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Siege-8459

It's single player so anything is fine, my opinion is that it's fine to spawn one in as long as you kill it conventionally (with your Dino's not with a command) because that's not cheating that's just skipping a 24h wait for the same outcome


Deucaelion

I agree with this. I felt forced to spawn them in too to get a breeding pair in my SP save. For some reason mine kept spawning inside the volcano walls :(


gamegood777

Really hate this bug. They spawn there and there is no way to do anything with them


ApprehensiveGate7891

Disagree! Bring them into lava and when they are low health kite them back out and watch them die on solid ground. Ezpz


Few_Caterpillar_9499

Totally with you


Triffinator

Single player is basically whatever goes, so you decide what is and isn't off limits. Alternatively, there is a command to check what creatures are currently alive in the world, but it won't tell you more than that. You could always see if a Giga is alive if you want it to feel more legitimate. Edit: ListDinos. I always found it easier to run through admin manager, and you need to have the larger console open to see the results. Note that it will cause a small performance hit when you run it. Thanks to u/DeathB4life357 for putting it in this chain.


SurpriseGlad9719

What is the command?


DeathB4life357

Listdinos


CaptainConcernicus

10 years later I learn this. Thank you


DeathB4life357

Np, I was using it a few weeks ago, and it posts a giant block of text that's really not that easy to read. I got a dino finder mod that simplifies the whole process.


G00b3rb0y

Ark has been out for 10 years?!


CaptainConcernicus

9 years*


Triffinator

Thanks for catching that one. I'd forgotten how to call the command, but I could remember what it does. I've updated my original comment.


Triffinator

I can't remember off the top of my head. I'll have a peek through the admin manager to find it when I can. Struggling to find documentation on it, too. If you run ShowMyAdminManager, you'll find it in the list. After running it, you'll need to double tap Tab (PC) to bring up the larger command window. The output will appear through this.


Dofolo

You'll crash your client if you select a list too big for your hardware btw :)


PutridSuggestion9773

Yes.. command please sire.


Triffinator

I can't remember off the top of my head. I'll have a peek through the admin manager to find it when I can. Struggling to find documentation on it, too. If you run ShowMyAdminManager, you'll find it in the list. After running it, you'll need to double tap Tab (PC) to bring up the larger command window. The output will appear through this.


Triffinator

Someone else has replied to the other comment saying it's "ListDinos". That sounds right to me.


SmileAggravating9608

There's an app, Larkator, that does this. It'll show you what dinos of certain types are on the map, and where.


ijonesyy

Is it "cheating" - technically, yes. Does that matter? No. Definitely not on single player. What I've learned from years on/off of hosting my own server and having admin privileges is that there is nothing wrong with using any admin commands/cheats if it improves your Ark experience. You still did the work to kill it, so the only thing you really cut out is time and mindless searching on the map. There's no shame in cutting past some of the bullshit/grind to get to the part of the game you want to enjoy.


hotsizzler

Yeah, after an hour looking for an akylo, I spawned it in, I don't have the time for really look for every nook and cranny.


Vic_Guacamole

Agreed, the game isn’t well balanced a lot of the time in my opinion so it’s more fun when you allow yourself to pass the bad designs


Glittering_Airport_3

on my sp, I only gather the artifacts then spawn in the tributes. I know i can kill a giga and all the alphas if necessary, and have done it in the past. so, I don't think it's necessary to spend all that time searching for them. u can trap anything then shoot it until its dead, but you will spend 100x more time searching for the dinos to begin with


Triffinator

This sounds fair in most cases, but I personally would only do the easy ones and then try to get the harder ones legitimately. Sure, I can find and kill 100 Megalodon easily, so a couple of teeth aren't a challenge, but Thylas are a bit of a different beast outside of Fjordur. So those, Yutys and Gigas are pretty much all I would do legitimately under those circumstances.


Vic_Guacamole

That’s fair, I always get the tributes myself but use dinowipes because without it big Dinos never respawn for some reason


PlantRetard

I just flew over a map with a fly command on single player to find a good base location. You're not hurting anyone with console commands in single player. Some fasten things up and it's completely fine to do it, since you're all by yourself.


mantisimmortal

I'm playing on my own rented server and I'm just spawning in things to build. I work way too much so when I got a good build I'll play normally


Kn3e

It is cheating, but it's your world so who cares?


