Sticking with The Island map

    After giving it some thought, I will be keeping The Island map for my server. At some point, however, I will be adjusting player, and tamed dino, stats. I might do some mod swapping/adding/deleting as well. No worries though. I will post here, and at my Discord channel, any changes I make.

Shall we try Extinction?

   I've been giving some thought to switching my server to the new Extinction map. Please, let me know your thoughts on this matter either here or at my Discord channel. If we do make the switch I will also be re-adjusting some of the player/dino settings and possibly getting rid of a mod or two.

    For quite some time now I've been extremely bored with ARK....and sadly, I think that's partly because of how "OP" things are on my server. If we switch to Extinction I'll be dialing back the settings that effect our, and our dino's, stats. Not to worry though, I won't be dialing them back to 'vanilla' standards. I'll lower them just enough to add a little more challenge to the game.

    Again, please let me know here and/or in Discord what you think.

    Thank you!
       Thela

Fal's Shutting Down His Servers

Just a heads up, mine and Fal's server are no longer going to be clustered. Fal is closing down all his ARK servers, starting today, with the last one going offline on October 5th.

New Mods Added

    Hello all! I have added the following mods to my server:

• Gyrosphere
• Gunsmoke Tailor
• Awesome Spyglass

    I have removed the following mods:

• Ark Steampunk Mod
• Dynamic Fence System
• Dino Tracker

    The 'Gunsmoke Tailor' mod is a mod designed for an RP sever. The mod is set up so that their players have to get a special token from their admin in order to learn the engrams for the Gunsmoke crafting stations. Since I do not have access to these tokens I will be providing blueprints for each of the crafting stations. They will be in the same vault that I provide Giga Hearts and Leeds Blubber in. Please, take only one blueprint for each of the three crafting stations. Make sure you do not get rid of the blueprint. This will be the only way you can make the crafting stations.
 
    Thanks for all your patience and I greatly appreciate that you have chosen my server as your ARK home.

Thinking of switching out a few mods....

    I am thinking about getting rid of the following mods:

•  Dynamic Fence System 
•  Ark Steampunk Modtacular 

    I am not sure how much the Steampunk mod is used, but it is a large mod that if removed will reduce the time it takes to load the game a little bit. The Dynamic Fence mod, I've noticed, has been creating a lot of lag. The few build sites I've used it at makes it pretty laggy in that area. I've tried it both with power and lights on and with power off and no lights on. It is still laggy.

    I will most likely be adding the following mods, however:

Gunsmoke Tailor - This mod will allow us to create clothing with an old time western look. The only issue is that this mod was created for a role playing server and requires a special item from that server's admin to learn the engrams/make crafting stations.

    I have been fiddling with the mod in single player and was able to spawn in one of the crafting stations, because I have no idea what the special admin item is they use. I was able to create a blueprint of it in the S+ Blueprint crafting station. IF I do install this mod, I will make a bunch of blueprints and leave them in a crate, like I do with the Giga Hearts, etc., for players to pick up so they can make their own crafting stations whenever, and wherever, they need.

    The clothing from this mod can be upgraded, augmented and turned into blueprints in the crafting stations from the Upgrade Station mod.

Awesome Spyglass -  This mod allows you to craft a spyglass, in your inventory, that displays a lot of information on the lower left side of your screen about the dinosaur you are looking at. You can also have a ranged weapon equipped and activate the spyglass, on your action bar, to have dino info displayed on screen. When you have the spyglass activated it puts an outline around any, and all, dinosaurs, birds, fish and critters that are within your vicinity...tamed and wild alike.

Gyrosphere - This mod allows you to craft a gyrosphere type vehicle, like seen in one of the newer Jurassic Park movies. The gyrosphere makes you 'neutral' to all wild dinos while you are in it, unless you get in it when you have already aggro'd a dino onto you, and it keeps your body temperature normal. You can drive it in any biome and not be affected by the weather/temperature. It will go underwater and has a breath meter like you do, but allows you to breath just fine. It also has a pretty large inventory space and decent health. It will carry a passenger as well.

    Please let me know here, or at my Discord channel, what your thoughts are.Changes will be made in about a weeks time from now.