History

History of this mod

This mod started as a basic economy system to reward players with a form of currency for time spent on the server gathering resources. It has evolved into a variety of tools, crafting structures, and economy structures to improve quality of life and assist with ARK mechanics to decrease the time roleplayers spent crafting and managing resources and to spend more time roleplaying or even just enjoying ARK. Currently, there are over 400 individual items this mod adds to the game.

This mod covers areas of roleplay economics and money production, farming and cooking improvements, lighting, item storage, crafting stations, player armor and tools, and creature taming and storage. All items are medieval / primitive themed and crafted before the metal / fabricator tiers in ARK, so as not to break role-play immersion.

There has been extensive back end work to make this mod very customizable for various server settings and rates - to improve game mechanics by adding more flexibility and server customization - and reducing the file sizes of most items in order to bring more content without decreasing server performance. All the many possible ways to customize your server are done through .INI settings.

Certain items are by default Admin Spawn Only for server control and include: all 3 Gold Forges, Trader/Vendor/Merchant Carts, Chibi Vendor, Banks, Tame Storage Pen, Admin Chest, Admin Ring, Admin Rifle and Admin Sword, Structure Remover. The majority of these items are economy structures intended to be controlled and distributed to player and/or tools for Admins to better be able to maintain servers and assist their players.

R.P. EDDitions adds a variety of ways for Admins to encourage trade and economy on the server with gems and gold that drop from rarer resource nodes to be turned into currency coins, Trade Carts to purchase resources from players, Vendor Carts to sell items or rare tames to players, Merchant Carts for players to sell their own goods and tames to other players. There are Gold Coins and Tokens included with this mod to be used, but other currencies may be used if the .INI files are set up to allow it.

The basic player crafting structure starts with the RPE Smithy, which doubles as a basic ARK smithy as well. Many of the RPE crafting structures function like a base ARK structures: Millstone functions as the Alchemy Bench, the Recycling Barrel replaces the Grinder, the Stove combines the Preserving Bin, Industrial Grill & Cooking Pots, the Quick Forge works as an Industrial Forge - all taking up smaller space footprints in medieval themed structures, with adjustable speeds through the .INI files.

The Gardening Table gives access to the variety of crop seeds, the RPE Crop Trees, and the Greenhouse Plants. The crops give a variety of effects to the customizable foods you can create. The trees and crops also can give access to various rare resources like silk, sap, Latex Polymer for organic polymer, and honey from the Tree Bee Hive with just a little effort to gain the resource originally. The Greenhouse Plants and Greenhouse Sticks give players easy ways to obtain the greenhouse effect without expensive and server intensive greenhouse glass structures and there are multiple other RPE gardening tools to make crop growing a less tedious experience.

The RPE Decor Table is where to find a variety of tables to have a feast for your server mates, with inventories that are accessible from the seat, to avoid having to throw food and drinks on the floor for people to pick up. Or perhaps you will take up brewing some of the many varieties of drinks available in the Brewing Barrel? And decorate your tavern or hall with RPE canvases and lighting, and guide guests to your place with the RPE signs and their multiple font options. Store your goods in RPE chests and store your food and crops in the spacious Ice Box, crafted in the RPE Smithy.

The Tame Storage Pen and Tame Holding Jars offer a handy way to store tames and pets neatly and safely away without the tekky and flashy sights and sounds of cryopods, to allow for better immersion on roleplay servers. There is an optional timed jar to limit the amount of time the jars are out of the pen, to give some servers the option to make players release their army at home instead of at the enemy's gate. There is also a revival system in place to allow jars that are accidentally left out too long to be restored and the treasured tame released.

There are a variety of Tools, Weapons, and Armor that come with this mod as well, to improve the player and roleplay experience by increasing durability and/or effectiveness to provide qualiy protection from the elements and wild animals while increasing survivability without drastically affecting PVP mechanics. The RPE drugs made in the Alchemy Bench can greatly impove the tranquilizing and taming adventures experienced on medieval themed servers.

With over 400 items added to R.P.EDDitions - and still counting up, as this mod is still in development - you can still make suggestions or even commission items, though they should fit with the general direction and look of this mod.

R.P. EDDitions became part of the ARK Sponsored Mods program July 2022. Thank you WC.