If you wanna fly longer on these bad boys upgrade oxygen

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Keeping oxygen in reserve prevents fall damage

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

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

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

Put this on a quetzal platform and load it up with weight and the quetz can’t feel the weight. Gasbags is the only tame that doesn’t add weight to a quetzal platform when standing on it.

Farm lamps with doed on quetz and have your rider load the goods onto the gasbags.

If pure tanking power is tanking into account, this thing is second to none. Just like Rock Elementals, the Gasbags has a 80% damage reduction from almost everything (as long as it is at least partly inflated). The Gasbags, however, is much easier to tame, can be bred and has a saddle which is not that hard to find at all. Their smaller hitbox is welcome when using Velonasaurs and guns from behind them as well.

The only downside is their low damage, and also that they can't damage stone (and turrets), so don't expect to raid entire bases with it alone.

When damaged, a bit of gas will escape, so unmounted ones might find themselves taking full damage after a while. If mounting is not a option, be sure to put it on Neutral from time to time so it will inflate by itself as part of the attack behavior.

If you kill one you can make a delivery crate and send it to any coordinates on the map, which is great if your inventory is full or just want to get a cryopoded tame to your base.

You can even jump on the crate as it flies away and use it as a blimp to het you back home!

Be careful they take fall damage.Thr more you ascend or use air control, the more air you lose, thus it will hit the ground and die. You have been warned. . .

Things you need to know about the Gasbag:

-They are good at soaking turrets when inflated as they come with great damage reduction. Just back up into the enemy turret range, tank, come back, inflate again, repeat.

-Gasbags are very good at traversing the map, but they can still take fall damage, so be careful.

-Lastly, they have very high carry weight meaning they can store all your metal, stone and obsidian.

Get about 1,000 gas on this thing (it will take around 13,000 ox) and then put everything else into movement speed, and you'll have just about the fastest living thing in the game. It actually effects how fast you fly too, and around 160 the only thing faster then you will be a skiff if you're a skilled enough flyer. Get one up to 200 or so and you'll never want to use another flyer for travel again. Anything else will just feel like it's moving in slow motion.

They do NOT need a saddle to be ridden but the saddle they do have fits 2 people.

I’m on Xbox and when I’m flying these I can’t go down unless I loose all my gas or deflate the gasbag could someone please leave a tip of the control to go down

Increase oxygen for more air time, has great base weight to use as a pack mule. Can also craft on them, so far all I can craft is the Enforcer, but I don't have a saddle yet.