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2149 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 27, 2020   Report

you can NOT carry it with an Argy on #mobile!!! literally JUST tried to and it does NOT work.

up this tip so that mobile users won’t waste their time too 🤦🏼‍♀️

2337 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 28, 2019   Report

No one wrote this but the higher the damage the better it is for incubating eggs

1874 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 23, 2020   Report

Please, please, please make sure it’s not on aggressive when you’re using it to hatch an egg. It will it eat it the moment it hatches! R.I.P my baby raptor. It was so young );

1061 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 24, 2020   Report

To the person who said "...mate this with a Baryonix to make a Spino", good one. I had a great chuckle with your tip. Someone make a mod out of this.

683 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 1, 2022   Report

To who ever said don’t leave it on aggressive name it Anakin because he killed a youngling

0 points   🥚 Taming & KO   3 days ago ✨ NEW   Report

save yourself a headache break into your kibble pocket! this guy with one or 2 kibble and just a small amout of narco berries its done in minutes as his food drains pretty fast but his his tapor drain so much faster so either bring enough tranqs for a gigga or please do yourself a favor and just crack that kibble pocket open for this one

0 points   🔧 Utility   3 days ago ✨ NEW   Report

Short of grinding forever for ac's having a few of these help make hatching gigga eggs so much more affordable

905 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 10, 2020   Report

It is basically a portable AC unit, the more melee damage you put into it, the better it is at being an AC.

39 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 8, 2025   Report

You CAN carry them with an argy on the new mobile version, I just did it.

1356 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 30, 2016   Report

For the love of god tame these on double xp and only tame low lvls

1235 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 7, 2016   Report

Can be used as air conditioners when trying to incubate eggs. For larger eggs you will need more dimetrodons

696 points   🔧 Utility   May 1, 2020   Report

I think the devs should add the feature that food in a Dimetrodon‘s inventory lasts twice as long as in other dinosaurs inventory, e.g. raw prime meat cause they act as an AC

305 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 2, 2023   Report

If you put it on aggressive with Kairuku set to breeding, it will eat the babies and store the polymer in its inventory. Easy organic poly farm!

349 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 15, 2021   Report

You can only use his incubation ability in the day time.

Historically dimetrodons used there large sails to absorb heat and warm them selves up due to them being cold blooded

They should also be much bigger.

I don't care I you me for being a know it all but I just trying to help

Shout out to all the dino nerds who play ark.

300 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 11, 2021   Report

To the one who said that we have to carefully not leaving him on agressiv, while incubate eggs

Why would you ever set this poor and easily killed on agressive ?

It would be destroyed within secondes, by almost everything wandering around

639 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 17, 2016   Report

They must be able to float in water to lay eggs.

295 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 20, 2021   Report

I have NEVER used an air conditioner to incubate ANY eggs (even wyvern eggs) I only use four of these guys with every point into melee damage and they do the job 👍🏽

0 points   🥚 Taming & KO   9 days ago   Report

Idk what type of redbull these guys be taking but they wake up as fast as a damn GIGA. I bringed 57 narcs when i tried to tame it and it still woke up in the end and walked away like nothin happened, make sure you bring like 100 narcs when taming it

243 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 14, 2021   Report

Can wild card please start including special abilities in the info panel I'm tired of going to tips to go find out if dino has some special quirk idk about yet being an incubator and an ac is important INFO ya think?

13 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 3, 2025   Report

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

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