ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Dino Nests Continued
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Ihmislehma  [developer] 16 Jul, 2017 @ 4:51am
GameuserSettings.ini
Do not change the ini settings unless you specifically want to change something. If the default values work for you, don't touch anything and enjoy the mod.

To change mod settings, write [DinoNestSettings] at the bottom of your GameUserSettings.ini and under the [DinoNestSettings] line, copy and paste one or more of the following:

AllowTamed=1
By default tamed dinos can't lay eggs. Set this to 0 to enable tamed dino nests. May be broken.

SpawnTime=4
How many seconds (4 by default) needs to pass before another nest is spawned. Setting this to 0 will disable the dino location based spawning. The spawntimer will not spawn another nest until it's done with the current one. May be broken.

NestDuration=90
When there is nobody near a nest, a code loops through, counting up every 2 seconds. NestDuration setting can be changed to set how many times this code can loop before the nest is deleted. The default value is 90 (=180 seconds).

UnfertilizedEggChance=0.0
This setting by default is 0, which means there is a 0% chance for an egg in a nest to be unfertilized. You can set it to 0.5 to have half unfertilized and half fertilized or something like 0.1 to have only 10% chance for a unfertilized egg to spawn.

DisableParticles=0
By default nests have particles. set this to 1 to disable nest particles.

NestRadius=8000
Each nest has a nest radius, which is 8000 units by default. A new nest cannot spawn if it's within the nest radius of an existing nest.

GlobalNestLimit=0.0
This line controls the spawn rate of the nests. By default the value is 0, meaning no nests get destroyed before spawning. To make nests more rare, you could write 0.5, which in turn will destroy 50% of all future nests before they spawn.

On top of the GlobalNestLimit, each nest can also be set its own limit. Check HOWTO: Control spawn rates to read more.
Last edited by Ihmislehma; 22 Jul, 2017 @ 2:49am