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Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Andrewsarchus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

To all the people saying it won’t be good for silica pearls, the devs stated that it would be a great swimmer and good for pearls.

I just went to an underwater cave with my new amphibious mammal.

And guess what? there’s a ton of sea scorpions in this cave… I’m seeing signs of this giant pig to be really good at collecting black pearls off their corpses.. maybe it’s just a fluke, so far he picks…

Is this on the island?

Because even though the saddle engram is on the island, according to Dododex, it is not on the island

You can tame one at level one! Here’s how!

Get honey and feed it to andrewsarchus then mount. Before rage bar fills up dismount and run away and it won’t aggro. Check the taming tracker to make sure it’s the level you want if you don’t have a spyglass and repeat the…

Bro is literally insane. Can run in the water using sinking ability and you don’t drown while riding it. Also, the oxygen drains really slow on him and few pumps in oxygen is ridiculous.

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…

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…

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

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…

Great hit and run machine. Insane speed and can combo a dash by following with a Jump for insane range. Press Ctrl to activate it's minigun and right click to shoot it