🧬 M-BioShift
Mod ID: 1314180
M-BioShift introduces a new breed of red-black ARK creatures with enhanced stats, unique abilities, and quality-of-life improvements. Each creature has been biologically “shifted” to provide new gameplay variety while retaining its original core identity. Expect frequent additions as the project grows!
🦖 M-BioShift Creature Overview
🐌 M-Achatina
- Passively produces Cementing Paste (toggleable ON/OFF)
🐙 M-Angler
- Increased Stamina & Weight
- Weight reduction on Silica Pearls & Black Pearls
- Can harvest Black Pearls
- Can swim backwards
⛏️ M-Ankylo
- Smelts Metal automatically in its inventory (toggleable ON/OFF)
- Weight reduction on Metal Ingots, Scrap Metal, Wood, Thatch, Stone, Flint & Berries
- Much faster and can jump
🌲 M-Archa
- Passively produces Sap (toggleable ON/OFF)
🐢 M-Archelon
- 50% faster
- Produces Algae much quicker
🦅 M-Argentavis
- Can fly backwards
- 30% faster than vanilla
- Strong weight reduction on Metal, Ingots, Obsidian, Crystal & Stone
🦬 M-Bison
- Slightly larger
- Can harvest Stone & Metal
- Produces Milk faster
- Nearby babies request Milk for imprinting more often
🦖 M-Carcha
- Cooks Meat automatically in its inventory
- Much higher Weight & weight reduction on all Meat types
🦫 M-Castoroides
- 50% faster than vanilla
- Can jump
- Massive weight reduction on Wood, Fiber, Thatch, Stone, Fungal Wood & Berries
🐈 M-Cat
- Knockout tame so every cat can be tamed
- 30% larger than normal
🦏 M-Cerato
- No special ability yet — just looks cooler in red & black
⚡ M-Cnidaria
- 50% larger, 30% faster
- Rideable and a knockout tame
- Passively produces Biotoxin (toggleable ON/OFF)
🐷 M-Daeodon
- Uses less Food while healing
- 50% faster than vanilla
🐊 M-Deinosuchus
- Already strong enough — just red & black style!
🐘 M-Deinotherium
- Just a stylish red-and-black variant 🔥
🐻 M-Direbear
- Much faster than vanilla
- Passively produces Honey (toggleable ON/OFF)
🪨 M-Doedicurus
- 2× faster than vanilla
- Can jump, even while rolling
- Better turning radius
🦕 M-Dreadnoughtus
- Smaller, faster, and more Stamina
- Less HP & Damage
- Knockout tame, 5% chance to replace Bronto spawns
🦈 M-Dunkleo
- Swims faster and can reverse swim
- Higher Weight & Stamina
🐴 M-Equus
- 30% faster than normal
- Now wears a stylish hat
🦎 M-Fasolasuchus
- 30% faster
- Gains 500 Torpor from any rock — easier to knock out
🔥 M-Fire Wyvern
- More Stamina & Weight
- Better turn radius and can fly backwards
🦖 M-Giga
- Rex-sized, slightly stronger
- Usable in boss arenas
- New tail swipe attack (right-click)
- Can jump
- Very rare spawn, replacing some Rexes
🪶 M-Gigantoraptor
- Knockout tame – no more baby dancing!
