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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for andrewsarchus? Tips and strategies for andrewsarchus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Saddle acts like a mini submarine where rider requires no oxygen and added bonus the mini gun fires underwater! Hold right stick to force Dino to ocean floor where it walks and sprints like on land. Boost doesn’t work because same stick puts you back in swim mode. Andrew already has low oxygen consumption so add a few points and use it to explore the ocean floor.
Add: IS fast enough to swim/run away from alpha megaladon.
They are so easy to tame just get a ghillie suit, (you don't need gloves or boots) throw down some honey, when it starts to eat hop on its back and turn whichever direction the arrows point and the Andrew turns
Tamed passively. As soon as it eats your dropped honey, approach and ride it. In order to build up the taming meter, continuously press the indicated direction key (left or right). Don't click it just once, but press the button as long as it's green. Stop once the arrow turns red and wait a moment. Be careful when it throws you off. Wearing ghillie helps. When thrown off, you have to lure it again with another piece of honey to continue.
As soon as you see that red bar going upas you’re taming, instead of letting it buck you off just get off before it gets full so it won’t agro on you
This thing can walk on the sea floor
To Seeker
I didn’t see the part that said that it was good at gathering silica.
I’m not gonna type a tip that doesn’t have things to do about this type of fauna.
If set on aggressive and you encumber it, it may work like a turret by shooting animals but my guess is you may be able to put tranqs in it to use it as a full on taming tame… thing about a ascendant saddle with shocking tranq darts, gigantosaurus would go down in seconds. This might be a very useful game when it comes for fighting creatures. It was a big”ish” animal in real life which leads me to believe that it could have around 1k-2.5k health
Honestly I’m not the developers so this is really just an idea
From lava
I love these dudes I have ten of these and why can't you tell people to like it
If you are taming this creature make sure to jump off if it runs towards water , otherwise the taming % drops to zero consistently. To not have him at the water again just go up on him and let it chase you, then run towards a big area again where no water is nearby , don't worry it will not loose taming % . Good luck :)
The saddle is a literal top part of a tank although your Andrewsarchus could be a tank the turret does roughly 40 damage at 100% damage, would be cool if you could use different ammo like pistol rounds with reduced damage but faster Fire rate and sniper rounds to increase damage but slow down Fire rate, maybe even shotgun rounds... You would love to see it, but since ARK II is "releasing" next year (2023) and ARK recently receiving the final update, this dream will not come true. At least not in ARK one.