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0 points   ⚔️ Encountering   11 hours ago ✨ NEW   Report

They spawn on gen 1 in the lunar cave

3426 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 16, 2018   Report

Use a snow owl to deflate the gasbags and keep them from flying away and you heal them so you wont kill them with tranqs.

1625 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 8, 2018   Report

If you wanna fly longer on these bad boys upgrade oxygen

827 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 18, 2021   Report

Here’s a great “Utility” for the gasbags.

Step one: Murder one of these

Step two: Make a delivery crate.

Step three: Record your enemy’s base’s coords.

Step four: Attach 10 C4 to your delivery crate.

Step five: Send a little “Gift” to your poor enemy.

702 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Oct 17, 2018   Report

This is basically a fat caterpillar. I heard they are like pack mules because they have a lot of weight capacity. They also look adorable.

191 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 6, 2022   Report

This is a great tip:

1-Tame a gasbags and any kind of wyvern (not crystal)

2-Tame any farming creature (magmasaurus is the greatest bc it farms everything, metal, crystal, wood, stone...)

3-when your magma (or any massive farming creature) gets encumbered transfer everything to gasbags’ inventory.

4-When gasbags gets encumbered you carry it with the wyvern and wyvern is going to get like only 600kg weight so basically it’s infinite weight.

170 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jun 17, 2022   Report

You can find them in the plains of Asgard (Fjordur)

5 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 29, 2025   Report

Use 4 Dino gateways in a square formation with 3 doors attached, eat rare flowers and get it to follow you into the trap, as soon as it’s inside the trap stick the last set of doors on and I will be trapped inside there, it can rotate but haven’t had one jump out yet, it doesn’t even try to 👌🏼😊

289 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 21, 2020   Report

This is the only flier that can be used on genisis. So if the amazingly fast bloodstalker is not your ideal transport, then this beanbag-balloon-bug is perfect for a slow paced surviver.

232 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 19, 2020   Report

They do still take fall damage, I learned the hard way

208 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 27, 2020   Report

Use 6 or more stone dino gates like you would on argy (after update) to trap- with 2 doors on the end, then pump full of tranq darts.

154 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 7, 2021   Report

They spawn in lunar caves on genesis and the wasteland on extinction

162 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 29, 2020   Report

Idk why no one wrote this but if they have a slight bit of gas in em they will take reduced fall damge so when your flying keep a bit of gas and fall down you wont feel a thing

221 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 24, 2018   Report

They can inflate and then they can do three things, do a huge jump that will deflate them, float/glide, and do a knockback attack that is similar to the diplodocus' only attack. They can also seat more than one person at a time

176 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jan 31, 2020   Report

Fun fact:

They are believed to be part of the Tardigrada phylum, a group of extremophile microgranisims that can survive literally any environment, from extreme cold to extreme radiation, these guys are the hardiest of animals.

170 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 11, 2018   Report

They have a damage resistance when inflated, so use a snow owl to freeze and deflate. After latest update, they can no longer be picked up or hit with bola. Heavily suggested to clear area of hostiles before KO. If timed right, you can keep gasbag in same area while tranqing by alternating freezing and shooting.

167 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 11, 2018   Report

Keeping oxygen in reserve prevents fall damage

116 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 4, 2020   Report

So bc most comments are from pve players here a pvp tip use them for soaking have them mate boosted veggie cakes yuty roar a deadon on passive healing and a good saddle no heavie or auto will stay in your way with a good gasbag and a food stat deadon

130 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 17, 2018   Report

Inhale to increase damage resistance, get a decent level saddle, back up slowly into turrets, tank all of the enemy's turrets

39 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 19, 2023   Report

These guys weight stat is insane i tamed a level 145 and it came out with 5k weight. All that to say, its great for metal runs

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