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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a parasaur used for? parasaur battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
For anyone who may be less of a beginner here’s a tip for raiding: first tame a parasaur obviously. second tame argentavis/snowy owl. third put parasaur on turret mode so it pings enemies. Last pick it up and fly around with the argentavis/snowy owl and let it ping until you find enemy base. Also the parasaur doesn’t give exact enemy types ( like if it’s a player or not) so check every mark you see.
Steelslaughter,
Since I’m at level 85, I only tame the parasaurolophus for one reason: sheer boredom. However, I don’t just feed them to some random Sarco or Titanoboa soon after. I just carry them to a predator-free area with other parasaurs and unclaimed it, no harm there. No, seriously, that’s exactly what I do.
The parasaur is, in fact, useful!
Need narcotic arrows? Fear no more! Run around hitting bushes and you have enough narcoberries to probably knock out a decent dino! (I managed to make 50 narcotic arrows within about 5 mins of harvesting narcoberries)
Wanna move locations? Get a decent level parasaur and lvl up its weight (and maybe speed/stam too) and you can bring a small amount of important stuff around
Need to know where enemies are (such as when you're taming a dinosaur)? It has a turret mode that points out nearby enemies, even if they're behind a wall where you can't see
And best of all, they're super easy to tame, just use the small, depressing few narcotic arrows you made, shoot one down, and you can now tame pretty much anything! (Well, if it has a bunch of health)
•ULTIMATE PARA GUIDE
TAME:
•30 berries.
•One slingshot.
•Only use bat if you can repair it.
•Bola (Necessary).
They are not agressive. Just bola them and slingshot them on the head or knock them out with bat. Make sure to always hit the head.
Once knocked out put berries on it's inventory, majo berries preferred. Harvest bushes around if you don't have enough berries.
Make sure to always have a saddle before taming, they're quite useless without a saddle.
UTILITIES:
•Can harvest thatch pretty well and can also get some wood and berries.
•Are fairly fast.
•Can defend you from small threats.
Pros:
•High speed
•Can hunt things like dodo
•Quick taming.
•Quick breeding.
Cons:
•Will likely die to most dinos if attacked.
•Fairly low health and damage.
•Horrible for fighting
• DO NOT TRAVEL WITH IT. PARAS DIE TO BASICALLY ANYTHING.
BREEDING:
Build a two by two thatch house without roofs, enable wandering and let them do it. The egg dies pretty quickly so make sure to be around until they finishing mating as it's pretty fast.
HATCHING:
Needs 2 campfires, putting torch on egg recommend.
Hatches fairly quick, put about 50 berries on baby's inventory.
Make sure to imprint.
PROTECTING YOUR DINO:
Make sure you have a base with spike walls around your base as soon as possible, A para can be killed by literally anything, can't defend itself basically. Build a slopped roof and put them on the top of your house if you don't have spike walls.
Put at least 30 berries on your Para's inventory, make sure to replace the food each 4-6 days.