Jeremy Stieglitz

Oh it's Tameable AND Rideable  

39 minutes ago, metagod said:

" They have a 5% chance to drop a Box of Chocolate when they mate "
 

They drop a box but nothing in my inventory when i pick it up. Happened to two of my tribe mates as well

Ah sorry about that, please restart your Steam Client to update to v254.93, and then you'll be able to see the Cholocates within your Inventory!

Cheers,
Jeremy

1 hour ago, Amo387 said:

I'm rather disappointed that someone can complain and retroactively be given an award, regardless of how good a job they did on something. It sounds like this user is expecting to make a living off the awards, and giving in to a complaint like that sours me greatly on even bothering to enter myself in the future.

Ah I had already sent a note to Jen & Jat to add the Arabian Nights village to the ARKitect winners about 5 hours ago, before Wolf Angelus even posted (on a side note: I didn't even realize it was his at the time). I hadn't got a chance to personally review this week's entries in-time, but once I saw that village, I was quite impressed! 

11 minutes ago, mircoct said:

Will There 2x Mateboost Range, 3x Mating Speed/Mating Recovery, 3x Baby/Egg Maturation Speed, 1/3rd Baby Food Consumption not on official server? :(((

Only if the Unofficials run with the -vday parameter, when the update is released on Sunday!

7 minutes ago, Thalantyr said:

The 1.5x has obviously started, but will the other bonuses only be active on v-day (on official)?

a) Servers can launch with "-vday" to get (extra): 2x Mateboost Range, 3x Mating Speed/Mating Recovery, 3x Baby/Egg Maturation Speed, 1/3rd Baby Food Consumption

b) Dinos have a 5% chance to drop a Box of Chocolate when they mate. Box of Chocolates can be used for a Full-Heal or to advance 50% of a Taming Dino's Bar

Indeed the other Bonuses will start when the V-Day content releases on Sunday. You'll notice it then, as I'll be updating the News accordingly at that time

-Jeremy

Actually Wolf Angelus I'm a big fan of your work, and I didn't get to review this week's winners myself as I was out of the office most of today (Wife's B-Day). I absolutely love the "Egypt & Arabian Village", it's super creative   It's going in for a tie, the page should be updated shortly! Sorry about the mix-up on that!!!

Cheers,
Jeremy

Btw we didn't even know ARK was being considered for "Best use of a Farm Animal" (or any Steam Award) until Valve told us ARK had been nominated for it by the Steam Selection Committee on its own. After they told us we were nominated, we figured it'd be fun to add the Ovis since we had already planned on adding a creature for wool shearing using the new "hair" system!

-Jeremy

Just now, mfc420 said:

when will these changes occur on xbox?

Next week. Gonna make sure it appears solid on PC first throughout this weekend!

1 hour ago, Shadlos said:

I love the idea, Ark Devs, but PLEASE, for the sake of your fanbase and for balancing: make this gear and weapons RIDICULOUSLY AND PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLY HARD TO GET AND UPKEEP.

They're intended to be end-game gear, challenging both to acquire and to upkeep (via a new TekEngram/Resource mechanic). The purpose of the Tek Tier is to provide room for certain end-game mechanics to grow in long-term directions. The video may make it look like everyone's gonna be running around in unlimited Power Ranger / Iron Man armor en masse -- if it's balanced properly, that will hopefully not be the case  

Also, any or all of the Tek Tier stuff will be specifically disable-able for servers!

-Jeremy

1 hour ago, OGCookies said:

Any rough ETA for this? Cant wait

December!

28 minutes ago, Jaywall said:

Nice! But seriously I saw like 20 questions asking if we could get a toggle button for first and third person on Xbox, we really need that please  would make going through forests with large dinos much less blinding. All I see is leaves haha.

That'll be in Xbox patch v746  

Gonna be a bit of a rapid info dump on how Procedurally Generated ARK's (PGARK's) currently works -- will continue to flesh this out as I get more time over the weekend. Bear in mind the system is early and will be rapidly advancing, so if you use Procedurally Generated ARKs, there's always a possibility of losing your save data when the algorithms are further modified!

Without further ado, here we go! 

