He is very strong, but he is very slow, and he can also break Big Rocks and metal deposits, it is better to use him not as an attacking dino, but as a miner who will help you mine metal.
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.
What ARK players use the Ankylosaurus for, and how to get the most out of it in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Not sure if anyone's said this one yet but if you hit the attack to gather berries and immidiatley after hit the other attack button it will gather berries in a full circle around it. Quickly maxes you out on berries by far the best way to gather berries/cactus sap
Tip:-Increasing the meele damage will increase the metal harvest rate
On mobile, it wont gather automatically like the Deod does. You have to strap an anky saddle to gather metal with it unfortunately
Wait wait wait wait he can break stone but not stone walls
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.
Best farmer for metal, has metal reduction and is good with argy
To the person who said to transfer metal to a argy with nothing but weight, dont. Anklos reduce the weight of metal so it would be easier to carry the anklo
In his inventory metal weighs a quarter of the real weight
This guy is LITERALLY the most overpowered metal gatherer on at LEAST, The Island! He is just great! I used to use a system where I carried this guy up the mountain I used, using an argemtavis and it worked great. I could carry the guy to the tippy top and have him smashing…
This guy is LITERALLY the most overpowered metal gatherer on at LEAST, The Island! He is just great! I used to use a system where I carried this guy up the mountain I used, using an argemtavis and it worked great. I could carry the guy to the tippy top and have him smashing away at the great metal spots on top there.
Transport advice:
Get an argy with decent weight and stamina. It has an ability that allows it to carry the anky (Yes, it still counts the weight the ankys carrying to its weight)
THE ANKY HAS 85% WEIGHT REDUCTION ON METAL AND NOTHING ELSE. Make sure stuff like obsidian…
Transport advice:
Get an argy with decent weight and stamina. It has an ability that allows it to carry the anky (Yes, it still counts the weight the ankys carrying to its weight)
THE ANKY HAS 85% WEIGHT REDUCTION ON METAL AND NOTHING ELSE. Make sure stuff like obsidian, stone, and crystal are loaded onto the argy because it has a 50% weight reduction on those.
It makes no sense that an anky cant damage stone...
Jurassic Bio: Ankylosaurus
Name means: Fused Lizard
Period: Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Height: 5ft
Length: 15ft
Description: Ankylosaurus was a heavyweight herbivore who typically minds its own business, unless threatened by a predator. Its hammer like tail …
Jurassic Bio: Ankylosaurus
Name means: Fused Lizard
Period: Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Height: 5ft
Length: 15ft
Description: Ankylosaurus was a heavyweight herbivore who typically minds its own business, unless threatened by a predator. Its hammer like tail (wild card drew its tail wrong) served as a weapon, while its boney armor seved as a shield.
— The Wyvern King tm
You would mainly use these to harvest metal and stuff, however the wild ones are a great source of keratin if you need some in a pinch 😈
✅You can take it with an Argentavis
Baby Ankylosaurus stay unconscious from cryosickness for 25 minutes.
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
These things are great for resource gathering, the higher melee the more resources you get so upgrade that.
This can get tons of metal with this! it’s very slow though. You can find it in the snow biome if you are on the island
You can carry the anky with you’re Argy and get close to any iron resource and he will automatically hit the metal or resources. Pretty cool for getting resources that are on the side of mountains that you can’t walk in.