#modding-general

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vital linden
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I am looking for a quicker way for people to get their in-game stats/colors to my website for broader sharing. Tek binocs are great for in game. Not useful out of game except as assorted screenshots.

scenic echo
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🤔 the numbers are the only important part. just gets punched in, do calcs

vital linden
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Yeah the numbers for stats and colors are the important part and exactly what I’m looking to automate. If you are exporting 20+ species, easier to scan a QR code for each rather than entering 18+ inputs each (stats base, stats mutation, colors).

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Users can freely do the manual way today to import a dino to my website. It’s just slower.

main condor
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does anyone know if there is a mod that lets me control a specific dinos stats?
Like if I want to nerf a rex's damage scaling for example (not that I do) but not impact any other creatures damage scaling per level is there a mod that lets me mess with individual species rather than the entire servers info?

nimble prawn
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Yeah, have to go back through 1000+ pins

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Modding concepts! What are everyone’s ideas?

manic bronze
manic bronze
true phoenix
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Looking for an ASA Modder! 🦖
I have a fully fleshed-out concept for a unique progression mod (custom mechanics & balancing). All stats and systems are ready; I just need help with Ark Dev Kit. DM me for details!

manic bronze
fringe wedge
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Hi modders, soliciting some advice before I dig through way too many more youtube transcripts:
If I want to apply some change to a parent class such that all children classes inherit it, what are the correct steps? For example, if I add a print statement triggered by BPSetupTame (an easy example to test in PIE) to the non-virtual class Dodo_Character_BP I can see it, but if I add the same to Dino_Character_BP_MyModdedVariant and reparent that to the vanilla class Dino_Character_BP, or Remap NPC in ModDataAsset, I can't seem to get Dodo_Character_BP to inherit it / print during testing.

I'm either missing a small technical detail or a large understanding.

nimble prawn
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You’re using different information classes.
The second line goes into a different void

fringe wedge
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How should I make changes to the parent class then?

slate rune
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You can't. Remaps are just replacements. They do not affect inheritance. If you want all dinos to get z functionality, you either replace all of them, which is a garbage idea, or buff them and have your functionality there.

You can't edit vanilla files directly either, can't edit primal dino for example.

fringe wedge
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That is... Strange and disappointing. Regardless, thank you, I can stop pursuing this design and banging my head against a wall.

To buff them, though, can that be automatically applied to all tames (all children of Dino_Character_BP) without modifying that parent class? I imagine I can't use a parent event like BPSetupTame as a trigger from outside that class. Unless there can be free floating functions that hook onto those triggers?

nimble prawn
fringe wedge
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Sort of. I want to modify all children of the parent class in a scaleable and maintainable way. If I can use the parent's trigger and apply this buff to the child, regardless of the specific child class.

Or, can I replace a free function (that I haven't found yet) such as the breeding logic. I know there is a mod that guarantees the highest stat from each mom/dad parent is given to the baby - something like that is what I'm aiming for.

slate rune
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You cant edit vanilla classes directly, period.

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You cant open it and start typing, add new functions, implement existing functions, etc.

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You can use buffs for any specific dino class in your pgd for class X, which applies to all its children. So PrimalDinoCharacter for all of them or something like Dodo_character_BP and thus, aberrant dodos as well.

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Buffing a dino gives you access to variable on that instance.

fringe wedge
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sigh why does the DevKit let me do that at all then... I know the answer is "because Ark" I just want to complain.

But okay, I'll dig into buffs to learn more before asking more questions. I only glanced at them before, not thinking they would be relevant. Thank you again!

true phoenix
fringe wedge
slate rune
# fringe wedge _sigh_ why does the DevKit let me do that at all then... I know the answer is "b...

There are scenarios where you do actually edit vanilla assets, it's just stupid and no one should do it. Other than that, its because its a devkit. It doesnt know who you are or what you're doing. Google wildcard workshop. Its an older series for ase which still largely applies to asa.

If you intend on spending more than 5m in the devkit, it's 1000% worthwhile to just get ase on sale for like $8 to get access to the discord listed. It has a decade of discussions and source material.

fringe wedge
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I'll take a look. I think I watched one of the videos in that series. Unfortunately I don't quite have the patience to scrub through videos most days so video guides are lost on me.