How To Configure your first PGARK

Launch the game, goto Play Local ARK, select "Create New Procedurally Generated ARK" in the upper-left of the Host UI, and then you can play around with all the different PGARK settings to construct an ARK to your liking. Give it unique ARK name in the lower-right, and click Host. After a long wait (this will be further optimized shortly), you'll be on your new ARK! The procedural ARK data is cached to disk so subsequent loads of it are much faster (in Saved\GenerateMapCache, which you can delete if you ever wish to clear up disk space or force regenerate the procedural data in case it becomes corrupted). You can delete existing saved Procedurally Generated ARK's (by name) in the Host UI. Furthermore, you can save multiple PGARK configurations in the Create New Procedural ARK UI, if you wish to retain them for later tweaking or to create multiple unique saved ARK's from the same configuration.

Here's a really rough guide to some of the PGARK settings you can edit in the UI:

Hosting a Dedicated Server on PGARK

The actual PGARK configuration is stored in your \Saved\Config\Windows (or WindowsServer or LinuxServer etc)\Game.ini file, here: 

[/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode]
PGMapName=YourPGARK1
PGTerrainPropertiesString=MapSeed=412;LandscapeRadius=1.2;Water Frequency=11;Mountains Frequency=11;Mountains Slope=1.4;MountainsHeight=1.3;Turbulence Power=0.0125;Shore Slope=1.0;WaterLevel=-0.72;GrassDensity=1.0;JungleGrassDensity=0.02;ErosionIterations=200000;OceanFloorLevel=-1.0;SnowBiomeSize=0.3;RWBiomeSize=0.11;MountainBiomeStart=-0.55;MountainsTreeDensity=0.01;JungleBiomeStart=-0.65;IslandBorderCurveExp=4.0;MaxSawnPointHeight=0.1;SnowGrassDensity=0.25;MountainGrassDensity=0.05;SnowMountainGrassDensity=0.15;UnderwaterObjectsDensity=0.5;SnowMountainsTreeDensity=0.01;TreeDensity=0.003;JungleTreeDensity=0.66;RedWoodTreeDensity=0.35;SnowTreeDensity=1.0;RedwoodGrassDensity=0.1;ShoreTreeDensity=0.05;SnowShoreTreeDensity=0.025;DeepWaterBiomesDepth=-0.24;InlandWaterObjectsDensity=0.5;ShorelineStartOffset=0.04;ShorelineThickness=0.0045;TerrainScaleMultiplier=(X=1.0f,Y=1.0f,Z=1.0f);SnowBiomeLocation=(X=0.2f,Y=0.2f);RWForestBiomeLocation=(X=0.5f,Y=0.5f);NorthRegion1Start=(X=0.25f,Y=0.0f);NorthRegion1End=(X=0.416f,Y=0.5f);NorthRegion2Start=(X=0.416f,Y=0.0f);NorthRegion2End=(X=0.582f,Y=0.5f);NorthRegion3Start=(X=0.582f,Y=0.0f);NorthRegion3End=(X=0.75f,Y=0.0f);SouthRegion1Start=(X=0.25f,Y=0.5f);SouthRegion1End=(X=0.416f,Y=1.0f);SouthRegion2Start=(X=0.416f,Y=0.5f);SouthRegion2End=(X=0.582f,Y=1.0f);SouthRegion3Start=(X=0.582f,Y=0.5f);SouthRegion3End=(X=0.75f,Y=1.0f);EastRegion1Start=(X=0.75f,Y=0.0f);EastRegion1End=(X=1.0f,Y=0.333f);EastRegion2Start=(X=0.75f,Y=0.333f);EastRegion2End=(X=1.0f,Y=0.666f);EastRegion3Start=(X=0.75f,Y=0.666f);EastRegion3End=(X=1.0f,Y=1.0f);WestRegion1Start=(X=0.0f,Y=0.0f);WestRegion1End=(X=0.25f,Y=0.333f);WestRegion2Start=(X=0.0f,Y=0.333f);WestRegion2End=(X=0.25f,Y=0.666f);WestRegion3Start=(X=0.0f,Y=0.666f);WestRegion3End=(X=0.25f,Y=1.0f)

After you configure an ARK to your liking in singleplayer mode, copy the values to your dedicated server's Game.ini file, and then host the server on the map called "PGARK" (ala "ShooterGameServer.exe PGARK?listen". The server will automatically load whatever PGMapName you have set. So if you want to do a different Procedural ARK, change the PGMapName value to "YourPGARK2" and you'll get a different savedata for that. You can revert back to any previous PGMapName to load the data of a previously saved PGARK. Note that if you have no existing save data for the PGMapName, it will use the PGTerrainPropertiesString to create the new ARK. But after you have save data for a PGMapName, the INI's PGTerrainPropertiesString will not take effect when loading that save data -- instead, it will use whatever procedural settings are contained within the PGMapName's existing savedata. In other words, to try out a new PGTerrainPropertiesString configuration, you either would need to delete your PGMapName's savedata, or use a different PGMapName.

