ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

BeaconPlus
417 Comments
Beterok <insomnia> 1 May, 2024 @ 2:59am 
have this mod carchar saddles?
ImZayne 25 Jun, 2020 @ 8:27am 
same
c@Lp0l 26 Nov, 2019 @ 7:12am 
Anyone know the code for Aberration Loot Crates?
Thresh 420 30 Jun, 2018 @ 12:52pm 
Both? Hmmmm
Lost Domi 30 Jun, 2018 @ 11:52am 
Yup, seems like no support anymore, but on my server it works. I put the config in both .ini-files
Thresh 420 30 Jun, 2018 @ 11:16am 
Ok we just deep sixxed this mod. Sorry but zero support = zero use.
Thresh 420 7 May, 2018 @ 2:41pm 
Good lord I asked my question 4 months ago... i think this is an abandoned mod...
Lost Domi 7 May, 2018 @ 8:16am 
@Shigeru_Otori: Jup, bisher einwandfrei - zumindest bei mir :)
David_Uchiha2001 7 May, 2018 @ 6:04am 
funktioniert das auf Ragnarok?
Thresh 420 8 Jan, 2018 @ 12:07pm 
Hello, I am using the below cfg and not getting any weap or armor BPs on my cluster, and neither are any of my players... Is this the wrong cfg to use or...?

[BeaconPlus]
WhiteMinQuality=0
WhiteMaxQuality=1
WhiteDoubleMinQuality=0
WhiteDoubleMaxQuality=2
GreenMinQuality=0
GreenMaxQuality=3
GreenDoubleMinQuality=1
GreenDoubleMaxQuality=4
BlueMinQuality=1
BlueMaxQuality=4
BlueDoubleMinQuality=2
BlueDoubleMaxQuality=5
PurpleMinQuality=2
PurpleMaxQuality=5
PurpleDoubleMinQuality=2
PurpleDoubleMaxQuality=6
YellowMinQuality=2
YellowMaxQuality=7
YellowDoubleMinQuality=2
YellowDoubleMaxQuality=8
RedMinQuality=3
RedMaxQuality=10
RedDoubleMinQuality=5
RedDoubleMaxQuality=10
Lost Domi 10 Dec, 2017 @ 6:30am 
Am I the only one who's got some issues with blueprints lately? A tribemember found a BP for an ascendant Titanosaur platform saddle and it has ONE armor. :D Myself I found several ascendant blueprints (Anky, Sarco, etc.) all less than 100 armor, but the amount of required crafting materials is hilarious. For example: an ascendant Thorny Dragon saddle with 59 armor needed about 30.000 hide and this is way too much for such a low armor level... Not all BPs have these issues, but about 20-25%. ;)
Omtab 1 Dec, 2017 @ 10:51am 
I am trying to run this on my own personal single player server and i cannot get anything good. It seems to not be working for me. I have even gone in to the file to make the quality better and am still not getting it to work. i have not recieved a single colored blueprint from any drops . and the items are all not even worth gettting to be honest so far as well. can someone help me with this?
[RDC] Archemedes 1 Oct, 2017 @ 8:18am 
I still prefer your mod to vanilla drops on The Center, Ragnarok and The Island. Havent tried it on SE though.
[RDC] Archemedes 1 Oct, 2017 @ 8:15am 
The items I got most often were the Tranquilizer Pike from the very OP Tranq Pike and Bola Mod. I didn't even bother repairing them, I just ground up the broken ones. That and items from Reusable Plus (Bola, spear, flaregun). As for blueprints almost every blueprint from a mod was a low end S+ building item or large storage chests. rare as hens teeth though. Maybe one of the other mods I was running was trying to inject stuff from mods into drops and was above your mod.

