Ill do my best to keep this updated with some of the more under the hood changes. If there is anything people want more info about ask here and ill add the info in

Is the spawn rate for the bosses individual or based off the natural spawn rate of the species? ie. if I make rex spawn rate 500% does that mean that the boss spawn rate is also 500% or still 100%?

Its considered a separate dinosaur with a seperate spawn setting. You should be able to change it using the same method, the character ids are listed in another thread

The spawn rates may need to be tweaked some. I don't know about other servers, but on mine, we've seen about 50 spino kings/queens, about 20 spider kings/queens, and none of the rest.

Dont know what it is about spinos that they seem to spawn so much despite having by far the lowest spawn rate - Ill make some changes to that tomorrow. I've not come across one spider King or Queen yet on my online server, i must be unlucky :D

The rest are spawning so far as ive seen but i might increase some of them slightly as i feel they are a little too rare now

Can we have the boss carnivores spawn in the north east island that only carnivores can spawn on? Haven't seen a single boss on there and I've been there for quite some time. Love the mod btw!

Yeah that comes under a different spawn region than the rest of the island. Nothing spawninf there yet but ill add some stuff to it with next update

Any issues on installing the mod on a dedicated server and running on existing save. Im afraid that it may corrupt the file and pissed off my players.

Anyways Awesome mod !!

I run it on mine with no problems, and know of a few other folk who do too. If you want to be safe, back up your saved files first

so if i want this on my server all i have to do is subscribe to the mod?

Origineel geplaatst door MaximusNLS:

so if i want this on my server all i have to do is subscribe to the mod?

yup, subscribed and then transfer those files to the server's directory. then edit the command line to include the modID

Does your mod remap all spawns or just the boss ones you've added in?

It replaces current spawn file with my new one, it keeps the original spawns the same inside of my spawn file though

Does this mean that every time a new dino is released, we have to wait for bARK to update to include the new dino in the spawns? This would explain why we don't see any BigFoot's naturally spawning since the updates (as you were out of town during that time).

Is the new mod for dino bosses you're writing going:
A) Be compatible with the existing tames people have?
B) will it make use of any new "Additional X" stuff I saw added recently to avoid remapping of existing things? I'm not sure if this applies to spawn points yet, I've been poking around the dev kit a little myself (man we need documentation for that thing lol). But it would be nice to be able to update core and get new spawns zero-minute without waiting on a bARK update if I understand it right (my players wake me up at 3am for patching and server outages!).

And by the way, players are on the edge of their seats to ride the new large dinos, more texture variations, can't have enough. People love their unique color combinations.

I will appreciate the reduction of spawns in the next update as well, as the dinos are serious lootbags right now, they should be a bit rarer I think (most players can fly within a few hours of starting on the beach, it's easy to find and hunt them right now with their colors, rare is good!). The scorpions are the only serious danger with their awesome torpor stings, people think twice about taking them on. The odd rex king scares people, but for the most part all the other bosses are fairly easy to deal with. Can we give them a health buff? more armor? make the fights last a little longer, maybe that'll make them a bit more of a threat if they don't get spam chomped by a spino or rex in a few hits, without just turning them into one-shotters themselves.

Awesome work, can't wait for the next update. Any hint on when we'll see it?