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1 point   🥚 Taming & KO   4 days ago ✨ NEW   Report

Good melee damage when maxed and really fast when tamed

1890 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 31, 2021   Report

Farms double the metal of an Anky. Massive weight reduction and huuuge weight increases per level. Mine rock 7k weight. Lets get this out to people who worry about farming in the mineral rich oceans! Hit them likes

2036 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jan 31, 2020   Report

Dunkleosteus (meaning “Dunkle’s Bone”) in real life had the fastest bite of ANY animal in history, able open AND close its mouth in 1/50 OF A SECOND!! This causes water to be pulled in so quickly, it’s mouth then acted as a split-second vacuum, instantly pulling its prey into its mouth.

Oh, and it ate sharks during its time (late Devonian Period) since sharks weren’t as apex or as developed (looking more like eels, ie. the Cladasolache).

1830 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 6, 2019   Report

Very easy to tame if you know what your doing. First tame an Ichthyosaur. Then grab a crossbow and some tranq arrows and find one and knock it out. It is not be able to attack if you are on the Ichthy. As you are taming it, be sure to remain on the Ichthy unless feeding narcs, so other creature don’t hurt you.

173 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 2, 2024   Report

fun fact: did you know the dunkleosteus doesn’t actually have teeth? it’s teeth were the armoured, protective plates on its face. 🔝if you didn’t know

552 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 9, 2021   Report

The guy who corrected the guy who was talking about the fast bite didn’t have to be so mean. He wasn’t being ignorant he just didn’t know.

261 points   🔧 Utility   May 20, 2023   Report

For all Mobile players

There is no metal or obsidian or crystals underwater

Just oil

696 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 3, 2019   Report

Probably the most underrated Dino in the game! They can actually harvest a massive amount of metal, crystal, stone, flint, and obsidian. In Ragnorok there is a ravine by the volcano in the highlands underwater, One run in this ravine will give u 10,000 metal ingots and well over 10,000 obsidian from the same dark gray rock.

487 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Feb 4, 2021   Report

Steelslaughter here,

I’ve made the comment on this having the fastest bite of all time, and I thank you for correcting me with this information. I actually never heard about this ant, so major thanks for this break in the case. And sorry about what I said before with this creature.

862 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 9, 2016   Report

These are one of the few dinos that take less damage/topour from head shots. Aim for the body.

859 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 6, 2016   Report

A Dunkle Fish is really good for harvesting oil from the underwater nodes, along with a bit of stone. They also are useful fighters, with moderate melee and high health, though very low speed

0 points   🔧 Utility   7 days ago   Report

Great for pvp farming I recommend leveling melee only and have a tek suiter follow yiu around while the dunkleo drops resources and tek suiter picks up till black box.

658 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jan 2, 2017   Report

When it says 1.7% chance of death. It means it's going to die.

607 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 29, 2016   Report

Just lv up movement speed and this will be your oil friend forever

58 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 25, 2024   Report

ATTETION:

The Armored fish can't farm metal on Mobile,there's some metal ore in the lake near Green Obelisk and it will give you only STONE.Devs needs to fix this and add metal to the ocean

6 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 14, 2025   Report

Beware! When taming, if you stay on your ichy, the dunk you are taming will consistently move away from you- BUT- it will agro other Dunks nearby. I recently tamed a max level Dunk on official and I was being chased down by a whole gang of them while tailgating the one I wanted to tame. You can easily out swim them just be aware they don’t take bullying lightly.

198 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 4, 2021   Report

Taming a dunklosteous is not too hard if you do this.

1. Get lazurous chowder or scuba gear

2. Have kibble or prime meat ready

3. Have at least 2 good crossbows. Kill some alpha raptors to get some.

4. Use a mount. I recommend a Sarcosichus or a Baryonyx. Make sure you can fire off of its back.

5. Find one. They typically spawn near the edge of the map on The Island.

6. Clear out any hostile creatures that are too close. They will interfere with your tame.

7. Shoot it full of tranqs. This may take a while. They are slow, so simply kite them while riding your mount.

8. Once they are knocked out, put kibble and/or prime meat in their inventory. They may need narcotics depending on the level. Make sure to protect them.

9. You now have a Dunklosteous! I suggest bringing a cryopod because they are very slow swimmers.

Hope this helps, good luck! :)

115 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 2, 2023   Report

NO METAL UNDER DA OCEAN OF ARK MOBILE

163 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 12, 2022   Report

Can ONLY gather oil on mobile and DOES NOT have any weight reduction 🥲

203 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 12, 2020   Report

Bring more tranq arrows then you think! Mine took 100 at close range, on the body, at LEVEL 3.

I took cooked prime meat (stays better longer) and got mine in only four feedings. On an icthy they don’t chase (mobile player here) happy taming- Survivor Belle

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