Hear me out. Faso should also gather sand at a significantly reduced weight, let dodes have a break. This thing swims in sand yall. Swims. In. Sand. Yall.

Hear me out but this thing is great to rally or tease bison on ragnorok I got close to a bison and did the sandstorm thing around it and ran away underground and the whole herd was following me

Suggestion: Faso is able to un-smelt iron by crunching it up. It would have a button similar to the "seed fruits" that the iguanadon has. It would be useful for crafting things that require raw metal, or maybe it would be a decent way to sort metal out. It could also have a special item called "fasolasuchus plates" that would be used on the saddle. The saddle could provide protection from sandstorm, and give the rider a temperature buff.

Please give them ability to protect you from sand storms

Everyone is downvoting the name ideas because they suck. I mean come on, Joe mama, Doug, Scaley Dingle, really? We can do better than this

You can ride and wield a weponw while riding this just telling yall because dodedex says you can't

The S variant gathers metal in the THOUSANDS. In 15 minutes I gathered over 80k metal with lvl 283 at 558% melee. The normal variant does the same but with flint

Sand it goes into the sand because it is a sand shark

Flint. It’s best used for flint. Can also drop armor with its bite and its tail swipe stuns. Also can swim underground, and cause a little quicksand whirlpool, which can do a lot of damage to things trapped inside

Won’t be long before they will add this guy as the best flint gatherer

These things are great to have in the Alpha Rockwell fight in a support role. They are extremely tanky, fast when they are submerged and swimming through the ground, and you can shoot from their back without dismounting. The combination of their Blinding Debris attack (prevents target from attacking for 5 seconds) and their whirlpool immobilizing and damaging reapers and nameless in a wide radius that spans the whole ramp to the Rockwell boss platform makes them extremely effective at mitigating waves of reapers and nameless and keeping your friends on the boss platform safe.

An imprinted faso with a capped saddle will be fine at 20k+ hp, and extra points dropped into stamina to give your whirlpool a longer duration and plenty of extra juice to swim around the arena to shotgun down stubborn tentacles. Bring a light pet, the best pump shotty/Flak armor you have, healing brews, and Calien soup.

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Since some people still seem to be confused, this creature is NOT coming to ARK: Survival Evolved. The last creature being added there is the Rhyniognatha. Rather, the Fasola is going to be the FIRST new creature for ARK: Survival Ascended, an upcoming remake of Survival Evolved running on the same game engine as ARK II. It is supposed to have higher quality graphics, some fixed bugs and exploits, and even some new models for certain things. The Fasola will be coming to Scorched Earth (and likely other maps with desert areas). There will also be another new real-world creature for each canon DLC map (Aberration, Extinction, and both parts of Genesis).

As for its use (subject to change from the original submission), it will mainly function as an armor-shredding living trap. It can bury in the sand (not in any other terrain), leaving only its jaws visible. It can grab and immobilize most creatures, even up to the size of a Yuty or Rock (note that large creatures take less time to escape). This dismounts the enemy creature’s rider if it has one, and while it can fight back, it does much less damage to the Fasola while being grabbed. As mentioned above, the Fasola is much stronger against “armored” creatures, including but not limited to Doedics, Ankys, Stegos, Kentros (immune to recoil damage from it), and Rock Elementals. The Fasola thrives in the heat of the desert, it gets buffed when it’s hot and gets weaker when it’s cold (it helps its rider resist the heat as well). It also resists sandstorms and fire attacks; however, it is vulnerable to explosives. It will also be a handy harvester, it can gather stone and metal and will likely have a high weight stat and/or have weight reduction on those materials. Finally, while able to be ridden without a saddle, you can give it an advanced saddle that has two slots for turrets and three seats (one “pilot” and two gunners). Note that it can only burrow without a saddle, as it impedes its movement.

tldr: The Fasola is coming to a REMAKE of ARK 1 rather than ARK 1 itself, it will be on Scorched and will be like a living, armor-shredding trap that can equip a turret saddle.

Thank you for reading!

- DarkPhantom

Fast while submerged in the ground, possibly faster in water. Quick transition from ground to water, giving a great escape option. Have one at 1000 oxygen and in my opinion, replaces at least the sarco

When he bashes his head into rocks he gets a ton of flint

Spawn code is tree-dupe have fun

You dont need grenades you just need to do enough damage as its waking up

I was trying to kill one with my megatherium and it got dazed

Fasolo is a god at getting flint 9 rocks then I have 1500

It should be similar to the basilisk but faster and more silent

I hope this things saddle is level 90 like the rhyniognathas also what will eat and can you fight the manticore with it

The aberration version still only collected flint and when used on surface collects nothing at all maybe a great way to travel on surface besides drake or reaper