Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

Tips & Strategies

The doedicurus is great for stone and is one of the most useful dinos mid game to build a stone base. However, the doedicurus' weight is extremely low, so you are best off using a queztal (Center and Island) or a paracer (Scorched Earth) with a platform saddle to carry the doedicurus. The animal used to carry the doedicurus will not recognize its weight so u can mine as much stone as you want without having to make constant trips. This is easiest if you have two people but it can be done with just 1.
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Taming even a low-mid level can turn building in stone into an afternoon instead of a weekend. Highly recommended must have dino for everyone.
One of arkโs essential tames alongside the trike (berries), anky (metal), argent (heavy travel), ptera (quick travel & argent taming), and beaver (wood).
Anyone else understand why it's faster in water than it's bigger relative, the Carbenymas I mean. (yet the carbon is built for swimming while the doedic is not)?
Me: So you can harvest the most stone out of any method, take a quarter of the weight, but canโt break stone wallsโฆ
Doedicurus: Yes.
The Doedic is one of the most essential Dino's on ark. It's the most important thing when building stone buildings, or other stone structures. The higher the level the better, and weight is essential!
Equip your Doedicurus with a saddle, pick it up with an Argentavis and fly near rocks as it automatically harvests the stone as you fly. Level up the melee damage to harvest more stone with each swing. Level up your Argentavisโ weight capacity be an insane stone harvest team.
In crystal isles they get gobs of organic polymer from the giant bee cave up so people know
Survival experts call this "edible"
They no longer harvest obsidian, just stone. Not sure if they changed it with the new patch, but tried to collect obsidian in the Center with him and all I got was stone.
They can not gather metal