On mobile, there is a little thing called dodo size. It dictates two things, 1. How you go about transporting the dodo, and 2. What bits you can put on it. You can breed them to get the size you want, for the purposes you want. Little dodos are shoulder birds, medium dodos are regular dodos, and large dodos can be ridden and can equip bits.

hi if someone could please say how to incubate eggs that would help a lot I’m a newbie

By far the best creature. Its everyones first of the first in tames, and a Bob’s best friend. It always starts with the dodo. I still have mine. He watched me ascend.

It's fun to make an army of them and attack a thatch base

These might seem useless but they’re quite the opposite. Here’s how.

One: eggs

We all know that every Dino on ark and some other creatures lay eggs but the dodo can actually lay eggs quicker than any other. You can use this by these 3 steps,

1: make a 2x2 thatch or wood base. This will keep your dodos safe from any deadly creatures that are a bit hungry.

2: The dodos (obviously). You want about 5 female dodos for your egg laying

3: a male dodo or an oviraptor (optional) the reason you would want one or both of these is because they would boost egg laying speed and with the male dodo to get even more dodos.

Two: raids

I know I know it sounds stupid but it’s actually a bit more grim. First, if you’re high a level enough and you can make C4s, you can WARNING IF YOU HAVE A GREAT LOVE FOR DODOS SKIP TO THE NEXT PARAGRAPH. So, you would strap the C4 on your dodo. Then, you would toss by an enemy base on wander, let it get near and, either when a player sees the C4 or is by the base, KABLAM, you just won a war of raids, from a dodo.

Three: company on single player

Now, picture this, you and your only army just died from a giga and you can’t get your stuff back, you super frustrated because you lost all your 50 tranq darts, 20 excepcional kibble, and a fertilized Rex egg. Then you have your little dodo, right by you, and you start to get cured of your depression, and gain enough confidence to sneakily grab your stuff, and tame a new high level argy. Dodos in ark are great for therapy and company. Now, I hope you see the dodo in a new way.

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Put a tracking chip in one put it in your base or an enemy's and boom you can find it instantly. Signed the tek dodo

So, Baby creatures cannot eat from troughs but juveniles can. Just so you know if you are going to be a great godparent for your creature

A tip is get this sick with swamp fever (or even better Mega rabies! Only if close 2 someone's base) put c4 on it drop into the best tribe in the server (they cant have turrets) and put in they,re base, detonate the c4 (they have to be online) and then one will go after it for meat then they will get sick infecting the tribe, then bring gas masks and flush em out raid em take em prisoner!!

Dodos are easy tamed for beginners, and sometimes even good tames for more advanced people, you can breed bigger dodos so you can equip special items on them (dodo cultivator) and ride them, they eat berries and they need to be well protected because they are quite weak and slow

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If you make a pen for dodo breeding I highly recommend the following method: Dodos have a tendency of escaping through my briefly open doors so I made a small hall with a door on each end. One door is to the outside world, the other door goes into the dodo enclosure. This ensures that if a dodo sneaks by me through the enclosure door, I can catch it before it gets completely outside. Never lose your dodos to accidental escape again!

This guys are friendly and a great first pet. Please like so many people will see this, thank you.

These guys are op for killing sarcos in early game cuz I told my dodo to attack the sarco and it was behind its hit box and I was spearing the sarco till it died and the dodo did good damage so these are rlly good tames

Be honest... but this was your first tame...

Dodges below 0.8 dodo scale can be shoulder pets, and if above 2.4 dodo scale you can ride them. Beach dodos have smaller dodo scale, from my experience.

In a PVP server, if you encounter a base with turrets set to attack players, what you do, is take a tamed dodo, and pick it up. After this start walking up to the base still holding said dodo, since you are behind the dodo, the turrets will not target you, and you will be able to ghost up to the base walks and destroy them however. Hope you enjoyed this tip!

Infect a bunch of dodos with swamp fever,

Put them in a big box on the back of a quetz that has a Dino gate at the back wall,

Then fly the quetz over the map and when you're above the base of a tribe you don't like, open the gate on the quetz and fly over,

The diseased dodos will fall out the back and infect everybody with swamp fever,

Works best when the dodos also have C4s so that you can blow them up as well,

Works even better when you have an unclaimed onyc biting away and giving the dodos rabies,

Works even better than that when the dodos are max levelled entirely on melee damage,

Works EVEN better than that when the dodos are accompanied by some raptors,

And EEEEEEEVEN better than even that when the dodos have some pegos as well to steal any weapons and cryoed tames, after that just go back and bring any dodos raptors and pegos that somehow survived back with you and take anything in their inventories

These guys are not only a good starter tame, they also have 2 more utilities. They are technically the best distraction tame

(tames that are sacrificed to save the owner's life). They can be be used to escape carnivores such as Dilos, Rexes, ecc.

They are the best distraction tames because they are the easiest ones to tame, and they are also common.

They are also an early-game kibble source.

Tame 2 dodos and start breed them, after a lot of time you will get a wery strong and big dodo!!! You can use this like a T-rex or a something else

Alright since everyone’s tips are saying they are dangerous they’re actually not. I’m not joking at all and being serious. I got four max levels. They can defend you from small threats you’ll likely to face early game like a weak lone sarco a few compies or a small dilo pack. But not something like a rex or a giganotosaurus or 7 raptors at the same time. Punch the like so beginners see.

Great food store for very early game. Tames have a 4x slower spoil rate for food in their inventory so knock one out, call it Fridge and store berries and meat in it. Can be carried too!