Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
If pure tanking power is tanking into account, this thing is second to none. Just like Rock Elementals, the Gasbags has a 80% damage reduction from almost everything (as long as it is at least partly inflated). The Gasbags, however, is much easier to tame, can be bred and has a saddle which is not that hard to find at all. Their smaller hitbox is welcome when using Velonasaurs and guns from behind them as well.
The only downside is their low damage, and also that they can't damage stone (and turrets), so don't expect to raid entire bases with it alone.
When damaged, a bit of gas will escape, so unmounted ones might find themselves taking full damage after a while. If mounting is not a option, be sure to put it on Neutral from time to time so it will inflate by itself as part of the attack behavior.
More Gasbags Utility Tips
This is a great tip:
1-Tame a gasbags and any kind of wyvern (not crystal)
2-Tame any farming creature (magmasaurus is the greatest bc it farms everything, metal, crystal, wood, stone...)
3-when your magma (or any massive farming creature) gets encumbered transfer everything to gasbags’ inventory.
4-When gasbags gets encumbered you carry it with the wyvern and wyvern is going to get like only 600kg weight so basically it’s infinite weight.