As old school hackers and coders would call it "Deep Magic".:hatman:
Naali  [author] 1 Oct, 2017 @ 1:33am 
That's weird, all drops should be vanilla or Scorched Earth ones.
[RDC] Archemedes 30 Sep, 2017 @ 11:40pm 
*learnable not Learn Abe DYAC!!!:steamfacepalm:
[RDC] Archemedes 30 Sep, 2017 @ 2:54pm 
That's Wierd, because the first 2 times I used your Md it was dropping items from other mods as long as there were learn Abe engraved for them. So now I take it as a bug? It seemed to be what your description was saying.

Well that explains allot.
Naali  [author] 29 Sep, 2017 @ 2:14pm 
You need a beacon mod that also considers your mods and drops appropriate items? Do I understand that correctly? I don't know how to do that, and I don't think I want to, I'm afraid.

The main thing of this mod is to have something pretty balanced for vanilla (and SE) Ark. Sorry :o
[RDC] Archemedes 29 Sep, 2017 @ 11:05am 
My freinds and I seem to be having an issue. Recently I was playing on a freinds new Annanuki Genesis server and suggested the mod to fix the OP Ammo farms that AG has. It worked in that way, but no mod BPs or items dropped... at all. After a couple of months we wrote it off as our freind monkeying with the configs to nerf them even more.

Now a different friend and I have played serveral Single Player games testing out mods and what balancing we want to do for a server of our own. We have both been using your mod with default settings, me on Ragnarok and my friend on a couple of unfinished maps while he explored them.

After an extended period of time all we have gotten from every drop is vanilla items and BPs.

We were running different mods with a couple of mods in common.

I only have ACM, Classic Flyers, and SRS Balanced Stacking before it.

Any Idea what is going on or how to fix it?
IamWildDew 15 Aug, 2017 @ 6:00am 
that would be great thanks
Naali  [author] 15 Aug, 2017 @ 1:47am 
Ahh, I see. Well, I think I can have a look at that someday :3
IamWildDew 14 Aug, 2017 @ 3:48pm 
Yea I'm color blind brighter color helps with that. Almost a neon color
Naali  [author] 14 Aug, 2017 @ 3:10pm 
Brighter beacon colors? Nice idea, but I don't think we need that
IamWildDew 14 Aug, 2017 @ 10:32am 
can you brighten the colors?
Marty McFly 5 Aug, 2017 @ 1:48pm 
ok thx
Thresh 420 5 Aug, 2017 @ 10:19am 
I grind em up. Usually isnt enough to even have a full clip
Naali  [author] 5 Aug, 2017 @ 2:01am 
Yea you can get some ammo, but the amount is rather small. Beacons shouldn't be used to farm consumable in my opinion
Thresh 420 4 Aug, 2017 @ 8:38pm 
I've seen ammo spawn. Recently w a fab pistol.
Marty McFly 4 Aug, 2017 @ 6:25pm 
So, can this mod spawn any ammo for any gun? I'm very confused...
Naali  [author] 30 Jul, 2017 @ 1:40pm 
Well, as anything can be fair at this point, you're fine as soon as you and your players are fine with it.

Keep in mind that high quality requires tons of materials. That's already pretty balancing, so don't worry too much.

Primitives only is pretty boring and too high settings also aren't that great. I like to have a high variance, so I use settings like min=0 and max=10 (or another high quality level) and I'm fine with that.

The Yellows and Reds in your example may be a bit too strong here. Imagine an Ascendant Riot shield or something - that thing would take tons of crystals to make. Perhaps just downtone those (like decrease the mins a bit) two variants and you're good. :-)
Thresh 420 30 Jul, 2017 @ 1:19pm 
I also left the beaconsupply line in game.ini out (defaulted since the mod should handle it) and my FishingLootQualityMultiplier=2.5 is set that way cuz i like to fish. Cant ever find a new Asc pole tho.
Thresh 420 30 Jul, 2017 @ 1:15pm 
(continued)

