I was astounded that in all of these years that Ark has been out there, everything speaks in terms of meters with no way to measure meters. It was very kind of you to spend the time to determine this using a useful measurement metric such as foundations. Thank you sir!
Oh goodness thank you. Been scouring threads forever to find untested tid-bits only to find EVERYTHING IN ONE VIDEO. You, good sir, are my first-ever thumbs up.
This is a great video. For PvE purposes, knowing that spike walls don't affect resource spawning is crucial. Especially if you build your base below a cliff with metal nodes like we have done!
The Beard Guys Thanks. I've seen some recent screenshots that suggest that metal may now spawn closer to walls than 12 tiles. Some people have also suggested that ceilings on pillars no longer affect spawns. But your video is great in showing how to test such things.
Thank you so much for this! I hate all the wishy washy theories floating around about how the game mechanics work, it makes it really hard to invest in anything
Would be nice to have a video about stand alone pillars with a ladder vs pillar with ceiling vs foundation with pillar in middle. We see alot of these versions in PVE Official for territory marking for spacing out bases & preserving (meat run areas / special dino spawns ) ( such as the Spinosaurus ) Since you need 10 sails for the Alpha Megapithicus run.
I've got one problem.. how do you fix the resource like metal rocks obsidian rocks to respawn? I literally have no structures on that mountain and for a very long time the resources still no respawn yet h I hope you'll make a video how to fix this.. btw keep up the good work love ur vids
Hi, thanks for a great video, it's really helpful to understand the no spawn distances. Out of interest do you know how changing the no radios settings affects this? The default settings is 1.0 and I wondered how much it would be on 0.9, 0.8 etc.?
My guess would be that lowering it from 1.0 to 0.5 would cause all the distances to be halved, so you can work out what the values would be for 0.8 or whatever based on that. Careful if you put it too low though as you may end up with trees and rocks spawning inside your base/house!
The Beard Guys not a problem thought I would ask. I'm an admin on a player dedicated sever and we have changed the setting to 0.7 so not sure how that will change it.
Im well aware this video is 4 years old but that's why I'm making this comment. Does anybody know if the information he's giving in this video is still relevant in the current version of ark on console? if this video is outdated then is there a more up to date video that still gives the relevant amount of information?
Idk why but my resources are not respawning at the mountains in my solo world I haven't built anything at the mountains or near one and I have the resource respawn rate to 0.5
I know it's been forever but does the no resource radius sliders in single player settings make things repspawn closer with higher values or lower values?
if you guild pillars around an area before you build your base will it spawn dinos inside the line and destroy your foliage? I assume the spawn radius of dinos is less than the 11 foundation wide resource radius for metal?
did you test the placement of wood/metal spike fences for metal respawns? im asking as im about to place them with a dinosaur gate and wanted to know for sure it was ok. cheers ;)
Thank you- was wondering how many pillars etc i'd need to clear a path through the swamp. I placed a couple signs along the route to the Southern Cave to stop the trees from popping in but noticed they kept coming back. No I know that only 'structures' block the spawn and not any old player-placed object. Enjoy your tree cover swamp creatures- for now.
Gg man, strategically placed forges might have to be a thing. Are you going to do a quetz taming video? I wanna hear Lam yelling directions hanging from an argy
Hey In my single player game the dinos respawn really slow, is there a way to increase the Dino spawn time or Dino respawn radius without using destroy Dino cheat or prevent hibernate, as I have a low end pc I cannot handle the game when the hibernation is off
So im playing a private multiplayer server on my pc. Is it true that the lower value of STRUCTURE PREVENT RESOURCE RADIOUS MULTIPLIER, the closer resources respawn to structures?
I have a wooden tree platform in the redwoods, and I have a tree 2 meters away from it that I can knock down. However I thought that it won’t regrow if I build my house, but I was wrong, what can I do to stop that tree from growing without wasting too much resources
The obnoxiously loud intro got an immediate thumbs down. But the content won me over. I'm very unforgiving about loud intros/outros. But this is a rare gem. I am having problems with resources not respawning in my terrarium on Genesis. I'm trying to figure out what's causing it, without taking apart everything that's been done in the last couple days. Thanks for clearing up some of the variables.
I have one problem with this, I cleared out a massive area in my base completely and blocked all respawns with foundations but everything respawned anyway. I havent seen dino spawns so I'm not sure whats up. If anyone could help me figure out how to stop that from happening again I would appreciate it. Took me forever to clear out.
it annoys me that everywhere i look people can't just give a simple answer. Does a lower value for "No Resource Radius - Structures" (talking about the advanced world settings, not the .ini) make resources respawn closer or farther? I don't need some paragraph long explanation, just a simple closer or farther, which nobody on the internet can seem to give.
so what fifteen foundations?.... fuck. i just wanna hide a base on a single pillar? great. one bronto wanders through and suddenly I have no fuckin cover or a big suspicious hole nearby.