To get a PGARK configuration that you like, we recommend experimenting in singleplayer through the in-game UI, and then once you have settings you're happy with, copy the PGTerrainPropertiesString from your Windows\Game.ini into your dedicated server's WindowsServer\Game.ini (into the [/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode] section as described above). Then, as long as you're hosting a new PGMapName, those settings will take effect just as they were in your singleplayer game! You can also easily share good PGARK configurations by sharing that string with other server hosts, just copy the text of PGTerrainPropertiesString to them, and they can put it in their own INI. Share your best PGTerrainPropertiesString settings on the Forum! Hosts can put the PGTerrainPropertiesString value into PGLastUsedSettings as well, which will then become visible to the in-game UI for further custom tweaking/iteration.

New System: Overriding/Modifying Map Spawners via INI

There's a powerful new INI-driven system to override, add, or substract all NPC spawners within the ARK. In particular you can use this to adjust the spawners of a PGARK to your precise liking. Here are some examples of how it works:

Add these INI values, as many as you want, into your Game.ini's [/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode] section. 

For example, this will REMOVE Trikes and Sauropod entries from the PGARK's Grassland Spawner, and it will remove Trikes and Ptero's from the PGARK's Jungle Spawner (you could then do a ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer afterwards, to add them back in with different rates, if desired):

ConfigSubtractNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="DinoSpawnEntriesGrassland_PGM_C",NPCSpawnEntries=( (NPCsToSpawnStrings=("Trike_Character_BP_C")),(NPCsToSpawnStrings=("Sauropod_Character_BP_C")) ), NPCSpawnLimits=( (NPCClassString="Trike_Character_BP_C"),(NPCClassString="Sauropod_Character_BP_C") )  )

ConfigSubtractNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="DinoSpawnEntriesJungle_PGM_C",NPCSpawnEntries=( (NPCsToSpawnStrings=("Trike_Character_BP_C")),(NPCsToSpawnStrings=("Ptero_Character_BP_C")) ), NPCSpawnLimits=( (NPCClassString="Trike_Character_BP_C"),(NPCClassString="Ptero_Character_BP_C") )  )

This will ADD a Giganotosaurus Spawner to the PGARK's beach spawner, but limiting it to only 1 Giga per spawner (via the NPCSpawnLimits):

ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="DinoSpawnEntriesBeach_PGM_C",NPCSpawnEntries=( (AnEntryName="GigaSpawner",EntryWeight=1000.0,NPCsToSpawnStrings=("Gigant_Character_BP_C"))), NPCSpawnLimits=( (NPCClassString="Gigant_Character_BP_C",MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow=0.01) )  )

This will OVERRIDE the PGARK's beach spawner to spawn NOTHING but Gigas and Rexes in equal weights and limits... OUCH!

ConfigOverrideNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="DinoSpawnEntriesGrassland_PGM_C",NPCSpawnEntries=( (AnEntryName="GigaSpawner",EntryWeight=1.0,NPCsToSpawnStrings=("Gigant_Character_BP_C"))    ,   (AnEntryName="RexSpawner",EntryWeight=1.0,NPCsToSpawnStrings=("Rex_Character_BP_C"))    ),    NPCSpawnLimits=( (NPCClassString="Gigant_Character_BP_C",MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow=0.5) ,  (NPCClassString="Rex_Character_BP_C",MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow=0.5)  )  )

Using this technique, you can modify all of the spawners of any map. It will even take Mod creature class names, as long as you know their short (summonable) class names!

Here's a list of all the spawner class names on TheIsland, TheCenter, ScorchedEarth, and PGARK for your handy reference:

PGARK
DinoSpawnEntries_InlandWater_PGM_C
DinoSpawnEntries_TheDeepwater_PGM_C
DinoSpawnEntries_TheOcean_PGM_C
DinoSpawnEntriesBeach_PGM_C
DinoSpawnEntriesGrassland_PGM_C
DinoSpawnEntriesJungle_PGM_C
DinoSpawnEntriesMountain_PGM_C
DinoSpawnEntriesSnow_PGM_C
DinoSpawnEntriesSnowMountain_PGM_C
DinoSpawnEntriesSnowShoreline_PGM_C
DinoSpawnEntriesSwamp_PGM_C
DinoSpawnEntriesRedwoodsPGM_C

