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Ark: Survival Evolved (2017)

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- USE SINGLEPLAYER SETTINGS [*] Checking this box uses the predetermined (non-visible) settings the devs have deemed "necessary" for solo or small tribe gameplay, without 24/7 server capabilities. Among other non-discernible value deviations, Dinos will tame at & gain, increased stat intervals. Essentially eliminating any real need for breeding.
(The one plus side is that ALL babies will only require 1x care for 100% imprinting)


**LEAVING THIS BOX CHECKED WILL DRASTICALLY OFFSET ANY CHANGES MADE IN ADDITION TO THE PREDETERMINED SETTINGS IT ENABLES. YOUR VALUES WILL NOT MATCH ACCORDINGLY TO WHAT'S COVERED IN THIS VIDEO, NOR MY GAMEPLAY THAT FOLLOWS.**



- You can increase harvesting all the way to 1.99 and still only receive one stone from the ground.
(People argue that harvesting is time consuming when set to lower values, but I believe these people haven't perfected using the appropriate dino & farming method)


- PVE Mode: Unchecked you can kill unclaimed dinos/babies | Chekced disables cryo sickness.
(This comes down to choosing the lesser of two evils; one allows material farming, the other eliminates the 4min cooldown between deploying cryos)


- Disabling friendly fire allows you the potential to protect your tame if you get dismounted, without having to worry about nonsensical deaths, from damaging your own dinos.
(Not to mention, preventing players from trolling if running split/Non-dedicated)


- Maximum Difficulty ONLY seems to affect the maximum wild dino levels.
(If you were to adjust the difficulty level back to .2 with Max Diff checked, 150's should still spawn)


- Poop Interval only matters if you don't already know the Phiomia actually has a use ;)


- Lay Egg Interval: I attempt to adjust this slider with the yutyrannus in mind.
(At default values, even with a mate boosted/Ovi boosted Female, these eggs rarely spawn)


- Mating Interval / Egg Hatch speed could both afford to be boosted a little more. I personally like to do errands in the midst of breeding, so the values I've selected are ideal for me.
(I get 10 - 30min mating cooldown, depends on dino size, & 5 - 30min for pregnancy or hatching)


- Day Cycle Speed: With the default length of time (setting at 1.0), a full in-game day of Ark lasts 48 minutes. By adjusting ONLY the night time slider, I shorted only the length of darkness.
(People will go as far as to disable night, run the game in preview mode, or turn their gamma all the way up. Night is immersive, necessary for certain tames, and has benefits all its own)


- Spoil Time: Berries and raw meat have a default spoil time of 10 minutes in a player's inventory, and 40 minutes in a feeding trough or dino inventory (not counting hyaenodon). Increasing this to 1.5 gives raw meat & berries a full hour in the trough. Fish and cooked meat naturally lasts longer, so 1.5 increases this further.
(Yes, the fridge and preserving bin exist, but this QoL improvement is for feeding troughs alone)


- Crop Growth Speed: I'm unsure of the Official Setting for how long it tames a newly planted crop to grow, even with 300% greenhouse, but it's easily 12 - 24 hours in real life.
(Divide that by 6, and you'll have a fruiting plant in roughly 4 hours with my setting)


- Experience Multipliers: 2x and 3x are still going to leave you pulling your hair out towards the last 30 levels before max level character
(I tried bumping this to 1000x for experimenting purposes, and I still struggled to gain levels without at least SOME effort)


- Loot Quality: Even at 1.0, the loot system makes it quite easy to obtain top tier items; this doesn't really seem to match official. I've considered lowering these values some for the sake of certain bp's costing absurd amounts of materials.
(Finding better bp's can be a blessing or a burden, depends if it's your first/only copy of an item)

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