DARK PUDDLES BITTER COLD
Cold in ARK finally bites. Snowy biomes, high mountains, freezing nights and getting soaked now actually matter, and the fix is the same as it should be: warm gear, fires, shelter and good food.
HOW IT WORKS
The colder you are compared to what your gear can handle, the worse it gets. There are four stages, each with its own HUD icon:
- Chilly: you get hungry faster, with a light frost on your screen.
- Cold: hungrier still, a bit slower, slower stamina regen, and you can see your breath.
- Freezing: slower again, sprinting drains stamina twice as fast, no health regen, and you shiver.
- Frostbite: much slower, heavy stamina drain, and you slowly lose health until you warm up.
Warm up and the effects go away. Insulation from armor, Fortitude, food buffs like Fria Curry, and standing near a fire all count.
GETTING WET
Swimming soaks you, and so does standing out in the rain. Being wet makes the cold hit much harder. You dry off fast next to a fire and very slowly out in the cold. A Wet icon shows while you're soaked.
YOUR DINOS FEEL IT TOO
Tamed dinos near you get lighter cold stages: Chilled and Freezing make them slower, hungrier and quicker to tire.
Volcanoes and lava areas are never cold. It uses each map's own temperatures, so it works on every map with no setup.
SERVER SETTINGS (GameUserSettings.ini)
[ForecastArk]
ColdEffectsMultiplier=1.0 (0 = off, 2 = twice as harsh)
DinoColdEffects=True (False = dinos are left alone)
Made by Puddle68.
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