Mod ID # 1565015734

Hallo, and welcome to Better Dinos.

This mod aims to improve vanilla dino utility, and improve quality of life for all of our favourite dino friends.

On installing this mod you will immediately notice various changes take effect on vanilla dinos, some may be small tweaks, some may be complete overhauls, but all are done with the intention of improving the vanilla-ish gameplay experience. By and large base dino stats will not be effected unless specified. The aim is not to make OP dinos, but to make dinos that are either nicer to use, or are brought more in line with how they were described in the dossiers.

Will this mod effect my already tamed dinos?

Yes, most definitely it will. This mod uses a mixture of remapping, additional buffs and dynamic casting to make changes to vanilla dinos. The changes will take effect immediately when installing the mod, and if you remove it for any reason your dinos will simply revert to being completely vanilla once more, making it completely clean.

What dinos does this mod affect

A full list of all current and current future planned changes can be found here:

Dinos Affected By This Mod

This list will be updated as I make more changes, and come up with more ideas.

Can you please do such and such, please, please, pretty please???

This mod will be developed along my own particular vision of what can be done to make dinos better, however please do not be afraid to make suggestions, all I ask is that you make them in this thread here:

Suggestions

I won't be bending over backwards to incorporate every suggestion made, but a good idea is always welcome.

Will you be bombarding my server with constant updates?

Hopefully not. If I do then it means that something has gone terribly wrong and gotten broken, in which case I apologise in advance. Barring catastrophe, I aim to only update no more than once or twice a week. Updates will happen on Wednesdays or Sundays, and will be in the evening of BST/GMT. Nothing will be updated until it has been thoroughly tested on both my SP instance and server.

Does this mod need to be first in my load order?

Nope. I would recommend having it fairly high up your load order, but there is no definitive need to have it in first place. It does remap some dinos, so if you have other mods that remap those same dinos make sure you have the one whose changes you'd prefer higher up the load order for their changes to take priority.

Will this mod affect my Alpha Primeaval Super Elemental Giga Dodorex from X Mod?

No. This mod will only affect vanilla dinos and will not make any changes to dinos introduced by other mods. The exception here is that there is full compatability with my own Addition Aberrant Dinos mod.

Will this mod revert the flyer nerf?

Remember when it said here that it won't? Well now it will! This is optional, you must use the AllowFlyerSpeed=True Ini option. This goes in the GameUserSettings.Ini and must be placed underneath the [BetterDinos] header. This will then grant you the ability to manually convert Wyverns, Argents, Pteranodons, Moths, Griffins, Tapejaras, and Pelagornis' into versions that are able to be levelled in Speed, simply go into the Options section of the flyer radial menu and select 'Convert To Speed ...'

All converted speed enabled Flyers will gain 2% speed per level, and will gain up to 20% speed from imprinting. Converted Speed Flyers are unique classes to the BD mod, and therefore if removing the mod they will be lost, however you will have the ability to convert them back to Vanilla/Better at any time. Doing so will see any points put into speed refunded. Setting the AllowFlyerSpeed option to False after already having it set to True will see all converted Speed Flyers automatically converted back to Vanilla/Better and points spent into speed refunded. All Speed enabled Flyers also retain their BD buffs.


If you have any issues with using this mod, please let me know here:

Bug Reports

I will update the first post there with known issues, so please check to see if your problem is already known of before reposting.

As noted, as this mod makes use of remapped dinos, there may be some compatibility issues with other mods that also remap the same dinos. Any dinos that are remapped will be noted in the relevant discussion thread.

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Patch Notes

Current: V: 11.1

Better Archaeopterex!
Better Megalania!
Better Rock Golem!
Better Compy!
Better Oviraptor!

Improvements to Ichthyornis and Vulture!

Too much to go into here, check out patch notes for full info!

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Many thanks for taking a look at and subscribing to this mod, if you like it don't forget to give that Like button a good ol' clicking, and as always, the utmost thanks and appreciation to the awesome peeps over at the Ark Modding Discord, and check out my other mods too!

Animals of Atlas
Additional Aberrant Dinos
Kraken Stacks
Grubs!
Mini Manticores
Additional Desert Dinos 2.0

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PSA: This mod and Cryopods/Dino Storage:

Please see this thread for important information about this mod and Cryopods/Dino Storage

Cryopods/Dino Storage etc and this mod

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Better Dinos has now been added to the Beacon app, if you wish to add any of the items to drops etc, Beacon is a quick and easy way to go about it. Head to https://beaconapp.cc/ for more infos

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Massive love to my Patrons and donators, Pip, Eyaexiu Oli, Bolehlav, Koista, Nettle, Humera, Lye, Brian and Ravensfang, and my good buds and fellow content creators UpFromTheDepths and Myrmecoleon, you all rock!

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For up to date info on my modding endeavours, including update announcements, sneak peeks, and other stuff, join the Krakens Lair Discord server here:

Krakens Lair Discord

PSA:

I am moving house and countries again come the end of November, and therefore will be on a modding hiatus for certainly the whole of December and January. As the man said though, I'll be back, and I still have a whole heap of new ideas and new things to be added to this and my other mods too. Thanks for sticking with me and remember to stay frosty. Peace!