Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

So for tones of hide is better a high level sarco (mine is lvl 224). Your targets are parasaurs bcz they are giving 40 hide per kill and other big dinos are dropping even more.
More Hide Tips
If you’re not using a chainsaw to gather hide you’re doing it all wrong.
The Therizino’s bite attack gives you only hide, no meat.
Tame a breeding pair of sheep, imprint and let sit in cryo for a few days, throw out dump all points into health then slaughter and harvest with chainsaw endless hide.
You're welcome
Giganotosaurus can gather 28 hide from 1 terror bird, while sabertooth can gather 43 hide from 1 terror bird, also explorer notes says it's the best tame for gathering hide. Sabertooth deserves more stars than giga
Mobile singleplayer comparison
83% imprint, 990% attk Theriz, only bite attack. (T)
100% imprint, 1475% attk direwolf. (D)
Kapro: ≈ 85(D), ≈ 80(T) (tested on 3 kapros for D, 3 for T)
Phiomia: 180-190(D), ≈ 172(T) (4 D, 3 T)
Titanoboa: ≈ 125(D), ≈ 125(T) (5 each, yes I hate snakes, y do u ask?)
Paracer: ≈ 75(D), ≈ 211(T) (3 D, 5 T)
As you can see the direwolf harvests hide a little bit better than the theriz with every prey except paracer...when it has about 1.5 times the theriz's melee. Theriz should be given higher stars for hide gathering. Up theriz.
Also fun fact, a 100% imprint, 1047% attk Rex gets outperformed by both with kapro ≈ 40, titanoboa ≈ 75, and paracer ≈ 90. Ran out of phiomias to test with sadly, but you get the idea. Rex is only good because it can kill things faster, not because it gathers more. Use theriz if you want hide is my advice.
Use a hatchet or saber early game. In mid game use tickle chickens and rexes. And in end game use gigas or carchas.
A saber tooth may be more efficient per creature but how long it takes to kill a creature matters. In my experience T-Rex and murder-bird. (theri) are ‘the best’ at gathering hide in high volumes. You see a herd of mammoths , they’ll tear your saber to shreds, and it takes 40+ seconds to kill a big one. T-Rex just says “yum!” And murders them all.
Hide: you can never have to much
The C-Attack from the Therizino gives you only hide no meat. And it gives you a lot hide...
If you are low level and want tons of hide... Just kill lots of bronto and use metal hatchet to gether hide