As for the discord, I've already spent well over $1k of my time stubbornly refusing to spend $8, and according to the sunk cost fallacy I can't give in now! (Ok maybe just one more day of stubbornness, we'll see how frustrated I am with the kit tomorrow)

scenic echo
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you can of course make a lot of changes by programmatically editing exposed variables or swapping one thing for another

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and you wont be getting anywhere non-trivial in modding without having the game on pc, since you wont be able to sanely test your mods

fringe wedge
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I have it on PC, just not Steam. Though, it runs horribly on my machine, looks and feels like a N64 game 😅. Fortunately the concepts I'm looking at are easy to test in the PIE. But that's a me problem.

As for implementation without conflicts, I understand that adding is the only clean option. I was just hoping I could add anywhere along the class hierarchy. It should be easy to add member methods and member variables to parent classes, never changing or deleting existing methods or variables, and just use a unique signature during compilation to avoid name conflicts. But "should be easy" and "is provided" are two different things. I just need to learn exactly which knobs I'm allowed to turn. And probably to stop thinking in classes rather than blueprints.

steel lion
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working in PIE doesn't mean it works ingame.

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That's a tooth everyone can pull you right away

scenic echo
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blueprints are classes, though 🤔

main condor
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Is it impossible to gift a mod to a friend? one of the premium mods?

magic acorn
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Any good map mods that are free?

silk talon
tender scarab
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Should start doing daily reminders.

This is the modding channel.
Modding help is for help with modding.
#modding-general message

gentle sequoia
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Hey there, has anyone worked with http post in the devkit ? I'd like to make the url configurable by server admins in the server GUS (so I don't have to recook everything everytime they decide to change it) but I can't figure out how to do it, could anyone help me? Feel free to DM me if you're willing to help a beginner, I'm kinda lost atm 😅

scenic echo
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what part of it is problematic?

gentle sequoia
# scenic echo what part of it is problematic?

Apparently I found the solution, I couldn't find which node to use to set an ini setting like
[MyMod]
EndpointURL=
But I figured it out after a few hours and a bad headache lol

Thank you for your answer though, appreciate it 🙂

scenic echo
grand harbor
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sorry if this isnt the place to ask,

im trying to look for mods to use for my single player playthrough but i dont wanna use anything that contains any AI generated images. does anyone have any recommendations and/or a list of mods to use? mainly just QoL, creatures, etc etc

(really wish they add a feature to filter out any ai slop 😔 )

scenic echo
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not really any use for genAI in most mods

grand harbor
scenic echo
manic bronze
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Most modders get 0$ for their content. Why would they pay someone to create an image

tender scarab
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The amount of people that get bent out of shape over a 400x400 image that generates zero revenue for anyone, for mods that are free to use, is wild.

grand harbor
tender scarab
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Good luck on your vegan mod search. Not the place for mod recommendations. This is for modding help and discussion.

grand harbor
tender scarab
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Not being aggressive.

inland bough
tender scarab
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Tells people "don't gotta be aggressive," passive aggressively reacts.

grand harbor
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Ai steals a lot of peoples works without consent, imagine putting hours into a project and only for it to be stolen for 'training' and it turns out to be a blob of nothing. It sucks that people turn to this shit rather than helping real artist who put their time and effort into art.

slate rune
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People say that training AI on art is theft.

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I'll start using people for artwork when people donate for the art costs.

grand harbor
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i have no idea how much better to explain it to you, most likely you could go around and talk with other artist on why and such if you really want to.

just keep in mind that there are people out here struggling to make a quick buck and are being replaced by something thats using their art for fuel without consent

||(also all of this is just me asking for mod recommendations and most of you are butt hurt for me using the wrong channel, its not that big of a deal)||

slate rune
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I never liked that argument because if I look at a painting and then create something based off of said painting, am I stealing? I know it's not exactly the same thing but the principles the same.

manic bronze
manic bronze
inland bough
scenic echo
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alright, what keeps pinging this channel and getting deleted immediately..

