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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a brontosaurus used for? brontosaurus utility tips and strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Best berry gatherer in the game. Solid for clearing out forests and inadvertently collecting tons of thatch and wood. Super heigh weight stat, super high health stat, decent attack with its tail and massive knockback. While you're riding one of these most dinos will ignore you. You can unlock a platform saddle for these guys, allowing you to create a mobile base on their back. This makes them great for long expeditions or resource runs as long as you're not in a hurry. Also, they swim deceptively fast. I use mine as a ferry to herbivore Island sometimes and cross the ocean super quickly. All in all a super solid tame that has its uses from early game through end game.
So if you really want to grind metal in single player you should get a bronto get a platform saddle and spam its weight build a furnace room on top with everything you can, then tame an argy and anklo (if you don’t have one) then use the argy to pick up anklo and find a metal supply ise the anklo to get the metal then pick the anklo up and carry to the bronto platform saddle with the argy then smelt it in the metal base you made. Hope you like it if.
In Ark Mobile, you can have 126 structures on the Bronto, there's no need to build a smithy as I just use argies and set them on follow or mortar as i have Equus and casteroides. Have another platform bronto of the opposite sex on follow to get mate boost. One could be a dino carrier and be built as a tank(hp, speed, weight), the other for damage (melee, speed and hp)
Not sure what the platform saddle cap is but highest armor is 408 from many dungeon runs. Use a gold chain for an additional 50 armour, 30% more carry weight, 20% more movement speed, 10% more health, 30% faster attack speed and stamina. Have a fully imprinted bronto for another 20% bonus HP, Attack, Weight and Speed.
Always keep veggie cakes, store it in a tek trough and your bronto will be near invincible or at a minimum stronger than a titanosaur and giga which you can hunt with ease. Use turrets, arthropleura or chalicotherium on turret mode to help speed things up. If you want to level up quickly chronical it and set up a revival platform in the yeti cave, or use a teleporter to get it to level up quickly.
They're going to be the closest thing to dino supercarrier in the game.