Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
If you are alone, ride a pteranodon. This is because they cannot latch onto a pteranodon, but they can latch onto an argentavis. Lead the deinonychuses away from the nest and into a group of brontosauruses. Agro the brontos and make them hit the deinonychuses, and then watch carnage ensue. Rinse and repeat until the deinonychuses have all died, make sure brontos aren't agroed and then safely snatch the eggs from the nests. Using a whip is an optional choice to make things run smoother and faster. After this process, go somewhere else for a few minutes and come back to do it again. With very little practice, this can be a very effective method.
If there are no brontos in the area, use the pteranodon as a weapon. Swoop in and twirl into the deinonychuses until they die. WATCH OUT for raptors. They WILL dismount you in a heartbeat, whether they were targetting you beforehand or not. After the deinonychuses are dead, swoop in and snatch the eggs before leaving and repeating the process.
When you see a deinonychus don’t try to steal its egg just run before it’s to late
-rip berry the parasaur
DO NOT TAME THESE WITH LOW LVL FLYERS my ice wyvern (10) died REALLY fast to a lvl 61 deinonychus tame them with quetzal also make sure
They are not focused on you I recommend having 2 players one distracts and one steals I got 3 in 10 min with this
Definitely a dino worth your time and effort, you can snatch the eggs super early game with a lymantria by luring and cropdusting the parents, and they can be bred for boss battles and PvP.
A few tips:
-No fall damage
-Pounce range and direction is determined by what you're aiming at with your mouse, imagine an invisible crosshair in the middle of your screen. -The pounce goes a lot further than you think, they can latch onto hovering Manticore, as their vertical wall leap (once latched) is 5-6 walls.
-They can still pounce/wall climb when overencumbered, with the same range/mobility, so you can just hop home with all that metal ore you're carrying.
-A fang symbol will appear on pouncable targets, you just have to press Jump once and watch your Deino turn into a raptor sized homing leech missile. For some reason argies are no problem, but YutyS are unpouncable.
-You will need to target Hp, StaM and dmg
Tip use a pt to leade them away and then you can easily go steal the egg on fjordur it takes 16 to 18 standing fires -icedragon
Use torches not camp fires. Torches are hotter and smaller.
Getting eggs is super easy. Just put all your stuff in a chest, tame like a level two Pterodon, and make the Dienonychus yeet themselves off a cliff. Free eggs for you.
Best to look for the eggs at night because then you can see the red glow of the fertilized egg.
So, I have a bunch of deins on breeding- I’m mutating some nice colours, a green with red feathertips and a nice blue to compliment it all. Some guy, who I thought was cool and chill, keeps swooping in and stealing my eggs. All the mutations? He stole them. All the new eggs I need? Took them too. When I asked in chat, he lied, making up all kinds of ‘they glitched under the map’ and that nonsense. I go to his base and there they are, thirty or forty of MY deins from MY eggs. I’ve left a sign telling him to stop, but I don’t know if he will. I’ve been told (because im in the alpha tribe) that if they steal from me or my tribemates they’ll be banned. It’s really annoying- I spend months grinding up the mutations, then they just steal them. Then lie. It’s pve, so if it was pvp then sure, fair game, but it’s not. And I don’t get paid, or he doesn’t grind up at all, he just takes. It’s really annoyed me, like REALLY annoyed me. I’m pretty sure he knows who he is, and he better stop. Does anyone else see how unfair this is? Anyone else had similar experiences? Cause dam I hate him right now.
On fjordur go to 40 60 right by the realm portals up above it, you'll see a arch and boom nests, found 4 in that area
When using an incubator to breed, temp is 85, thumbs up if this helps
Incubates at 73 Fahrenheit and bolas can be used on them
Ok best way to tames these
1. Take a flyer to the nests and find a place to scout
2.wait for a nest to be undefended then fly in. The best way is fly slow coming in and fast coming out. You want to spend as little time on the ground
3. Kill any agro deinonychus.
4. Repeat step 2 and 3
my favourite tame in ark by FAR. a pack of these with level 200+ can destroy almost anything. the bleed damage they do is percent based meaning the more health something has, they higher the damage they will do with bleed. the mobility on these guys is crazy. they are very fast, and if you hold space bar (or whatever your jump button is) you can do a charged jump which will make you go higher and further. you can scale vertical or slanted surfaces with their climbing ability. they are also just adorable. fluffy raptors = the better raptor
The guy that said that they can be found in places other than chalk hills and at “green spire.” It took me like a half an hour of research to find what you were talking about. It’s not called a “spire” it’s an obelisk.