TheIsland
DinoSpawnEntries_Beavers_C
DinoSpawnEntries_DarkWater_C
DinoSpawnEntries_DarkWater_Mosa_C
DinoSpawnEntries_DarkWaterAngler_C
DinoSpawnEntries_DeepWater_C
DinoSpawnEntries_InlandWater_C
DinoSpawnEntries_Ocean_C
DinoSpawnEntriesRedwoods_C
DinoSpawnEntries_RedwoodWater_C
DinoSpawnEntries_ShallowWater_C
DinoSpawnEntries_SwampWater_C
DinoSpawnEntriesArcha_C
DinoSpawnEntriesBeach_C
DinoSpawnEntriesCave1_C
DinoSpawnEntriesCave2_C
DinoSpawnEntriesCave2-LowSpiderScorp_C
DinoSpawnEntriesCave3_C
DinoSpawnEntriesCave5_C
DinoSpawnEntriesCave5_Tough_C
DinoSpawnEntriesCave7-Fliers_C
DinoSpawnEntriesCaveIceWater_C
DinoSpawnEntriesCaveLava_C
DinoSpawnEntriesCaveWater_C
DinoSpawnEntriesDamiensAtoll_C
DinoSpawnEntriesGigant_C
DinoSpawnEntriesGrassland_C
DinoSpawnEntriesIceCave_C
DinoSpawnEntriesJungle_C
DinoSpawnEntriesMonsterIsland_C
DinoSpawnEntriesMountain_C
DinoSpawnEntriesPelican_C
DinoSpawnEntriesPenguins_C
DinoSpawnEntriesQuetz_C
DinoSpawnEntriesSnow_C
DinoSpawnEntriesSwamp_C
DinoSpawnEntriesSwampCave_C
DinoSpawnEntriesSwampCaveWater_C
DinoSpawnEntriesTinyCave_C
DinoSpawnEntriesTitano_C
DinoSpawnEntriesWater_C

TheCenter (which also uses many TheIsland spawners)
CustomAnglerSpawner_C
CustomPenguinSpawner_C
DunkEurSpawn_C
GrasslandsUnderArea_WaterSpawn_C
IceCave_Spawner_C
IceCaveWater_Spawner_C
Lava_Spawn_C
Lava_Upper_Spawn_C
LavaBeach_Spawn_C
LavaWater_Spawn_C
MiniCaveBearSpawner_C
SnowGrasslands_Spawn_C
SnowGrasslandsUnderArea_Spawn_C
SnowyLake_Mosa_C
SnowyMountain_Spawn_C
SpiderCaveSpawner_C
UnderwaterCaveSpawn_C
DinoSpawnEntries_OceanUnderworld_C

Scorched Earth
SE_DinoSpawnEntries_DeathWorm_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntries_RexSolo_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesBadlands_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesCanyonCave_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesCanyons_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesDunes_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesEZMode_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesGreenDesert_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesMountain_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesMountainCave_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesOasis_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesRuinsCave_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesRuinsCaveNoGolem_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesSandworm_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesWater_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesWyvern_C
SE_DinoSpawnEntriesWyvernTrench_C

Procedural Generator Modding Guide

The Procedural ARK Generation is nearly 100% Blueprint-driven, so it is super moddable (and the Generator Blueprints used can be overriden by any Mod!). We have no doubt that enterprising modders will be able to create even better algorithms and logic paths than us, for more lifelike and detailed procedural ARK's. Here are the first details about how to get involved with creating a unique Procedural Generator Mod in the ARK Dev Kit: 
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?90664-9-28-ARK-Dev-Kit-v247-8-has-been-posted-to-the-Epic-Launcher!

And here's an example of a very simple one!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=785098977

Bonus video tutorial by ThickFreedom:

36 minutes ago, F1nchyStryd3r said:

Great spotlight WC,

will the PG Maps ever come to XBOX?

As for the Kapro leaping out of the water.........hell no!!! lol

Yup, Procedurally Generated ARKs are coming to all consoles! SEE WHAT I DID THERE?  

-Jeremy

23 minutes ago, Wolf Angelus said:

Thanks :3

I was wondering if I am crazy or did default wood chairs lose the ability to be painted on the other regions? When they came out I was sure all regions could be colored. Same to benches o:  

AHA! Patch Notes v247!

Wow that's quite a feature! Oh and FIRST!  

6 minutes ago, Purrmaster said:

I haven't heard much mention of Tek Tier recently.  Could you please confirm whether that is still upcoming and, if so, a rough timeline of when you think it might hit?  I really want to shoot a dinosaur with a plasma rifle.

