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crossmr 4 Jul, 2023 @ 1:11am
How to mod dino spawn locations
We have a dedicated server ran through Ark server manager. We noticed all these pelagornis just floating above the water. It turns out that if they spawn too far from land they can't navigate and bug out. We need to alter their spawners so that they spawn close enough to land to behave properly. Has anyone already fixed this or is this something that can be done?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iGpVRdkt5c bugged spawns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gniAck1HL_Y proof of the bugged AI (repeated this numerous times and each time when the pelagornis got close enough to land its AI finally kicked in)

I tried installing the dev kit a few years ago and was met by nothing but a flood of error when it opened. Might give it a shot again but it's huge. I'm assuming we need to override the pelagornis AI, if possible, and look for where it searches for a valid fly to target and increase it's distance incrementally if it can't find one so that it could find nearby land and fly to there first.