Tame the proportions.
Configured large creatures scale down toward Rex size. With OnlyTamed=true, wild creatures keep their original size.
ARK: SURVIVAL ASCENDED · FREE SERVER PLUGIN
Big tames.
A little more room.
Honey I Shrunk the Dinos brings your oversized tames closer to Rex size. Keep the creatures you love, with proportions that fit your base.
Version 1.0 · Windows server · Requires ASAAPI / ArkApi
No account, license key or payment required.
Pod. Unpod. Carry on.
Hooks handle vanilla cryopods and SCS/custom storage paths, restoring normal scale for capture and reapplying it on deployment.
Your server, your scale.
Set per-creature sizes, choose target blueprints, and reload your settings. Save and un-stasis hooks help maintain the configured scale.
16 CREATURE FAMILIES
A smaller footprint for the giants.
The supplied configuration targets these creatures. Values are scale multipliers relative to their original size; proportions vary by species.
- Dreadnoughtus 0.25
- Titanosaur 0.28
- Brontosaurus 0.40
- Diplodocus 0.45
- Giganotosaurus 0.75
- Carcharodontosaurus 0.75
- Paraceratherium 0.72
- Oasisaur 0.25
- Shastasaurus 0.25
- Megachelon 0.50
- Mosasaurus 0.50
- Forest Titan 0.16
- Ice Titan 0.16
- Desert Titan 0.14
- Astrocetus 0.25
- Rhyniognatha 0.70
GET UP AND RUNNING
Installation & configuration
- Install the current ASAAPI release.
- Stop the server and back up your world and plugin configuration.
- Extract the ZIP and copy the
HoneyIShrunkTheDinosfolder, containing the DLL,config.jsonandPluginInfo.json, intoShooterGame/Binaries/Win64/ArkApi/Plugins/. - Review the configuration, restart the server, and check status with
/shrinkdinos. - Verify a tame, a wild creature, a pod cycle and a save/restart on your server and mod combination before a wider rollout.
OnlyTamed- Defaults to
true. Restricts resizing to tamed creatures. CreatureScales&TargetBlueprints- Per-creature scale multipliers and the blueprint names to target.
DefaultScale&DefaultCameraArmScale- Fallback creature scale and camera-arm scale. Both default to
0.5. ApplyDelaySeconds&DebugLog- Resize delay defaults to
1second; debug logging is enabled in the supplied config.
The controls, close at hand.
In-game chat
/shrinkdinosShow plugin status./shrinkdinos reloadReload config.json. Admin required./shrinkdinos resizeallReapply sizing to loaded target dinos. Admin required.
Console & RCON
shrinkdinos.reloadReload configuration.shrinkdinos.resizeallReapply configured scales.shrinkdinos.setscale dreadnought 0.25Set a creature scale. Useshrinkdinos.setscale 0.5for the fallback scale.
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