Mod Description

This mod introduces many upgrades to the Death Essence mechanic first introduced in Scorched Earth by turning it more into the Creature Implant system and giving an alternative way to bring back your creatures and tame new ones. With it introduces the Revival Platform, Tek Implant Chamber, and the Tek Kibble Processor from Ark Mobile and upgrades the Oasisaur mechanics a bit.

UPDATE 6/8/26:

When installing this mod make sure you do a "Cheat DestroyWildDinos" cause a buff is what causes these wild dinos to drop the implant. As for tamed creatures that couldn't previously drop a death essence, cryopodding them or uploading them and redownloading them from say an obelisk should give them the buff that allows them to drop a death essence upon death.

Changes

Death Essence:

Changed to Creature Implants and Icon changed to reflect the Creature Implants from Ark Mobile
All creatures that previously couldn't drop a Death Essence now do so I.E. Underwater Creatures and Unbreedable Creatures (these Creature Implants though cannot be used by the Oasisaur)
Wild creatures now leave behind a Creature Implant on their dead bodies and when revived at a Revival Platform, they revive as wild (excludes Alphas, Corrupted, Bosses, Babies, Robots)

Oasisaur:

Cooldown Timer before reincarnating creatures is reduced to 12 hours
Gains more Food per potted plant

Revival Platform:

Unlocks at level 65 and can be crafted on the Fabricator/Tek Replicator
Revives Creatures from their Death Essence by placing the Implant in the Inventory, selecting the Implant, and pressing the "Resurrect" button
Revival Platform must be placed underwater to Revive creatures that can only be in water

Tek Implant Chamber:

Unlocks at level 102 and is crafted on the Tek Replicator
Freezes the timers of all Death Essences placed inside the Implant Chamber as long as its powered
Implant Chamber is automatically powered by electricity

Tek Kibble Processor:

Unlocks at level 105 and is crafted on the Tek Replicator
Can convert kibble into other kibble using a Creature Implant
Also can craft T.O.A.S.T. that can be consumed by pure Dinosaurs that buff's their stats by 50% for 30 Minutes then they are knocked out and take double the damage for 5 minutes afterwards (Cannot be cryopodded during any of these buffs)
Kibble Processor is automatically powered by Electricity when in range of a Generator and can now be irrigated

Goals for this Mod in the Future and Fixes in the works

Ancient Amber

I want to introduce this resource as a new currency and so far have gotten it to work by killing Alpha Creatures but having a bit of problems with having the player obtain it randomly by harvesting Boulders, Metal Nodes, etc.

Death Essence

Is actually in a good place the only thing I need to work on is getting the imprinting percentage and imprinter name to properly appear on the tooltip

Revival Platform

I do want to add custom resource costs for each Creature Implant so that it doesn't cost the same for a level 1 Dodo compared to a level 250 Rex but I gotta figure out how to do this since the platform has to gather data from the item with the dino. Once I figure this out I want to figure out how to link it to the resurrect button.
Also need to figure out how to stop the Platform from reviving underwater creatures when the platform is not in water cause at the moment it will consume the resources, play the particle effect and cancel the revive saying "Not Underwater" (luckily the implant will still be there).
Still working on trying to get creatures to spawn flat on the ground as best as possible instead of jumping out on some creatures but with everything else this one can wait.

Tek Kibble Processor

At some point I want to get rid of the engrams and have a Process button that will destroy the implant and convert kibble in the inventory to a type of Kibble equal to the class of the Creature Implant but again this deals with gathering dino data from the item.

Tek Implant Chamber

Everything is perfect with this structure the only thing I could think of is exploring the possibility of returning the creature implants to the player(s) who put them in that inventory when the structure is destroyed but honestly I'm not bugging too much about this.

Chronicle Implants

This is something I want to implement at some point but need to learn a bit about how to implement this mechanic on ASA but definitely interested in this mechanic.

Disclaimer

WARNING: This mod does remap the original Death Essence and Oasisaur files!!! Be careful when using another mod that remaps the Oasisaur or the Death Essence.

WARNING: Bob's Tall Tales is still required to use this mod as it contains the Death Essence and Oasisaur!

Death Essence Upgrade