🌱 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!

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🚧 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

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🌟 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