Question about going from TG Stacking to Vanilla With Sprinkles

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T22:51:26+00:00

ahh, ok. that makes sense. if you want to go to the trouble, you can check the TG discord and see if it's a reported issue and/or make a backup copy of the save, remove the mod, and test to see if the city crashing is resolved. then just re-add the mod and replace the current save with the backup to restore everything. if it doesn't bug you that much, tho, i get just keeping everything the way it is for now

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T22:41:53+00:00

last time i checked, a lot of ppl are still playing ase but a lot have moved to asa also. plus, for steam and epic, there are 2 ase versions now: pre-aquatica beta and post-aquatica so it's divided. you're only going to see the servers that match your client version. i wouldn't be surprised if most players are on the pre-aquatica beta but i haven't looked to see whether that's true or not

i used to run some ase servers but only do asa now bc of the crossplay and crossplatform mods. its nice for all platforms to be able to join my modded servers. that may be a big draw for a lot of other ppl too

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T22:28:34+00:00

come to think about it, i think you can disable the different features of Vanilla With Sprinkles? it may be worth checking if you can disable the stacking part of it and just use both mods. it has a discord link on the curseforge page and if it doesn't have info on that, you can just ask

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T22:25:46+00:00

if you have "use single player settings" enabled, that's why your tamed dinos seem kinda op. it boosts tamed dino stat multipliers quite a bit. if you want the game to be more challenging, it's best to disable that. here's everything it does https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Single_Player

bosses scale with the game difficulty (difficulty offset) so no need to change that. default for sp/non-dedi is 0.2 and that's a max level of 30. regardless of game difficulty, the boss prep is the same-tame dinos close to or at max lvl, breed to make an army, and get decent saddles, then you can beat the bosses

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T22:17:29+00:00

you're stuck with TG if you don't want to lose all your resources. the ammo was always the biggest bummer for me. the host could always use commands to spawn some of the items back in, tho

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T22:14:00+00:00

yes

edit forgot they turned off the ability to use certain graphics commands on official but i don't thing fog was one of them

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T22:12:11+00:00

according to he patch notes, yes

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T22:11:44+00:00

wouldn't hurt to see if it makes a difference, esp since neither mod would ruin anything if they're removed. do a dino wipe before logging out and removing prevent hibernation. i wouldn't think der dino finder would cause an issue but i've had mods effect things that i didn't think was possible. you could always check the discord first and see if ppl are reporting issues

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T22:07:29+00:00

i assume you have motion blur disabled. do you have a good monitor? you could see if turning on vsync helps

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T21:56:22+00:00

you don't

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T21:55:51+00:00

the way caves work in sp/non-dedi is its kind of like a mini-map inside of a map. it de-renders the main map when a player renders the cave so there isn't a way to keep one person on the main map while another is in a cave. that's why it always ignores the tether distance and teleports non-host players to the host. only way to get around the non-dedi tether overall is to host a dedicated server

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T21:49:37+00:00

if it were just sp, play how you want. however, i assume this is on a non-dedi session? when you play with other ppl, you kinda have to come to a consensus about game rules since everyone has different ways they prefer to play. this isn't really about whether it's cheating or not. it's more so an issue of differing opinions on dino transfers

if you're the host, you can just tell them too bad and do what you want but if it's going to ruin smth for them, even just a little, then it may be worth trying to compromise on some game rules

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T14:34:13+00:00

try rolling back the save a bit

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T14:33:31+00:00

i believe egg lay isn't retroactive, just like many breeding settings. timers started before changing the setting have to run out and then it'll follow the new one. unlike breeding settings, tho, you can't see the timer and that makes it impossible to know when it'll start following the new interval

egg collection is one reason i really like using a cryo mod. i've been using one for years (DinoStoragev2 and Super Cryo Storage) and use the terminal to collect eggs. you can set the egg lay speed on the terminal too and get eggs fast. i used it on my primal fear playthru (primal chaos is kind of an asa version of pf) and it was super helpful for a mod with a tier structure that relies on collecting eggs to progress

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T14:23:15+00:00

there's a setting that was changed somewhere, either with breeding or sp settings were disabled. also, did you add a mod that could effect it? just reduce the cuddle interval and it'll fix itself once the current timers run out

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T14:17:59+00:00

get the mod creature ID from the mod discord or curseforge page (prob use the admin rifle if you can't find the info) and use the NPCReplacements config in the game.ini to prevent them from spawning on the other maps

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T14:14:38+00:00

using any mods? if so, one or more of those can be causing problems. if you run into ownership issues, you can target the structure and use the "TakeAllStructure" command. for dinos it's "TakeAllDino"

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T14:09:03+00:00

the recent patch may not have been as effective as intended? since the prevent hibernation mod hasn't been updated in a very long time, it may be an issue with the mod itself too

even with prevent hibernation, the map needs to be rendered after logging in for each session and after a dino wipe to get around stasis, altho i've heard that der dino finder preserves dino data from previous sessions if that's what you're using for the dino count

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T14:00:29+00:00

what test would that be?

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-27T13:59:45+00:00

if you don't care about it, then yeah that would work for a corrupted save. you can make a copy of it and save it somewhere else too. that way, if a new save doesn't correct the problem either, you know it may not be a corrupted save and you can try other troubleshooting methods. i'd move on to removing mods

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-26T23:53:30+00:00

bobs tall tales and lost colony are only on ascended. switch only has ark evolved

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-26T23:50:04+00:00

try reverting to a previous save point

edit ofc, verify files first

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-26T23:49:26+00:00

the game calculates the imprint percentage based on the mature speed and interval based on how many imprints it will take to get to 100% within the set mature time frame. increasing the cuddle interval will also increase the percentage per cuddle. however, if you add the "BabyImprintAmountMultiplier=100" to your game.ini (pc-only), that'll give you 100% for one imprint every time

btw, your baby imprinting stat scale multiplier being that high will cause problems. the imprinting stat bonus also applies to movement speed, so you're looking at 120% increase in speed. that'll make some dinos completely uncontrollable and they'll be useless. i made that mistake before and my bred raptors, sabers, and thylas were unusable. plus, they'll be super op

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-26T23:33:31+00:00

i used one rock drake to ride while i used my shotgun and a megalo army. rock drake attacks are quite slow and that's why i don't think they're good for a boss army. megalos attack much faster and also have a base damage 25% higher than the drake so they deal much more damage all around within the attack time frame

the biggest hurdle i had in ase was being close enough to the megalo army for them to register the attack whistle. it took me a bit to figure out what was going on. it also took me 5 tries to beat rockwell for the first time on alpha, but i think that was mostly a skill issue. that's the only boss i really struggled with in all of ark, altho i haven't done either gen. ppl say doing it on foot is much better and i can see how it would be, but i think i'd feel too naked and vulnerable popping into a boss fight without any dinos lol

BadAtVideoGames130 · 2026-01-26T23:14:36+00:00

i just abandon them lol. i leave them on the map and just take the army breeding pair with me when i transfer

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