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ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a doedicurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a doedicurus.
To long to tame?
Pick it up with an argy and drop it into a pen. Place a sleeping bag down and sleep when you wake up it will be starved. Then knock it out at your leisure. Hope this helps. ☝️So the noobs can see
If you set it to wander it gathers stone then comes back to you right before it gets encumbered, so they autofarm stone basically up if helpful
How does this break regular stone but stone walls don’t break?!?!Up if confused!
Use Simple Rifle and Tranq Darts instead of arrows to keep from damaging too much. Like for people to see.
The new update reduced the weight of stone on this bad boy by 75% *BUMP*
Still no way for it to gather its own berries/ food
Be sure to shoot the doedicurus on it's underside, not the shell, the shell only takes half torpor
They are excellent at getting stone, but they cant damage stone buildings..... im confused
Use a equus when it’s balled up to tame fast like so people know
they say nothing about how when it balls up its basically impossible to knock out
1. Get bow/tool you use with darts and Tranq arrows/darts
2. Eat your pierogees (potatoes if u have them)
3. Find one in the mountains (it’s REALLY hard)
4. Knock out time
5. Put stuff in its inventory
6. Get some bio toxins (or narcotics, or mushroom-arrow things)
7. Wait
8. Wait
9. Wait again
10. Pray to Jayfeather and Jesus that u don’t die here
11. Beg to the man across the street for some potatoes
12. Wait
13. Finally! It’s up!
14. Give it a good name
15. Get a saddle
16. Get inf. Stone
I hope u up this tip
—Jayfeather (Owner of dead Sarco I and Raptorsaurus II in Cnidaria section. Also the owner of Triceratops level die! And the dossier)
Don’t listen to ppl who say u need tranq darts if it’s high enough lvl it won’t get low enough to curl in a ball so if it is a high lvl you can use tranq arrows freely:)
today 05/17/2022 I tested it in the creative and the torpor rises 708 both in the head and in the Shell, there is no headshot difference
Tranq arrows are fine, shoot in the face, walk backwards and continue shooting in the face, if you can shoot the underside when he turns, then go ahead. It is a little difficult to time that however. When it starts to run away from you, just keep in front of it and keep shooting it in the face. If for any reason it rolls up into a ball, let it go and find another one. If you are intent on taming it, put a structure around it to keep it safe, then sit by it for about 45 minutes to an hour, it will heal faster if you are within render of it. Leveling up the melee allows it to collect more rock with each swipe of the tail. If you are so low, put most of it in weight and some in melee, this will allow you to collect more with less trips. If you have a tribemate, and you are using a Quetzal or a skiff, then only level melee.
Tame using darts. They don’t take damage so they don’t curl up into a ball when you shoot them with the darts and you just need to dodge it’s swings when it Agros on to you.
Space out the tranq arrows so it doesn’t ball up I say every 5 seconds blow up for noobs
Use tranq darts instead of arrows if you can, because they will roll up after taking a certain amount of damage and will only take 10% torpor when rolled up
Where to find them:
In ark mobile Dodecirus can be found in large numbers at the redwood forests at the top left of the map or the mountains.
Taming details:
Dodecirus are knockout tames and they eat berries
Problems:
They have armour on the top where they take less torpor so shoot their underside and if you damage it to much it will curl into a ball and it will be hard to knock them out and if you hit a Dodecirus all nearby Dodecirus will attack you
Advantages:
Dodecirus are slow so you dont need a mount to outrun them and you wont need a trap because it might not catch up to you.
Abilities when tamed:
Dodecirus will turn into a ball and roll really fast also they can destroy rocks,bushes and trees and gather their resources and they have a weight reduction on stone abd the saddle is unlocked at level 34 and made in the smithy.
Liam Sameer
When it swings its tail at you, it will sometimes lift up its backside, exposing its belly... Time your shots and you can hit the soft underbelly for max torpor.
Do not shoot it in the tail! I dropped it in my taming pen and was about 5 shots in when I realized it doesn't register at ALL.