Level melee immediately to get the most materials out of this thing. (°-°)
Ankylosaurus
The Ankylosaurus is a heavily armored herbivore specializing in harvesting metal and other mineral resources. Its durable body and crushing tail make it a sturdy, if slow, defensive mount.
Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Ankylosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Honestly Ankies are super easy to tame, they just take a while. You will be using them forever and if you pump Melee damage you get more metal which is a must
Have this, u have infinite arrows.
Fun fact: They also spawn at the Southern Islets. Go to the intersection that's separating the swamp and you maybe see 2 or more of them in the intersecting island. Although its rare. Its always good to look at there when you started looking for one.
Craazy how it can harvest metal which is stronger than stone but can do nothing to ur metal/stone base.
Great for flint and metal.
It reduces the weight of the metal which makes it hands down the best dino to take on a metal run.
If you tame this your metal problems won’t exist, plus if you set it to auto gather and pick it up with anything that can carry it it will automatically gather metal when you get close enough!
I recommend loving on herbivore island at least early game but at the time I’m writing this I’m lvl 55 and still there anyway these can be tamed with just a slingshot for low levels! Just run while shooting. Mejoberries are good but kibble is better. I have two of these and…
I recommend loving on herbivore island at least early game but at the time I’m writing this I’m lvl 55 and still there anyway these can be tamed with just a slingshot for low levels! Just run while shooting. Mejoberries are good but kibble is better. I have two of these and I level weight so I can carry more metal at a time so hit metal rocks and boom at least 80 metal per hit! 100s of metal after this!
These guys are underrated they can get the most metal and can get the most berries
The anky is a great start and end game tame. They are great for metal ofc but also obsidian and cyrstsal. They are also quite good at collecting berries. They just have so many uses early and late game.
Use a weight crab with an anky in each claw. Way better than the anky quetz combo.
Pump the sh*t out of weight and damage
Having 2 friends on these while you ride a karkinos is very affective! Have your friends spam mb1 and just pick them up and toss them towards metal! This way you dont need to worry about carry weight and you can get two full body bags easy.Works best in abberation.
Argys can pick these up. This may be a well known thing but my friends and i have gone through our entire lives not knowing this until today
Great for collecting keratin bones and metal at the surface entrances on abberation.
They really shine in scorched earth, as they are everywhere. Its fairly easy to tame a legion of them with a few boomerangs. Early on this can provide you with a solid defense. And once you can make a saddle you can get to mining huge amounts of metal, obsidian, and crystal…
They really shine in scorched earth, as they are everywhere. Its fairly easy to tame a legion of them with a few boomerangs. Early on this can provide you with a solid defense. And once you can make a saddle you can get to mining huge amounts of metal, obsidian, and crystal from the mountains. Have other dinos like kentros or morella to carry the obsidian and crystal as the ankys don't have reduced weight on those, they should be fine carrying stacks of metal. Weirdly they seem to have lower base health than doedicurus, but stronger attacks. Also they can harvest huge amounts of flint from regular rocks to make sparkpowder.
They can easily be knocked out with a decent Pachy if you dont wanna waste tranqs. I just knocked a 150 with my level 205 Pachy.
Best metal collector on the island mobile, anky-argy duo and you got hella metal, jus be sure to level melee ONLY.
Man, I thought these were gone be a tough take, but you get rocks and a slingshot with the ability to moonwalk at five miles an hour, and you're golden. Stoked to get a saddle for it so I can harvest the metal off this island I found him on.
For the person who said they can’t find one, go to herbivore Island there’s heaps