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 : )

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

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.

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. ;)

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...

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.

Fun fact: Archaeopteryx means “ancient wing”

If you play the old Ark Mobile, these minor issues only appear during the day.

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

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

can slowly collect sap from redwood trees if on wonder.

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.

Standard bola, 2 tranq arrows and feed chitin

Can be used as a parachute

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

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)

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

Don’t mistake these with microraptors, but don’t mistake those for these things. The difference is that one is afraid of everything that runs away as soon as you come near it, then flies away, then the other isn’t afraid of anything that’s basically a homing missle that can’t miss, and makes things really dangerous

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

Don't jump of a bird at the world ceiling with one of these. It takes way longer than you expect to hit the ground.