Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

Bruh I kept finding females only and after the 10th female I finally found a male💀 I was starting to think that there’s only females on mobile bruh, anyways these dinos are really useful if your level 60 or below( except those who found the air conditioner blue print in a drop) because these Dino can be used as a portable air conditioner, and you don’t unlock the air conditioner blue print until level 61 and obviously you’re already going to be breeding some Dino before that. Dimetrodon are in the swamp so they may be a little hard to obtain, dimetrodon aren’t rare but like hard to spot due to the shadows of trees and swamp floating grass or whatever in the water so you know makes it a bit hard too. On mobile these Dino prefer quetzal kibble and their torpor drops EXTREMELY fast so make sure to bring lots of bio toxins/narcotics and bring kibble to make the taming better, also make sure to tame a high level one for higher melee stat because for every 100% of melee is equal to a single air conditioner, for example if my dimetrodon has a melee of 300% it is equivalent to 3 air conditioners. Which is also another reason why you may want to chose a dimetrodon even after having the air conditioner blue print because dimetrodon saves you a ton of resources AND space especially when your done with breeding your dinos you can just unclaimed them and you didn’t waste much time on building all those air conditioner and wasting more time on destroying them. So tame a dimetrodon to make hatching eggs a lot easier👍🏽 -V
More Dimetrodon Utility Tips
These guys make really great organic poly farms beyond their hatching ability. Plus, they're my favorite and I'll use them over an incubator any day <3
Here's a decently easy poly farm setup that I use every time :
Set up a 4x4 or 5x5 foundation, two walls high all around it with a door somewhere for you to access the Dimes. On the top of the walls - very top - place just one ring of QUARTER ceilings around the edge and leave the middle open (should be roughly a 3x3 or 4x4 opening, depending on your foundation size).
On the inner opening you've left, place down roofs angled into the center, making a kind of chute. Viola, you've got the 'factory' for your poly farm.
From there tame two to four male Kairuku and as many females as you'd like - I usually do 4 chicks per dude. Here's the tricky part though, you'll need to toss the birds onto the ledge you've made, males directly across from each other (opposite walls) and females spaced around between them (mine is usually one dude, four chicks, one dude, repeat). Once they're in place, toss a hitching post down on each side (4 total), lock them up and start the mating. Don't forget a feeding trough for them. Sometimes the eggs are stupid and don't drop so they rot up top, but if you check on it now and then and toss the eggs down, you should be fine.
Inside the structure on the bottom under the ramped roofs, toss your Dimetrodon(s) and set them to aggressive. Max their melee and toss a few in weight for good measure. Bam - poly farm. They'll massacre the babies as they hatch, collect poly and eat the meat - their natural AC capabilities help keep the poly from spoiling too fast so you have time to clear them out and not lose much if at all. Also a good way to get prime meat since that's mostly what babies drop.
I sometimes have a hitch where the eggs don't go down, I've found removing the ramps completely helps so if you're on a laggy official, I'd just skip the ramp part.
Hope this helps someone out there!
- Nora