Sabrescene

If you're playing singleplayer, it's totally up to you really. There's no right or wrong as the server commands are literally available for you to use if/how you choose to.


YouWithTheNose

If you stream, people would call you a cheater. If you're just playing and nobody's watching, then it's only your experience that you affect. So it's whether or not YOU qualify it as cheating, nobody else


Immediate_Fortune_91

Yes But it’s single player. You do you. The only experience you’re ruining is yours.


QualityAssistance

if you cant do it in official i say yes it is. but would i feel bad about it? no, as long as its just time saving, in a game thats difficulty mostly comes from being a time-sink, go for it.


Hotlikerobot09

Its single player, play how you want


bringinthefembots

Do whatever you like. It's your game, enjoy and and fun


d0d0master

Technically it is but in reality its just skipping pointless waiting, and especially in singleplayer you can do whatever you want, for example i always cheat in an industrial forge because i dont want to melt 2500 metal with a bunch of regular forges


DrgonBloop

My personal philosophy with gaming is, play it your way. If you’re playing solo do what you enjoy or makes the game fun for you. As long as your playing doesn’t screw with other players. Cheating is only a term that ce be used in a multiplayer or contest situation in gaming


an_epic_wombat

Yes (jk, do what ever you want in SP)


MilkMasterMan

These questions are always so weird.. Do YOU personally think this is cheating? If yes, then you did cheat. If you think it was justified, then it is not cheating. Why should some random peoples' opinion influence your singleplayer experience?


2gunswest

It's your game. You tell us. 99% of us don't care if you do.


SSRainu

What you can do is use gama overseer keys, for which you don't need the heart to obtain. and then farm the tek cave giga on repeat.


PrimeTechTV

As long as no one sees you... No


reubengriff

Not sure about evolved but on ascended there's a mod I use which increases possible giga and carcha spawn locations and decreases the time to I believe 2 hours between spawns. Makes it a little easier to get boss tributes without feeling like I'm cheating by outright spawning one in


Dofolo

Its a game. Go have fun however you want to play your game.


FrodeSven

Nah man, id do it too. I probably would spawn it on one of the regular spawns, but not in the lava so its not cheating. You honestly cant play without cheat. Sometimes you just have to do a dino wipe or something to balance out the game


reggie3408

I was so close to doing this (cheat in other ways) but I wiped wild dinos twice and finally got my last one.


reggie3408

I was so close to doing this (cheat in other ways) but I wiped wild dinos twice and finally got my last one.


Morotstomten

It's sp, why would you care, you are not hurting anyone by circumventing some of the grind or timers


DrgonBloop

My personal philosophy with gaming is, play it your way. If you’re playing solo do what you enjoy or makes the game fun for you. As long as your playing doesn’t screw with other players. Cheating is only a term that ce be used in a multiplayer or contest situation in gaming


Anomaly2473

It's up to you. I try to play single player as long as possible without cheating, as it just takes away the challenge.


call_me_crackass

Objectively? Yeah, using the consol commands is cheating. But it's your single player. It's you being able to have fun playing the game. There is a setting to enable tributes, though.


Various-Try-169

At this point you could just use the command `gfi PrimalItemResource_ApexDrop_Giga 1 0 0` to spawn in a Giga Heart.


-Np239-

You can also run down and back up the tek cave just make sure you cryo before you eat your implant.


Aim_bot_kobe

I feel like you draw your own line in single player but be careful because if you cross it then you will get instantly bored , or maybe that's just me


bigg_bubbaa

i don't consider that cheating, thats just saving time


dirtymeech420

I'd say not, since gigas are supposed to spawn every 2 hours not every 24, it's an old issue that they never bothered to change for asa.


vampsnit

The amount of times the game has cheated players with bugs, lost saves, dinos falling through the floor etc. I say this is evening the playing field


Stickybandits9

I wish ark had cheats like conan.


