Mods / ARCHOSAUR!

Tags: #Creatures
Author: neozzz2
Side: Both
Created: Sep 16th at 8:42 PM
Last modified: Sep 26th at 1:17 AM
Downloads: 1743
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Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.21.1, potentially outdated):
ARCHOSAUR! v1.0.4.zip  1-click install


ARCHOSAUR! is a package of dinosaur-inspired creatures for your Vintage Story world. Each update will bring additional archosaurs to fill different environmental and gameplay niches including small and cute pets, swarming scavengers, ambush predators, and herding herbivores. 

 

ARCHOSAUR requires petAI to function!

Check the discord link above for progress updates!

 

ROADMAP

*Ferocidons can be found in temperate forests with common rainfall!

- In Development -  Scutosaur (prolific ankylosaur with kentrosaur spikes)

After That: Calceratops + Monalasaur (daytime psittaco brawler + nocturnal ambush predator)

Compy - you already know, they'll swarm like crazy around carcasses or you, if you try to attack them

Oczakadon - a colorful egg stealer

Bludgops - a near-sighted aggressive herbivore

Agiceratops - a grumpy centrosaur 

Hydrosaur - derived hydrosaur with beautiful and haunting calls

Archaeodon -  derived struthiomimus/gallimimus, very fast mount

Marshodon -  a big ol' friendly deinocheirus

Sandosaur - a concavenator that swims through the sand, like the one in ARK's additions

Colossodactyl - a marriage between Maip Megathorax and the namesake from MTG

Thundasuchops -  land crocodile with a carno-shaped head like the one found in Skull Island

Frigisaur -  fluffy cryosaur that spits fluid that makes you sleepy

Monstrosaurus Rex - Suciasarus Rex, WA state dinosaur

 

Authors Note***: Hello gamers. If you're reading this I've started college. This means I have limited time to make repairs/updates, and will likely only design one creature at a time. I like to flesh out my creatures with behaviors and animations, so it can be as fast as within 2 weeks to make a new creature or much, much longer with college thrown into the mix.

 

Mod Version For Game version Downloads Released Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
1.0.4 862 Sep 26th at 1:17 AM ARCHOSAUR! v1.0.4.zip 1-click install

same as 1.0.3 for troubleshooting

1.0.3 142 Sep 20th at 10:11 PM ARCHOSAUR! v1.0.3.zip 1-click install
  • added new behaviors to ferocidon such as properly eating loose meat items
  • added taming for ferocidon adults and commands thanks to help from G3rste
  • cleaned up some code
1.0.1 663 Sep 17th at 12:12 AM ARCHOSAUR! v1.0.1.zip 1-click install

9/16/2025

- Babies and Eggs should grow up

1.0.0 76 Sep 16th at 9:20 PM ARCHOSAUR! v.1.0.0.zip 1-click install

9/16/2025

  • Release
  • Ferocidons Implemented

26 Comments (oldest first | newest first)

💬 ChiefKrogan, Oct 23rd at 9:17 PM

Your thumbnail broke for whatever reason. Unless that's a me issue.

💬 neozzz2 , Oct 8th at 6:50 PM

current versions with petAI are bugged, for some reason the petAI is not working, the cause is still unknown, I'll be able to upload the latest without petAI for now, but with an additional creature.

💬 BerndTheHardy, Oct 5th at 8:17 PM

Question: can this creature be tamed? :o
Because im not used to PetAI, so I dont know what I can and cannot do with this agressive creature. Ive fed it until its full affection and obedience, but it still hunts me 

💬 ChiefKrogan, Sep 28th at 11:59 PM

Please do not increast their health any further! Being pack hunters they are imo fine as they are.  

💬 neozzz2 , Sep 28th at 11:27 PM (modified Sep 28th at 11:28 PM)

IAmAmica Poverty_God ChiefKrogan

Thanks so much!!! I'm glad you're enjoying it so far.

RaptorMother 

I can look into making them tougher, I don't think I've ever gone far enough in Vintage story to reach a point where I was killing animals with arrows in 2 hits LOL, good to know people reach that point! But, I can potentially look into configs, for now their health pool has already been tweaked (increased) and their aggression to other creatures modified as well as a result of other feedback. Also, taming is broken right now and I am unsure why, but those fixes and a new archosaur are coming in the next update!

💬 IAmAmica, Sep 28th at 10:34 PM

These seem really neat! definitely my favorite made / best animated dino for the game (seriously, while messing around with them in creative I kept noticing cool details that wow'd me)


I'm excited to see where you take this. I'm guessing they're just rare spawns but I couldn't seem to find them while hunting around for them in the wild (again, zooming around the world in creative) but I included it in our multiplayer pack and hope alongside some of the LOP mods to flesh out the dino crowd while you work on more and I'm excited to meet more of them <3

Good luck with college and if you end up being too busy to continue or have to slow down just know that what you've made is already really cool and appreciated.