YellowMinQuality=7.0
YellowMaxQuality=7.0
YellowDoubleMinQuality=8.0
YellowDoubleMaxQuality=8.0
RedMinQuality=8.0
RedMaxQuality=10.0
RedDoubleMinQuality=9.0
RedDoubleMaxQuality=11.0
Thresh 420 30 Jul, 2017 @ 1:14pm 
Hey guys, I asked this question some time ago but never received an answer. Is this what you would consider fair and correct for the drops, or does someone have a better cfg? (paste)


[BeaconPlus]
WhiteMinQuality=1.25
WhiteMaxQuality=1.25
WhiteDoubleMinQuality=2.5
WhiteDoubleMaxQuality=2.5
GreenMinQuality=2.5
GreenMaxQuality=2.5
GreenDoubleMinQuality=3.0
GreenDoubleMaxQuality=3.0
BlueMinQuality=3.0
BlueMaxQuality=3.0
BlueDoubleMinQuality=4.0
BlueDoubleMaxQuality=4.0
PurpleMinQuality=5.0
PurpleMaxQuality=5.0
PurpleDoubleMinQuality=7.0
PurpleDoubleMaxQuality=7.0
YellowMinQuality=7.0
YellowMaxQuality=7.0
YellowDoubleMinQuality=8.0
YellowDoubleMaxQuality=8.0
RedMinQuality=8.0
RedMaxQuality=10.0
RedDoubleMinQuality=9.0
RedDoubleMaxQuality=11.0
Naali  [author] 30 Jul, 2017 @ 5:09am 
Looking good. Full addition notes:
* Hyaenodon saddle -> Green (Prime + SE)
* Harpoon Launcher -> Purple (Prime only)
* Megatherium saddle -> Yellow (Prime + SE)
* Motorboat -> Yellow (Prime only)
* Tranq Spear Bolt -> Red (Prime only)
* Megalania -> Red (Prime + SE)
* Yutyrannus -> Red (Prime + SE)

I'm done with the dev kit, really. I spent 900 € on a new PC to make working with it more fluent (Octa-core 3.3 GHz, 16 Gigs Ram), but that wasn't enough. Good thing I won't need to update often from now on.

After all, I'm happy to see what happened here though. :-)
Naali  [author] 26 Jul, 2017 @ 10:14am 
I think it shouldn't. What zero (or nothing) does to one of my beacons is to multiply their qualities with 0, which should always end up in a total zero obviously, no matter what else you may multiply to it.

Thank you for your feedback as well, I will look in to that soon.
Mecka Tinker 26 Jul, 2017 @ 10:07am 
Now, this is where my knowledge and skills become sorely lacking but I figured I'd share this as well. I also rememberd that in patch 260.0 on June 30th there was an update for this:
-New host options SupplyCrateLootQualityMultiplier and FishingLootQualityMultiplier (from 1 to 5).

Figured I'd share it incase it matters. I imagine that just has to do with the editor itself for the ini but, I posted it regardless.
With all this I really am out of idea's. If it doesn't work for us then it doesn't work, nothing much to be done for a game still in early alpha and hasn't quite reached Beta yet, though they are quite close.
Thanks for all your feed back and assistance with this matter, regardless of how the results of our efforts turns out.
Naali  [author] 26 Jul, 2017 @ 10:00am 
I know about Ragnarok. I thought Ragnarok uses Ark Prime beacons which would mean the beacons should be properly replaced. I should check all kinds of beacons there myself just to be sure.
Mecka Tinker 26 Jul, 2017 @ 9:57am 
Mecka Tinker 26 Jul, 2017 @ 9:55am 
The only variable I can think of that would actually weigh into this while we've been sharing dialogue with one another is that My server has been running Ragnarok.
The only thing I can concieve since you used the direct reference to maps is that we are using Ragnarok as our Map. Now, Ragnarok is a relatively new Vanilla map and I assume that when you say Vanilla your referring to any map sponsored directly as a direct DLC by Wild Card Studios and well, since your mod has not been updated since May of this year and Ragnorok was made an official DLC as of June 12th I believe it's safe to conclude that due to the new loot tables provided within this map it is in fact your mod that is out of date.
If this conclusion is correct for this case then problem solved. If not then I'm out of ideas.
Naali  [author] 26 Jul, 2017 @ 9:34am 
They don't have a base value.