Max Gustavsson I have the same problem on Xbox single player. I read that if you quit game after destroying a resource before it respawns, it will never respawn again
Thx for this, this is nice to know. But I have a problem and I could not find anything in forums or videos and so on to help.... I have farmed the metall and the crystal at the southern islands. the left one of the three. but the metall and the crystals do not respawn. there are many people who say that you have to set the spawn to 0 time like you did and to set the distance to 0 for the player... after this you can change it back to normal and everything would work again. but there is no metall on the hill and just ONE crystal. this crystal respawns every few hours.... the rest is not respawning. and no, i have only a structure down on the beach. I did not build anything on the top. Does anyone have a solution for this?
there is a solution but i didn't understand how to do that but if u check the wiki it sais If you are playing single player and log out before resources respawn there is a bug that causes them to not respawn for a very long time. so yeah i dont know how much
can you please just tell us what the setting is already. The video is just going on and on with you showing us stuff respawning back in next to XYZ, but you never say HOW you get it to do that. I gave up on your video about half way through. I didn't learn what I came here to learn.
But does anyone know the suppression radius for dinos? We're trying to stop dino spawns in the castle in the redwoods on lost island. Even with our rexes and magmasaurs in there the wilds still spawn.
I was astounded that in all of these years that Ark has been out there, everything speaks in terms of meters with no way to measure meters. It was very kind of you to spend the time to determine this using a useful measurement metric such as foundations. Thank you sir!
Oh goodness thank you. Been scouring threads forever to find untested tid-bits only to find EVERYTHING IN ONE VIDEO. You, good sir, are my first-ever thumbs up.
This is a great video. For PvE purposes, knowing that spike walls don't affect resource spawning is crucial. Especially if you build your base below a cliff with metal nodes like we have done!
Keep in mind it's an old vid, but hopefully the mechanics are the same still!
The Beard Guys Thanks. I've seen some recent screenshots that suggest that metal may now spawn closer to walls than 12 tiles. Some people have also suggested that ceilings on pillars no longer affect spawns. But your video is great in showing how to test such things.
Thank you so much for this! I hate all the wishy washy theories floating around about how the game mechanics work, it makes it really hard to invest in anything
Excellent investigation. Nothing like the facts--and people are still getting this wrong in 2020.
Hell i am going to find it out right now and i been playing since game preview XD
I'm here hoping for help in 2022. Lol.
I'd been wondering about this. Thank you so much; ended up reducing no respawn radius thanks to ya and another thread.
Helpful video even all these years later. Thanks :)
I'd be interested to know if any of this still holds true today. Tempted to give Ascended a go when it's out on Xbox
@@TheBeardGuys 2025 we need an ascended update on this 🤣
wow i searched this to build exactly on that mountain, thank you for this video
Would be nice to have a video about stand alone pillars with a ladder vs pillar with ceiling vs foundation with pillar in middle. We see alot of these versions in PVE Official for territory marking for spacing out bases & preserving (meat run areas / special dino spawns ) ( such as the Spinosaurus ) Since you need 10 sails for the Alpha Megapithicus run.
Can this be adjusted/changed in Single player?
I was looking all over for this information. Thank you so much for explaining it so well.
Wow. Fucking impressive work mate. And not one dislike. I think this is the first video I've seen without a dislike. 10/10 Thank you.
At 11 minutes is that what the volcano used to look like? If so that’s cool to see how the map changed
Yep certainly is! 6 years ago now
@@TheBeardGuys Just wondered, how much of this is changed since the early acces and current version?
nice video.
Just thinking, what is with beds? Os it the same like Smithy? What if i put a bed on a fence foundation?
Excellent video! thank you for sharing this test!
Hope you do this for ASA some day. Thanks for the video
Thx I'm fed up of trees spawning in my fortress xD
What about vertical distance? Like if you have have a structure hanging over a cliff?
I believe the distance is a radious in all 3 dimentions. So about 15 foundation lengths in all directions including up and down.
Well done guys! You're almost at 7k subscribers
I've got one problem.. how do you fix the resource like metal rocks obsidian rocks to respawn? I literally have no structures on that mountain and for a very long time the resources still no respawn yet h I hope you'll make a video how to fix this.. btw keep up the good work love ur vids
This helps a lot , thanks for your helpful information
does S+ Fence Foundation act as a foundation as well? (Would it stop resource respawn)
Just tried it, it wouldn't
ok long story short 15 foundation range is the limit for not blocking respawn
One thing you did not test do boats have effect on things growing back?
