Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a dodo used for? dodo battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
a cute, simple little bird. they come in slightly different sizes. easy to tame by knocking it out with your fists and feeding it various berries, mejoberries work best. they are pretty much useless unfortunately, so they mostly just make cute little pets. the only thing i guess they can do is carry a little bit of weight for you if you're a beginner, but they're already very slow so that'll just make them really sluggish. they're mostly only good for sitting around and looking cute.
Easiest way to tame weak carnivorous (dimetrodon, for exemple) :
1rst : build a trap, to let your beloved victim falls in
2nd : get an agressive, (but the weakest you'd find) dodo on your shoulder
3rd : start the knock out process, for the next taming
4rth : as soon as the victim's HP are too low to keep the knockout, release the dodo
The the dodo would attack directly the tame, so you really don't want a high level one ;
At the really 1rst dodo's attack, you'd whistle passive
By this way, the tamin would agro on the big bird, eats it, heal back, while you'd keep knocking it
Since this is generally a first breed for new players, I’ll put this here: to hatch an egg, drop it near a fire pit. Once it hatches, you need to claim it, or it will die. After doing so, add berries to its inventory and manually feed them till about 10% maturity. After that, they can eat on their own.
Dodos are actually very good as a starter tame. They can make dodo kibbles (if you are on mobile ore switch) you can tame pteranodons which can make you travel ANYWHERE. Plus, they are good carnivore distractions when you are trying to run away from that raptor pack that invaded your thatch house and settled down there to wage war on you...
Here is one of their best uses, your gonna want high level small dodos and then you are gonna take 10 of them to the skylord. They can be used as reinforcements and as bait so here is my idea
(10 level 100+ dodos) you are going to walk in skylord with one dodo following you a dodo following the dodo that followed you and so on. The come in as a line and you fight the onyc alone you line five-three dodos up against the room you turn right into. Then in the next room you set up 4 dodos Than with the other 1-3 you will build foundations around the jump thing and bring the dodos across. You make the dodos protect you as you get the artifact. Than you kill any enemies that attacked you. Than you get whatever dodos are left and go back the way you came mad you can do it again except next time you will problably only want dodos after that cause after having those 10 bodyguards you found out how to do it
(Do cave 1-3 times with dodos to get the hang of it and then you can do the rest solo)