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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for dunkleosteus? Tips and strategies for dunkleosteus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
-They take a LOT of tranq arrows, even with my 300% Ascendant Crossbow.
-Careful if using a crossbow to knock out. I almost killed a 120 trying to tame it. (Use a few harpoon bolts to lower the odds this happening, as they do less damage)
-Be ready for a long fight, and don’t forget to kill all the enemies in a large area so they don’t bother you. (Dunkies will retreat as soon as you start shooting, rarely turning around to bite.)
-I just swam after mine with good speed and flippers, but you may need to use a mount that allows firing while you ride after it.
-Try not to let it retreat too far, use the world border to your advantage.
I’m on PC
They are neutral when solo. However, they will agro when in groups of 3 or more.
If you dont have a good crossbow, prepare to be in the ocean all day, because this thing have a decent damage reduction but have the torpor of a Mosa. Easy tame but absolutely tedious
best way is to find one near the beaches on the southern area of Crystal Isles. they will be spawned there.. and stuck for some reason. just have a long neck and around 50 darts
Despite being called RARE finds there actually relatively easy to find and if by chance one catches you unaware and you flee I wouldn’t worry cause your nan could outrace one
-Tame one of these armored Bois
-put it in a cryo pod
-complete the lower south cave
-clear the cave from every creature
-deploy the cryo pod with this boi in the water zones in the cave
-destroy every rock in the water zones with the main attack of this creature
And finally, yow you will have tons of stone, metal and obsidian!!!!
To the guy who said his journeyman sword done 300-400 dmg but only 100 to the dunkle, the sword damage differs depending on where you hit and how armoured the creature you are attacking is.
~spud 🐉
on 5x taming server, spot a lvl 25 x-dunkleoteus, set up a trap with 24 stone pillar and 9 stone ceiling, spent 10 minutes to lure it into the trap. then pull out my 154% crossbow, sending 100+ tranq arrows....and kill it. yet sacrificing my lvl 133 dolphin to the eels and megalodon😑
Alright so if you know where the green pillar is go to the right side right into the water keep going deeper until you find a lot of rocks (there’s a lot of rocks there so if you can’t find rocks there meaning you’re in the wrong spot or something) it’s a little hard to search that spot because of the rock but there are a lot of didn’t things like eels and dunkleosteus and those water things that you can build a base well I found some anyway be on a ichthy
PS the “teeth” aren’t really teeth; they’re actually bony plates and are a part of its skull.
If you are on mobile and need chitin these guys can easily be killed with help of a itchy (they don't get attacked on mobile for some reason but sometimes it aggressive for like 5 seconds then loses intrest so still don't attack cnidria or electric eel) these guys give nice chitin
This is like the Argy of the sea. It can hold an outstanding amount of weight and can do a lot of damage. Only issue I have with it is the speed and stamina so focus your level ups on those. Also, bring a lot of tranqs since it took me 175 arrows for a level 125 (don’t aim for the head).