The dire wolf is an all around great mount. Not only can it be used to farm meat chitin and other resources it can be used to quickly travel across the map. The wolf can defend itself against almost everything,except high level brontos and Rex's. It is definitely worth the long game times!!

Breeding is very easy, just stick a male and a female in a basic 4x4 it takes a minute or so then a 50 minute pregnancy. Make sure to feed your pup often, especially after they are born. Slowly they can hold more food but at first they can’t hold much.

Hope this helps.

-Mangodragon3

If you find yourself taming a direwolf, you just made your life on ARK just that much easier, they are great at harvesting almost anything from bodies, make sure to get a pack of these to defend your base or to farm resources, a mate boosted pack is a very strong way to clear almost any Dino.

I might be a bit crazy, but I feel that they're so useless, compared to other carnivores (mainly because, on mobile, I don't have the snif hability) ;

Way more difficult to tame one, because they're spawning in groups, so everything would agro on you, plus the fact they'd spawn around Rex's and on coldest area ever makes them pretty late tames, so the saddle point is just useless, even more, it just weaker he wolf (almost as good as raptor, with the jumped attack in less)

Due to it's size slightly bigger than smilodon's, it better to get the big cat on cave (and stats are really comparable, so with few breeding skills, you would easily get a sabertooth as strong as the wolf, even considering the hat)

Last point, I have to agree that the hat increase it resistance, on fights

But after few fights, you would need to repair the helmet, witch would consume a huge parts, in your ressources, the exact same ressources that you'd get the wolf to farm, while other tames would not get this inconvenient

So, considering all of this, sabertooth is by far better than wolf (great farmer for everything like hide, chitin, and keratin, but doesn't imply to repair the only protection it got

So doesn't wast the ressources farmed from fights

Direwolves don’t require a saddle to ride so taming one is an extremely good investment. Not to mention that they don’t lay eggs and they immediately give birth to baby making it easy to breed them which I would definitely recommend since getting your own pack of them is extremely powerful.