I agree on your disagreement!
True it’s Conan exiles, it’s even better!
Here we disagree! It meant to be anything you wish, just tune your parameters and make it as you wish…
But generally, official gaming is exactly how Devs wish people to play this game at the time being. That’s why i say that official servers are the “common grounds”. To these settings people must have comparisons, to none other.
Crocodiles could be aggressive in water yes, but at the same time, depth should save you from sandstorms 
. Another player in the past asked climbing spiders, which is cool, but until the standard mechanics of the game will be stabilized and work properly, i wish no more additional things in game. I am growing tired of each broken update and i think i am not alone to this.