JVH Landscaping - arkcodes.com

Cross-Platform compatible

Current Version: 2.0

JVH Landscaping started life as a lightweight mod that exposed a number of the in-game tree and bush/plant assets as craftable garden decor items as well as some small and larger rocks. It has since evolved to include water foliage and crystals/mushrooms. The leafy structures can all be placed on saddle platforms, but will shake and shudder when in motion (globally disabling foliage interaction in your client settings will fix). If you want versions of some (but not all) of these items that do not do that, please see the JVH Platform Plants mod (https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/jvh-platform-plants).

NOTE: This mod is designed to work on the maps that have assets included here (Island, Scorched, Aberration, Extinction) Due to its dependency on assets in the maps/live game, modded maps may do things with base materials and other things that can break this mod or cause other strange behaviors to occur with those maps--so use at own risk on anything but Wildcard maps.

For additional garden decor using unique meshes and materials, check out our sister mod: (https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/jvh-garden-decor)

When the mod reaches 2.0 we will consider it mostly complete--that release should include some Extinction assets, Ragnarok assets and a few other additions. Once complete content-wise, we'll focus more on adding features and optimizing. This hopefully means more snap points for ivy and other wall-based plants as well as moving a few items to instanced meshes to help with some performance where it makes sense.

Features

Many bio-luminescent plants and crystals can have their color changed
Can increase/decrease size on many pieces
Basic ini settings to assist with performance/abuse on shared servers
Snap points for vines and wall plants
Simple tool to adjust location post-placement

The mod includes the following from The Island map assets:

28 Trees
17 Bushes
14 Ground Cover Items (Grasses/Flowers)
10 Small Rocks
11 Larger Rocks
9 Huge Rocks
22 Aquatic Items (Coral/Seaweed)
10 Freshwater Plants (cattails/lilies)
15 BioLume Plants
14 Mushrooms
11 Crystals
13 Vines and climbing plants (with basic snapping)
2 Modded Tree platforms for use with mod Redwoods

from Scorched Earth map assets:

8 Trees
12 Plants
13 Cacti
14 Crystals
14 Misc items

from Aberration map assets:

15 Trees
4 Luminescent Trees
5 Ground mushrooms
15 Plants
12 Crystals

from Extinction map assets:

12 Trees
4 Grasses/Flowers
7 Plants
10 Vines

from Ragnarok map assets:

4 Trees
5 Plants
7 Vines
12 Rocks

Misc:

Crop plots modded to block clutter/grass
Tweak Tool

The Tweak tool is very basic. It will allow you to move and rotate placed structures on the x, y and z axis to a very limited degree (about a single foundation in any direction). You can only adjust structures you have placed, no matter the tribe arrangement. I may implement an ini to allow tribe permission. It will check for enemy foundations before allowing the move. Currently the scale option does not survive a server restart. I may remove scaling or I may fix depending on the reception of the tool. This is a beta feature, so ymmv, feel free to hide the engram if not interested. DO NOT USE ON STRUCTURES PLACED ON PLATFORMS. I will be preventing it programmatically in the next update, but it will bug your structure if you try it now.

For a full list of named items, check the wiki: https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Mod:JVHLandscapingMod

ENGRAMS

Engrams are in place for a number of the "special" categories to allow for admin management of the engram visibility, level and points for each of them.

An example in the game.ini for the redwoods:
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="PrimalEngram_HugeTrees_JVHLandscaping_C",EngramHidden=False,EngramPointsCost=25,EngramLevelRequirement=20,RemoveEngramPreReq=True)

or to simply hide the Redwoods:
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="PrimalEngram_HugeTrees_JVHLandscaping_C",EngramHidden=true)

List of item engram names:

PrimalEngram_HugeTrees_JVHLandscaping_C
PrimalEngram_LargerRocks_JVHLandscaping_C
PrimalEngram_HugeRocks_JVHLandscaping_C
PrimalEngram_Mushrooms_JVHLandscaping_C
PrimalEngram_TreePlatformWood_JVHLandscaping_C
PrimalEngram_TreePlatformMetal_JVHLandscaping_C
PrimalEngram_BioLumen_JVHLandscaping_C
PrimalEngram_Crystals_JVHLandscaping_C
PrimalEngram_ScorchedCrystals_JVHLandscaping_C
PrimalEngram_AberrationCrystals_JVHLandscaping_C
PrimalEngram_TweakTool_JVH_C
PrimalEngram_RagnarokLargeRocks_JVHLandscaping_C

INI Settings

(singleplayer not supported)

[JVHLandscaping]
StructureLimitRange=10000
ModStructuresLimitCount=10000
HugeRocksIndestructible=true

Known Issues:

Recent Fixes and additions:

(2.0)

Added remaining Extinction Items
Added Ragnarok Trees, Plants, Vines and Rocks
Added material/texture switch based on WC maps to help with snow/sand appearance
Adjusted

(1.98)