ARK Supply Drops Beacon How To

Modifying the supply drop data takes time to do but can be vastly rewarding. For players who want to bring Aberration dinos, items, and resources to maps such as Ragnarok, then using Beacon is a great way to bring those resources and saddles into the game.

First off, choose the map you want to make changes to. If you are using the default map, choose "The Island" like what I have listed here.

We need to add a loot source. Each beacon and the bonus variant are individually assigned values, so we need to modify each one we'd like to add.

In this example, the normal drop for the White Beacon will be modified.

On this menu, multiple loot sources can be added into beacons. A beacon is not limited to one loot table but can be configured to use loot drops from multiple ones.

This is a list of all of the possible results from the Advanced Firearms section. If you want to remove certain ones, select individual or multiple entries and press the Delete key to remove them from the list. You can also change the number of items chosen from each section via the Min Items and Max Items values.

Now, once we are done, we need to extract the code. Go to the File menu and choose Deploy...

Save a copy of Game.ini to the computer and then open it up using Wordpad or Notepad++. Do not use Notepad, as this can mess up the formatting. Copy the contents of this file, excluding the line labeled "[/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode]" if it shows up at the top. Next, go back to your control panel and click on the Game.ini button. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the text box and, directly under the last line, paste the contents from your Beacon file that you just copied. Click on Save Game.ini to make these changes.

FINAL NOTE: Any "manual" changes done to Game.ini, such as the ones listed in unlocking engrams at level up or the Beacon app, WILL BE OVERWRITTEN if you use the Modify Server Config tool. I would suggest doing all modifications in the MSC tool first, then make the manual changes afterwards. Once you are done, copy the contents of the textboxes of both GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini from your control panel and into text documents on your Desktop to keep these changes on hand.