Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

Weight does NOT matter!! You can have literal tons of anything in your inventory and it will still bring your bag to wherever you respawn. Please do more research before posting tips!
Beware of some bugs tho.. haven't figured out the exact cause, but I've had them fly off when respawning or throwing them off my shoulder and also disappear thru the ground a few times. Again, I'm not 100% on these issues, but from my xp I'd recommend putting them on passive (passive flee even) and ignore group whistles which has helped to avoid immense rage induced sadness.
More Fjordhawk Utility Tips
Use beds as TPs for your stuff. When you fast travel having the hawk on your shoulders it brings your stuff for you. Tested a few times.
First one to do this!
It can retrieve your items when you die.
It has UNLIMITED weight, so Black box yourself with metal or any other resource, eat a piece of poly or fast travel with a sleeping bag, spawn back at base and you are done.
Use them to steal wyvern eggs.
Just grab an egg with a hawk on your shoulder, die to a wyvern and it will bring your stuff (with the egg) back to you!
These birds offer unlimited weight when transporting materials like metal across the map. You can place a bed near a safe location to harvest metal like the dwarven mine and fast travel there with a cryoppoded metal farmer and go to town on the metal putting it into a storage unit when you become encumbered until you have all the metal you want and then throw it out of the storage and pick up all the metal you want before killing yourself with organic polymer or fast-traveling to your base slot-capped with metal to put in your forge. You can do this to get an abundance of any material.
They make getting Wyvern eggs the easiest thing in arkβ¦
Just go into the trench with one on your shoulder grab an egg and the eat some organic polymer! Boom you have a wyvern egg!
Thanks to Syntac we have this useful tip!!
Thanks Syntac!
Not only does it retrieve your items if you die (everything - IF it can handle the weight!) but it can fetch bags for you!! On Xbox, double tap Y with the bag in your line of sight and Fjordhawk will retrieve it for you. It will highlight bags with a little icon of a skull and crossbones in a black circle that pulses. Hope that helps. Thanks !!
Itβs a shoulder pet that can bring you your item cache and save you from death loops, it can also Scout ahead and warn you of danger
CAUTION!! It can only retrieve your items according to the weight it can carry. Meaning you may only get some or most of your items back.
It should fit through doors and literally anything