021 @ 1:54pm 
Does the butcher work on PvE servers? Unclaimed babies can be only attacked on PvP servers, it's not working on my server.
Kapok 10 Jul, 2021 @ 12:27am 
@Kavan So they can incubate on the spot and the babies appears not claimed.
Good for automatic farms (tek dino, organic polymer, ...).
It can also let the baby be captured by the DinoStorage v2 mod.