That's why I really wonder...

Either: these weren't my beacons or: something else went horribly wrong.
You could try and omit any options and check again - also if you look at them (without opening their inventory) they should say "Level xx crate" or "Big level xx crate". The xx is to be replaced with the required level, of course.

If that isn't the case, it's unlikely that it was BP's fault. Perhaps you played on another map, but that may be unlikely as well. :o
Mecka Tinker 24 Jul, 2017 @ 10:19pm 
I do thank you though for responding however. We do like the set up for the mod and the simple way to configure it, however as stated in the first comment, the mod is just too overpowered. We just wanted something a little better than near constant primative items all the time.
Mecka Tinker 24 Jul, 2017 @ 10:15pm 
I had no other settings of any kind since the ARK editor makes it clear that if you do not edit all settings with it, it will break the beacons entirely, so my server has not touched them. The only mod and setting we had to do with beacons is BeaconsPlus.
We tested all of the other beacons and the loot came out as we wanted (ramshackle to journeyman) and expected for both normal and double quality. Unless your saying double quality's base value is always ascendent for red double when all the other beacons of double quality are not behaving like this than this was the only source we found to explain the issue.
Naali  [author] 24 Jul, 2017 @ 10:08pm 
Well that sounds pretty weird. Perhaps you misunderstood how the settings work? It seems to me as if you set the RedDoubleQuality and assume it would have an effect on all beacons, which is not the case.

Red Double beacons (Level requirement 75 here) are pretty rare. Did you have some other settings which, by mistake, made most beacons too strong?
Mecka Tinker 24 Jul, 2017 @ 5:23pm 
Would love to continue using this mod however it is severely broken. I have reduced the variable to:
RedDoubleMinQuality=0
RedDoubleMaxQuality=0
as well as
RedDoubleMinQuality=1
RedDoubleMaxQuality=1

And no matter what I do it always drops Mastercraft and pearlescent (not ascendent, pearlescent which is the highest rating) gear and saddles. This is insanely aweful and super OP, defeating the purpose of having options. As a result my server(s) are now removing this mod. Thanks for the effort, but we don't have time to waste on this mod to wait for it to update. During that time players all max out pearlescent gear and we have to wipe server to rebalance.
GL
Chrmdfreak 23 Jul, 2017 @ 9:48am 
@Awesome Mc Awesome, Im getting close to only mastercraft and ascendant bp XD think you have to set your settings just slightly higher, as indeed I too only got primitive before I asked the modder how to change the settings.
Thresh 420 22 Jul, 2017 @ 12:07pm 
Follow the link he gave you. You can customize each and every beacon drop to your own taste and desire. I works on all four maps cuz i have a four map cluster. This is the *best* Beacon mod. Fr.
ANGRYdave1987 22 Jul, 2017 @ 6:24am 
@Awesome... instead of bashing the mod, why not be a bit more appreciative that this mod is active and gets updated, Maybe if you paid attention properly you'd notice the code. but i assume you just install it and expect everything to be grand for you. This is a pretty decent beacon mod, which took me few days to tweak it for my server, and never had an issue with blueprints being primative, apprentice, ascendant etc. So maybe provide the mod maker with feedback rather than saying its the worst beacon mod
Humpenstilzchen 22 Jul, 2017 @ 6:19am 
Even the bp are all primitive
Thresh 420 22 Jul, 2017 @ 3:16am 
It works great on my PvE/PvP cluster, Awesome. Scope it out.
Naali  [author] 21 Jul, 2017 @ 11:55pm 
That's the plan here. All stuff with qualities only drops as blueprints, and only if you enable it with some settings. You need to use the code in the manual here -> https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/748556112/133261907125796715/ to use it.

That feature allows you to modify it to your own needs!