ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Creature Finder Deluxe
zpangwin 24 Jul, 2019 @ 2:28pm
Suggestions/Requests
Really really liking this mod. This is perhaps the best dino finder mod I've tried and there have been quite a few. Not sure if you are still working on this / willing to consider requests but here are a few suggestions just in case...

In order of importance:
1) Some kind of visual feedback/indication/displayed text when using F6/F7 to switch to previous next, just so you can tell which profile its currently on. Sometimes I can't tell how many times I hit it / I don't remember the order of profiles and often I end up back in the menu to search manually.

2) A dedicated hotkey for repeating the last scan as you move around the map. I can somewhat get this functionality from saved searches but not for unsaved ones. Seems like if you are wandering around for awhile, new ones are not flagged. Maybe this bc I was on SP/non-dedi; will retry later on dedi. But basically I tested from TheIsland by doing a scan for Rexes level 1-600 while underwater near Monster Island. It found one. As I went ashore, I could see 2 additional rexes but they weren't tagged. Some of this was probably due to me not using the hibernate param (i seem to experience instability problems whenever i use that flag).

3) Partial controller support or even just adding an optional item that could be added to the quickbar to repeat scans would be awesome. Maybe a GPS-like tool where primary fire=repeat, secondary=next profile. This would be useful to me even if a dedicated "Repeat Last Scan" hotkey was added as then I could repeat from controller without switching back to kb (aos just to be clear; not asking for support in menu as that seems like it would be a pain, just for the hotkey actions).

4) Option to scan for all saved profiles at once or in sequence (e.g. to save manually doing scan for each one)

Thanks for the awesome mod and keep up the good work! :steamhappy:
Last edited by zpangwin; 24 Jul, 2019 @ 2:36pm
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Grebog  [developer] 25 Jul, 2019 @ 9:03am 
Thank you for your feedback, i whish more users would do it. :-)

Now for your ideas:
Yes i will be working on most of my mod, but in the summertime i have not much space to enhance my mod. And my sponsored mod "Dino Patrol" takes a lot time to develope further.
1. Good idea, i will put it on the idea list.
2. Single player sucks especially with the hibernation stupidness (sorry)
i recommend starting a local server and play on it. You can start the dedicated arkserver from
the menu where you normally start the single player. If it runs, start Ark from the ark directory
and connect to the lan server. So you are playing locally on a local server.
3. hm, controller support is also worse, but i will think about it
4. i will put it also on the idea list.
zpangwin 27 Jul, 2019 @ 6:39pm 
Awesome, totally understand. I play in bursts bc of time and based on my lack of skills with the dev kit I can only assume it isn't very easy to work with 😒

And regarding SP vs server... Yeah, sorry for the confusion... Reading my old post I wrote that poorly. But to clarify I usually test out new mods in SP and everything that passes then gets copied over to my dedicated after I am satisfied that it is stable/beneficial enough to justify the added load time. :-)
KI-Natas 19 Sep, 2019 @ 4:30pm 
Great Mod so far..

I like 2). Adding a hotkey or something to repeat the scan would be cool.
Scanning a whole map in PVE is a bit OP. Limit the distance helps but you always have to go in the menu.

A high level engram to unlock it as a tool would be great.

An admin mode with no restrictions would be better than admin only flag.
Last edited by KI-Natas; 19 Sep, 2019 @ 4:31pm
Grebog  [developer] 21 Sep, 2019 @ 12:30pm 
@KI-Natas thx for feedback. i will think about all suggestions, and if they fit into this mod
PulsarSan 2 May, 2020 @ 7:53am 
Hi Grebog.
I also have a suggestion. Rework of the search button. As it appears, it looks more like a message indicating that a search is already going on.
Last edited by PulsarSan; 2 May, 2020 @ 7:53am
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