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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a direbear used for? direbear battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
THESE THINGS ARE AMAZING!!!!!! They are a little hard to tame but once you do they are so worth it they are extremely fast, extremely powerful and tough useful even out of combat when gathering honey and can insulate you in the snow or heat and allow for more travel, besides it’s a giant cuddly bear, you know you want it.
These are AMAZING! From (admittedly limited) experience, they can gather 200+ honey from a single beehive in less than a minute at the cost of destroying the hive, but it's absolutely worth it. Also, they can help protect their rider from bees. They can take out attacking bees very fast. LMB to attack, RMB to gather. RMB also does damage to other creatures but will not damage the hive.
PS: If you have access to a Quetzal with a platform saddle, you can use that to help the bear get access to more hives and as a result get more honey. I did it and now have thousands of honey. Also, they eat both berries and meat and will eat those before eating the precious honey.
To that random tip: a Wild bear does not hit harder than Rex or Spino. Rex at 100% deals 62 while Spino deals 60 on secondary attack, wild bears only use bite which deals 50. They get the same stat increase which is 5% so a bear can never deal more damage than a Rex with the same stat distributions. Nor is it recorded anywhere that a bear, wild or tamed, has any special bullet resistance beyond the universal 30% firearm resistance. We do have eyes.