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What is a dimetrodon used for? dimetrodon battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
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
You probably think these guys are useless and not worth it but if you tame a few low levels they can be SO useful, as they can incubate eggs. Using them on SE to incubate eggs is really handy because it means you don't have to have a generator that will need to be repaired from time to time.
Works as an A/C Unit providing hypo and hyper insulation, and is potentially more effective then an A/C unit. Insulation provided is based on melee damage. From testing it seems to be that insulation is equivalent to melee stat. So an imprinted dimetrodon with 400% melee provides 400 insulation equivalent to 4 A/C units.
here’s the plan:
(take a make and a female, they act as air conditioners and can breed infinitely. their AC property means they will hatch their own eggs as well.)
step 1. find a public server
step 2. join a tribe for protection
step 3. tame a male and female dimetrodon
step 4. enable breeding and leave the server
step 5. come back months later to a ton of dimetrodons and a broken laggy server
dimetrodon is a server bomb