Someone please help. Eveytime I log off and log back on my world resources keep spawning in my base and around it although I changed all my settings
Maybe you put the slider the wrong way
Hi, thanks for a great video, it's really helpful to understand the no spawn distances. Out of interest do you know how changing the no radios settings affects this? The default settings is 1.0 and I wondered how much it would be on 0.9, 0.8 etc.?
Not sure, I'm afraid. It's been a while since I've looked into this stuff.
My guess would be that lowering it from 1.0 to 0.5 would cause all the distances to be halved, so you can work out what the values would be for 0.8 or whatever based on that. Careful if you put it too low though as you may end up with trees and rocks spawning inside your base/house!
The Beard Guys not a problem thought I would ask. I'm an admin on a player dedicated sever and we have changed the setting to 0.7 so not sure how that will change it.
Thanks I will check if chasing it to 0.5 halves it.
Im well aware this video is 4 years old but that's why I'm making this comment. Does anybody know if the information he's giving in this video is still relevant in the current version of ark on console? if this video is outdated then is there a more up to date video that still gives the relevant amount of information?
I have the same question now it's nearly 7 years old. Kind of disapointed to see no one ever replied to you.
Idk why but my resources are not respawning at the mountains in my solo world I haven't built anything at the mountains or near one and I have the resource respawn rate to 0.5
Same I’m starting to run out of metal
@@Onclee I read in some article that the reason why that happens is because resources don't respond if you're too far away from the area
This video is very old so not sure how accurate it is now
I know it's been forever but does the no resource radius sliders in single player settings make things repspawn closer with higher values or lower values?
gran video, me sirvio mucho su explicación y buen dato!
One question, if you put an animal in the mid of a resorces spawn, can this animal break the spawn?
Nice vid Bud, you should do Ark myth busters :)
Thanks mate that was some good info
if you guild pillars around an area before you build your base will it spawn dinos inside the line and destroy your foliage? I assume the spawn radius of dinos is less than the 11 foundation wide resource radius for metal?
Do you know if there are any console commands on the pc that allow you to change the radius in single player?
did you test the placement of wood/metal spike fences for metal respawns? im asking as im about to place them with a dinosaur gate and wanted to know for sure it was ok. cheers ;)
Thank you- was wondering how many pillars etc i'd need to clear a path through the swamp. I placed a couple signs along the route to the Southern Cave to stop the trees from popping in but noticed they kept coming back. No I know that only 'structures' block the spawn and not any old player-placed object.
Enjoy your tree cover swamp creatures- for now.
thanks for video broo
So what would i have yo set it to so resources wont respawn around my foundations in a 1 foundation radius?
what do you think be a good item to use to make a pen to put a bunch of doedicurs/beavers in on wonder to auto harvest stuff?
Gg man, strategically placed forges might have to be a thing.
Are you going to do a quetz taming video? I wanna hear Lam yelling directions hanging from an argy
What mountain is that you were on at 7:00
Grand Peak
ALMOST 7K nice
But. If you put a pillar on top of another pillar. Will that interfere with the resource repawn?
No. Real foundation, ceilings on top of pillars, walls on top of fence foundations/fence supports, pipes connected to wells will act as foundations.
Man what a legend you cheers mate
Thanks for this, needed the information since im trying to make an auto wood and stone farm. Dunno if it will work imma just try it out.
It's a pretty old vid, not sure how well the info still holds up
@@TheBeardGuys you should maybe retest it! :)
i was looking to build round my base, but as it has metal on it i want to keep. Does high ceiling stop respawns? like a dome
What if you clear trees, rocks etc to make a house. Will it respawn in your house or they will respawn just around the foundation?
RuiJy no the rocks and trees does not respawn anymore on that place, by placing structures near them you canceled the respawn.
I'm a cow ... I tried in single player but tree respawn ..
Thanks, learned a lot but I'm still not clear on how far a metal foundation needs to be from metals nodes? Was about 12ish?
How do you enable to allow to even place structures near resource spots? My server wont allow me and I have no settings for it.
What would happen if you built right against a cliff, with a resource on top of that cliff, right on the edge? Or vice versa?
What about resources on different levels , like the metals on Herbivore island which spawn on top
Hey In my single player game the dinos respawn really slow, is there a way to increase the Dino spawn time or Dino respawn radius without using destroy Dino cheat or prevent hibernate, as I have a low end pc I cannot handle the game when the hibernation is off
So im playing a private multiplayer server on my pc. Is it true that the lower value of STRUCTURE PREVENT RESOURCE RADIOUS MULTIPLIER, the closer resources respawn to structures?
would this stop the dinos from spawning to , I recently made a huge base and no want the dinos to stop spawning in
on my server i set the respawn rate to 3.0 i thought it would make it faster but it did the opposide hahaha thanks to your vid i fixed it :D
blind monk? what are you doing here!
is railing also the same as wall does?
