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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
If you're in early game and planning to run the south cave and snatch the…
If you're in early game and planning to run the south cave and snatch the hunter artifact, these things are the ones to worry about. They will absolutely obliterate your puny hide armor and even flak doesn't stand a chance and even worse, like every other cave dweller, they can knock you out. I play on mobile so if you play on PC, watch out for megalania (komodo dragons that give you covid and ambush you from the cave ceiling) i have a primitive shotgun and i mainly fight with my carno in the cave and i haven't tried fighting them with a carno but im pretty sure a strong carno or bary can take on an arthro. i took care of 2 arthros with a shotgun and a primitive shotgun deals 64×10 damage (640 damage total) and the shotgun is a double barrel so
640 × 2 = 1280 damage. so the shotgun is your best friend in the caves to deal with spiders, scorpions, and other cave dwellers. good luck stealing the artifact!
More Arthropluera Encountering Tips
DO NOT ENGAGE OR YOU WILL DIE! I was hunting araneos when this thing came out of nowhere and three shot me! All my dimorphs were literally devoured when I came back. It is like centipedes in real life but instead of killing you slowly with poison it kills you with bites quickly. Do not equip anything lower than Chitin or you will get one shot.
Stay TF back. Bug repellant and ghillie seems like your best option. Also, a longbow and a lot of distance. If it spots you, duck and weave MF, duck and weave!
He protec
He attac
But most importantly he says good bye to your flak
They CANNOT attack you while in the water!!!
Annoying in cave so if you want to survive certain caves, just turn Dino damage to zero so you can actually collect stuff in there otherwise three shot you’re done
How to always win against arthropluera
dont go in caves
Hitting them with melee is foolish, you waste your weapon's durability. Ranged attacks deal a lot of damage to them
Never use melee weapons against them because arthropleuras reflect some of the damage dealt back onto you and your armor and also massively damage your weapon's durability
Always use firearms against them because arthropleuras take 3x damage against them and projectiles and also have a 2.5x headshot multiplier so hitting a headshot will massively damage them
Do not engage,it has speeding acid that can shred through armor,tek structures,and you,if you hit them,you'll either die or break your harvesting tool,I learnt this the hard way on scorched with a level 145 direwolf,it died.
They actually can fit though doors learned that the hard way.