Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
I knew you guys wouldn’t expect it ahhhh
Warning: Slightest spoilers ahead
They don’t exactly have different backstories in Rune, but are throughout the book under very different circumstances which does lead to the ship. It’s pretty normal at first with Crimson despising every inch of Rust and Rust just being… typical Rust lol—
Now, while Rust is extremely cocky around Crimson, he does develop a longing to be someone to her, as Rust always has had a small and genuine sweet side. They become the two you’re all used to in the Obelisk, until things start to change, such as scenes I cannot mention and certain people introduced and of course, circumstances.
And I have to agree, Astronomy focuses on the more sad part of Rust and Crimsons love, which is probably the reason it was hard to figure out. Allow me to explain.
When Crimson realizes Rust has feelings for her and she’s starting to feel them as well, she denies it. She doesn’t want to get close anyone, and the fact that him and her being together is impossible (Two different species, unable to have hatchlings) she tries to pull them apart. Leading to the end of the song Astronomy and the lyrics saying “Stop tryna keep us alive, you can’t force the stars to align,” and leading Crimson to lashing out and trying to shove Rust away from her altogether.
Thus the forbidden romance. I will not spoil how it ends for them or what else happens, but I must say, I’m pretty proud of how Rune will turn out.
Gonna post Pandora’s first chapter soonnn, gonna do a lil vote though first, so lookout for that!
—Moon
My name is kai the Dino guy and here’s how to tame a Kaprosuches
1. Bolas do work so first you bola the Karpo you’ve Ben watching
2. Club him in the rear end until he knocks out .
3. Put your choice of narcotics or narcoberries in its inventory .well I use bio toxin from jellyfish so easy to get and very effective .
4. Use meat or prime meat prime works the best
5 123 you’ve tamed a Karpo
If this gets 20 l!kes I’ll do how to take carno
Signed kai the Dino guy
Just found out something really useful about Brontos! You can use them to transport goods a long way, but sometimes you have more than the bronto can carry, so, if you pack your resources on something like a high level parasaur or iguanodon, and put it on the platform saddle, it only takes the Dinos drag weight, not resource weight, allowing you to carry tons of materials at half the weight!
Uhhh don’t be dumb like me and think it’s a knockout tame
How to tame tuso
1 get a tame. I don’t see why turtles are so good at taming, meg worked fine but either will work. lvl up heath
2 search deep sea, I found 3 on brutal from the bottom left corner of the map to the top left corner of the map.
3 if you have soothing balm use it but I didn’t need it. use black pearls takes 50 at a time but if you did use balm you can use cooked prime meat takes 30 at a time I think.
4 go on a killing spree in the sea to open spawn spots for tuso.
5 when you find it, kill all eels, mantas, and any other hostile Dino’s near it.
6 tame by letting it grab your tame, then feeding it the pearls or prime meat.
It’s OFFICIAL:
You can only acquire a Fenrir (lvl150) after defeating the Fenrirsūlfr (Fjourd boss) the resulting tame is delivered in a cryopod after the boss dies.
The reason Dododex say it’s a knockout tame is because if you spawn a wild Fenrir you can knock one out and tame it that way, the only down side being the Fenrir CANT spawn in the wild
To knock it out, use any sort of explosive (Grenades are cheap and have early unlock) and throw it at the Fasola while it's underground. It will look like a pile of sand and shouldn't react if you go up to it.
As soon as the explosion goes off, run up to the Fasola and mount it. You only have a few seconds to do this. Once you're on, try to find any nearby rocks/bones/etc and run into them. Every rock you hit will increase torpor and control. If control runs out, you will be dismounted.
DO NOT GO ON CLIFFS !! If the Fasola goes into the air at all, you will automatically dismount and lose all progress. Depending on your rates, it could take a long time to gain enough torpor.
TL;DR : Explode it, mount it, hit rocks, avoid cliffs.
-OtterWithATophat :D
The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)
Chapter 60.5: Broken Facade
Part 3/3
“Okay, so, here ya’ go,” Tiffany said, handing the slip of paper back to Samuel, “The translation is right on the bottom.”
Star eagerly jumped onto the floor for some reason. A sly smile crept on her beak… that was, if birds could smile. Samuel snatched the paper and began to read the decryption sentence by sentence.
