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Giga's Fancy Variants!

by Giga Raptor · for ARK: Survival Evolved

Mod ID: 2391197749 Hello There! This mod will add variants of currently existing creatures into the game. Some variants will spawn naturally and you'll have to manually add them with Simple Spawners.…

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Mod ID: 2391197749 Hello There! This mod will add variants of currently existing creatures into the game. Some variants will spawn naturally and you'll have to manually add them with Simple Spawners.…

Mod ID: 2391197749

Hello There! This mod will add variants of currently existing creatures into the game. Some variants will spawn naturally and you'll have to manually add them with Simple Spawners. (There will be a dash next to the variants that do not spawn.) Here are the Current Variants:

Aberrant -Allosaurus  -Amargasaurus - -Bloodstalker - -Compy -Dinopithecus - -Deathworm - -Deinonychus - -Megatherium  -Rock Elemental - -Oviraptor -Titanomyrma Drone -Titanomyrma Soldier 

Alpha -Deinonychus -Snow Owl -Sunken Karkinos - -Blood Crystalline Rex -Rock Drake

Custom -Amethyst Crystal Wyvern -Blight Scarred Giganotosaurus - -Metal Elemental - -Sunken Karkinos - -Lost Basilisk - -Lost Stegosaurus -

Crystalline -Eldritch Crystalline Voidwyrm -Ember Crystalline Allosaurus -Blood Crystalline Dilophosaurus -Blood Crystalline Rex -Tropical Crystalline Titanosaurus

Rockwell -Amargasaurus - -Araneo -Arthropleura -Basilisk -Blood Crystal Wyvern - -Dimetrodon -Pachyrhino -Pegomastax -Pteranodon -Raptor -Ravager -Rock Drake - -Spino -Stegosaurus -Trike

Eden -Argentavis -Deinonychus -Dinopithecus - -Dodo -Ember Crystal Wyvern - -Karkinos - -Mammoth -Megalosaurus -Morellatops -Rex -Troodon -Yutyrannus

Scorched -Allosaurus -Daeodon -Dimetrodon -Equus -Gigantosaurus -Sabertooth -Terror Bird -Yutyrannus

Bog -Baryonyx -Brontosaurus -Beezlebufo -Diplocaulus -Diplodocus -Phiomia -Poison Wyvern - -Sarco -Sinomacrops - -Titanoboa

Snow -Chalicotherium -Deinonychus - -Ice Wyvern - -Mammoth -Procoptodon -Therizinosaurus

Lunar -Bulbdog - -Featherlight - -Gasbags - -Glowtail - -Karkinos - -Lightning Wyvern - -Megalosaurus -Ravager -Rock Drake - -Seeker -Shinehorn - -Tek Stryder -

Ocean -Angler -Carbonemys -Coelcanth -Eurypterid -Leedsichthys - -Liopleurodon - -Manta -Pelagornis -Plesiosaur -Tropeognathus - -Tropicial Crystal Wyvern - -Tusoteuthis -

Volcano -Amargasaurus - -Basilisk -Carno -Deathworm - -Fire Wyvern - -Gallimimus -Kaprosuchus -Kentro -Megalania -Reaper Queen - -Reaper King - -Stegosaurus -Thorny Dragon -Thylacoleo

Event: -New Year's Wyvern (Summer Bash) -Bald Argentavis (Summer Bash) -Ghost Giganotosaurus (Fear Evolved) -Ghost Jerboa (Fear Evolved) -Ghost Magmasaur (Fear Evolved) -Ghost Megalodon (Fear Evolved) -Ghost Shadowmane (Fear Evolved) Skeletal Rock Drake (Fear Evolved) Skeletal Spino (Fear Evolved) Vampire Giganotosaurus (Fear Evolved)

Latest Patch Notes: New Content -R-Dinopithecus (Eden) -X-Deathworm (Volcano) -KBD Costumes -Complete Spawn Overhaul

New Features/Changes

The following have recieved texture changes: -X-Fire Wyvern -X-Carno -X-Coelacanth -X-Manta -Removed Spawns for the following creatures. (You'll now have to add them in manually): -Aberrant Amargasaurus -Aberrant Bloodstalker -Aberrant Dinopithecus -Aberrant Deathworm -Aberrant Deinonychus -Aberrant Mantis -Aberrant Rock Golem -Sunken Karkinos -Alpha Sunken Karkinos -Metal Elemental -Lost Stegosaurus -Lost Basilisk -R-Amargasaurus -R-Blood Crystal Wyvern -R-Rock Drake -R-Deinonychus -R-Ember Crystal Wyvern -R-Karkinos -X-Poison Wyvern -X-Sinomacrops -X-Deinonychus -X-Ice Wyvern -X-Kairuku -X-Bulbdog -X-Featherlight -X-Gasbags -X-Glowtail -X-Karkinos -X-Lightning Wyvern -X-Rock Drake -X-Tek Stryder -X-Tropeognathus -X-Tropical Crystal Wyvern -X-Tusoteuthis -X-Leedsichthys -X-Liopleurodon -X-Amargasaurus -X-Reaper Queen -X-Reaper King -Spawn IDs changed for some Aberrant incase of compatibility issues -Cleaned out old textures to reduce mod size -Gave Scorched Variants a better variety of colors -Aberrant Megachelon can now be added back with Simple Spawners -Aberrant Megachelon and Rock Golem eat Red Gems, Element Gem completely removed. -Added costumes for KBD support: -X-Brontosaurus -R-Trike -X-Tropeognathus -R-Tropeognathus -X-Manta -R-Pachyrhino -X-Deinonychus -R-Deinonychus -X-Titanoboa -X-Beezlebufo -R-Araneo -X-Coel -Aberrant Compy -X-Diplodocus -X-Karkinos -R-Karkinos -X-Mammoth -R-Mammoth -New Year's Wyvern and Argent added back

Bug Fixes -Fixed Costumes for No Untameables Creatures -X-Griffin is now completely purged. Begone -X-Beezlebufo should now have colors -Alpha Rock Drake should no longer replace childed classes -X-Sinomacrops now lays proper egg

Document that contains all the variant spawn codes and info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12S3CrUouZ-ipmfzsqQf8UGQFErXf_BdjhjzLq_UpUPU/edit?usp=drivesdk

Special Thanks:

-HUGE Thank you to RRG, Trainspotting Vagabond, and Crysta for helping me learn how to create the mod, wouldn't have been possible without them. -GameVideosforLife, for completing my X-Therizinosaurus skin. -Thanks to Garuga123, Upfromthedepths, Podcreature, That One Glacial Cephadrome, Firesolved, Titanusvenator, Voldemantis, TheSpheal, Jordanisgreat, and Sid for being awesome -Thanks to Katana, Maxissergio and Corrupted Empress Jasmine for getting some screenshots for the workshop -Massive Thanks to Reptile Boy for sticking with me from the Beginning! -and of course, you!

Enjoy the mod Everyone!

For more in depth info on the mod, join the discord! https://discord.gg/6hy3jb6

Highlights

From source data

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 4 yr ago.

Giga's Fancy Variants! on Nxeon

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One-click install
Supported on Nxeon ARK: Survival Evolved servers. We download it from Steam Workshop, place it, and restart the server.
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
ARK — 8 GB (8 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
2022-07-09, released 2022-07-09

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Creatures & NPCs

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Game
ARK: Survival Evolved

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  • ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-11-01Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorGiga Raptor, as published on Steam Workshop
  • ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

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