So I haven't fiddled with any settings in quite awhile but last night while my tribe was down gathering rock drake eggs for the first time we kept running into drakes that were at weird levels. Our cluster is set to difficulty 5 so everything should spawn in at multiples of 5, up to 150 (190 for wyverns and drakes and stuff) Last night we saw a range of bizarre leveled drakes from 12, 18 etc up to 126 and such. I thought it was weird but I had never been down to the rock drake area I figure maybe they're weird that way.

We get back and play around a bit, log off and today I get on to play with my new drake I found a level 12 sarco. Again thought this was weird so I checked the S+ scanner and found some peculiar leveled dinos out and about. I remember when we first added The Island everything was super low level when it first started up, but after doing a dino wipe everything started spawning in at difficulty 5 levels as it should. So I did a dino wipe to see what happened, and now everything is spawning in at what I'm assuming is difficulty 1 levels (nothing over level 44 from what I could see)

I went and double checked my settings and nothing has been changed. I went to my other servers (Ragnarok, Extinction, Island) and while I didnt do wipes there I found oddball levels on every one. Did the latest update break something? My cluster has identical rates and settings across all servers so I'm at a loss as to what caused it.

We play once a week more often than not, so its possible this weirdness started before this week, but I only just noticed it last night while we were in the drake nesting area. Has anyone else had this happen or is experiencing this atm?

Dino difficulty doesn't set a level floor, it only sets a ceiling. Higher levels will still produce dinos as low as the individual species floor.

There are a few mods that will help with low dinos, but straight vanilla you'll see dinos coming in as low as level 1 for Titans, and as low as 20, I think, for Gigas?

Our levels have always been multiple of fives, 5 being the lowest and 150 (or 190 for wyverns/drakes) unless its a Tek dino cuz they have that % increase, or those 'hard mode' cave dinos that are untameable. Since the dino wipe I haven't gotten a spawn of anything over level 44 on the Aberration server whereas there is usually a healthy spread of levels.

I can't think of any mod that would mess with their levels that may have befuckled something. I figured it was WC in their last update since this feels like a very recent change, though like i said we usually only play once a week due to scheduling so its possible its been a thing for longer, but I cant imagine us not noticing a weird level that wasn't a multiple of 5 for very long.

Thank you for the response though; i did not realize the difficulty had no bearing on the level floor

Looks like the WildCard defaults have been adjusted again for dino level. Should be able to adjust it with the new Dino level overrides that were added on the basic tab.