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be it bot, or user error

fringe canyon
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bots

tender scarab
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Modding

ornate citrus
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can u install the devkit to a external hard drive or does it have to be your actaul pc

scenic echo
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then crash

ornate citrus
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oh ok

cinder ocean
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hi ┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

wet dagger
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Okay I updated my game and now all of my installed mods are somehow gone? Would this be caused by some kind of update to the devkit or something? Is there a way for me to easily identify all the mods I had before? I don't remember them all or what order I had them in 🙃

inland bough
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Sounds like corrupted game update/instal and has nothing to do with devkit

cobalt lance
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guys is there a different fix instead of restarting the devkit to make icons actually working when you set them up

echo creek
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I think if you open the icon file a second time, it’ll un-bug itself.
But, no, not really.
It’s just an engine bug with the version WC chose.

cobalt lance
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let's hope it's getting fixed

echo creek
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It should with the 5.7 engine update.
Whenever that actually happens. 😛

fading ledge
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is there a way to get insta craft and insta smelt

tender scarab
ornate citrus
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what would i do if my legacy mod doesnt reconize any of the dinos having a parent

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in the new engine

ornate citrus
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i had upload a mod from ase but when i check on the dinos it said error and that they had no parent coding was there but was like the dino wasnt amd when i tried to re parent a dino non of the creatures from the ase registered any dinos in the devkit

scenic echo
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that does not make any sense, punctuation would help.. is your mod dependent on another mod? what are the parent classes?

ornate citrus
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once my devkit done verifying ill show

modern wharf
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Does anyone know of any good additional flyer mod that could fit on scorched aside for Hatz and dragons kingdom

brave turtle
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Bastion beetle probably would fit really well

sinful reef
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Hi everyone! I’m a 2D & 3D animator and character artist specializing in character modeling, animation, VRChat avatars, Minecraft, game characters, Roblox assets, Art and game film character design. I also work on sculpting and stylized or realistic characters. If anyone needs high quality work or wants to collaborate, feel free to reach out!

Also, I apologize if this kind of message isn’t allowed in this server 🙏

wet dagger
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Can I just ask in terms of mods order, should I put mods that do dino replacements before above or below mods that manipulate those dino's spawn rates?

ornate citrus
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Can I show someone the issue I have

timid apex
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Mod uploading seems bugged today, mods under review for over 12 hours now, new mod added that can be downloaded but doesnt show on available mods list, stuff like that. I just hope its not because i checked the new auto publish option on upload

scenic echo
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sounds like normal curseforge stuff

timid apex
livid meadow
livid meadow
timid apex
still quest
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Is there any mods that let the scorpion mask the player from aggressive creatures and allows to grab small creatures

ornate citrus
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it wont let me reparent a dino i made can someone help

dark ridge
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Ladies and gentlemen a quick question, do premium mods completely block non-owners from joining a server?

inland bough
silk talon
scenic echo
silk talon
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I own several premium mods and play official. No issues. If you have a premium mod as an unofficial server, you must own the mod to play on the server. This is not the case on official servers. It doesn't matter what mod you own or don't, if whitelisted on official you can have it or not and still play official.

sonic mason
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officials outside of the event mods don't use any mod. exceptions being the jane notes and graptor but none since those
freemium mods are mods that are paid but allow free users to use a limited amount of it DesmoSip allowing them to join servers with it. while premium mods require ownership of the mod for joining.

silk talon
wild niche
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Why does Ark: Survival Ascended have an official EU-PVE-Modded-ArkSupreme194 server clearly listed, but there is still no EU-PVP-Modded-ArkSupreme server at all? It’s honestly frustrating and it doesn’t feel fair. Some of us don’t want unofficial servers—we want official modded PvP, where the rules are consistent, the server is stable, and everything is properly supported. Instead, PvE gets an official modded server while PvP players are completely left out, with nothing at all available. It feels like the PvP modded community is being ignored or treated like it doesn’t matter, even though many of us have been actively looking for this exact type of server.
We just want it to be fair. PvE already has representation, so why can’t PvP get the same treatment? We’re not asking for anything unreasonable—we’re asking for balance and equal support between PvE and PvP players. Right now, it feels one-sided, and that’s why so many of us are frustrated and speaking up.

