Simulated Survivors (Fork of Primal NPCs)

Mod ID: 3536452017

Current Version: 0.4.1

If you are experiencing crashes or bugs in single player, add "-preventhibernation" to your steam launch options for ARK.

A mod that adds simulated human players to create a vaguely multiplayer-like experience, but without the challenges that come with dealing with other human players. NPCs will build bases, form tribes, and "tame" and ride dinos in patrols around their base.

This mod is now mostly stable, but still has a lot of balance issues and some significant bugs.

There is a UI that you can use to see how many NPCs and Structures are on a map by pressing F10. In single player, you may need to die and respawn after installing or updating the mod for the UI and for NPC chat to function.

This mod is best played with the settings set to PvP with offline protection off. In PVE, NPCs may be either invincible or will attack their own bases. This will be improved in the future.

If you do not see any NPCs in F10, use cheat DestroyWildDinos to reset spawns and get them to spawn in faster.

This mod is built for the preaquatica branch, but it does seem to also function on the main branch, potentially with additional bugs.

Original Mod (with more detailed description): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1803395040

Source and bug tracker: https://gitlab.com/shalashalska/simulated-players-ark

Original Wiki, mostly still accurate: https://ark.gamepedia.com/Mod:Primal_NPCs

High level roadmap of future plans, not including various bugfixes:

• Base generation overhaul
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• Properly connect structures, so they break if unsupported Done in 0.3.0
• Fix X-turrets spontaneously breaking Done in 0.3.0
• Ensure that bases don\'t generate underground Done in 0.3.0
• Generate extra foundations or use ceilings as floors to make them fit the terrain better
• Give bases doors Done in 0.3.0
• Fix X-turret animations
• Make turrets actually require power

[*] NPC AI update

• Make NPC\'s stay at a distance if they have ranged weapons
• Properly switch to harvesting tools to harvest corpses
• Make sure they are taming and using dinos correctly
• Make sure they raid correctly Done in 0.4.0

[*] Reputation update

• Make reputation tiers configurable
• Different resource gifts give different amounts of rep (so element isn\'t worth the same as paste)
• Hiring/requesting resources/etc. costs reputation

[*] Tier overhaul

• Rename tiers to not be tied to Primal Fear
• Redistribute default dinos and structure tiers to spread them out more evenly (currently all dinos are unlocked by tier 3)
• Higher tiers have higher level and therefore higher stat humans/dinos
• Make the tier progression more natural, so it\'s faster at lower tiers and slower at higher tiers
• Make player actions impact progression, i.e. raiding their base or killing their members slows progress, giving gifts and doing quests raises it
• Add ini option for max tribe tier, tribes cannot spawn above or level up past that tier. Done in 0.2.2

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