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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a baryonyx used for? baryonyx utility tips and strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
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I’ve always viewed the baryonyx as a far more agile and flexible alternative to the carnotaurus. The prime use that I have the baryonyx for disposal is cave spelunking (specifically at the lava cave). Their ability to jump, instantly harvest corpses after kills, and semi-decent health make for a quick take-artifact-and-leave mission. Unfortunately, I have lost many lives within that cave for my experiments and chitin trips. There are some stories that will be posted soon in the story section.
The Baryonyx is perfect for the Upper South Cave. Because of it's height, it can easily gnaw on every bat / critter that comes your way. You can use it to go all the way to the ruin room, and then either use the Baryonyx to swim through the water passages, or just grapple through the gap in the wall (Check wiki for the gap location). Hope this helps!
(mobile) Best cave runner you can get. There are few stronger or faster choices and none are as versatile/easy to tame as the bary. Stuns most creatures when doing a spin in water(swipe up) and heals incredibly fast when killing fish. Also, force-feeding fish meat restores some 7.5 health for bary when force-feeding normal meat restores only 5 for other carnivores but it doesn't really matter. It takes minutes of non-stop clicking to restore your tame's health on high lvs if it gets below half health, but with a bary, you simply find a bunch of fish and kill them. You don't even need to eat them. The bary restores some of its health immediately when killing a fish. When traveling, keep swiping up to jump repeatedly and get a speed that's even faster than running.
These guys are the perfect cave mounts, I've solo'd the swamp cave with one. The only caves i haven't done with them is the ice and water caves, although i can see it being possible in the easy water cave. They're also perfect alpha carno killers because of their stun attack
Super easy to tame, but better than a Spino or Rex. Literally faster than a raptor, and swims pretty fast. Unlimited oxygen, super good stamina, stun attack (10 seconds), high damage, great jump, good weight. This thing is INSANE. I’d definitely recommend you keep it in your arsenal. Water base defense especially. Great creature to have on your water platform saddles, as it can stun lock creatures and knock players off their mounts.
Baryonyx are very useful in many ways!
U can stun anything in water and kill dangerous Dino’s
when u stun them!
They are also the best cave mount in the game!
They have long range and knock back!
They do extra damage to fish and when killing fish it heals them! Be careful in the lava cave because bats can push u into the lava instantly killing the bary!
Totally worth taming and don’t only spawn in swamps! They spawn along rivers too!