Rae's Midwife

Rae's Midwife

This mod introduces the Midwife, a character who "delivers" baby creatures and keeps them in Babypods in her inventory. This is designed to be the counterpart of the S+/SS Hatchery for dinos that use gestation.

Babypods last 24 hours on default settings, after which the baby will die if not imprinted.

Babypods can be thrown like Cryopods to imprint the baby. They are then consumed upon use.

The Midwife does not require fuel to activate, but she uses one pair of Sterile Scissors for each baby she delivers.

Sterile Scissors are crafted by combining a pair of Vanilla or Non-Sterile Scissors with Soap.

For each pair of Sterile Scissors that are used, a pair of Non-Sterile Scissors is returned to the Midwife's inventory.

Availability

Both the Midwife and Sterile Scissors engrams are available at level 41. They both cost zero points to learn, but to learn the Sterile Scissors, you must know the original Scissors engram.

Once you have learned the engram, the Midwife can be crafted from your personal inventory. To craft her, you will need 10 of each kibble from Basic to Exceptional.

Configuration Settings

The following settings can be added to the GameUserSettings.ini

[RaesMidwife] MidwifeRangeInFoundations=10 BabypodLifetimeInMinutes=1440

Additional Information

Mod ID: 2631732779

Midwife gfi Midwife 1 0 0

Sterile Scissors gfi SterileScissors 1 0 0

Non-Sterile Scissors gfi NonSterileScissors 1 0 0

Latest Changes

10th December 2021

- Removed the option to configure the number of midwife slots because I couldn't make it work correctly; - Increased the number of slots to 100.

13th January 2022

- You can now store soap in the Midwife's inventory; - You can no longer use the sterile or non-sterile scissors to cut your hair.

26th January 2022

- Had a chat with the midwife and if you use a modded mutator to make Reapers breed, she agreed to pick up the babies.

Acknowledgement

I want to say thanks to Rae for the idea of the mod and for doing the Midwife's voice over.

Also thanks to Joehelp, Kos, Quellcrest and HexenLord from Ark Modding discord group for all the help with my questions.

Finally, thanks a lot to OrionSun for making the source code of S+ publicly available. Much of this mod code uses bits and pieces from S+.