Primitive Plus
Primitive Plus (or Primitive+) is a free, official DLC total conversion for ARK: Survival Evolved. The mod was originally submitted to the Steam Workshop by Steam user complexminded (Cedric Burkes, Wildcard's Lead Community Manager and Sponsored Mod Program Director) before it was officially released on July 28, 2016 for the PC version of ARK.
Primitive Plus is also available for the Xbox version and the PlayStation 4 version. Must have PS+/Game Pass Core Membership to enjoy the online features.
Features
Primitive Plus enhances the gameplay of primitive servers by adding new game mechanics and over 100 custom primitive items and their engrams. Survivors are challenged to use primarily wood and stone without the benefit of advanced metals. The items and mechanics focus the players on 'primitive' survival.
Among the new items are three new building material types (lumber, glass, and brick) as well as new resources, food items, weapons, traps, crafting stations and decorative structures.
Bugs
Primitive Plus currently has several minor bugs and a few major bugs that can be considered 'game breaking', in that they really impact the way you can play the game. Usually after new DLC releases or major updates P+ players have to deal with even more bugs and it takes weeks or months until they get fixed – if they even get fixed at all. (Source)
- Long loading time.
- Players experience a loading time for about 20 Minutes when logging in to a server. It seems like the game first loads the data of the base game and afterwards overwrites it by loading the P+ data additionally. Installing the game on a SSD helps considerably.
- Some engrams do not work.
- (FIXED)You can't craft the simple bed, which is not good because you can't place beds in houses without walls. Now found in white drops
- (FIXED) Notably the climbing pick can not be crafted, which has major impact to the gameplay design of Aberration. You may still use blueprints to craft them or find them as drops on Nameless.
- (FIXED)Canteens cannot be crafted. This bug is caused by the prerequisites of the canteen which are not available in Primitive Plus. The canteen engram does not show any prerequisites but cannot be unlocked. Removing prerequisites through custom server settings fixed this bug. Canteen blueprints are now found in Red Drops
- (Unofficial server) Non-Primitive+ items disappear after server restart:
- It is possible to add engrams or items that are normally not available in P+ by implementing it in the Game.ini (if one has access to it, e.g. when hosting a dedicated Nitrado server). However, all these items disappear from any inventory after a server restart.
- Beeswax (Primitive Plus) (FIXED on PS4) is unobtainable on many servers, at least on PS4 and Xbox.
- Different height for different types of structures
- Especially it is not possible to walk through a stone doorframe if a lumber wall is placed upon it.
- Alpha t-rexes do not exist on the Island.
- Players are not able to access Tek cave on Beta and Alpha levels due to this.
- Stegosaurus TLC hasn't been added. (FIXED)
- Stegosaurus Model doesn't move.
- Lumber texture/mesh bug
- Structure changes mesh/textures after leaving render distance
- Especially the lumber ceiling (Primitive Plus) texture flickers and hurts in the eye so it should not be used.
- (FIXED) Supply drops did not spawn (including caves and artifacts)
- (FIXED) The new kibble system does not work for most dinosaurs.
- Players still in possession of the old kibble can still use it, but old kibble can not be created anymore.
- Rockdrakes are not breedable that patch hasn't come out for Prim+
- Barely any spawns on Lost Island
- Dinopithecus is textureless mesh that causes the game to crash
- The most game breaking bug is Dino’s do not spawn and making getting hide extremely hard without finding a cave. This could be a problem with certain settings. Another thing that can make this bug worse is other players might build near caves making hide impossible to get without joining their tribe.