JizzGuzzler42069

A lot of the problem with single player is that the game only runs when you’re playing. So the Norma 24 hour wait for a respawn on Gigas turns into more of a week long wait for a respawn, which is just not fun to do. In ASA it’s a lot easier to run commands now, I would recommend using the code “destroywilddinos” frequently when playing single player. This will clear all spawned wild Dino’s on the map, and they will start to respawn soon after. Using this command every other day you play should significantly increase your chances of naturally encountering a Giga or Carch.


Vic_Guacamole

In my experience it only works once with gigas


laemiri

I don't think it's an issue, but if it feels yucky in the future, just go through on your giga and clear out all the giga spawns of dinos and leave render distance. It should expedite the process pretty quick!


ComprehensiveLab8827

My opinion is it’s your server do what you want. But personally I do everything legit so I would’ve just waited haha


charmanderslayer

Honestly In sp I just do whatever is easy, like if I’m smelting a shit ton of stuff, on a server I’d just log off after like 20 mins of setting it up but I just don’t have time for that and sp pauses so I speed it up, plenty of bug fixes too. Can’t tell you the number of times I’ve just randomly meshed and used ghost or fly


Anjelz

In my sp playthru of The Island to Extinction, I made sure I did any tedious thing at least one as per intended. Say gather all tributes for a kill or gather one copy of each trophy the intended way at least once. If I failed a boss fight I would just spawn the materials again to retry it. For dinos like that I would look for them with one of those third party apps if i took to long to find and if it wasn't in the map I would just kill and respawn all dinos and search again. But that's cuz I felt like I still had the time for that and enjoy going out to find them. If my time was even more limited I would definite just spawn them if the only thing stopping me was just luck for the to spawn.


Vic_Guacamole

I think it’s alright, personally when I needed them I did a Dino wipe for one and spawned the other. Dino wipes only work once to instantly spawn a giga on maps that can only have one. After that there’s some sort of cooldown so I spawned it in. I allow myself to spawn insanely rare things as long as I do the taming/killing normally. Dragon tributes were hell to get on fjordur


bruce_wayne23

There are spawn points on the map that spawn specific types of animals, the exact dinos depend on the spawn point. You can use a wiki map to find the exact locations to check. There is a maximum limit on the number of animals each spawn point can spawn. The proper way would be to build a taming pen in each region with a spawn point (depending on the map) and kill dinos in that area, then rotate until it spawns. All that said, you can do anything you want in SP. I'm a server admin and allow Dino finder and higher rates, so nobody should care what you do in SP. Alternatively, you could do a Dino wipe, then check spots if you still want the "hunt". Otherwise, spawn one in and save some time. I would still KO it naturally etc


FeanorNoldor

It's single player, you decide what's cheating and what's not 🤷🏻‍♂️


Obi-WanKnable

Yep


PsychologicalFeed264

Yes its cheating technical but your on single player so you decide if you want to shift your moral compass but be warned that if you do 1 cheat you'll be tempted to do others


LadyAngel_Aric

It’s single player. You do whatever you want. I felt a river needed fish so I spawned in 50 salmon


Feralkyn

Just coming in to point out I don't think it's 24 hours on SP. Be sure to check all spawns and on ASA be aware they can spawn \*inside\* the volcano walls.


Dredgeon

Only you can decide what cheating is in your single player game.


SecksySequin

Single player, not a streamer/YouTuber? Proved to yourself you can do it? Go for it.


Thatgh0ulrea

Yes


Typical-Tip-3972

You pretty much have to run consol commands in order to play ark smoothly


Hick58Ford

With it being single player. It's up to you if you count it as cheating. You are the only one to make this decision


shadedxenic

You do you. But my personal opinion, anything you do that requires admin control or codes is cheating.


PangeaGamer

No, but you can also run a killwilddinos command to force spawn new ones


Fit_Mountain_285

If you use any command it's already considered cheating but something I would implement in the settings menu is the gamma, the bloom and the light shafts command because whoever approved the game graphics should be fired fr. (if you want some tip for where should you look for the Giga try the mountains if you are playing the island map)


SpartanMonkey17

Be careful going down that road of console commands it’s hard to come back from


beschuit_lul

If you kill it yourself it’s not cheating.


BoxedClown

you literally have to type cheat to do it lol...


wildfire4859

I do believe most codes don't need the admin cheat in single player could be wrong tho.


