Tidepup Config
Simple, safe control over Tidepup evolution speed
Simple, safe control over Tidepup evolution speed
Help your Tidepups grow without replacing their normal evolution system!
Tidepup Config is a lightweight, server-side ArkAPI plugin that lets you control how much DNA/growth a Tidepup receives from a successful evolution surge.
The plugin keeps the normal healing, surge, visual effects, saving and final evolution flow in place. You choose how quickly the DNA meter fills, and advanced settings let you adjust surge chance, cooldown and healing requirements if your server needs them.
Important: Healing does not add DNA on every individual healing tick. Healing works toward triggering a surge, and the successful surge is what advances the DNA meter.
Plugin features
- Set Tidepup DNA growth from 0.01x to 40x.
- Optionally control surge chance.
- Optionally control the cooldown between surges.
- Optionally control how much healing is required for a surge.
- Applies settings to both newly spawned and already loaded Tidepups.
- Reload configuration without restarting the server.
- Transactional reloads: an invalid or failed reload leaves the previous working settings active.
- Advanced values are only changed when their matching override is enabled.
- Restores values owned by the plugin when disabled or unloaded.
- Preserves newer changes made by the game or another plugin instead of overwriting them during restoration.
- Strict configuration validation catches misspelled settings, invalid types and unsafe values.
- Exact Tidepup Blueprint matching prevents unrelated creatures from being modified.
Default settings
- DNA growth: 4x
- Successful surges required: Approximately 10 instead of 40 at the observed vanilla value
- Surge chance: Vanilla game value
- Surge cooldown: Vanilla game value
- Healing requirement: Vanilla game value
All advanced overrides are disabled by default, so the standard release only changes DNA gained per successful surge.
Commands
TidepupConfig.Status (Chat, Console and RCON) - Displays the active growth settings, matched Tidepups, effective runtime values and failure counters.
TidepupConfig.Reload (Chat, Console and RCON) - Validates and transactionally reloads config.json for currently loaded Tidepups.
Player commands require server admin access by default. RCON commands remain protected by your server's RCON authentication.
Changing either command name requires a full server restart so ArkAPI can register the new name.
JSON:
{
"General": {
"Enabled": true,
"DebugLogging": false
},
"GrowthMultiplier": 4.0,
"Advanced": {
"OverrideSurgeChance": false,
"SurgeChance": 0.333,
"OverrideSurgeCooldown": false,
"SurgeCooldownSeconds": 150.0,
"OverrideHealingRequirement": false,
"HealingRequiredPerSurge": 50.0
},
"Commands": {
"RequireAdmin": true,
"Reload": "TidepupConfig.Reload",
"Status": "TidepupConfig.Status"
}
}This minimal config is valid on its own; omitted settings use their safe defaults:
JSON:
{
"GrowthMultiplier": 5.0,
"Advanced": {
"OverrideSurgeChance": true,
"SurgeChance": 1.0,
"OverrideSurgeCooldown": true,
"SurgeCooldownSeconds": 5.0,
"OverrideHealingRequirement": false,
"HealingRequiredPerSurge": 50.0
}
}