Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
To the guys who sed “ if your being chased by a sarco run to one of these guys “ YES YES YES THATS THE BEST WAY TO KILL A SARCO WHEN YOU A NOOB!!!!
If your new, hang out with these guys until you have a shelter. I did that when I was starting out and it saved me and my dodo from a scorpion.
Dank Tanks
Look for turtles with 5000+ health in wild for a decent war/breed turtle
This is like if a Trike was a little worse at collecting and damage and a little better at swimming and tanking, great for beach dwellers as they can swim pretty quick even when encumbered, and an early decent harvest tame. I tamed a level 150, non single player settings and 3x taming speed, with a slingshot, about 200 stone, and 75 Mejo berries. I'd trap it first if you can, they can't break wood. Aim for the head, legs, and if you really can't hit those, the tail. Otherwise prepare to need a lot more stone. Bring supplies to repair your slingshot as well, and worst to worst, club it in the head. You can outpace them just walking backwards on land.
When using a turtle in a raid, carry it with a quetzal while a rider is mounted to drain those hard to reach turrets. Always raise health on a turtle if it's meant for draining turrets!!
The carbonemys is only useful as a tank, but as a cheap tame, they certainly can tank a ton, so here’s a guide to tame one (especially useful for Tusoteuthis taming)
1. These overgrown turtles can be found along almost all beaches on the southern end of the island (on other maps just look around the edges of large bodies of water) and sometimes they may be in the water. They are a knockout tame so make sure to prepare 25ish tranqs (for a high level) or 15ish tranq darts (again, for a high level).
2. You can use mejos, however, for a high level it is better to use kibble, for the extra speed and effectiveness. Beware, though, because these things absolutely inhale kibble. For a max level on single player bring 25ish regular kibble
3. The best strategy for taming these is to walk backwards away from it and shoot its legs or head. DO NOT SHOOT ITS SHELL OR TAIL! (It will take reduced damage and therefore torpidity). You can trap it if you are unable to maneuver well enough but it will cost extra resources. It’s torpor drops slow enough you won’t need extra narcotics to feed it
Happy taming!
Good source of keratin for beginners and a slow but durable starter tame. They are also useful for Tusoteuthis taming as a bait so you can feed the beak and don’t have an oxygen stat.
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(this is a non-artists rendition of the beak in question)
I think Carbonemys were observed as omnivores in real life despite the dossier but you know. Happy Swimming!
Just knock out level 200 one with sling shot,tools 200+ stone,on level 9,it eazy because they are slow af
Favorite diet: Club to the face, sling shot to the temple, mojoberries down the throat.
Fav activities: Soaking sea water and damage while my human tame tranqs my next pet.
My babies gives lots of keratin and prime meat. I make lots of babies.
If you are having trouble with Dino’s at the start and want to tame a Dino to help protect you but a trike is proving to be to hard just look for one of these turtles and then knock them out and if one is not enough get more. They can be like your living turtle wall to stop raptors and even spinos and rexes from just easily walking in and killing you before you can even run
The early farmer for biotoxin
Use your whistle and let them attack those damned jellyfish
You can use this guy as a distraction whilst hunting raptors. Once I saw Raptors terrorizing near my base so I took my Carbo with me (Karen) and she attacked the pack of raptors while I caught the alpha raptor with a bola and killed it with my longneck and pistol. Karen was still alive by the time I went to help her out and all of them were focused on killing Karen so I threw a bola at all of them and killed them. Also if you want to invade a base with turrets take this dude and use their eggs to make kibbles to tame Brontosauruses so you can start you first tour de la ark
When I first tamed one I was really really really really stupid and didn't know how to use narcs so I punched it to keep it unconscious. It worked