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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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I had a monkey and I took it to Shrek’s swamp I was killed by two raptors A sarco and a baronyx I respawned a my monkey was still fighting them like a pro he had killed the sarco. But shortly after died.
They are great travel buddies, I saw one getting attacked by a dilo. Save the Monkeys.
if they hit an oncoming predator with a piece of poop, the predator will lose a lot of movement speed, its health will start getting drained, and its torpor will rise. you can use this to run away from a predator, defeat it, or just beat something up with it for your amusement.
Their ability to throw poop is actually really good for taming. I’ve knocked out high lvl trikes and carnos by just charging with my pachy and then running away to set up another charge. The monkey makes it so whatever you’re trying to tame can barely even move at you. It even completely eliminates a trike’s ability to charge at you. These are definitely good tames. Just make sure your monkey doesn’t hit the tame an extra time when it’s already knocked out, it’ll sabotage the taming effectiveness.
Tame a 135+ and you have a great companion. He/She can slow down attackers when on your shoulder by throwing poop at them (even alphas and brontos), collect berries when on wander and makes a surprisingly good guard dog in bases. I get mine to 1k health then pump melee. I usually get 400% minimum, that's 40 damage on a small, fast, pooping flinging creature. It'll rek wanna be intruders in your base, especially I'd you put a good helmet on it for armour.
When taming wear gillie and drop them in a enclosed area to make taming easier when tamed they ride on your shoulder and throw poop at your target it slows the target and they can unlock wood thatch and stone doors but not metal when it's riding on your shoulder and your flying it will not fall over for any reason and if you spook it while trying to tame just leave its render for a few seconds and go back it will be unspooked