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4178 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 15, 2016   Report

Don't put points into its movement speed if you want to glide faster. It glides as fast you run, so putting points into your movement speed will increase how fast it will glide. Hope this saves you from wasting levels like me : )

637 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 10, 2023   Report

I hope these guys get a rework soon, the landing takes forever and you can't use anything else while using them, however if you need sap ASAP tame one, set on wander, and put it next to a tree in the Redwoods, they'll instantly climb up and overtime collect a good amount of it. If either you have the same opinion or find this helpful (or both), please up.

1323 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Apr 1, 2020   Report

Careful not to confuse these with a microraptor. One will flee in fear, the other will rko you and eat your face

698 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 15, 2021   Report

Press R on the pc version to stop and start your glide. Didn’t see a single comment that said this so here’s the first. ;)

757 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 30, 2020   Report

I see the Otter God, the Jerboa King and the Defender of Bulbdogs made an early move. Now I the Archaeopteryx Lord shall rise. If any one of you guys kill these birbs I will look for you and feed your soul to the ravenous birbs I own. So if you see one my birbs Naruto running away for you, DO NOT kill it instead be its friend, they are a great parachute and they are wholesome creatures to begin with. So you have be warned by the Archaeopteryx Lord...

733 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 7, 2020   Report

Amazing for riding Ptera. Right before you run out of stamina on ptera, simply jump off while holding one of these and the ptera will regain its stamina in the air. Once your pteras stamina is full you can hop back on. Never need to land in dangerous areas again.

709 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Feb 4, 2020   Report

Fun fact: Archaeopteryx means “ancient wing”

379 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 28, 2022   Report

IS AN ARCHAEOPTERYX WORTH IT?

Well…..

It is in my opinion cause it’s a very easy tame and good glider. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME GETTING A PARACHUTE! These are very fun! However getting down from one is difficult,But otherwise get one very easy. Steps below

1. Get a bow and a tranq arrow

2. Get 1 narcotic 1-5 for levels

3. Kill a scorpion and get the chitin

4. Knock out and feed chitin

5. You have a living parachute

So now you what good it is, it has downsides as well:

Very hard to get down.

The place it is located is very hard and dangerous.

BUT. They can collect sap and other stuff.

Is it worth it? YES IT IS!

I forgot to mention this but it is found in the redwoods.

————Fatooie

1005 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 10, 2016   Report

Hit X (on Xbox controller) to stop and start glide.

695 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 5, 2016   Report

Can be used as a parachute

362 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 13, 2020   Report

Standard bola, 2 tranq arrows and feed chitin

399 points   🔧 Utility   Apr 27, 2020   Report

Some youtubers say that they are useless. WRONG. They are better than wasting time crafting a parachute and they can attack and they are small so very hard to target. I saw one of these drill through a rex and the thing didn’t even take damage once and the rex died.

651 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 9, 2016   Report

can slowly collect sap from redwood trees if on wonder.

306 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 7, 2021   Report

If you tame one and put it in wander near a redwood tree it will eventuly collect sap (descovered that this morning while i wanted it to wander in my small dino enclosur)

611 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 22, 2016   Report

Oh archaeopteryx, you little chicken on steroids. This little guys is just a whole load of fun. They can carry you over vast distances, but also double as a, hey you seem to be falling, lemme help you out. However, getting down can be a bit of a problem. Otherwise... WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO OH YEAH IM RIDING THE SKY USING THE POWER OF A LITTLE CHICKEN THING

197 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Sep 10, 2022   Report

Hi there! Just wanted to share a quick tip for mobile players!

So basically these birbs are kinda bugged on mobile so you can't shoot at them with tranqs whenever they're on trees. So I suggest y'all to simply wait for them to get on land and then shoot them (One tranq dart is enough, normally), or you can just bola one then shoot it. Just keep in mind that you just CAN'T shoot them while they're on trees.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you've found my tip useful!

- ThatAnxiousFox

33 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 11, 2025   Report

On x Box Controller Press x so it Stopps flying then Press x again so it Starts flying a little bit so it Puts you down slowly!YOU DONT HAVE TO GLIDE FOREVER! Havent Seen this Tip before so i wrote this!

1 point   ⚔️ Encountering   2 weeks ago   Report

If u play ark survival evolved mobile well you should see this these little creatures can be found in Redwood you can use these as parachute not like make them they are parachute I forgot what they eat but they are helpful and I hope this is helpful as well

218 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 27, 2021   Report

People say its not on mobile tell that to my glider

449 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 3, 2016   Report

It only eats chitin. Make sure to put chitin on them for food. Breeding also only takes chitin so make sure you have plenty.

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