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What is a diplocaulus used for? diplocaulus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
These cute amphibians are excellent for killing trilobites and gathering their corpses, since they:
* have a large damage multiplier on them
* gather black pearls in addition to the normal drops
* are fast enough to avoid and evade marine predators such as sharks
* will kill and gather trilobites in a single hit.
Additionally, they’re great for pre-scuba gear silica pearl diving, since they can act as a portable oxygen tank. Just be wary of sea scorpions stinging your diplocaulus while you are grabbing pearls, because it has extremely low torpor and could be knocked out.
These guys are the kings of trilobite hunting. Not only do they deal additional damage to them, they're great at collecting chitin, oil, and pearls. Other perks: they don't need a saddle to be ridden while in the water, they provide you with oxygen underwater, and are faster than just about anything while swimming. Super underrated mounts imo.
You can only mount these guys when they're swimming!
They don't have the best health, but amazing speed underwater and you can even get oxygen from them. They're somewhat rarer on ARK Mobile, but found in swamps being attacked by 12 local Kapros.
They're skittish like Ovi's and Archy's, but easy to get down and can be carried by Argys or larger, tamed or not.