Hello ARK: Eternal Survivors!

Since many people are not experienced with editing config files on their server, I offer you my scriptings for the ARK: Eternal mod.

HOWEVER! Before you edit your server files, I STRONGLY recommend checking http://ark.gamepedia.com/Server_Configuration before. Its the best explained Wiki to ARK: Survival Evolved and contains everything you need to know about server configuration. Just search up for the Damage and Resistance or Spawnweight lines.

Lets start with the Damage and Resistance config:

https://pastebin.com/0vdqXq22

In this list is every creature from the ARK: Eternal mod. To change both the damage out- and input, you have to edit two lines for both wild creatures and tamed creatures. In summary its 4 lines for one creature.

To make this easier, I changed the values for these lines to the following:

WildDamage - Damage multiplier for wild creatures
WildResistance - Resistance multiplier for wild creatures
TamedDamage - Damage multiplier for tamed creatures
TamedResistance - Resistance multiplier for tamed creatures

So to add it to your server quickly and easily, copy paste the whole list into a word- or textdocument and use the search & replace function (for Windows 10 its CRTL-H). Now search up for the entries above and change them to your desired number. Standard is 1.0 for everything.

*Example*

So lets say you replace WildDamage with 2.0, this will cause wild creatures to do double their normal damage. If you change TamedResistance to 0.2 it causes your tamed creatures to take 5 times the normal damage.

If you want to not change anything between ARK: Eternal creatures, but balance them more to other mods, make sure to use the same value for every entry. When wild ARK: Eternal creatures do only 0.1 of their damage, but the resistance of ARK: Eternal creatures is also 0.1, they will take their normal damage between them. To other mods creatures they will however to reduced damage and take more damage.

Personally Im using ARK: Eternal with Extinction Core with a multiplier of 0.2 for everything. Everything between 0.1 and 0.2 is fine I would say. Try this to your desire.

Now we switch to the Spawnweight config:

https://pastebin.com/hAwGv5Z7

The spawnweight entries consists of three parts, the SpawnWeightMultiplier, the OverrideSpawnLimitPercentage and the SpawnLimitPercentage. The same like above, I replaced the values with the shortcuts for easier editing.

SWM - SpawnWeightMultiplier, will define how high the change is for the creatures to spawn
OSLP - OverrideSpawnLimitPercentage, if set to true, puts in a limit of how often the creature can be active, false will not limit the spawns
SLP - SpawnLimitPercentage is the editable limit in percentage.

Its nearly the same with the damage and resistance configs. Search for the SWM and SLP entries and replace them to your desired numbers. SLP will only work if the OSLP is set to true!

Personally Im using both a SWM and SLP of 0.2, this causes the ARK: Eternal creatures to not flood the map and make them a bit rarer. Make sure to make a dino wipe when testing this out between server restarts!

Copy from Wiki:

"The following options can only be set in the [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode] section of Game.ini, located in the same folder as GameUserSettings.ini (see above for the location for each platform). Specifying them on the command line will have no effect."

I will try and keep this updated as long as possible, so ask my anything you want.

Greetings Banane Joe