Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for diplocaulus? Tips and strategies for diplocaulus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Using a crosbow have chance of killing it it so i recommend using tranq dirts for this it's like archa kibble or raw prime meat
Outside of not having saddle armor and being harder to tame, this little guy is essentially an upgraded Ichthyosaur. They give you oxygen like a scuba tank (abd available much much earlier) and are the best creatures for harvesting trilobites. Just don't expect much in the way of combat capability. You can't shoot off the back though, which reduces their usability for underwater taming. Perfect for resource cave runs. As they are amphibious you can take them over land to places other aquatics can't reach, although you will want a flyer to carry them because of how slow they are. Even a Pteranodon will work.
They're also skrunkly little salamanders, it's impossible not to love them.
They are in redwood swamp lake you can just carry them with argy
I saw one when I was flying around on my argy looking for a spino went down to look at it (I didn’t have a magnifying glass) and a sarco ate it
I always feel bad for accidentally scaring them when I walk by them at the swamp area🥺
Flat face lizard
You guys know you can pick this up with a pteranodon, right?
They have what I like to call “The Ovis Syndrome”, where a rare dino is made further rare by being weak and in a biome filled with predators. They are incredibly hard to find and even if found, usually they are halfway to being in the gaping maw of a Sarco.
If you want to tame one definitely bring an eagle to carry it away, even with an assault rifle (don’t use tames since they might accidentally kill the Diplo in the crossfire) it’s likely a snake or Dilo might sneak by and quickly kill your would be tame.
These creatures are rare so I would tame it but they are found in swamps so knock it out and build a wall around it everything wants to kill this thing or pick it up with a argent and go to your base
What I would do is I would fly on a pter or argent and I would find a croc chasing something and if it’s a diplocaulus pick it up and put it down somewhere safe.
One of my fav Dino’s. If you some reason like to travel through water use these guys cuz you can take breathe from them and basically breathe underwater
Hey just say “ hey bloop” if you know where they spawn in mobile pls
Best way to keep this creature alive while taming is to run it far away from danger. more often than not a kapro or sarco will come and kill while tamining.
Really good dino to tame and the oxegen is very good and knocks out easy i would recomend