Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Megatherium

Stats
BASE STATS
| Stat | Base (Lvl 1) | Increase Per Lvl (Wild) | Increase Per Lvl (Tamed) | Rank* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Health | 740 | +148 | +5.4% | AVG Ranked 70 of 192 |
Stamina | 400 | +40 | +10% | AVG Ranked 45 |
Oxygen | 270 | +27 | +10% | |
Food | 3,000 | +300 | +10% | HIGH Ranked 31 |
Weight | 725 | +14.5 | +4.5% | HIGH Ranked 30 |
Melee Damage | 100% | +5% | +1.7% | HIGH Ranked 35 |
Movement Speed | 100% | — | +1% | |
Torpor | 1,000 | +60 | — | AVG Ranked 41 |
* Rank of the Base Stat of the Megatherium vs. all other creatures. (Rank #1 in Health = highest Health creature.) | ||||
ABSOLUTE STATS
| MOVEMENT SPEED | BASE | Sprinting (Wild) | Sprinting (Tamed) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walking | 224 | 1280 | 960 |
| Swimming | 210 | ||
| Movement Speed: % | |||
RECIPES
Superior Kibble

SADDLES
Megatherium Saddle
×325 Hide
×130 Fiber
×100 Cementing Paste
×55 Metal Ingot
Tips & Strategies from the iOS & Android apps
If it has the red aura on it, don’t try to knock it out. Just wasted 50 tranqs when it had the aura, only took 12 without
Think of your favorite tame... that was cute. Introducing you to your new favorite tame, GOD... I mean megatherium. Sorry, with one kill of a bug they are very hard to tell apart. You remember waking up on the beach naked and running away from those drones? Yeah, now they will have nightmares of a big ass sloth frothing at the mouth for their demise. Giga making you worry next door? Nothing a Megatherium or 20 and some bug crack can’t fix. I promise you getting one of these changed my life. Collects Chiton pretty good I guess. If pretty good is you throwing out 16K cause you’re slot capped. Your future daughter will call this tame daddy, if you already have a daughter... you should have had a son.
Darn sloth can't run fast but good for collecting foods and INCREDIBLE for chitin and has a pretty good weight...
I put some billboards around my sloth then tranqed him and it worked out for me and him
Tap the good arrow so ppl can see before taming pls
I dont know about the guy that says wild dinos ignore you while you are riding megatherium but thats only half of the fact. They ignore you once you have the increased dmg against bugs buff which will appear as a sap icon once you kill at least 1 bug. Only then wild dinos will ignore you. As long as the buff is active the dinos will ignore you.
In Mobile version, megatherium can be resurrect on the obelisk after killing it in the dungeon (plase in mobile, where you can have battle with bosses). It doesn't live in normal world. In mobile it eats an old kibble: baryonyx egg+raw fish+potato+mejoberry+fiber. It is very important information for mobile players! Up so mobile players can see this. By void original from google
Just caught two of these beastly animals today with my son. The best way to capture one is three metal signs in the form of a triangle with a bear trap in the middle of it. Lay the first two metal sign down in a 90 degree angle and put the bear (large one) trap in the middle. Get the megatherium to follow you into the bear trap, and put the third sign on the outside of the animal. Tranq it up and vola you have a Megatherium.
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What does a Megatherium eat? In ARK: Survival Evolved, the Megatherium eats Superior Kibble, Giant Bee Honey, Raw Mutton, Raw Prime Meat, Cooked Lamb Chop, Cooked Prime Meat, Raw Prime Fish Meat, Raw Meat, Mejoberry, Cooked Meat, Berries, Raw Fish Meat, Cooked Prime Fish Meat, and Cooked Fish Meat.
Translations: Μεγαθήριο, Megaterio, Mégathérium, Megaterio, メガテリウム, 메가테리움, Megatério, Мегатерий, 大地懒, 大地懶.
















