Items
Resources
Bonemeal Fertilizer
Brick
Carbon
Clay
Claystone
Coal
Crude Oil
Dry Firewood
Feathers
Fish Bait
Fresh Cement
Fresh Firewood
Glass
Iron
Iron Ingot
Leather
Limestone
Lumber
Salt
Steel Ingot
Trap Bait
Consumables
Amarberry Juice
Azulberry Juice
Baked Bread Loaf
Baked Honey Loaf
Barley Seed
Beeswax
Biscuit
Biscuit Batter
Braggot Mead
Bread Dough
Broth
Cake
Cake Batter
Camellia (Tea) Seed
Cane Sugar
Cashew
Cashew Milk
Cashew Tree
Chicken and Rice
Cigarette
Coffee Seed
Cooked Bacon
Cooked Fish Fillet
Cooked Poultry
Cooked Rice
Cooked Spare Ribs
Cookie Dough
Cookies
Corn Starch
Cup of Coffee
Cup of Malt
Cup of Tea
Cured Bacon
Dried Barley
Dried Rice
Dried Tea Bags
Dried Tobacco
Dried Wheat
Fermented Wine
Fillet and Bread
Fresh Bacon
Fresh Barley
Fresh Coffee Fruit
Fresh Fat
Fresh Fish Fillet
Fresh Poultry
Fresh Prime Meat
Fresh Rice
Fresh Sorghum
Fresh Spare Ribs
Fresh Spinach
Fresh Sugar Juice Bucket
Fresh Sugar Plant
Fresh Tea Leaves
Fresh Tobacco
Fresh Wheat
Grape Juice
Grape Seed
Grapes
Gravy
Ground Cashew
Ground Soybean
Icing
Jam of Amarberry
Jam of Azulberry
Jam of Mejoberry
Jam of Tintoberry
Lettuce
Lettuce Seed
Mejoberry Juice
Natural Yeast
Organic Oil
Pancake Batter
Pancakes
Pizza
Pizza Dough
Prime Salad
Rice Seed
Sack of Flour
Salad
Salt
Salted Jerky
Salted Prime Jerky
Sorghum Seed
Sorghum Syrup
Soybean
Soybean Seed
Soymilk
Spinach Seed
Stimbull Juice
Sugarcane Seed
Tintoberry Juice
Tobacco Seed
Tofu
Tomato
Tomato Juice
Tomato Sauce
Tomato Seed
Wheat Beer
Wheat Seed
Weapons, Armor, and Tools
Primitive Plus adds the following weapons, armor, and tools
Barrel of Gunpowder
BattleAxe
Feathered Stone Arrow
Flame Arrow
Flintlock Pistol
Iron Boots
Iron Chestpiece
Iron Gauntlets
Iron Hatchet
Iron Helmet
Iron Leggings
Iron Pick
Iron Shield
Longbow
Metal Hammer
Metal Machete
Musket
Obsidian Arrow
Obsidian Pickaxe
Obsidian Spear
Pitchfork
Recurve Bow
Sharpened Sword
Sticky Bomb
Stone Hunting Knife
Viking Axe
Wooden Club
Structures
Alchemy Table
APS Mailbox
Bakers Oven
Big Bonfire
Big Campfire
Big Fence - Opening
Big Fence - Post
Big Fence - Section
Big Stone Fence
Brazier
Brick Ceiling
Brick Dinosaur Gate
Brick Dinosaur Gateway
Brick Doorframe
Brick Foundation
Brick Pillar
Brick Ramp
Brick Wall
Brick Windowframe
Candle
Cauldron
Ceiling Lamp
Cement Mixer
Construction Table
Cooking Station
Covered Wooden Cabinet
Deadfall Trap
Dinghy
Fermenting Barrel
Firewood Holder
Fish Trap
Fruit Press
Grindstone
Handmill
Industrial Cooker
Industrial Forge
Lantern
Left-Sloped Lumber Wall
Lumber Bench
Lumber Ceiling
Lumber Chair
Lumber Dinosaur Gate
Lumber Dinosaur Gateway
Lumber Door
Lumber Doorframe
Lumber Foundation
Lumber Glass Ceiling
Lumber Glass Doorframe
Lumber Glass Wall
Lumber Glass Windowframe
Lumber Pillar
Lumber Ramp
Lumber Station
Lumber Table
Lumber Wall
Lumber Window
Lumber Windowframe
Market Stall
Miners Box
Modern Grill
Modern Hanging Shelf
Modern Storage Shelf (Fiber)
Modern Storage Shelf
Oil Tank
Pontoon Bridge
Preserving Campfire
Reinforced Glass Door
Reinforced Glass Window
Right-Sloped Lumber Wall
Simple Hammock
Sloped Brick Roof
Sloped Brick Wall Left
Sloped Brick Wall Right
Sloped Cement Roof
Sloped Glass Roof
Sloped Lumber Glass Wall Left
Sloped Lumber Glass Wall Right
Sloped Lumber Roof