💬 Poverty_God, Sep 28th at 7:20 PM

awesome mod hope u make more!

💬 RaptorMother, Sep 27th at 8:15 AM

I got a question!

Would it be possible to add the HP as a config in some way?

I love them, but they are not very threathening due to being killed with 1, maybe 2 good arrow shots, and I like my players fearing the forest :D

💬 ChiefKrogan, Sep 26th at 9:22 AM

Man I found one while flying around in creative, looking at world generation from another mod. I had to take a pause and admire the animations, such great work on them. The brows and feathers on the head moving was so captivating, I honestly didn't expect you to commit this much. Man, really, stellar work! The color variants are great too. When I went back to my main world and went down to chop some trees 5 of them attacked me. That was fun!

💬 neozzz2 , Sep 24th at 12:46 AM

StarFeather it is possible, and I appreciate you letting me know, I'll look into tweaking those values for the next update!

💬 StarFeather, Sep 23rd at 8:30 AM

I absolutely adore this so far! Beautiful model and animations, can't wait for taming and saddles!

My only complaint is that they are way too agressive given how little health they have. They take only three bonks from a bighorn ram to be killed. They go after wolves even though they also can only take around three bites. They even go after bears, which is basically always lethal to them as two swipes from a bear and they are dead. Idk if it's possible, but imo they should at least ignore wolves and bears.

💬 neozzz2 , Sep 20th at 10:15 PM

The handbook is not working, I am aware and will fix when I can. 

💬 Mushyroom, Sep 20th at 9:59 PM

DINOSAUR RAAAAHHHH

💬 ChiefKrogan, Sep 20th at 8:58 PM

neozzz2 for some reason it didn't ping me so I only saw it now. And somehow I did not see that in your roadmap if it was there. Sounds great to me! Can't wait! Thank you for your hard work

💬 neozzz2 , Sep 17th at 7:15 PM

@ChiefKrogan, colossodactyl is inspired by maip macrothorax >:)

 

💬 Moonbyes, Sep 17th at 5:56 PM

YES!!! amazing!!!

💬 ChiefKrogan, Sep 17th at 4:46 PM

If you plan to add mega killers into this mod at this point may I interest you in Maip Macrothorax? Bit smaller than a T-Rex, with:

  • legs evolved for marathon endurance running
  • no claw on foot but sword like claws on each hand
  • fully functioning and utilized long arms, that they used in fights
  • the combination of human-like utlity arms with swords for fingers culminated in them rupturing the stomachs of bigger dinosaurs and using their claws like skewers to "catch" and eat smaller ones
  • lived and hunted in packs based on data from a year or two ago (idk if it changed)
  • basically imagine Irex but actaully reall, with proper meat cutting teeth, half-2/3rds the size and way deadlier

 

Otherwise feathered Oviraptors or Utahraptors would be absolutely amazing too. Yes I love dinosaurs, I'm not sorry. Thank you for the mod!

💬 Fefa, Sep 17th at 12:13 PM

will the taming use Pet AI or you will do your own taming sistem?  this mod really interests me since all the other dinosaurs mods arent updated, this one comes like a life saver for more challenge on my world.

💬 Sianks, Sep 17th at 10:02 AM

are u planning in FUTURE to implement butchering patch?

💬 neozzz2 , Sep 17th at 1:24 AM

Working on taming and saddles etc as we speak

 

💬 Vergial, Sep 17th at 1:04 AM

Oh this looks kickass.

 

The sooner the taming update lands, the better~ Those snoots need BOOPIN'.

 

Take your time though. College is quite The Thing™ to handle alongside, like, anything else. I'd rather something take a while and be done well than whatever the hell AAA companies are doing these days.

💬 neozzz2 , Sep 17th at 12:12 AM (modified Sep 17th at 12:12 AM)

There, new ver hopefully they grow LOL

 

💬 neozzz2 , Sep 17th at 12:06 AM

@PiedPipecleaner, interesting... I'll check it out. They should at least grow up but I haven't put much thought into taming yet as I want to include that in the big effort to add saddles and such. Thanks for the info

💬 PiedPipecleaner, Sep 16th at 11:08 PM

Yesssss dino mod for the newer version!! Just tried them out in a test world, are these guys able to be tamed/domesticated? I also was unable to get the baby to grow up no matter how much time I added.

💬 Rosey_Reverie, Sep 16th at 10:44 PM

this looks cool I cant wait to see more get added! 

 

💬 Fantast, Sep 16th at 10:38 PM

a promising start! instant follow

best of luck with college!!

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