These creatures happen to be one of the best ways to get around, if you know how to use them. Have an ally pick you up with an Argy whilst you are holding one, have them fly up a decent height, and have them let go. You will literally be able to do laps around the map's edges without touching the ground if you know what you're doing! (Some training is required, so that you don't, say, accidentally throw it mid-air.)

Devs need to add chest piece for them so you can equip weapons while gliding

In mobile version they don't use stamina while gliding and can glide the player regardless of his weight for example my archaeopteryx has 33kg weight while I had 300kg iron on me , glided just fine from redwood hill to all the way to herbivore island(my base) without any issue... Well there was a problem thou that archaeopteryx would not land as it never ran out of stamina so I had to whistle my Tapejara and get on it to land. This is possibly a bug so use it while u can ;) happy infinite gliding.

P.S. I was not in godmode or infinite stats.

They are living parachutes really they are!!!

I keep one just for its beauty😊

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

These things are a godsend for platform saddle dismounting. No more wasting parachutes, fall damage or doing acrobatics on the tail. Just have one of these parked on the platform hand your all set.

Be prepared if you breed them. You will need a shit load of chitin! I got twins and one died because of my lack of knowledge ;u;

It's a very good bird. It really helps with staying in the air if you fall off your flying mount and need to get back on. It's practically living glider!

Using just an archaeopteryx if you jump from a very high place you can travel the entire map with little to worry about. They are also good for when that one god damn microraptor gets you and your argy.

Oh no a alpha carno sike proceeds to jump off cliff with archy these are a must have tame they are cute they can collect sap on wander and remebr they are a great parachute for scouting just jump off a high place and glide

put a lot of levels in weight and like someone else said put no levels in movement.

When holding an archaeopteryx, you cannot grab anything, you need to drop the bird to use items like pile or spyglass

I have seen this tip pop up a whole lot lately but still see new comments on how you can’t land them. You can definitely land them. I myself play Xbox currently and to land them on it you tap x. You can also tap x again to make it resume flight. Also I would like to add to my last tip that they do only eat chitin after being tamed, so that might be a downside to those that don’t like being around bugs.🐜🐜🐜

-M.L.

For switch player Y makes u glide and unglide

WARNING: These do not count as shoulder pets when you carry them, the are held the same way as dodos and dung beetles. Therefore THEY TAKE DAMAGE WHEN HELD. Even if your riding a mount your fragile little bird can get hit by anything that targets you. Found that out the hard way.

RIP Perrashoot

To the mobile players , I tamed one today and they are insanely useful. For metal runs, just get the leg day buff and as long as you have 150%+ mvment speed you can carry thoursands of metals from the volcano to anywhere on the map, wothout needing an argy i carried 3.5k metal from the volcano all the way to the south beaches very fast.

This creature goes really well with griffins, since the stamina on them is low and they’re really easy to get back on after jumping off.

If you start off in the ocean biome, there great early games as they can travel from Island to island. All you need to knock it out is a bola and club, and the chitin used to tame it can be bought from Helena or gathered from trilobites.

Parachute plus one of these guys and a wing suit