Ark Non Dedicated Baby Dino Food Consumption Setting

These are tips for those that want to mess around with the settings.

For making a boosted server or just having fun in single player.

Do not copy the numbers in these pictures, it's crappy, just testing things.

I am not telling you what settings is the BEST server or so, I'm just explaining what a few settings do and what would be fun for a boosted server.

I also will point out a few setting you would want to avoid, because they can ruin your game or kill all your dinos.

This is on PS4 console so on PC a few settings might be different.

@GENERAL TAB

●Difficulty Level: 1 for console

On console Difficulty 1 is the same as Difficulty 5 on PC. Max lvl of a wild dino will be 150. Everything is x5 so a lvl 1 would lvl 5 so that's the lowest you'll see.

And it goes up by 5's. So if you see a lvl 18 for example, you will know your setting aren't on highest difficulty.

●...Damage

●...Resistance   Personaly I don't change these. Your and your dinos will get more damage by other settings later anyway.

With stucture resistance you can make your structures indestructible but that takes away too much from the game I think.

●XP multiplier: x3 or x5 I would say.

It's a boosted server so you'll be mass killing and mass building so the XP will come flying in anyway.

Being max lvl on your first day is a bit silly. Then aggain that's for a normal boosted server. The theme of your server might requier you to be max asap. Every server is different.

●Taming speed: If you put it high , like 100, then as soon as they eat their first bite they will be tamed, the little and medium ones, the bigger ones might still need a few bites. It will keep their taming efficiency high, even if you don't use kibble or prime.

For a bit more challenge put it on

10 or 20.

●Dino Harvester Damage: ↓

●Harvest Amount: These 2 go hand in hand and are up to you. Dino harvester damage will increase how much your dino will gather. But because the dinos attack damage is increased by other settings, it quickly results in lag every time a dino harvests a bush, even if a Trex bites a tree it lags even though a Trex doesn't gather wood, it still calculates it. So I keep Dino harvest Damage low.

Harvest amount controlles how much you get for hitting a tree. I like it high, good for rare resources wich I just gather with a good pick or axe.

●Player water drain: just a bother so I turn it down. 0,01 will make it so that you never have to drink. 0,1 - 0,2 will cause you to get thirsty every now and then.

●Player food drain: in the past it was important to not put it too low because you needed the hunger to eat to heal. But nowdays you heal by draining your food. So it's not important what you choose. I keep it at 0,2 - 0,3 so that I don't have to eat every 5 min.

●Dino Food Drain: !!!!! IMPORTANT !!!!!!

!!!!!! KEEP THIS AT 1 !!!!!!!

If you lower it too much it will take ages for the creature you wanne tame to eat its first bite because his food (stat) issent dropping to the point he gets hungry.

But if you increase it, all your tamed dinos will get hungry super fast and might all starve to death.

●Player stamina drain: 0,1 and you will be able to sprint 10 times longer.

●Dino character Stamina drain: 0,01

I put this on 0,01 because of flyers.

After the flyer nerf their stamina drops so fast it aint fun to fly around. They already lost their speed. At least with this setting they can fly long without landing.

●Player character health recovery

●Dino character health recovery

I keep those at 30. This only applies when not in combat. So as long as you are fighting nothing happens. But when you've killed your target, your health will return fairly quickly, so you have to wait less long before attacking the next target.

●Player harvesting damage: aggain another harvesting setting. So you'll have to balance this with the other harvesting settings. There are a lot of different settings that influence the same thing.

●Dino count: Amount of creatures on the map. 1 for normal population

2 for dubble

0,1 to have very few dinos

Maximum Difficulty: TURN THIS ON!!

It makes sure that wild dino level goes up to max level. For console that's level 150 dinos.

Some nice features here.

●Use Corpse locator: The new beacon that helps us find our corpse to get our items back.

●Disable structure placement collision:

You can now place structures that partly collide with another object. This enables a lot. Now you can build into the rocks. Build a foundation diagonal intersecting anothe foundation. Hide spotlights inside pillars.

No more: "can not place structure here"

●Allow multiple platform floors.

For platform saddles and rafts I think.

Is in by default? Because I never had problems with it. Thsn aggain I've only started making boats and my platform saddles are empty. Future projects?

●Allow unlimited respecs: Before this was always the case, now they changed it so you can only respec when you level up. Maybe good for pvp but on pve I wanne respecc when ever I want to.