I tried to make a rock and wood farm but it doesn't re spawn rocks or trees with stone fencing. it may have changed since 2016 though. shame.
What's this mod with no lava on the volcano? All this is equal on official island map?
This is what the Island was like when this video was made :)
I know this is old, but is there any info on raft buildings and how they affect fish spawns? thanks
No idea mate, sorry.
I have a wooden tree platform in the redwoods, and I have a tree 2 meters away from it that I can knock down. However I thought that it won’t regrow if I build my house, but I was wrong, what can I do to stop that tree from growing without wasting too much resources
Nope you can't he won't say anything about it because his video is fake
I know this is a old video but do turrets and generators effect respaw n
No saddle? Rendering bug or your settings?
You used to be able to do it when using console commands, no idea if you can anymore, this video is ancient.
The obnoxiously loud intro got an immediate thumbs down. But the content won me over. I'm very unforgiving about loud intros/outros. But this is a rare gem. I am having problems with resources not respawning in my terrarium on Genesis. I'm trying to figure out what's causing it, without taking apart everything that's been done in the last couple days. Thanks for clearing up some of the variables.
This video is pretty old now so keep in mind some parts may be out of date.
Can you get a industrial forge to place on pillar alone?
How do you have those stunning graphics? On my Xbox one, it looks all blurry and pixelated.
Same, did you figure it out?
You need an HD TV in order to have clear resolution, I wasnt using one at the time so that explains a lot
Noel Rivera LoL PC Master Race TROLLIN.
wow nice info, so i need to swim far away
any one know what about rafts with fundations or pipes?
btw can you do one for trees spawning in a base
Thanks man now i should get more Resources
Does this work with dino spawns
Is this official though ?
Guys can you help me my ark isn't letting me get resources I'm hitting trees and everything but it's still not giving me anything
I have a tree that keeps spawning in a stone foundation shit is so annoying
I have one problem with this, I cleared out a massive area in my base completely and blocked all respawns with foundations but everything respawned anyway. I havent seen dino spawns so I'm not sure whats up. If anyone could help me figure out how to stop that from happening again I would appreciate it. Took me forever to clear out.
I have the same issue watched his video 10 times did exactly as he did and still shit respawns I think the video is fake
Does this count for bee hives
Thanks mate
Does anyone know the exact settings to be able to build on the mountain?
Anyone know of vertical distance affects this?
Thanks !
it annoys me that everywhere i look people can't just give a simple answer.
Does a lower value for "No Resource Radius - Structures" (talking about the advanced world settings, not the .ini) make resources respawn closer or farther? I don't need some paragraph long explanation, just a simple closer or farther, which nobody on the internet can seem to give.
0.1 respawn closer, 3 respawn further, lower numbers means that the resources respawn close to structures/player
so what fifteen foundations?.... fuck. i just wanna hide a base on a single pillar? great. one bronto wanders through and suddenly I have no fuckin cover or a big suspicious hole nearby.
Can u d a video on why wild Dinosaur stopped respawning
Sure
My resource respawn thing is not working at all trees rocks and other thing never grow back even away from base
Max Gustavsson I have the same problem on Xbox single player. I read that if you quit game after destroying a resource before it respawns, it will never respawn again
B-Rad you might just saved my life
anyone know what the default value was
Is he playing on single player
TRockS 1:20 yes
Is this bullshit or is the game broken,no rocks or trees respawns on the otherside of the island and my settings are not like that helå me please
Good video, but that screen tearing though
Ma resources are not respawning at all not any where
How about lastest patch?
This is the latest patch
@@TheBeardGuys Thank a lot ^^
Thx for this, this is nice to know.
But I have a problem and I could not find anything in forums or videos and so on to help....
I have farmed the metall and the crystal at the southern islands. the left one of the three.
but the metall and the crystals do not respawn. there are many people who say that you have to set the spawn to 0 time like you did and to set the distance to 0 for the player...
after this you can change it back to normal and everything would work again.
but there is no metall on the hill and just ONE crystal. this crystal respawns every few hours.... the rest is not respawning. and no, i have only a structure down on the beach. I did not build anything on the top.
Does anyone have a solution for this?
there is a solution but i didn't understand how to do that but if u check the wiki it sais If you are playing single player and log out before resources respawn there is a bug that causes them to not respawn for a very long time.
so yeah i dont know how much
So how do I stop things spawning in my base
jacob draheim build out of wood, never stone. ;)
T hx youre awsone
can you please just tell us what the setting is already. The video is just going on and on with you showing us stuff respawning back in next to XYZ, but you never say HOW you get it to do that. I gave up on your video about half way through. I didn't learn what I came here to learn.
But does anyone know the suppression radius for dinos? We're trying to stop dino spawns in the castle in the redwoods on lost island. Even with our rexes and magmasaurs in there the wilds still spawn.