“I miss you too, Samuel,” Samuel read. He raised his eyebrow, “Huh?”
Star’s tail began to wag.
“Don’t cry. I will always be with you, even in the dark.”
“I have always accompanied you since the beginning, my friend. And know that whatever you go through, I will always stand by your side. We will find the way out together.”
As Samuel’s eyes wandered to the bottom of the page, his heart began to beat faster, and he felt his breathing get ragged. Signed, at the bottom of the page, was Star’s true identity.
Samuel felt the piece of paper slip out of his hands, and his head turned to Star, who was staring intensely at him. Samuel smiled at her, his eyes wavering.
“Nova?”
Star’s chest began to glow, and a bright flash of light engulfed the room. Samuel shielded his eyes, and as the light began to clear, standing in front of Samuel was a woman with a deep tan, and flowing black hair that fell to her chest.
A smile grew on her face, a smile so bright it outshined the stars in the night sky. Like a supernova that exploded into the remnants of dust that hung within the reaches of outer space.
The woman reached for her shoulder and flicked a dodo’s feather off with her left hand. Inside her wrist was an implant embedded with two gems. Her black graduation robe was covered in a blanket of sand, but gravity made the particles fall off.
“Took you long enough to get me out of that prison,” Nova softly laughed. Her laugh made Samuel’s heart twist and turn. He gave a smile back to Nova.
“Hey best friend,” Samuel replied back in awe.
The two stared at each other for a moment, before Samuel leaned forward and wrapped his arms around Nova. Nova reciprocated, wrapping her arms around him.
Samuel didn’t really care that his heart was pounding so fast, and he didn’t really care that Nova could probably feel his tears dripping down onto her shoulder. Nova was here with him now. She was okay.
And that was all that mattered to him at the moment.
The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)
Chapter 60.5: Broken Facade
Part 2/3
“Stupid Samuel,” Aurora muttered to herself, “Making me feel a way I shouldn’t.”
The soft dirt pattered behind Aurora, and Aurora could see the reflection of a boy in black graduation robes approach him. For a moment, the reflection flickered to a past lover, but Aurora was not fooled anymore. This was Samuel. Eyes without a spark, Samuel walked up to her and took a seat next to her.
“I’m sorry,” Samuel immediately claimed. A sharpness stung Aurora’s ears.
“Are you really though?” Aurora snapped back softly.
Samuel took a moment to ponder, before shaking his head no.
“No. I’m not.”
“Then why bother coming out here to apologize.”
“I just thought it’d be the right thing to do, no matter how I felt,” Samuel honestly replied. He hung his head in shame, and Aurora sneered at him.
“You know how remorseless you are, right?”
“I don’t know.”
Samuel turned to Aurora.
“I need you to be honest about your feelings about me. So we can end this. Do you like me?”
“And why would you need to know that,” Aurora murmured, turning away. Her face began to turn rosy. Samuel spotted the blush on Aurora’s face and looked away.
“You shouldn’t like me,” Samuel firmly told her.
“Why, because we’re on this island and we can’t let our feelings get in the way?”
“Because, I don’t know how to even feel about myself. What type of person I should be,” Samuel replied, “Answer me this. Remember what I told you, ask yourself who do you love? If you don’t know the answer to that question…”
“Ask yourself what type of person you want to love.”
“And do you want to love someone like me?” Samuel asked.
“No,” Aurora whispered.
“Then move on.”
Just then, someone called out to Samuel from the window,
“Samuel! The translation is finished!” Tiffany hollered with her hands to her lips, “It’s REALLY interesting, you might wanna come quickly!”
Samuel got up from the ground, staring down at Aurora pitifully.
“This is for your own good. After all,”
“I’d never like you.”
The corner of Aurora’s lip quivered, and Samuel turned around, walking back into Tiffany’s home. A smile grew on Samuel’s face.
“Finally. I’m gonna figure out this message.”
The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)
Chapter 60.5: Broken Facade
Part 1/3
Night was already beginning to cover the entire ARK in a blanket of darkness.
Tiffany sat at the dining table, a light pinned at the piece of paper that contained the encrypted message Star had given to Samuel. Tiffany was inspecting the lines, and writing something down at the bottom of the paper. The gills that lined her neck after she had entered the cave were now gone, along with the loud heartbeat that filled the air like loud drums in a war.
