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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips
How do I kill a thylacoleo? thylacoleo battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Redwood on Fjordur is a FLY ZONE, Thlyas only spawn on the ground, not on the trees!!!!
Hardened plate: Reduced damage, prevents dismount.
Sharpened plate: Armor pen, prevents dismount.
Heavy plate: Slows, prevents dismount.
Notice a theme here? Use a Stego and you are immune to being pounced. Can also shoot from stego's back. Enjoy your revenge.
Fly OVER the big trees or else you get the punishment
Be aware that ark will be ark and these tree kitties will still continue to defy the laws of physics and jump like 5 mile distances
Dispite how effective these things ambush is, it abides by a few simple rules that allows you to dodge a thylacoleo attack.
1. Wild thylos in ambush position have no gravity. When a wild thylo jumps at you it can go forever at a constant speed and can even jump at things flying above it. When a thylo is tamed it cannot do this and will eventually fall to the ground. Flying away in the same direction that the thylo is jumping is not an option as this zero gravity affect will last until you are out of range of the thylo.
2. Thylacoleos lead their targets. If you are moving fast through a thylo's targeting range it will jump ahead of you to compensate for the time it takes for them to get to you.
3. Thylacoleos cannot change speed or direction of a jump. The only movement a thylo can make while airborn is a rotation. Since it leads targets, stopping as soon as you hear a thylo causes it to miss as it plummets to the location it thought you would go to. This wont work if your tame is slow.
4. Thylacoleos prioritize the closest prey in this order: player/small wild dino, small tamed dino, passenger. Sitting in the passenger seat of a dino won't usually help as the thylo can rip the mount from under you and target it instead.
5. Thylacoleos can share trees. It is rare but thylacoleos can be in the same tree or in adjacent trees. This is the worst thing to happen to you in a redwood forrest as both thylos can jump at you, one snagging you and the other grabbing your tame. That being said, if one jumps at you don't relax because there could be another one close by.
6. Thylacoleos will only be in ambush position on the bark parts of large redwood trees. You will never see a thylacoleo climb a tree or ambush you from the leaves of a tree. They will also only climb a tree when out of render distance.
With these rules in mind: if you have a slower tame, a thylo will not lead enough where you can dodge it. Have your flyer on passive and come back to collect it. If your tame is relatively fast you can dodge it by flying out of its path (under, over, strafe). Make sure to not fly directly at trees so that they don't have a straight shot to you. Any land based tames have on neutral and be sure they can kill a thylo in two hits or so.
Stay safe.
they are too op I killed 2 lvl 35-100 bronto and my thyla was ok did not even get bloody I named him jumpy but while I was afk on multi-player this mother****ker killed him. 1 like 1 rip to jumpy
Be careful flying through the redwoods on any animal because this cat can dismount you just like a kapro and will pin your argy or pteradon to the ground and claw the hell out of it like it was a scratching post
If you wanna find them easily just tame a parasaur and use an arge to carry it into the red woods. Have the parasaur on turret mode so it can tell you where the thyla is. It may take a while but I see this as the safest way to find them. You just have to move slowly through.
These guys don’t exist in mobile, making the redwoods a completely safe area to fly in
These things are scary as heck they made me terrified to even enter the redwoods when i started playing ark
When a Dire Wolf meets a Sabertooth and they raise it like a monkey.
Say good bye to your life basically
I'm a cat person, i spend a morning by a having a walk on nearby forest, and my cats would happily jump down, hugging my face, after some rolling, i gave them some shotgun shots to their face while they broken my 400% flak armor, which cost lot of metal to fix.
Only a cat person would understand how it was a totally normal, typical morning of living with cats.
Thylo is in Fjordur! Be aware!
You don't find them......They find you...
These guys are amazing. So far only found them in redwoods. Found 1 in a tree the other fighting on ground.
These are in the snowy biome on Ragnarok -Freaky Keeky
If you're ever strolling through redwoods, make sure you're dinosaur is on aggressive so they can attack the Thyla. And if your emotionally attached to your shoulder mount like I was, make sure it's on passive flee to it can run away.
So after hearing about things in the redwoods that take you off your mount I went flying about for literally days with no issue what so ever, I’m thinking what’s the big deal? I start hunting for some prime meat and hide to take back to base in time for imprinting and suddenly out of nowhere I’m flying backwards off my argent and am chomped by this guy, lvl 10, I fight back and get released, I am lvl 98, tho I’m quickly killed before I can draw my mastercraft crossbow. My only imprinted bird and my xbow are now with my corpse near the edge of the redwood. My lvl 220 spino munched the tree hugger and I got my bird back after a second trip back to search. Moral of the story, these guys are legit savage and need be tamed ASAP
Just go to redwoods and look for a big ass cat chomping on a sheep that's how I got mine.