Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for doedicurus? Tips and strategies for doedicurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
You can find them in the redwoods, by obsidian mountain, and north of the beaver spawn near hunter cave. I highly advise using an Argentavis so you can just pick it up and knock it out in a safer spot.
Tranq arrows and I used Bio Toxin, I still suggest keep on you about 50, and I used crops, the one I tamed preferred corn over potatoes, carrots and etc
Instead of shooting in the face with tranq arrows, go for the tail. Will take practice or if you managed to lure into a trap of yours it will swing its tail. If on foot just walk backwards and close enough to trigger a swing at you to get shots to the tail. In a trap just time it when it swings. Avoids it from taking too much damage from heatshots and balling up.
tranq arrow with a crossbow or a tranq bullet with a gun but be careful cuz they can curl up in a ball and shield your attacks so make sure to do it fast.
Very easy to KO, just walk backwards while firing at its head with a tranq weapon. Don’t shoot when they ball up or else you will waste ammo (even if you hit its head while its balled up it won’t give torpor)
I have two methods of knoking it out
If you are a solo you need trank darts
If you have a friend and a argy one of you picks it up while the other shots it in the stomach
A handy tip to see if you need arrows or darts is to find out how much total health your doedicurus has and then choose your weapon to knock it out. Then using Dododex, see how many shots it takes to knock it out and then click on the weapon to see how much damage it does. Multiple those 2 numbers and if your answer is the relatively close to the health stat, choose a longneck instead. Example: I have a level 120 I want to tame. I have a crossbow that takes 40 shots to knock it out and does 150 damage per shot 40x150=6,000 so I switch to darts. If I had a level 100 and wanted to tame it with a crossbow that did 90 damage and took 50 shots to knock out 90x50=4,500 which (let’s pretend mine had 7k health) is less than 7,000 so I can knock it out with a crossbow. Remember that the examples at the end are NOT accurate just the idea. Happy taming!
The Regular Kibble restores 85 entities of the hunger not 50
If your going to tame this guy then you would like something to move to a passive area as if it is in the redwoods, it is very scary when a Rex just spawns right next to you and kills you and the doedicurus!!!!
I once knocked one out with a sling shot in the red woods
If you deal too much damage to them while knocking them out and they turn into a ball, you can use a yutyrannus to fear roar them and they will run away, forgetting they’re supposed to stay in the ball, and you can continue knocking them out without the resistance.
Do not use bolas because they are immune to them so just tranq it and give it crops mostly carrots or meoberries if you dont have any crops.
Still no way for it to gather its own berries/ food