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- Installing mods using the ARK Workshop Browser We recently updated our control to provide a built in Steam workshop browser for ARK: Survival Evolved. This tool links directly into the workshop system so it can display and show all the mods, maps and other modifications for ARK with the ability to install each mod with one click! Some readers.
- When ARK is actually started up, more files are downloaded or created and the amount of files in the mod folder grows dramatically. For example, subscribing to the mod 'Structures plus (open source)' which overhauls and improves the entire building system in ARK, will download 1 file, and 2 folders initially.
The best Ark: Survival Evolved mods can be tricky to fine, especially if you don’t know what to look for. The dinosaur hunting survival game has already seen legions of modders looking to add a little something extra to the open-world game. But, oh god, that creates a whole host of possibilities to consider. Namely, what the hell should you be adding to your own game or server? And what are the best Ark mods?
How To Use Ark Mods
New experience mods. These mods add totally new features to Ark: Survival Evolved to make the island a more varied place. NPC Bush People. Download link.
Not to worry, dinosaur hunters, we’ve put together a list of our favourite mods for Studio Wildcard’s incredible popular survival romp. With all the hard work done, all you have to do is take a gander below and subscribe to them on the Steam Workshop.
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Before we get started in earnest, you might want to take a quick look at Studio Wildcard’s instructions for making your own mods, if you’d rather create your own toys than play with someone else’s.
The Ark Dev Kit is a modified version of the Unreal Engine 4 Editor, containing all of the game’s source art, maps, and blueprint classes. While the C++ source code isn’t yours to muck around with, you can still alter plenty of things from AI behaviour to weapons and beasties.
Ok, enough about making your own mods. Here are some premade ones for you to experiment with.
Ark: Survival Evolved dinosaurs, dodos, and a giant turtle
Improved Dinos
The Improved Dinos mod adds rare spawning dinosaurs that offer better blueprints and should be a greater challenge to take down, even for groups.
The special variations to hunt down include extra large, extra deadly raptors and big alpha dilos. The deadly obsidian carnotaurus, with its shiny black and grey scales, is also in the works. Unfortunately, none of the dinosaurs in this mod are currently tameable.
Rideable Dodos
The opportunity to ride your very own dinosaur is probably one of the (very good) reasons that so many people have flocked to Ark. But one thing has always been missing: rideable dodos. The dumb birds were probably a little too puny to carry the weight of a fully grown human, but no more!
The Rideable Dodo mod changes everything. Maybe that’s overselling it. But it does mean you can finally live out your dream of leaping onto one of those ungainly birds and riding it into the sunset. Live the dream!
The World Turtle
Dinosaurs and dodos are all well and good, but let’s not pretend they’re better than a gigantic turtle. Hey, if it’s good enough for the late Terry Pratchett, it’s good enough for us.
Whack on this mod and you’ll have a very small number of these permanently tameable giant turtles spawn in your server, and they’re about as large as a titan in terms of size, power, and stats. It’s absolutely the coolest you’ll ever look on top of a turtle, we promise.
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Thieves Island
It’s common knowledge that anything with pirates in it is good – well, anything without Johnny Depp, that is. Thankfully, there’s no sign of him in the Thieves Island map mod, an island once used as a base by the legendary pirate, Madame Cheng.
Mar 20, 2018 The Zulu War presents an opportunity for a highly colourful wargame between two very contrasting opponents. The battles that were fought show that whilst there was a certain sense of an inevitable British victory to the war, the Zulu army was certainly capable of inflicting a punishing defeat upon the British given an opportunity to unleash a co-ordinated attack using the classical fighting. These are miniatures wargaming rules for the 1879 Zulu War and Boer-Zulu conflicts. These rules are designed to be used with either 25mm, 15mm or 5mm figures with 25mm driving infantry bases of 20mm x 20mm for the British/Boers or 20mm x 30mm for the Zulus. Largest base would be for a field gun at 60mm x 80mm. Each figure is supposed to represent 15 men. THE ZULU WAR 1879 - SKIRMISH WARGAME RULES By Jim Wallman INTRODUCTION These rules are intended for small unit skirmish-type actions, involving a handful of British and a larger force of Zulu. In general, odds of around 3:1 in favour of the Zulu produce a balanced game. The Zulu should be grouped into units of 20-40 figures each. Zulu war wargames rules. He has also produced a series of wargames guides, such as this one, published this week, on the Anglo-Zulu War. Now, I am notoriously useless at looking at wargames rules and working out how they might play, however, as this is not a set of rules but a guide I can offer a few thoughts.
