🌱 420 Pub Alien Plants Mod – ARK: Survival Ascended

Special thanks to Ugh (aka BlueShirtGuy), the original ASE mod author, for bringing me into the collaboration!

🔗 Join our community for spawn codes, bug reports, events, server listings, feedback, and more:
Discord Invite

🚧 Development Status

(Heavy WiP) Ported over from ASE Mod, lots of kinks to work out still.
✅ Now in a decent place, but everything is still subject to change.

Grow your own Alien Plants.
Harvest your own Alien Plants.
Get that Alien feeling—from your own Alien Plants.

📦 Spawn Codes

🛠️ Roadmap

• Bug fixes
• Recreate destruction mesh
• Optimize spawn system
• Reduce mod size (original assets bloated it a bit)
• Update materials for all assets
• Add foundation to drying hut (smoke box cut)
• Grow lights
• Different strains and buffs
• Breeding and mutation system

Add GUI for configuring all aspects of mod
Add configurable effect to help admins find wild plants
Update Alien plant flow to be more immersive

🌿 What's Next?

When KP and I asked ourselves this, here’s what we’re most excited about:

🔧 Config File Expansion

Expose more settings for server admins:

• Total plant spawns
• Hair/gravity/bubble effects
• Station-specific fuel and build timers
• Stat modifiers (e.g. weight buff, AOE contact highs)

💡 Grow Lights

Designing indoor/outdoor grow lamps—from desk plants to full-scale farms.

🚜 Mass Farming

Grow strips with organized seeding, watering, and harvesting.
One-click management for large-scale operations—ideal for 420 plants and beyond.

🌎 Biome-Specific Strains

New species with unique effects tied to biomes:

• Swampy strains for swamps
• Rare alpine strains for icy peaks
• Breedable hybrids with unique buffs

We’re dreaming big—this part’s still conceptual, but we love talking about it.

💬 Got ideas for the 420 Mod or the PubInc community cluster? Let us know!

🧬 Legacy & Community

🔗 Legacy ASE Version

🎥 Featured Videos:

• Alien Plants Showcase – ARK: Survival Ascended
• 420 Pub Alien Plants Mod Showcase | ARK: Survival Evolved
• Early Sneak Peek – July 2020
• Late Project Update – July 2020

🎥 Have a video featuring the mod? Let us know—we’d love to feature it!
🌐 Running our mod on your server? Tell us and we’ll list it for others to find!

🌟 Final Thoughts

Boom shakalaka—we’re almost there. Just a bit more polish and we’ll call it v1.
To our early supporters: thank you. Your feedback helped shape this.

• 3D models? Looking slick.
• Plants? Drippy purple and green.
• Materials? Balanced.
• Spawn system? 420 randomized plants on any map—including custom ones.

Stay lit, stay kind.
— Ugh & Crew

📜 Attributions

• “Weed Leaf” by Tiko (https://skfb.ly/ow77S)
  Licensed under CC Attribution 4.0

🧾 Change Logs

2.3.24 – v2

• Adjust plant sizes
• Add materials for drying hut & roller
• Fix aroma effect on wild plants
• Prevent facial hair on buffed females (if none exists)
• Increase hut/roller health
• Green particle effect follows player when buffed
• Ground herb in roller
• Manual activation toggle for hut/roller
• Indicator effect for roller
• Dynamic drying herbs (experimental)
• Hide doobie in first-person
• Adjust doobie position for females
• Cross-platform cooking

2.4.24 – v3

• Adjust hut/roller crafting costs
• Update dropped mesh for doobie

2.12.24 – v4

• Show soil/fresh leaves after render reload
• Add mod settings UI
• Add wild plant locator beam (WIP effect)
• Add Admin Terminal for settings
• Add fuel type to roller description

2.19.24 – v5

• Configurable buff effects:
  • Disable: Hair, Music, Friction, Dino Blast, Green Buzz, Carry Weight, Contact High
  • Enable: Random Hair Effect

4.12.24 – v6

• Increase fresh leaf harvest
• Add “Cotton Mouth” debuff after doobie buff
• Add smell particle to debuff
• Make fresh leaves & nugz spoilable
• Add moldy plant matter
• Preserve spoilables in storage
• Add dropped meshes
• Extend spoil timer via reparenting
• Add food value to fresh leaves
• Add more songs (randomized)
• Add fresh/dried plant resources
• Add curing jar, herb grinder, hand grinder
• Update visuals for drying hut, curing jar, grinder
• New crafting flow
• Add settings for new features

6.26.24 – v7.1

• Fresh leaves spoil into moldy matter
• Trimming scissors now craftable in inventory
• Reapply wild plant skin (bring back that purple pop)

6.30.24 – v7.2

• Make Fresh Plants respect spoiling extension of crop plots
• Add Stats page to admin terminal to see how many plants have spawned (WIP)

7.5.24 - v7.3

• Update texture for curing jar

8.13.24 -v7.4

• Update settings for persistence

8.15.24 - v7.5

• Fix wild plants spawning