Andres was taking swigs of his energy brew while staring out at the pen of dodos that was outside his home. He reached into his pouch and pulled out handfuls of berries, tossing them into the crowd of birds. Instantly, they all began to dive and dash for their share of the meal like vicious hounds. Andres sighed.
Footsteps clacked on the hard wood behind him, and Samuel approached, resting his hands on the window sill. Andres looked at him with eager eyes, like a puppy begging for treats.
“Hi Samuel!”
“Hey,” Samuel replied, looking out into the crowd of Dodos. He rubbed his hand on his left wrist, where there was no implant. How many knew about it now? One, two?
“Only Aurora and Skyler,” Samuel thought to himself, “But they know I might as well not need one.”
Samuel felt like he was missing one more person, but he passed it off as his imagination. Samuel looked at Star, who was sitting on one of the dining table chairs. She seemed much more awake now, and was watching Tiffany intensely. She was wagging her tail excitedly.
Andres turned to Samuel.
“You know, you’re very mean to that woman.”
“Aurora?”
“Yes. The valedictorian,” he said with a frown, “Why are you so mean to her?”
Samuel groaned and clenched his fists.
“Because we made a deal. She’d treat me as her equal, but she’s not been doing me any favors with her irrational feelings.”
Andres put a comforting shoulder on Samuel, and he flinched.
“Not everyone can be like you Samuel,” Andres told him, “I think she’s trying her best. Cheer her up, please. It hurts seeing a kind man like you go out of your way to berate her.”
“You think I’m kind?”
“Of course. You spared me. You went out of your way to warn me,” Andres said, “You didn’t have to do that. I’m really grateful for that. Those scouts under the Crimson Crusader wouldn’t hesitate to kill me.”
“If Aurora tried to kill you, why are you so defensive about her?”
“Because I forgive her for what she’s done. It was a misunderstanding. She feared her safety just as much as I feared mine.”
Andres’ hand slipped off Samuel’s shoulder, and Aurora walked past the window, pausing before she took a seat on the soft grass, looking out onto the waterfall. She hugged her knees, and Andres nodded his head at her.
“I think you should apologize. I think it will make her feel better.”
Samuel looked on past her, and after making his decision, removed his hands from the sill and began to head out the front door. Before opening the door up, he heard the squawk of Star. Samuel turned around, and Star nodded her head at him in approval. Samuel nodded back, and after leaving shut the door behind him.
Therizinosaurus Aka the Tickle Chicken.
Size: About medium sized
Speed: Faster than you are
Diet: The souls of the innocent
Habitat: Anywhere and everywhere especially right behind you
Attacks: Everything
Hobbies: Hunting you down, destroying your base, being the most terrifying monopoly opponent of all time, and killing all of your tames
More: Run! Swim! Fly! Don’t even read this!!! Will destroy everything and anything!!!! Will wait for you at your base!!!! Just don’t!!!!!
The Raptor is the best starter cave tame and PvP tame
1: craft some bolas( 3-5 would work just in case you miss or there's more then one)
2: make sure you have a Wooden club and meat( prime meat would be good if you can get your hands on it)
3: find a raptor and bola it
4: once it's trapped beat it up with a wooden club(lol)
5: once it's knocked out feed it meat in it's inventory
6: level 18 is when you can get raptor saddle for 9 points
7: to pounce swipe down on mobile
Not every creature can “eat” the pheromone that the males drop.. like this tip so Dododex can see and add which creatures can eat it and which ones can’t.
I know some that cannot:
Megatherium
Stego
Tek Creatures
Anky
Doeds
Sarco
Baryonyx
Carno
Managarmr
Some that can eat:
Wyverns
Rex
Quetzal
Maewing
Trike
With more testing we could have it set up fully and implemented into DodoDex
TRAPS DO WORK!!!
my friends and I managed to find a nest that wasn’t surrounded by other players structure and built a basic trap for the parent, you have to build it relatively close to the nest or it won’t work. All you have to do is lure the parent to the trap and let the aggro get off of you. Go to the nest and dance with the baby. It does it for a max of two then you have to release the parent. Start the process over until you tame the baby.
Hope this helps