Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a diplodocus used for? diplodocus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
They are probably the best pack animal in the game, for its size and carry weight it moves super fast allowing it to quickly transport huge quantities of supplies over long distances. It's recommended to pair it up with some other animals as guards as it can't do much in a fight and even though it has a massive health pool it regens health pretty slowly.
Not really useful tame, but they don't do any damage unless they push you off a cliff. Their attacks are all pushing, no damage. Awesome giant walking prime meat machines to kill and harvest when you are taming something useful. Or tame one and name it the Magic School Bus and drive you and your entire tribe off a cliff into the Volcano.
A diplo is such a good exploring mount in multi player because one player moves the diplo while all the other players shoot of the sides of the diplo i tested this with my tribe and we destroyed our enemies tribe and the the enemies rexes got killed in seconds because of our ascendant pump action shotguns best of all the diplo never came close to death and the loot was insane one vault had two titanosaurus saddles
These guys are amazing despite their inability to attack.
Get a high level one and you’ll have around 15k health and 1500 weight when tamed. They can carry a lot and move surprisingly quickly. I use mine for metal runs and can carry at least 1k metal.
Just remember to bring some small carnivores like raptors for protection!
These are very useful creatures, both as wild and tamed
In the wild they are very accessible sources of sauropod vertebrae, easy prime meat and normal meat
They are very useful as mid game mounts because they have a large weight and a fast movement speed
They also are good gatherers
You can also carry 11 people on the saddle but that’s not very useful
Finally on Mobile there is a daily quest that requires taming one of them so just tame one and keep it in a corner
The only problems is that you can learn the engram quite late, but if you find one in a drop it’s not a problem
They are a pain to tame but the process is quite easy, just take some berries and afk for a while
Also they are quite defenceless so make sure you outrun / avoid dangerous creatures (any predators in general, including dilos)