Advanced Dino Tools
Managing a massive menagerie of creatures in ARK: Survival Ascended can quickly turn from a thrilling survival experience into a tedious chore. Feeding babies, imprinting, and hauling cryopods around consumes hours of your valuable time. The Advanced Dino Tools mod is designed to eliminate these headaches, offering a suite of powerful, high-quality items and structures that streamline every aspect of dino interaction. This isn't just a simple quality-of-life patch; it introduces unique models and a level of polish that makes it feel like an official part of the game.
Revolutionizing Creature Capture with the ADT Cryoball
Forget the clunky vanilla cryopods. The Advanced Dino Tools Cryoball is a superior alternative that captures dinos faster and provides a wealth of information at a glance. When you store a creature, the ball's color instantly tells you its gender: pink for female, blue for male, and orange for those without a gender. This simple visual cue is a game-changer for breeding projects.
The enhanced tooltip is where this mod truly shines. It displays the dino's stats in points, including mutation counts, its current age, and a precise timer for when it will be ready to mate. You can even see the equipped saddle details without deploying the creature. Empty Cryoballs stack, saving precious inventory space. To quickly access a specific dino, simply hold down CTRL while holding a Cryoball to open a radial menu of all your stored creatures. Each ball also features a personal settings UI (hold the Reload button) where you can toggle auto-equipping the next filled or empty Cryoball, making large-scale capture and deployment effortless.
Long-Range Capture and Utility: The Cryo Gun
Why run up to a dangerous creature when you can capture it from a safe distance? The Advanced Dino Tools Cryo Gun uses Cryoballs as ammunition and features two distinct modes. The default Capture Mode allows you to tranquilize and store a dino with a single shot from range. But it also has a handy Cache Pickup Mode; switch to it with the Reload button, and you can shoot loot bags and dead bodies to instantly vacuum them into your inventory. It also includes reusable versions of the Graphook and Mindwipe Tonic, saving you resources in the long run.
Automated Base Management: Terminal, Fridge, and Nanny
The mod's structures are the core of its automation capabilities. The (ADT) Cryo Terminal is your central hub for crafting Cryoballs. It is powered by an Electrical Generator and automatically converts loose Cryoballs into stacks to maximize storage efficiency. The terminal can be configured to automatically capture any newborn dino within its radius, and even neuter them if desired. If a newborn is captured, the imprint is assigned to the player who first deploys it, preventing any imprint loss. You can customize the terminal's visible radius, color, and sound, and even filter which species it captures by placing a Cryoball with that specific dino inside its inventory.
For storage, the (ADT) CryoFridge is more than just a freezer. You can set the type of dino stored inside, which displays a customizable icon on the front. This makes organizing hundreds of creatures a visual breeze. You can also copy the settings of one fridge to all nearby fridges, ensuring your entire storage facility is uniform.
The Nanny: Your Personal Baby Sitter
Perhaps the most beloved addition is the (ADT) Nanny. This automated structure takes over the two most tedious tasks in breeding: feeding and imprinting. It will feed nearby babies up to 15% maturity, using the specific food required by each baby from its inventory. More importantly, it handles imprinting on non-adult dinos, ensuring you never miss a care window and always get that perfect 100% imprint. Powered by an electric generator, it features a settings UI (hold Reload) to tweak its range, feeding intervals, and imprint limits. For server owners, the mod offers an extensive INI configuration file to fine-tune everything from slot counts to enabling cryo sickness.
Compatibility and Installation for ARK: Survival Ascended
This mod is fully cross-platform and ready for use on both PC and consoles for ARK: Survival Ascended. It is designed to work seamlessly with the latest game updates and is compatible with other popular mods, particularly those that use the S+ framework. To download Advanced Dino Tools, simply subscribe to it on the mod manager within the game. If you are looking for a more streamlined way to manage your mods, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install for Advanced Dino Tools for ARK: Survival Ascended, automatically handling version compatibility and updates so you can jump straight into the action. For a step-by-step guide on how to install, the process is straightforward: add it to your mod list, restart your server, and load in. Once active, you'll find the engrams available to learn in your character's menu.
By automating the most time-consuming aspects of creature management, Advanced Dino Tools lets you spend less time babysitting and more time exploring, building, and conquering the island. It is an indispensable addition to any serious survivor's arsenal, transforming dino management from a chore into a streamlined, enjoyable part of the game.
Ultimately, this mod is a testament to the power of community creation. Its unique models, deep customization, and powerful automation tools make it a must-have for anyone looking to master the art of taming and breeding in ARK: Survival Ascended.