- Drops more feathers
- Can jump higher and glide
🦅 M-Griffin
- Flies backwards faster
- Can carry up to 300 Drag Weight
🦈 M-Helicoprion
- 50% faster movement speed
- Much higher Blueprint success rate (cap 90%)
❄️ M-Ice Wyvern
- More Stamina & Weight
- Better turn radius and can fly backwards
🐦 M-Ichthyornis
- Replaces 100% of vanilla spawns
- No longer steals items
🦀 M-Karkinos
- Wild ones no longer grab you
⚡ M-Lightning Wyvern
- More Stamina & Weight
- Better turn radius and can fly backwards
🦋 M-Lymantria
- 50% faster than vanilla
- Can fart much more frequently
- Uses less stamina while doing so
🐴 M-Maeguana
- 5% chance to replace Equus spawns — spawns on every map
- Higher nursing range
🔥 M-Magmasaurus
- 5% chance to replace Pyromane
- Knockout tame
- Saddle manually added
- Taunt attack temporarily removed (not yet in DevKit)
🦗 M-Mantis
- Much larger than vanilla
- Harvests 3× more resources
- Can jump and is a knockout tame
- Intended as a Tek Stryder substitute
🦎 M-Megalania
- 40% faster, even while climbing
- Can jump and applies Thyla Bleed on auto-attack
- Swims faster
🦈 M-Megalodon
- 33% larger, 33% faster, 50% stronger bite
🦖 M-Megalosaurus
- Never sleeps
- Can jump, with more Stamina & Weight
🦖 M-Megaraptor
- 10–20% more base damage
- Replaces 5% of Carno spawns on all maps
🐻 M-Megatherium
- Insect buff lasts 300 s (was 120 s)
- 50% faster
🐋 M-Mosa
- 30% smaller
- Can swim backwards
🦏 M-Pachy
- Same base stats as a Rex – finally boss-ready
🐀 M-Pegomastax
- Replaces 100% of vanilla spawns
- No longer steals items
- Knockout tame for peaceful taming
🐖 M-Phiomia
- Converts 5 Feces → 1 M-Fertilizer
- M-Fertilizer lasts 4× longer
- Must be manually placed into Crop Plots
- 50% faster and can small-jump
🐟 M-Piranha
- 0.5% chance to replace Megalodons
- Deals as much damage as a Plesio
- Immune to Jellyfish & Eels
- Knockout tame, breedable, no saddle needed
☠️ M-Poison Wyvern
- More Stamina & Weight
- Better turn radius and can fly backwards
🦅 M-Pteranodon
- Barrel roll (C-roll) costs less Stamina
- Can use weapons while riding
- No cooldown on barrel roll
🦊 M-Purlovia
- Rideable, doesn’t stun players
- High jump, applies Bleed on primary attack
- Uses Thyla base stats
🦜 M-Quetzal
🦖 M-Raptor
- 30% faster, more Stamina, and higher jump
🐺 M-Ravager
- Can use weapons while riding
🦖 M-Rex
- Smaller turn radius, more Stamina & Weight
- Weight reduction on all Meats & Hide
🦏 M-Rhino
🪰 M-Rhynio
- Smaller, faster, knockout tame
🦎 M-Rock Drake
- Much more agile while gliding
- Less Stamina drain while in glide mode
- Knockout tame
- Will later drop eggs when killed
🐈 M-Saber
- Larger than vanilla
- Uses Allo base stats
- Weight reduction on Hide, Meat, Chitin & Keratin
🦈 M-Shasta
- 66% faster
- Can harvest Stone, Metal & Oil
- 1% chance to replace Megalodon spawns — spawns on all maps
🦌 M-Shinehorn
- 3× larger, rideable, Carno base stats
- Can jump higher and move backwards
🦉 M-Snow Owl
- Better gliding and reverse flight
🦖 M-Spino
- Water buff lasts longer and is stronger
🦜 M-Tapejara
- 70% faster, deals Bleed damage with every hit
🐾 M-Therizino
- Higher base Weight
- Weight reduction on Hide, Raw/Prime Meat, Wood, Thatch, Fiber, Pelt
- 20% faster
🦎 M-Thorny Dragon
- Converts Wood → Charcoal
- Weight reduction on Wood, Thatch, Fiber, Stone & Charcoal
- 40% faster and can jump
🐅 M-Thyla
- More HP & Damage
- Faster movement speed
🦐 M-Trilobite
- 50% larger, 70% faster
- Knockout tame, rideable, breedable
- Passively produces Oil (toggleable ON/OFF)
🦎 M-Troodon
- Knockout tame, rideable, larger
- Uses Allo base stats
- Bleed attack with C-key
🦑 M-Tusoteuthis
- 20% faster, better turn radius
🦖 M-Velo
- More Stamina
- Minigun mode uses less Stamina
- Faster movement while firing
- Spawns 10% replacing Velos, 5% replacing Thorny Dragons
🐋 M-Xipha
- Swims backwards
- Wild Xiphas don’t dismount you anymore
🐦 M-Yi Ling
- Spawns on all maps (1% replacing Raptors, 10% replacing Yi Lings)
- Jumps much higher than vanilla
- Drops Plant Z when killed (used for taming)
🦖 M-Microraptor
- Fully replaces all Microraptor spawns (100%)
- No longer stuns you off your mount ⚡
🔥 M-Phoenix
- Moves 50% faster than the vanilla Phoenix
- Spawns with a 1% chance instead of Argentavis
🕊️ M-Pelagornis
- Faster, with increased Stamina and Damage
- Converts Organic Polymer into regular Polymer ⚙️
🔬 Notes
More genetically enhanced creatures will follow.
The BioShift has just begun.
🙏 Credits & Links
Big thanks to Nekatus,Bluesucho and Freakybert for helping me understand the Dev Kit a little better!
💬 Feedback & bug reports: Discord → https://discord.gg/5QP4VzBdqe
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