silk talon
wild niche
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@silk talon so where should I post it

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I'm apologize for posting it in the wrong place

silk talon
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it's alright, try one of the places in my last response. just click on the hashtag

wild niche
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Ok thank you

scenic echo
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a lot of the big modded pvp stuff is on ASE still. maybe some day someone will make a proper pvp overhaul, but modders are overwhelmingly pve players

wild niche
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If you look on the moderate official pvp they have official primal nemesis server i played on it and beat it already i just want them to add a EU-PVP-Modded-ArkSupreme server to that all

scenic echo
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those sort of mods are not sanely playable in pvp. some of them outright disable/break pvp, most of them render it a clownshow since nothing is remotely balanced. stuff can wipe bases from orbit, nothing has max range checks for structure demo

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nobody does that on unofficial, either. pvp is running mods made for pvp

steel lion
umbral zinc
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I had an idea. I'd like to see an Ark map that's basically a modern-day city, upon which all the Ark creatures have been let loose.

It would have all the buildings and structures one might expect to see in a city (single-family homes, apartments, strip malls, gas stations, parking lots, office/retail, restaurants, skyscrapers, etc.), a grid of streets and highways, parks, functioning traffic lights and street lights, the works. Some of the buildings could be occupiable by players, and there would be plenty of housing lots and open spaces to build custom structures.

There are already plenty of third-party mods to skin structures and battlerigs in a modern style, which would go well with this map.

Thoughts?

inland bough
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I could make one if someone pays me $4k per month for like a year 😏

scenic echo
sand summit
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can someone help make 2 simple mods for me for an arena

uneven cape
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Did anyone manage to add griffions to lost colony im struggling to add them to our modded server on nitrado any help with be appreciated i cant seem to add it i have spawn creature griffon and marniimodded griffons. I made a dedicated spawn location in the game ini for both with decent weight so they should spawn

scenic echo
sand summit
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Fluff can you mod?

scenic echo
silk talon
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has anyone created a helmet using devkit successfully? I am in the approval process and for some reason I have a helmet facing straight without issue on Xbox, but on Steam it is pointing to the right side about 90 degrees. I have looked through everything and can't seem to figure out what the deal is.

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Bigger question is why the two systems treat these things differently? Who thought that out? couldn't make a one system works for all setup? crazy to think we have to build individual items for each system. Has to be a setting somewhere causing this

inland bough
hollow relic
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Can anyone suggest how to get started in making a mod to show my self hosted server status (Booting, Online).

I am making a server manager application and am currently checking server status through windows environment process scanning and rcon pings but that bugs out for some reason every couple months.

So a mod that would let me query a network port or something and get the status back would be awesome.

hollow relic
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So it looks like I need a plugin, and not a mod. Is there an SDK for plugins?

scenic echo
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mods can do http out, but cant act as a server

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if you want it to be publicly available, a plugin is not a good option, either

merry bolt
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Has anyone had one of your players loose the ability to see the stats and such with their b+ spyglass. In the settings, everything should be ticked and saved but when they try to save, it doesn't save.

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It has happened to two of our players both using playstation.

scenic echo
crude sedge
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Are there any other mods out there that provide a one way mirror window? The only one that I'm aware that has this feature is the Premium Bullet Sci-fi Structures.

somber tinsel
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Hmmmm, trying to Balance Descended PVP is fun

fringe canyon
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join that

split hinge
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Can someone help me with my load order? I guess I may have to many mods.

inland bough
split hinge
scenic echo
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you either have incompatible mods, or you dont

split hinge
slow stratus
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Sm1 should make a further tek mod, using red element, js an idea

silk talon
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Any1 know why I keep getting a "Validation failed (expected size is less than 3145000)" error when trying to upload a mod? I have done the Validation of files in folders as well as the Updating Redirector References.

