Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a ichthyornis used for? ichthyornis battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Don't underestimate the usefulness of these guys. They are annoying at start but once you have one tamed, they are VERY helpful. Getting prime meat from Dodos for bigger tames or "golden" fish for taming an otter. Regular kibble being their preference makes it an easy early-game tame.
As the Pego's smarter partner in crime, the Ichthyornis will only steal food from you, but you will never get it back. But before you genocide all Seagulls from the beaches, they can get prime meat and prime fish meat for you, meaning if you don't want to get killed by salmon or want revenge on the pirahnas, use this guy to bring them back to you and harvest their succulent meat.
To tame, just take a crossbow and some tranq arrows, shoot it, and give it some meat. After being tamed, it will sit on you shoulder. If you ever need fish, double tap Y and whistle attack a fish. It will bring you that fish with +100% quality than if you had killed it with a spear, and faster than fishing with a rod. Pesky when wild, but useful when tamed.
Never used these until recently, they are the king when it comes to early game prime meat. They can me sent after dodos, lystros, sabertooth salmon, coles, pirranah, cindarias, etc and will one shot most of them. When they kill them the dino will glow yellow and be avalable for harvesting, the said dino gives a ton of prime meat, and cindarias give more biotoxin.