CustomArkLootDrops

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Improved and re-balanced default world beacons for hosted ARK: Survival Evolved servers.

• This code is designed for PC servers. Sorry XBOX and PS4 players, it's nothing personal, I just only play PC.
• Designed with Balance in mind. I consider feedback when updating this code. If you noticed unbalanced things let your opinion be known.

The Goal

The goal with this drop rework is to improve the World Sky Beacons crates in ARK: Survival Evolved and focus on balancing for what would really make sense while making sure they are not too overpowered.

How are these new beacons different?

• The Sky Beacons here are updated and balanced with every patch and include a much more filled out table of items. Nearly every standard item is in them, the odds chart is rather large and I didn't find the time to update it into a user friendly viewing format, but you'll notice they much more varying, and even surprising sometimes.
• There are super rare drops in some of them that may be something along the lines of a super high quality pike or weapon appropriate to the beacon level, and these special items are at a rarity of .003% odds or so, thus probably won't be found.
• The Scorched Earth version has been further reworked to update the crates based on scorched earth unique items and dinos and the Deep Sand crates have been reworked to remove unusable items.
• In general, items are grouped to a beacon color near the item's Engram Level.
• Explosives are in small quantities except in one super rare case.
• Items with Quality Ratings (Weapons, Armor, Saddles) drop individual pieces or patterns and are scaled up slightly in Double Crates (they have rings on them). Finding extremely high quality pieces is very rare on a server 4 difficulty. This rarity scales up or down along with game server difficulty as normal.

ToDo

• v257

  • New Dino: Giant Bee
  • New Dino: Daeodon
  • New Dino: Liopleurodon
  • New Dino: Kentrosaurus
  • New Structure: Tek Cloning Chamber
  • New Structure: Tek Megalodon Saddle
  • New Structure: Tek Turret
  • New Weapon: Tek Grenade

• v258

  • New Weapon: Harpoon Gun (& Tranq Bolts for the Harpoon Gun)
  • New Dino: Hyaenodon
  • New Dino: Hesperonis
  • New Dino: Megatherium
  • New Dino: Megalania
  • New Dino: Yutyrannus
  • New Vehicle: Gas-powered speedy Motorboat
  • New Structure: Interactive Toilet

• both versions

  • Add Equus saddle
  • Add Iguanodon saddle PrimalItemArmor_IguanodonSaddle_C
  • Add Archaeopteryx Egg - spawn code: PrimalItemConsumable_Egg_Archa_C
  • Add Therizinosaurus Egg - spawn code: waiting on wiki to update with spawn code
  • Add Sweet Vegetable Cake - spawn code: PrimalItemConsumable_SweetVeggieCake_C
  • Add Bio Toxin - spawn code: waiting on wiki to update with spawn code
  • Add Megalosaurus Egg - spawn code: PrimalItemConsumable_Egg_Megalosaurus_C
  • Add Tapejara Egg - spawn code: PrimalItemConsumable_Egg_Tapejara_C
  • Add Moschops Egg - spawn code: PrimalItemConsumable_Egg_Moschops_C
  • Add Beer Jar - spawn code: PrimalItemConsumable_BeerJar_C
  • Add Element Resource system - raw elements added in red chart
  • Add Scissors - blue
  • Add lvl 50 Thylacoleo Saddle - PrimalItemArmor_ThylacoSaddle_C

• standard only

  • Add Pachyrhino Egg - spawn code: PrimalItemConsumable_Egg_Pachyrhino_C
  • Add Kaprosuchus Egg - spawn code: PrimalItemConsumable_Egg_Kaprosuchus_C
  • Add Troodon Egg - spawn code: PrimalItemConsumable_Egg_Troodon_C
  • Add Pegomastax Egg - spawn code: PrimalItemConsumable_Egg_Pegomastax_C
  • Add Microraptor Egg - PrimalItemConsumable_Egg_Microraptor_C
  • Add lvl 95 Pheromone Dart - PrimalItemAmmo_AggroTranqDart_C

You are welcome to Edit the code and even make your own versions

To do this, Fork or Download then Edit the code for the beacons. After editing, run the compile_code powershell script (most versions of Windows can do this) to turn it into a new FULL_DEPLOY_CODE file. If you think your changes benefit this overall code, create a merge request.

To learn more about editing beacons, Google is your best friend. There is a lot of useful information out there. If you look at the broken down, syntax-ed code on my Github, you'll see the patterns.