The Hunted: Ascended
THIS MOD IS CURRENTLY IN TESTING STAGE AND VERY BUGGY. IF YOU USE IT, WELL... KEEP THAT IN MIND, I GUESS
The wild fights back. The Hunted: Ascended is a port of The Hunted, Olympia's survival overhaul for ARK: Survival Evolved, rebuilt for ARK: Survival Ascended. Creatures live in families, defend their nests, hunt in packs and run from fire and bigger predators. You do not knock out an adult and tame it: you steal an egg or raise a wild baby.
What changes
Nests and families: wild nests spawn guarding parents and babies. Get too close and the parents attack; hurt one and the whole family comes after you. Fertilized eggs: search a nest to steal an egg. Carrying it alerts every predator nearby for 10 minutes.
Taming by raising: wild adults cannot be tamed. Hand-feed babies the kibble of their tier while they are awake.
Packs and herds: herbivores follow a leader, carnivores hunt in packs of up to 24 (Raptors).
Fear and flight: small creatures flee from apex predators (Rex, Spino, Giga, Yuty) and from fire. A torch makes small creatures scatter but draws predators to you.
Fire draws hunters: campfires and cooking pots attract 23 predator species from very far away.
Harder start: you wake up with 50% stats and crafting 10x slower (can be turned off in the settings).
Skinning: harvest corpses with a hatchet for hides, rare skins and trophies; bigger creatures take longer.
17 newer species included Creatures added to ARK after The Hunted was made get the same treatment, using the closest original species as a template, while keeping all their own ASA abilities, models, attacks and stats:
Carcharodontosaurus, Gigantoraptor, Fasolasuchus, Ceratosaurus, Xiphactinus, Deinosuchus, Shastasaurus, Archelon, Dreadnoughtus, Deinotherium, Bison, Helicoprion, Megaraptor, Acrocanthosaurus, Concavenator, Cryolophosaurus.
Rhyniognatha keeps its vanilla behaviour and taming; only hatchet skinning is added. Gigantoraptor keeps its vanilla nest.
Immersive Flight included Stilgar64's Immersive Flight Ascended flight physics (lift, drag, gliding, stalling) is merged in, so flyers from The Hunted use it too. Use "Convert Flyer" in the radial menu of a Pteranodon, Argentavis, Pelagornis, Tapejara or Quetzal. A tamed flyer that panics now flies away from the threat instead of into it.
Settings Optional, in Game.ini under [TheHunted] (defaults apply if absent). See the Settings section below.
Credits
Olympia – creator of The Hunted for ARK: Survival Evolved (Steam Workshop 2112724006), which this mod ports to ARK: Survival Ascended. All design, balancing and original content are Olympia's work. Ported from the ASE source files they released.
Stilgar (Stilgar64) – creator of Immersive Flight: Stilgar's Immersive Flight for ARK: Survival Evolved (Steam Workshop 1292185917, 2018), Immersive Flight Reborn (Steam Workshop 1672859647) and Immersive Flight Ascended (CurseForge project 937436). The ASA version is merged into this mod thanks to the source files they released.
ASA port, newer species and fixes – Aemon. If you are one of these authors and want something changed or credited differently, please get in touch through the comments.