Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
You can use tranq darts and shoot them out of the trees instead of having to sneak up on them to try to hit them before they run, it's just hard to hit them due to having such a small hit box so take the time to aim carefully
something no one else seems to have mentioned here though... DO NOT TAKE THEIR EGGS... You will suffer for it
they seem like they're slow animals, but you take those eggs and they are the fastest damn thing you have ever seen. Faster than even raptors.
if you think you're only seeing two or three in one tree... I guarantee you more will show up and attack if you touch those eggs.
I was in the process of trying to find a decent level one to tame, I found a single Archie that just has a dropped egg, and it went up the tree so I grabbed the egg...
I got mobbed by about 10 of them and the only reason I didn't die is because I had five tamed argentavis to fight them off before they could kill me.
Flak armor is useless against flocks of angry archaeopteryx
More Archaeopteryx Encountering Tips
Careful not to confuse these with a microraptor. One will flee in fear, the other will rko you and eat your face
Fun fact: Archaeopteryx means βancient wingβ
Make sure you DON'T mistake them for Micros. These dudes run. I've accidentally killed one thinking it was a micro. Always use a spy glass to tell which is which. Finding these cute lil fellas is hard especially with all the thylas and terror birds around. To tame them you'll need Chitin so go kill some ants or dragonflies and then boom you have a lil buddy you can love forever, well y'know until they die or you quit.
- Snippet the Compy
Found on the redwood forest on mobile, thought not that common.
Alright, so basically I found one of these in the wild and REALLY wanted one. But with all the fun things in the Redwoods willing to take out anything that looks at them... Well you get the idea. But when I went to a dungeon and saw a Eerie one I wanted it SO bad. So I killed that one took its creature implant, revived it at one of the obelisks and tamed that glory bird up. Now I have a light up parachute!
These are NOT rare, just hard to find. Keep a close eye on the redwood trees, make sure to circle the trees, and listen for the noise they make.
You can also find these in the fuzzy trees in scorched earth by the small mountain
Won't assault you however if you go near it it will flee. This is because it's skittish in temperment. If you wish to tame keep this in mind
This little b*tch is so hard to find even on redwoods? HECK NO you look for them they DISSAPEAR. You donβt want them, they come to life.π
You can tell these apart from microraptors by looking at their tail a microraptor has feathers in a circular shape at the end of their tail but these guys have a line of feathers going all the way down.