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Ok, figured it out. Thumbnail was larger than 3mb.

empty copper
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why does the landscape creation not work correctly? Is there any workaround?

scenic echo
empty copper
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ty tho

slow stratus
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Blendah

shadow isle
scenic echo
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but realistically.. everything you need is already in the game?

slow stratus
shadow isle
west burrow
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Hi

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I am looking for someone who can make a mod i have an idea and everthing but not a good pc to do it

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or can someone help me to do this?

fringe canyon
west burrow
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thx

wheat field
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يا عيال

lilac flower
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Hello, Im looking for a modder to assist with a mod idea. I don't know where to go or even how to start.

lilac flower
frosty fractal
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Does someone have a mod for ps5 that makes stuff stack but not weight reduction? I heard about vanilla with sparkles but it doesn't seem to be on ps5

brave turtle
atomic cairn
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Not sure if this is a good spot for this questions but didnt want to hear the purists tell me how their beter becaus they dont use mods.... If I uninstall all my mods, is there a way to see the mods Ive bought without scrolling through all of them?

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*they're

atomic cairn
# fringe canyon no

Yea, just spend 40 min trying to find my favorite outfit. Thankfully my bf was able to find my body and hover over an item with the skin on. Id have never figured it out. That would really really be a nice addition. Instead of my mods being mods I made, it should be ones ive bought. Also, a way to favorite mods.

inland bough
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But yea being able to do that in game would be nice and has been asked from CF and "they have taken it to the team" as always

atomic cairn
silent pawn
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i have a stupid question. but is it possible to change the UI with a mod.
if yes
i would love a mod that changes the bars from maturation and taming so they have have 2 decimals behind the dot, so instead of 57.4 it would say 57.37
(this would also apply for any other percentage based displays like mating and gestation)

echo creek
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An entire UI change, for a 2nd decimal place????

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What does 2 decimals even do for you?

silent pawn
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mostly just wondering if it was possible,

but also i have a habit of calculating how many bites are left and with 1 decimal u cant really go too accurate.
and when maturing it changes once every minute so it just looks slow.
and when taming ive had many times that it would display 100.0 but it wasnt tamed and my autism just doenst like that

echo creek
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Its possible.
But goofy to do that, for 1 decimal

silent pawn
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ima go look if that mod already exists, but if not i could look into paying someone to make it

silent pawn
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nope as far as i can tell it doesnt exist im willing to commision someone. idk how hard it would be, but seeing as its just a simple ui change im thinking somewhere between 20 and 50 bucks (but price can ofcourse be negotiated)

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it is currently 5 am for me. i am going to bed. but if anyone is interested in money just hmu in dms. they're open

scenic echo
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it would be an incredibly annoying thing to mod, though, and potentially some performance impact

cursive bramble
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Hello i'm actually looking for personally skin mod can you dm me

tender scarab
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Not the place for that. Join the AMC Discord and post in the job board.

cursive bramble
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@tender scarab do you have a invite for me

tender scarab
last nebula
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Anyone have the Crazy's Crazy Ascended Potion Mod Discord? Trying to disable an engram but nothing works

scenic echo
hollow galleon
atomic cairn
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oops\

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So, I was told by a few folks that Managarmrs still arent a part of teh devkit? Is that true?Seems like a lloonnnggg time if its not, does anyon know why

tacit trail
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I have a mod installed that is no longer available, and I cannot uninstall it.

echo creek
jade flame
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has anyone else had issues with Reshade not working in ASA?

had it up and running when I last played 3 months ago, booted game back up aaand it just won't launch -- no menu, doesn't come up when I hit hotkey

I've reinstalled it a few times and it just doesn't seem to be booting with ASA now (using on a self-hosted server, but it doesn't work anywhere in game)

edit: looks like the reshade "uninstall" option didn't actually clear out all of the reshade stuffff -- manually removing it all and reinstalling fixed it, wooh.

silent pawn
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GUYS. someone made an aquarium mod. with actual water. u can just put your dinos in there. easiest is cryopods

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we need to get more attention to this

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its on the 2nd page if u filter by release date on free

tender scarab
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This isnt the place for that.

scenic echo
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it is really, really nasty and has a habit of killing your dinos or ceasing to work

silent pawn
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what do u mean?

silent pawn
scenic echo
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it does not save, does not load before dinos, and is generally jank. making it vaguely safe requires a bunch of redundancies

haughty chasm
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Hi, anyone experience with the ASE modkit ? my sky is black and i got no idea why... please dm me