You're gonna want to keep A parachute with you if you're new to Gasbags. Just sayin.

One of my favorite extinction creatures great beast of burden don’t kill them please!

Use this to get the artifacts in extinction very good

If you inflate them, they take significantly less damage, and can be used for soaking. Then once you soak the base, you can use their excellent weight to pack all their stuff into. It’s one of my favorite soakers. Only downside is that their blue underbellies take 3x more damage if they get hit there, so it isn’t recommended to drop gasbags on someone’s base as they will shoot it’s stomach

You do more damage (and torpor) when it’s deflated. Try and force it to blow you back so you can get the more damage

YOU NEED TO TRANSFER THESE GUYS ON GENNIS

These guy are like the only flyer you can use on gennis

I use an argy or owl to peck and lure the gasbags into a trap, since they seem to run away from humans who punch it.

If you’re flying to descend just don’t touch your controller and it will start to descend. Once it’s descending, you can press your keys again

Adding to the oxygen stat increases their air intake. They also have amazing weight so makes a good pack mule.

After taming get a saddle ride it and hold L2 it will suck up air /gas and gets fatter and fatter then you can burp it out or press X to fly

To fly well just look in the detection you want to go fly and don't move let it fly on its own it will go down safely

If you are on extinction, you need this animal late-game. Snag an anky, or if you have genesis, Get a magmasaur. Cryo it, then empty your inventory of everything but what you need. (Bring a glider or parachute for emergency landings. Tek boots work too.) then fly around on the gasbags, then when you find a good metal and/or obsidian node land, uncryopod the anky/magmasaur, then harvest the node. Cryo the anky/magmasaur again, then load the heavy resources into the gasbags. Repeat for crystal, metal, obsidian, wood, or even element dust, then when the gasbags’ weight is at about 85% capacity, fly home and drop off the resources wherever you want them. Repeat this whole process as often as you want for MASSIVE quantities of resources. I got 3000 metal ingots with a 4000 weight gasbags, a 800% melee anky, and some gas with and industrial forge. All in under half an hour!

Turret soakers. 80% dmg reduction when you have gas. Damage deflates gas. Level o2 and HP. o2 allows you to draw more air in and faster so you can suck in more than turrets can deflate leaving you with a constant 80% dmg reduction. Back into turrets and you won’t get shot off. Suffer from tek turret knock back but great for heavies. Slap a good saddle on for more protection

If you netgun them it prevents them from inflating and if they are already inflated it deflates them

Being puffed up reduces all damage by 80% but any damage will deflate you, but having a better saddle reduces the damage therefor reducing how much it deflates you, this bigbugboi could be the new meta

3atone gates and 2 stone pillars at each end to hold them in. Easy easy. They will follow you right in after the first shot.

An imprinted Equus will knock then out every time. Net and kick.

Gasbags are found all across the eden zone in genesis 2 and the wasteland in extinction, although they are found in dangerous spots with dangerous dinos, so be weary!

Regular gate trap doesn’t work because gasbags after aggroed follows you only after first 1 - 2 shots and it’s pumped with gas all the time when doing so, so it can’t fit into the trap. For taming it I recommend classic hit & follow method.

Great taming option is a snow owl with a ton of Stam, then place some dino gates or pillar and ceilings to trap it, won't be able to jump away