First ankys are good at gathering metal but you sill get a set amount of metal from a node. 220% is fine anything more than points in that is a waste. People have for years not understood that.

Second keep all the metal on your anky never transfer while mining. Ankys have reduced weight carrying ore whatever dino you use to carry the anky with dont transfer the ore.

Third its better to have a low level anky and low level argent than no anky at all.

Fourth the best place to get metal by far is abberation using crabs to carry your anky you can get tens of thousands of metal ore in 30 minutes its just insane.

Fifth again anything over 220% melee is a waste in skill points I would recommend 220% melee the rest HP a dead anky isnt good to anyone.

Thats my experience in around 4k hours all solo pvp official player trust me I know!!!

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

Grab him with argentav or quetz, if u r not patience enough with their speed. (Dont be dumb like me who travelling from redwood to snow biome for obsidian with only riding this guy) damn.... Im so nub XD

Best dino for gathering metal 9/10

Great metal heads and crystal harvesting but do not use them for oil! A metal pick is best. The resourse menu for oil is wrong with the Anky

does upping melee affect the amount of metal gained?

Went to herbivore island in the hopes of taking one and bringing back a couple hundred metal. I ended up leaving with 3,700 metal. Such a good investment, get yourself an ankylo

I just got done with a play session (game crashed) on a single player The Island world. I’m a total beach bob: 11 hours in the game, never seen more than 22 metal ingots at one time. I’m level 43 though, and I decided it’s time to leave my massive wood mansion right in the starting area and go elsewhere. So I grabbed my iguanodon and went to the fabled herbie island. Went with a raft and an Andy saddle and a bunch of tranq arrows. Made it to the island unscathed and tamed an anky... I was expecting about, maybe, ten or eleven metal per hit? First hit from my lvl. 48 fresh tame anky gave me 248 metal. Time to make some spark power and COOK! Longneck rifle, here I come!

Metal boi that's all u need to know

I've heard that you aren't supposed to level the melee past 800, because it will 1 shot the rich metal nodes giving you less metal, instead of two hits, which would give you more metal.