When you have a giga....they are just worms...

these things are ALL OVER the lost island’s desert. i found about six or seven within 10 minutes

When you fight the worm make sure you use a oil jar and set it on fire when it chases you.

Easy passive tame with mejoberrys

If you’re on ragnarok and want horns, go to the ice cave. The ice worms are easier to kill.

Megatheriums are excellent for killing them including alphas. just murder bugs around the desert and the bug killing buff will allow you to tank hits and deal loads of damage :D

Rexes are the usual recommendation for killing worms, but they can go down fast with more than 1 worm at a time if you don’t have backup.

Unless you are leveling Rexes for boss battles, a Procoptodon and a good pump shotgun is top dog here. Hop around the dunes until they find you and then start blasting them in the face. Even with multiple worms, or an alpha, you’re fast enough to run circles around them and get out of attack range. Level weight on your roo and black pearl/hide/keratin storage is barely a concern.

Scorched Earth - Oasis of trees and an explorer note around 10 Lat 16.5 Lon (top left corner).

Travel around the dunes north/northeast of the oasis, you should find plenty of worms. Alphas spawn far more often here than anywhere else it seems, but are still rare. ~ 3 - 8 black pearls for normal worms (not guaranteed drop), 75 black pearls per alpha (guaranteed).

This is based on experience in ASA, no clue how similar ASE spawning is.

To whoever asked:

Go to the maps section of the app: Tap the menu button up top and go to maps, select the map you are playing on, and tap Creature map. Ten, scroll down until you see Creature select. Choose your creature (a thyla, in your case) and go back to the map. It will display the areas and rarity of your creature’s spawn. Hope this helps. You can also choose a resources map or exploration map.

So best way to kill one of these is a megatherium. There are chitin creautures everywhere to get the buff. Killed like 20 yesterday this way. But are they lvl 1 maximal on normal?

Look for a different tame or let it kill you

On Ragnarok I had the 'best' surprise ever and encountered one not knowing what the heck was happening I was gathering meat from killing animals and noticed some dust following me I stayed to see what it was and a giant worm appeared and killed my pteranodon and me along with it

It doesn’t matter what level the death worm is, they will all have the same health and melee, I just wish you luck is all

It has chance to drop black pearls.That's almost the only way to obtain black pearls in scorched earth.

For those wondering

You can find these demons in an ice cave on Ragnarok. I do not recommend going unprepared-

You find these things in the open part if the desert in Ragnarok. You really just need a good level Thyla and you should be fine. There a bit overrated, trust me I used to live in the desert. Mantises are tamed with Deathworm horns.

Tame a 100+ megatherium and enrage is by attacking creatures that give you chitin. This will give you a damage boost and a damage resistance boost. Level up melee and you will easily be able to kill a death worm

Since everyone else's tips are stupid. If you want to find a deathworm, you can use k mode and look underground. If a worm is nearby, you will see it's body. You can use a land mount like a thyla or a flyer like the wyvern. If flying, point the flyer downwards to make controlling easier. As for fighting it....use whatever dino you have. Rexes are great, wyverns too. Wolves are effective against the worms as well as the alpha to. If you plan to live out on the dunes in SE, be prepared to have random encounters time to time. These worms CAN destroy thatch-stone-adobe. My solution was to just use my rex army but wolves work great early game.

I know a good tip don’t encounter one

Not tamable, get out of this section