Here’s my full experience with the alpha dragon which I just beat as of 17 June 2024. My aim is for this to be the one tip that gives you all the extra info you need, along with any info or videos already out there.

Overview on my stats:

I won on single player settings with 12 theris (21k, 1800%) 6 rexes (50k, 1150%) a yuty (21k, 3k stam, 1000%) and a daeodon (21k, 71k food). My armour is 1700, and my health is 700. Hyper insulation is 126. I went in with 150 med brews, came out with 115.

Survivability:

All primitive saddles except yuty, which was 176. There was 3 rex casualties (some had 10k, one didn’t even take damage), 0 theri casualties (some had 1.6k left, some had 16k), and my daeodon died early due to my mistake. My theris had 1-2 cakes each. Only 2 cakes were left in the end. I had hyperthermia throughout the entire fight.

What I learnt:

- Rexes were almost useless, the theris brutalised it on their own.

- The daeodon died almost instantly, so it was pointless.

- don’t cross the molten river, my tames took way too much damage this way.

- The fire rock which he uses while flying damages the rider.

- The Dimorph minions attack the rider.

- When tames protect you from these dimorph attacks, they can swarm you and you can get a bit stuck.

- Tames can easily get stuck on things around the arena.

What happened:

1. When I loaded in, I moved my tames to the open space, ensuring my daeodon was on “ignore group whistles” and following my yuty.

2. I moved around, making sure the dragon doesn’t hit me with its rock blast, and using a shotgun to get in extra damage. I also tried to get some courage roars in.

3. When the minions came in, I whistled neutral and stayed on the outskirts of my tames so they’d kill them. I’d whistle to move after, so I don’t get stuck.

4. When it landed, it was across the river by the monuments. I didn’t want them to attack, but they did, and it was too late to bring them back.

5. I tried to whistle my tames around the monuments to surround the dragon and trap it in the corner. I lost my daeodon to the lava and fire this way, and my tames took a lot of damage due to the fire river. Some theris got stuck in the river too.

6. It took off again, and I repeated the steps from “2” but when it landed, I managed to finish it off.

What I would do better:

- I’d make sure my daeodon stays on my yurt.

- I’d bring a calien soup to keep me cool.

- I’d bring better armour, as my torso and gloves got immediately destroyed by the dimorphs.

- I’d bring 18 theris; I’m never using rexes on a dragon boss ever again.

- I’d bring a few more cakes, I’d go for 3 each. Just in case something went wrong.

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Main tips/TL;DR:

1. Theris > Rexes

2. Dimorphs damage rider.

3. Rock blast damages rider.

4. Get in extra damage with guns when you can.

5. If you can surround any bosses, you should, but it’s extra important for this one as its fire attack destroys tames and has a large attack radius.

I think that’s enough info to ensure that anyone can have a good shot at winning. Hope this helped. Good luck.