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Understandably, Cheng’s fleet of 18,000 ships needed plenty of room, and so the main island in this mod equates to roughly half the size of The Island in vanilla Ark. It’s not just a new location either: you can also build fortresses in the sky with Scorched Earth dinos thrown into the mix.
Dinotopia
With the Dinotopia mod you can live and breathe James Gurney’s famous dino utopia. In Gurney’s illustrated book series, humans and sentient dinosaurs have created a complex, interconnected society – it’s that world this mod seeks to recreate.
If you’re a fan of the books you should be downloading this right now. For everybody else, this is a beautiful map mod that spreads to around three quarters of the main game.
Dome of Death!
The story goes that, inside the Dome of Death, shady corporations developed new dino species and various other dangerous animals. When they lost control of their experiments, they let them all loose and abandoned the facility, leaving behind riches that are now waiting to be claimed.
The Dome of Death is a map mod that has a striking beauty to match its hard-as-nails difficulty. Only seasoned Ark veterans need apply, but even they’ll spend plenty of time running away from, rather than towards, their new enemies.
Apako Islands
Rather than the larger landmasses you’ll find in regular maps, this map, instead, introduces 65 square kilometres of island paradises to Ark. You’ll probably need to do a lot of swimming, but one day we’ll hopefully have boats, and what a day it will be.
Unfortunately, development of Apako Islands is on hold at the moment, but it’s already worth checking out if you fancy a bit of variety.
Halo
If you played Halo: Combat Evolved, you may remember the first time you looked up and saw the ring-shaped world circling above you in the sky. This Halo map should get you a wee bit nostalgic for that moment.
Halo: Combat Evolved’s second mission ‘Halo’ was always missing a certain je ne sais quoi. And by je ne sais quoi we really mean dinosaurs. There’s nothing quite like reliving one of the most famous moments in FPS history with one of those beasts on your heels.
Ark: Survival Evolved miscellaneous mods
Planting
Not all Ark mods are made to foster violence and death. The proof is here with a mod for all the green-fingered survivors out there. Planting simply allows you to beautify your base with trees and plants. They’ll look tasteful next to your fire-spewing mega turret.
Most of the trees switch between summer and autumn variants, and every item is resizeable. No base ever really feels complete without a spot of horticulture, after all.
Higher difficulty
When fending off ferocious dinosaurs and staving off starvation to survive gets too easy, you should consider raising the difficulty. To level 240, to be precise.
Diamond-hard dinos now spawn up to level 9600 with the player scaled to 300, leaving plenty in your way as you seek to reclaim your dominance of Ark’s world.
Final Fantasy 7 swords
If you can’t take waiting for Final Fantasy 7 Remake any longer, this is the mod for you. Armed with the Buster Sword, you can pretend you’re Cloud Strife once again, albeit with probably a lot less clothing on.
More Turrets & Turret Tools
Defend your hard-earned base in style with a range of fancy new turrets. With fire, oil, web, armour piercing, and explosive rounds, would-be invaders will either turn tail or be extinguished in myriad gruesome ways.
Your plush new defences are more convenient to use, too. Now, while creatively raining death on your foes, you can do so safe in the knowledge that you’ll never need to manually refill your death machines again. Bliss.
Dino tracker
When you’re plonked in the middle of nowhere, naked as the day you were born, it’s important to be organised. That’s why the Dino Tracker mod is worthwhile, as it allows even the most forgetful foragers to track down any mislaid dinos.
Unlockable at level 25, the Dino Tracker lets you can find all your tamed beasties no matter where you are on any map, and it’s so easy to use. It is, essentially, a fancy dino GPS, which conjures a series of yellow crosses right back to your missing dino of choice.
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Slow Stuff Decay
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While you might appreciate the tension that comes with desperately running to the site of your death in an attempt to recover lost items, after the first few times it can start to become a chore. The Slow Stuff Decay mod makes your corpse stick around for a whole eight hours, rather than the few minutes you normally get, so you have plenty of time to get your stuff back.
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Making things even simpler, you’ll be able to see smoke signals directing you to your horrible rotting body with the CasPack mod, so no more guesswork.