Small Stone Fence
Smokehouse
Spinning Mule
Steel Handrail
Steel Locker
Steel Pillar
Steel Safebox
Steel Water Tower
Storage Barrel
Table Lantern
Tanning Rack
Teepee
Trading Crate (Bread)
Trading Crate (Eggs)
Trading Crate (Fruits Veggies)
Trading Crate
Tudor Bar (L Shaped)
Tudor Bar
Water Well
Weapon Rack
Well Bucket
Well Rope
Windmill
Wood Handrail
Wood Post Fence
Wood Storage Shed
Wooden Arrow Sign
Wooden Cabinet
Wooden Stairs (One Level)
Yurt
Spotlight
Notes
- Primitive Plus is free to download.
Metal Structures are disabled in singleplayer-mode. However, most
Tek Structures can be spawned and placed.
- As of April 16th 2023, it seems like primitive plus has been abandoned, as there has been no content additions for a couple of years
- Primitive + is one of the few mods to come to console with the others being S+, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero and Crystal Isles (as of September 18th 2020), Lost Island and Fjordur
- You are unable to play Ark Extinction, Genesis Part 1 or Genesis Part 2 in Primitive+
- Lost Island can be played but it's completely bugged and uses it's pre-official textures and spawns (which barely exist)
- Fjordur is also playable on PC only, ad while less bugged than lost island, Fjordur is still considerably bugged on Primitive Plus, some of which significantly hinder gameplay.
- Primitive+ is no longer supported by Wildcard, and will not be included in Ark: Survival Ascended, As explicitly stated in community crunch #355, however, Wildcard announced that primitive+'s content will be made available to modders, likely meaning it will be picked up by the community as a mod.
Changelog
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242.7 | Made TheCenter properly use Overriden GameModes (Difficulty Mods, Prim+ Total Conversion, etc). |
245.2 | Unversioned Hotfix: Fixed Primitive+ Storage Boxes not appearing. |
247.1 | Fixed Primitive+ character animations & updated Primitive+ content. |
247.2 | Fixed Primitive+ Crash. |
248.4 | Unversioned Hotfix: Primitive+ now has fixed animations, and various updated content. |
253.992 |
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256.3 | Oxygen Swim Speed multiplier now exposed and included on the following server types: Primitive, Primitive+ and NoTame to help with underwater adventures! [ ?OxygenSwimSpeedStatMultiplier=3.0 ] |
258.6 | New Primitive+ update. |
259.21 | Fixed Primitive/Primitive+ servers (and any Mod/INI) which uses custom Engram lists not having correct Engrams available |
262.0 | Fixed character creation screen cursor not displaying in Primitive+ |
263.0 | Fixed a case where the cursor would vanish when navigating through Primitive+ Menus |
264.0 |
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266.0 | Primitive+ now has its own save directory |
279.282 | Major Primitive+ update with a number of fixes, incorporation of major base game patches, as well as full Total Conversion functionality, including engrams, on Aberration and Scorched Earth. |
293.104 | Fix for Primitive Plus crashing |
295.102 |
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307.59 | Fixed a bug which prevent players from seeing Primitive+ servers. |
356.9 | Fixed an issue joining prim+ servers |