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3778 points   🔧 Utility   Apr 3, 2021   Report

A handy guide to utility tames:

Achatina- Mainly found in swampy areas. Tame with sweet veggie cake. After tame, produces lots of CP and Org Poly when set to wander.

Anglerfish- found in deep oceans, the anglerfish is relatively hard to tame. It doesn’t require a saddle, and gathers huge quantities of silica pearls

Anky- Found in a plethora of different places. Look in snow, mountain, jungle, desert, etc. A relatively easy knockout tame, the anky is wonderful at gathering metal.

Argentavis- Found in mountains, snow, or desert biomes mainly. Another relatively easy tame, reduces weight for many useful materials. With high weight capacity, they are useful for transporting items or creatures. They also have a smithy in their saddle. Also, on a sadder note, Dilos got into my breeding buIdling and killed my best female 😢

Beelzebufo- Found in swamps mainly. A very easy tame, can gather cementing paste from insects.

Castoroides- Found in swampy areas, some snow biomes, and rivers/lakes. Not the easiest tame, but not to hard. When tamed, they gather wood like a pro! They have a smithy saddle.

Direbear- Found in redwoods and snow biomes. Lives alongside dangerous creatures, making it tricky to tame, but once tamed, it’s like a metal sickle that gathers 5x the fiber

Doedicurus- Found in redwoods, mountains, snow, desert, volcano. A relatively easy tame, although if it takes too much damage, it will roll up, drastically increasing the torpor it takes. Once tamed, it is a beast at gathering obsidian and stone

Dunkleosteus- Difficult tame thanks to its heavy armor. An oceanic tame, they are the anky/Doedic of the sea, gathering large amounts of metal and stone

Karkinos- found in Aberration and Val and CI and Genesis. in my opinion, these are utility tames. They are difficult to tame due to the fact that you can’t use normal tranquilizers. Once tamed, they can carry a maximum of two creatures. Carrying doedics or ankys in their claws can be a very efficient way to get metal.

Mammoth- Found in snow. Not too hard to tame, and gathers wood very effectively!

Moschops- found on beaches and forests. can harvest many different materials effectively. You can choose which materials your Moschops can harvest better

Quetzal-very hard tame, but doable, especially with a tribe. Has astounding weight and is great for transport!

Snow Owl- Easy knockout tame found in extinction snow biome. When tamed, can heal other creatures and is a great travel mount.

Therizinosaurus- Challenging tame found in jungles. Can gather wood, thatch and fiber quite well.

Thorny Dragon- Easy tame found in deserts. A good tame for gathering wood on SE, a map lacking many normal wood gatherers.

Hope u liked! Pls 🆙 the tip. Have a nice day! 😀

3553 points   🔧 Utility   May 22, 2020   Report

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

1250 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 13, 2021   Report

Shoot it in the face whilst going backwards there to slow to reach you when it runs away go in front of it and carry on shooting it in the face with tranqs.

1172 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 3, 2020   Report

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.

764 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 27, 2021   Report

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!!!

1208 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 22, 2017   Report

If you're breeding Ankys 100 berrys last 19:32

So you got enough time for a poo

712 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 6, 2019   Report

Best dino for gathering metal 9/10

10 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 1, 2025   Report

Get an argy first then find one of these guys, pick ‘em up, and drop them somewhere safe. Shoot the anky until knocked out and tame. P.S make sure your argy is on passive mode.

318 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 31, 2022   Report

⏫⏫to help new people!

Ankylosaurus-

Ah yes… while lookin like a endgame creature! It is infact a starter creature! It’s strong but slow. With also a large health pool. I think slowness is worth it! But you can pair them with many creatures like argentavis!

Taming Food-

I recommend using Mejoberries if you are just starting playing on the map. I recommend if you can do regular kibble!

Taming-

Slingshots possible! But not recommended! Use tranq darts or arrows! But use darts if it’s high level! Do not use darts on low levels!

⏫⏫to help new people!

590 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 5, 2019   Report

Metal boi that's all u need to know

880 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 9, 2016   Report

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

763 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 19, 2016   Report

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.

397 points   🔧 Utility   Apr 26, 2020   Report

does upping melee affect the amount of metal gained?

564 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Oct 1, 2016   Report

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.

133 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 28, 2023   Report

How to tame a anky!! :O

This Guide applies to The Island only.

First of all, let’s talk about the utilities of a Anky. They are amazing metal gatherers! It also has a weight reduction to metal. So any time you run out of metal, (which for me i run out of metal all the time) use an anky!

Now here is what you need to tame one:

- 10-20 Tranq arrows and a bow/crossbow (varies on the level)

-Berries and/or kibble

A couple notes about taming:

You won’t need any bolas, but if you want you could bring a big bear trap. Even though it’s unnecessary.

Also It’s torpor drops really slowly. So narcotics aren’t usually needed.

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Now you maybe be wondering, where do I find this dude? One spot is on herbivore island. It’s way on the right side of the island. On your map it sticks out in the ocean. Another place is the Red Woods. And only go there if you are DESPERATE. It is near the area where the swamps and red woods meet. There are tons of other spots and you can find them on YouTube

Now how do you tame a anky?

Well once you have gathered all of your items you will need need to find your anky, shoot it and walk backward while shooting your tranqs. It won’t take very many tranqs, depending on the level. But then its knocked out! Now feed the berries or kibble of your choice and boom! You have a anky!!

My name is Etheral and my last tip was on the Carno!

326 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jan 27, 2020   Report

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

476 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 29, 2017   Report

Don't let your stupid tribe mates touch these. Ive blown through seven in a week.

271 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 6, 2020   Report

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

186 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jul 9, 2021   Report

you can find them easily at easy area number 3 then get enough levels for raft and go to the small island because that’s where I find a bunch, good luck. please up👆so more people can see this, thank you😁.

35 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jul 1, 2024   Report

If you are playing on the Island, don't waste your time looking for one on the mountains or in the redwood forest.

Just go to Herbivore Island, the safest spot to find both ankylosaurs and metal (the resource they are so good at gathering)!!!

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