ZenRowe

when you attach them to the hitching post and put them on wander they will breed as long as they are in range.

If what you want is to define a wander area that they will operate in and defend, then yes building a fence, or using the leash that was added in extinction.

for the S+ hitching post?
Yes from what I remember this is normal. it's mostly for completely locking your dinos down in place to make breeding easier.

This left me with joy.
Thank you for that.

Off the top of my head, the only other thing I can think of is make sure video drivers are updated - or if they are already up to date, revert the video drivers to an earlier version, if it worked before. make sure to restart the PC, drivers often need it for full initialization.

I can make no promises that this will resolve the issue, but give this a try:
Go into steam, right click ark in your library, and select "properties"
Under the general tab select "Set Launch Options"
put -d3d11 in and try to launch.

Not so much for painting the vanilla structures. Painting works via color modification to the existing textures, so the rust would still be there; however, there are structure mods with very clean structures that allow painting. See Eco's Decor Mods and the Paintable Furniture Mod (it includes walls, though they are not metal iirc.

That is correct, if you try to use both homestead and the S+ mod together you will get some undesired results and behavior.

Well for items like that it may not be set up to function at all since saddles & weapons have instanced based stats. Stacking would effectively be a method of duping strong equipment.

If you aren't messing with weight, there isn't any need to even use a stack mod anymore. We've added a config to adjust stack size. This will help avoid any behavioral issues that tend to come with stack mods. :)

That is incredible! :O

There is a config to change the weight gained per level. The weight per item is only important when compared to how much a player/dino can carry.

in practice changing the weight per item is only really necessary if you want to change the balance of it. The weight of a given item only has meaning when compared to how much you can carry, so increasing the multiplier for character weight per level points effectively does the same thing as a uniform scale reduction of every items weight. It would also be far less typing in the ini.
:)