The first Tek Tier items will be the power-armor set and will be coming along with the 'Boss Ascension' feature (as they use a new resource system related to that ), targeting this month of September.

Cheers,
Jeremy

8 hours ago, DaEndGame said:

Always good to see the communities creations, really inspiring! Everyone has done a great job as always and I'm sure there is plenty more where it came from. Keep up the great work guys.

 

Sadly there's nothing on P+ for Xbox release. Last word on it, as far as I know, was one of the WC team saying it was a few weeks away on twitter. Now here we are a few weeks later! Well patience is a virtue, so I'll wait. Although I'm definitely looking forwards to its release and when it does, I shall master cooking and building, Hazzah!

It's turned out to be significantly more complex to properly package up P+ for console release than we anticipated. Basically, can't have 5 minute load times on console,  

(But yes, we have some of our engineers working on it every day and it's getting done, should be submitted to Microsoft soon -- it's requiring some new technical pipelines to package it up in a manner that we can maintain without having every Xbox update be 4GB -- Xbox updates aren't packaged with per-byte differences like Steam updates, but rather only per-file which) 

Looking forward to playing P+ on Xbox with ya soon,
Jeremy

9 minutes ago, IcedAllosaur said:

Thanks guys for the dev kit! So this means creatures already in core Ark like the Allosaurus and Gallimimus can be imported in?

Yes, you can indeed copy over all the assets from the regular ARK: Survival Evolved Dev Kit as you wish, they're just drag-and-drop between the two DevKits. I'm expecting a Titanosaurus Mod for ARK: SotF in 3....2.....1....!

OK fine, I'll go ahead and add the Titanosaurus Mod now  

Cheers,
Jeremy

36 minutes ago, ManoWar said:

I think that Killenjoke and Nyrang have interesting ideas, and I support the thought of them, also this is going to add more of the Primitve to modern to futuristic feel for the game, and this wil be a fun way to get fish instead of having to chase them underwater and potentinally drown due to stamina.

Oh it's much more than that -- fishing has a very specific benefit to the kinds of resources you'll be able to get from harvesting the captured fish, in order to make it worth the time expenditure

12 hours ago, Neizan said:

Can you add a server option to "allow/no allow" human players in Primal Survival? maybe some servers only want NPC Bush People (without real humans in their servers)

 

Is Primal Survival created by the same creator of "Play as Dino" mod? or is Primal Survival created by ARK devs?

Yes the servers can determine each species (including whether humans) that players are allowed to play as.

The Primal Survival Total Conversion is being developed by Instinct Games, who also work with Wildcard on ARK: Survival Evolved itself. It will add a lot of new features for Mod creators too, giving them much more control over how players can interact with the game world (looking forward to Uber-TRex vs humans competitive game mod... if someone doesn't create it, I'll try to get around to it myself  )

Cheers,
Jeremy

13 hours ago, GamerPerfection said:

I don't know about that actually. There's been confirmation that humans will be in Primal Survival, but there's been no confirmation whether the humans will be AI or Players. There's strong feeling they will be players, and therefore you might be able to chose to play as dino or human.

Those are human players in Primal Survival. And servers can control which species can be chosen by players, but there are never ANY AI humans. I'm just not good enough with AI to even attempt it 

(however... I bet the 'NPC Bush People' Mod dude will have a blast)

Cheers,
Jeremy

27 minutes ago, EvilChaosDX said:

I'm a little bit confused by the borders. Surely anything outside the red is safe, so what is the need of the green borders? Wouldn't they be directly attached to the red borders? Which they don't seem to be in your images.

Anyone able to clear this up?

The green borders are actually just the other side of the red border, so that you know you're on the "safe" side -- otherwise it might not necessarily be obvious which side is which 

Aha don't worry, we're not gonna nuclear-winter the Hidden Lake!  The changes map will be updated soon, Hidden Lake area will remain as-is.

Also we'll be more clear shortly about which swamp area will be affected, it's actually relatively little (some swamp area is being reclaimed for other biome usage).

Also note soon next week we'll update the in-game environment with 3d markers indicating areas that will be undergoing a change.

Cheers,
Jeremy

4 hours ago, Lupine1990 said:

My only question is how do the custom ranks work? Because I looked at it and it doesn't really make sense to me. 

9 minutes ago, AmbientLamb0581 said:

I've always thought of ark just being a fun new kind of survival game with no point. But once you think about it, this game has more than meets the eye. Something is coming. Something big

Yes