Leveling up the melee attack makes you gain more amount of metal

1. Get tranq arrows and a crossbow
2. Find an anky of your desire
3. Shoot it in the head while walking backwards (they're slow so you can just walk while shooting)
4. When it runs away chase after it and shoot it
5. It'll be knocked out.
6. Feed it recommend food and any narcos if needed.
7. Congratulations!

They get about 3x more metal than you! And depending on the level they can easily kill Raptors and other small predators.

They're found almost everywhere
Beaches, highlands, chalk hills, green forest, I've even see some near desert.

does upping melee affect the amount of metal gained?

If you think the mountains are too dangerous

Just go to the Herbivour Island
Its the small island in the south east of the map

I shot a lv 1 5 times with narcotic arrow in a crossbow like So Dododex sees this

Best dino for gathering metal 9/10

I took a short trip to herbivore island on my raft bearing tranqs narcotic and carrots I tamed an anky but then the question became how do I get it back to base so i put on the saddle rode on to my raft and came home with the new anky

Metal boi that's all u need to know

An ankylo (leveled in melee) and a quetz or argy (leveled in weight) is the single best way to farm metal. Just pick the anky with your bird and drop it on metal rocks. Then get on the anky and hit the metal rocks. The ankylo’s weight does not matter since the bird carries all

Great for farming metal get a cross bow/bow wit at least 10 tranq arrows for a low lvl one... And feed it solo kibble after KO.then pump its melee and weight

If being chased run to them cuz they can kill carnos in the wild😮😮

One of these paired with quetzal harvesting will give you the fastest harvesting for metal, crystal and obsidian. Just level melee and let the quetz take the weight of the Anky.

Metal is a quarter of its weight in an Ankylo.

These things are great for resource gathering, the higher melee the more resources you get so upgrade that.

If you're breeding Ankys 100 berrys last 19:32
So you got enough time for a poo

Pump melee granted your going to encumber faster but the metal you get out of a rock is higher

The Ankylosaurus will not attack you in the wild unless you attack first. When battling you can run away quite easily, just be aware, they have high health, so if you plan to kill one make sure you have enough stamina and resources to kill them.

These guys aren’t the fastest walkers but man in the water they are super fast I learnt if you use the attack ability while in the water it makes you go slightly faster

Melee 480 imprinted, 520 not.
The rest in weight or speed.

When taming this dino make sure he's close to ur base or you'll have to walk him home and trust me that takes very long unless u have a quetsel or agentavis...