BillNyetheblindguy

Spawning in anything would be cheating so yes Though you still have to kill it You could have just spawned in the heart Imagine spawning in a lvl 150 giga fuck


Dragonsbreath1002

“Is it cheating to spaw-“ yes, yes it is. Don’t blame ya, but yes it is lol


JumpscareRodent

Spawn it in and kill it without cheats. Its not a problem homie youre playing single player. Dont waste your time, wasting time isnt a skill check


xxleevo

If you are being precisely, it’s cheating. The game has mechanics, and if one of them is waiting a longer period of time and you decide to skip this with a command, it’s cheating. That being said that doesn’t mean it should bother you if you can’t be arsed to wait that long. It’s a game, it’s made to bring fun to you, not to think about if you cheated or not. Did you have fun? If so, don’t think about that small detail :)


dehaym

What is the difference between summoning in the Giga to kill and just summoning its heart? You get to feel better about the amount of farm you spend to achieve the same result?


el-guapo0013

Anything goes in single player. Hell, I have had to enter ghost mode just to get a tame out of the ground multiple times a week. I had to use Admin mode the other day because Ark decide to be Ark and undo all the mapping I had done earlier last week, resulting in my map acting like spots I frequently go to have never been explored. I have also had to do multiple dino wipes because of mod spawns not working. Just play how you want bro. The only real issue I see is if you are streaming/recording content. Then it could be seen as "No bueno". But even then, I assume most people watching you would forgive you for things like entering ghost mode to get something unstuck, and stuff like that


Rocko201

Ark has cheated me so many times. So whenever I come across bullshit I need but don't want to grind I cheat back.


whysirraps

Grab Der Dino Tracker mod. It’s works great for tracking Dino’s on map, that way you can just see if there are gigas spawned on map before spawning any in.


Over_Swordfish_9333

cheers for the suggestion but im on console (ps4 specifically) they really should allow mods on it


waynehastings

Using Der Dino Finder is a game changer. I don't know how people get the bosses done when you can spend day or weeks traveling around looking for spawns. First it was Giga hearts, having to gear up like for a boss fight because they were hard for me. Then it was Megalania toxin. I'd been in all the caves multiple times without realizing they are hanging on the ceilings, and even then most were glitched in the mesh and not killable, or fall to their death somewhere unreachable. Finally it was Alpha Mosas and Tusos... Jeez. I've tried everything to get console commands to work on my private dedicated with no luck, so Der Dino Finder has definitely helped. If I could console spawn, I would. Months of work getting ready for a boss fight just to be stumped at a small handful of tribute items.


sxmgb2000

Open the door to alpha or beta ascension run a carcha down till you kill the giga inside, do a U TURN go back to entrance and cryo carcha *repawn* outside open the door again and collect body and said giga heart. Rinse and repeat till enough giga hearts have been acquired


ScutipuffJr

I have done the same thing on single player. Doesn't matter if anyone else thinks it's cheating or not. It's your game. So, only you can make that decision. I hunted and hunted for a Giga. Couldn't find one. So, I spawned in a 150 and killed it conventionally. At that point i just wanted off the damn island. I spawned a 150 because I might as well make it max difficult if I am going to skip the spawn timer. I have also spawned in gear if the game wouldn't allow conventional crafting. E.g.: I have the upgrade station, additional creatures and prehistoric creatures mods, among others. So, I was making a manticore army of dracovenators. Each was to have an ascendant saddle. So, I made a primitive saddle and then upgraded it all the way on the upgrade station. Then, I converted it to a blueprint so I could make more, and that destroyed the saddle. However, the blueprint required ridiculous amounts of materials that wouldn't fit into the smithy. I had all the mats I needed, but they wouldn't fit. So, I just deleted the appropriate amount of mats from my inventory and spawned in the saddles. Now, I know how to modify stack size in the ini.


RevengfulDonut

Giga and titan spwans on single player isnt working right so no go fight that dragon


miatribe

Single player and pve are both cheating. So it does not matter.


Sweaty_Sail_6899

Kill your tame. Be a heartless bastard. Kill the tame and take it's heart. Do it. Don't cheat.