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What is a thorny dragon used for? thorny dragon battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
This is the easiest of the wood gatherers to obtain. I'm a solo player on ragnorak. They don't wake up as fast as beavers and don't take as long as mammoths. It's a bit of a distance, but if you have a ptera I'd say find the highest level Thorny Dragon that you can find so it doesn't wake up too fast, then fly to the highlands and kill a sheep or two and mutton tame it.
Thorny dragons are deadly to tame bc they spawn in groups of 2 and have tranquilizing venom in their needles. I recommend building a trap or placing some bear traps to then easily knock out and tame the large carnivore. Once tamed they act as good fighters, have a smithy saddle, tranq ballista of sorts, and most importantly: wood gatherer’s next I will be doing one of the following: reaper, rock drake, ravager, roll rat, karkinos
Becomes a mobile smithy with saddle on. Most materials weigh much less on it than with other tames. The only way to make some ascendant equiptment is with a thorny dragon with high weight. Decently collects wood and thatch ( mostly wood.) collects hide, chitin and organic polymer well. If useing as a battle tame be sure to have a good saddle equipt. Its ranged attack if used in a group can knock other players out easily. With a 2 day egg to adult period breeding can be very easy for this tame.
For those end game items in Scorched Earth, a high weight Thorny Dragon is a must, smithys just don't have the room. It's the only way to be able to build some of the Ascended saddles, for example, a Paracer platform saddle. You'll need near 3000 weight for the job. One may even want to breed out the weight statistic so these items can be crafted easily.
Makes a good early game meat collector but I wouldn't waste time doing that late game. Amazing wood collector, I suggest a few points in movement speed in case you run into a rock giant, but the rest should go in stamina and weight. Can also be used to deter enemy fliers, if you're using it for that level up melee damage and health
They are primarily used for gathering wood. Wood also ways less on him, just like the beaver on The Island map. The same goes for stone, although he cannot harvest it. Another use is its ranged torpidity attack. Not very good for knocking out dinosaurs, but in PvP it can easily knockout enemy players, since the shot is widespread. Its pretty much a torpor shotgun.