●Disable Dino Taming: ↓

●Disable Dino Riding: These two settings can be fun in a RolePlay server. Man versus Beast and so on.

Another way of doing this with more customisation is in Engrams only allowing the saddle engrams of selected creatures.

@Advanced Settings

●..... interval: Higher number means longer untill the next interval. Slower

●.... Speed: Higher = Faster

●Baby food consumption speed:

If you put it on 0,01 your newborn creatures can grow up without care of food. Especially if the grow rates are turned up. I'm playing around with auto breeding and feeding mechanisms. I put 2 sheep in a box and all the lamb fall down in another box and grow up waiting to be fed to my Tigers and Raptors.

Warning this setting can cause problems if someone leaves a love copple on wander. Overpopulation and lag or crash is possible. You might want to rurn that down a lot. This was just me playing around.

●Harvest Health: If you hit a tree you get wood. That amount you get before the tree breaks is setting 1. So if you put it on 4 you will get 4 times more. Because the other settings make me and my dino so strong the trees break with 1 hit. But lets say on a server with all settings on default and you would put Harvest Health on 10 it would take for ever to get your Mammoth or Trike through that forest. Because you will need to hit every tree so many times.

●Resources respawn period:

How fast a harvested tree will grow back.

Or a rock, metal deposit,   .. .

●Babby cuddle stuff: I'm still experimenting with this so I can't say much about it.

●Daytime speed

●Nighttime speed: Longer days and shorter nights is more fun. But I wouldn't make the nights too short. Else you can't see your lights and you can't get RaptorClaws pressents.

Weird how you can change these speeds and the day cycle speed independently.

How does that work mathematically?

●Spoiling time: so you'll keep your stuff

●No resource radius structures:

How close things respawn to your buildings. Higher number and you have a nice open space around your building. Too high and you building blocks the respawning of that metal deposit.

WARNING if you lower this on an active server, a rock might spawn where your dino is parked. And your dino might disapear.

Best is on 1 I think.

● Crop decay speed: No one wants rotten potatoes. My greenhouse is just there for when I need it. I don't need to work in it every day. And with this the crops stay fresh for use.

Wild dinos

●Torpidity: Lower = Faster tranquilising

This depends on your server.

If you put it realy low then you could tame anything with just a puch in the face. So if you got a server for lots of people and you don want them to have huge amounts of dinos super fast, then raise this and adjust the breeding and baby maturation speeds so it's harder.

If you just play with a few friends on a locked dedicated server or alone then putting it on 0,1 will make taming easy and fast.

●Tamed dino: Always getting confused wich is the stats the dino gets when tamed and wich is the points you put in yourself. Keep in mind that these are per level. It can easily be too much.

●Oxygen: This also increases the dinos swim speed. Actualy this works on players too. Carefull not to make it too fast.

●Affinity: While this looks the same, it only applies to the bonus being given. Like when imprinting.

● Torpidity: higher = less fast knocked out by a scorpion.

● Fortitude: Cold or heat don't bother you

●XP multiplier : Another xp bonus setting. You already get increased xp so don't put it too high because it stacks.

●Crafting skill multiplier : Everything you craft has a chance to be of a lot higher quality. More dmg, armor and so..

●Supply crate loot quality: Drops in world and in caves will now have ascendant quality items if put on 99. Better saddles and guns. Depends on what kind if server you are making. You might not want everyone to have ascendant gear by flying a few laps around the map.

●Fishing loot quality: same as above but for fishing.

●Fuel consumtion interval multiplier :

This increases the time 1 fuel will burn. Be it gas, sparkpowder, wood,....

WARNING if you put it on 1000 then you can't make charcoal (or Extremely slow) only do this when you have the industrial forge. That's the only way to make charcoal fast. Because the wood is not its fuel but what it processes.

I've put it on 1000 so that my torches stay on all the time and I have loads of running power generators. In every boat and I want to keep them on so the lights stay on.

●Increase platform structe limit:

50 is max I think. This allows you to build bigger ships and mobile bases.

Finnaly we have this option on console.

I made this because there are a few settings I wanted to point out.

It ended up being longer than intended.

I'm no expert so some things might be wrong or incomplete.

If you see any mistakes let me know.

I did not discuss PvP settings because I don't know enough about it.

I am not claiming that this is a guide.

Just a few tips and warnings.

I hope you enjoyed it.

Do check my other wikis and posts.

Plenty if tips there. Find it on my profile.

Ark Non Dedicated Baby Dino Food Consumption Setting

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