Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips
How do I kill a archaeopteryx? archaeopteryx battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
If you tamed one of these little guys, remember, they still eat chitin when tamed so don’t put it in their inventory’s if u wanna save some
We citizens of archaeopteryxs declare that the archaeopteryx lord is a big f@t meanie. upp so we can elect a new lord
Found all over the sanctuary on extinction (the abandoned city)
Where you will also fined lamp posts which can be harvested for a large amount of scrap metal crystal and element dust use a doedicurus for maximum yield , spiders and tapejaras.
Halfway up the redwood trees ar thylacoleo too. Watch out, you may just get pounced off your mount in mid air.
Can fly in the wild and can't fly when tamed
Go to the redwood, look at the trees they'll often fly from one tree to the next. It can take some time to find but when you do they spawn in bunches. Now here's a nifty trick. Not all "grab point" on tree work perfectly, if the archa can't grab the tree it'll just fall vertically to the ground for not only an easy time to tranq it, but also other archas might fall to the ground near the same spot when they come along to feed! I tamed 3 archa in one spot for the price of one (fourth one got away).
Careful about the wildlife especially the angry birds
On scorched earth, I find these all the time and get scared because they look exactly like microraptors.
I found one when exploring the lake/river in the redwoods, it was getting dark so I decided to rest beside a cliff for safety when I heard a scream and seen a white blurry past me, luckily it was running face first into the rocks so I threw a bola and smacked it with a club until it went to sleep, now I have a really cute parachute lizard bird.
I hope it gets reworked on the landing part in Mobile. These things can take a while to land (depending on how high you are in terrain), but definitely recommend taming it. When I first started taming it I saw it's eggs, then it aggroed on me after I picked them up. Fortunately I had my Ptera with me, which I used to pick it up after it aggroed. After that I flew it back to base and tranqued it out with two tranq arrows (I used a longbow and hit it hard the first time then barely pulled it back the second time and knocked it out that way as to not do too much damage). And then fed it chitin, for Mobile as long as it's a low level (1-5+) you only need four chitin, if it's ten or up you'll need five or more (this is on Mobile). Sorry for the long tip.
Mini argies.
Just much less dangerous.
Check other tribes platforms if able, I've found a couple stuck on them.
When ur trying to catch them in the trees and they disappear.Look closely at the tree cuz they sometimes glitch in the trees.
I literally find hundreds just chillin on trees in the redwoods. It's really helpful to make a tree platform and just wait until one lands on your tree and then shoot it with tranqs. It's much easier then trying to shoot one from the ground, and trying to find it once it's knocked out.
You can find it in the red woods on mobile
like most small to medium sized creatures, a decent lvl horse can knock them out quick before they can escape. nice utility tames (organic parachute) as far as encountering goes....well good luck distinguishing them from microraptors......
Easy to find on extinction search on the city buildings
These guys are very easy to find if you have high tech stuff, however, I don’t, and it’s a lot of work to get them, but I eventually found some, and I sold one at my shop on a online server.
Im prettey sure if you wear chitin then they aggro to you
My sister has gotten these conufused with microraptors MANY TIMES!
If you dont want to make this mistake, look at the tail.
Microraptors have thin tails that fluff out into a sort of triangle at the end.
Archaeopteryxes have a fluffy tail all the way.
DONT MIX THESE TWO UP!
Every time I tried to pick one up with my pteranodon it would IMMEDIATELY disappear. Someone tell me why ;-;