How can I disable offline dino starvation?

I have a server that I want to leave on 24/7 but my whole tribe has been offline for months so I shut it down to save the dinos.

There is a "Food Drain" setting in "Dino Settings" which can technically be set to '0' but I'm not sure what affect that will have on taming.

Is there some combination of settings that still allows for a fairly normal taming experience yet prevents tamed dinos from starving when the tribe is offline?

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Best Answer

The DinoCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier-parameter does influence the taming-speed, because the unconcious dinos also use this parameter (with another one) to calculate their food-drain. To compensate the longer taming time you could increase the TamingSpeedMultiplier in a reciprocal way. That is not possible if you set the food-drain to zero, of course.

I don't know, how the taming-experience will change. It could be with extremely changed values that a dino will not eat for a long time, then eat one piece and get tamed. Making the taming time similar, but the taming experience will be different.

Also see this post on the steam-forums for the same question: https://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/530647080129304242/

To solve your original problem: How about just shut down the server for some time? Or save the world and if you reconnect after a long time load that savefile again. That would solve the issue without having to manipulate the settings.

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How do you stop Dinos from starving?

Build a tek pod, hop in, press Esc (to go to the exit game menu) and leave it there. You won't log out, won't die unless someone kills you.

Wont work forever but used to last us a couple days back on legacy. Respec your character to 290 food and 700 water. Put on 4 pieces of Ghillie and 1 of fur. Build 10 AC's.

Can your dinos starve in Ark while offline?

While the food and water consumption of all player characters freezes when they log off, the food and water consumption of tamed dinosaurs does not, which means they can starve while you're offline.

How do you make wild Dinos eat faster in Ark?

If you increase the slider for dino food drain then dinosaur are required to eat more frequently in order not to starve. From my experience, this does not seemingly affect tamed dinos but it does affect Wild dinos. These two sliders can be used in tandem with each other.

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