ZenRowe

Alright, we've crammed our creature into a crystal somehow, now it's time to take it back out when we need it. (No WD-40 required)
I did make some changes to stuff that we did in the last tutorial, in particular:

Changed Sentry Tower Segments to be of inventory type structures


In the Virtualization Station Platform, our function for getting the dino data has been simplified a bit thanks to a new property on the struct.


We have removed the "Structure" aspect of the crystals. We have to go all in on them being equipable items for what I have planned.

You can find the specific commit for this video on the gitlab repo here: https://gitlab.com/ZenRowe/VSS-ARK/commit/664aefc220dd3499438c1a8f98b3cfbc70444758

I do believe this might be close to what you are looking for. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1354681709

It's possible that the version gap could be causing issues for you. Might want to hold off until the devkit update makes its way to the epic launcher and then confirm if the issue continues to be a problem.
Generally though making children of blueprints is the safer way to do things.

I would encourage you to edit the arenas to make them a bit unique though

Potentially. If you know the assets are in the game you generally don't have to copy them over, but if you aren't sure then you should probably use copies in your mod folder to be safe.
As for the deprecate flag if you go into the defaults of your primalitem and search "Deprecate" you should get one or tool boolean parameters make sure they are not set to true.
You can also compare your mod files that are downloaded. if you go into the directory that gets downloaded from steam you can check for yourself to see what files were uploaded. If something is missing then you have a potential starting place to find out what is going wrong.

All three of those are okay to do. The only thing that isn't allowed is re-releasing the paid DLC maps as free mods.

This is possible, though it would be a considerable amount of work for an external management tool, but definitely possible via use of the HTTP nodes that available in the devkit.

Just a few things off the top of my head:
1) make sure your engram is set to a level higher than 0 and requires at least 1 engram point to learn. (I've seen oddities like this with anything less) and that there is a crafting cost to them (1 wood or thatch is what I usually do for testing)
2) Make sure not of your engram items have any of the "deprecate" flags enabled.
3) Make sure any assets referenced are actually in your mod folder. not all of the assets in the devkit are actually packaged in the base game.
If all else fails you can try replicating what I do in my tutorials, having a visual example might help spot anything that was maybe forgotten. Episode 3 is where I actually create a first mod that includes the stuff you are working with now: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2o1TY9xh_JsmbgQfSCydfT-7OSdvxsVR

We're going to zoom through the rough process of converting our tamed creatures into items this time. Specifically, we're making the sentry crystals that will eventually be used with the sentry towers themselves. We'll cover a few things in this video from conditional checks and most notably a brief look at Octree searching.
You can find the specific commit for this video on the gitlab repo here: https://gitlab.com/ZenRowe/VSS-ARK/commit/45a5a5c3c249e5151cc3ce3676c26b3a7925f98e

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