Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
RAGNAROK TIP: Type of bee: tamed, if you tamed this or forced tamed this MAKE YOUR BASE AT TYRANNOGON RARE FLOWERS SPAWN THERE, if your bee says get beehive hit the button you need to take it, if your beehive when placed at your base has rare flowers it is healthy and you probably know this but it needs rare flowers. Now please don't downvote and report me cause it says to downvote and report false information cause I am on switch so it might be different than how PC or mobile or Xbox is.
I really struggled taming these things so here is my tip for low performance pc players:
Preparation: 10 Bug repellants, ghilli armor, 5 dimorphodons (sinomacrops are great too), taming food
1. Go to the redwoods. Once you find a hive, whistle the pack to "attack this target".
2. While your Dinos do their thing, go stand out of the drone's reach. They die after getting too far away from the nest. Observe the hive's HP with spyglass. Once it's just about to break whistle your Dinos to return and go passive.
3. Destroy the hive with a ranged weapon. The queen will fall out.
4. Quickly whistle "Stop" (the queen is afraid of tames), put on bug repellant, and follow her.
5. This is the tricky part. While she bumbles around, you have to quickly approach and feed her without aggroing the drones. I did that by walking by her quickly and spamming E. Don't let her out of your sight because she will dissappear once she's more than 40m away!! (it's not directly despawn but she will only be visible as long as you're in a close proximity) (yea this may be a low performance pc thing)
This is a VERY annoying tame but don't let that stop you! Eventually, you'll make it.
Use simple kibble to tame I found it a lot easier than using rare flowers
Used 13 dimorph, an Argy, ghillie armoor, bug repellant snd some simple kibble. Cake walk. The dimorphs destroyed the hive in secondsand took care of all the drones with minimal damage. Thinking of getting a second hive.
Sometimes bee hives will spawn inside each other which can result in alot of bees attacking you. If you damage one hive use a spyglass to see if it's only one hive.
After 23 bee hives what finally worked for me was
I used a snow owl to find the nests
I harvested the nest with a dire bear while wearing ghillie and used bug repellent
Broke the nest with the dire bear
Put honey in my hotbar to keep her right where i wanted her
While she ate it i fed her rare flowers
Boom TAMED
For me on Fjordur, I have tried every hive in videos and that I’ve found and none have any bees or a queen. It’s so frustrating and does anyone know what’s going on or have similar experiences?
You will know which hive has a queen if you hear this buzzy sound “oh no/uh oh” coming from the hive. If you are on Valguero, I suggest either breaking all hives in the Aberration cave or in single player using infinite stats and players only when close. Why for that location? Hives have a habit there of spawning 1-30 hive in a single spot.
SINGLEPLAYER PC PLAYERS BEWARE: the Giant Bee will disappear from all naturally-spawned beehives the first time you log off of your ark! This makes it MUCH more difficult (though apparently not impossible) to find and tame this creature.
I say “apparently not impossible”, as they can be encountered under extremely specific circumstances. I did some testing, and it seems that wild beehives respawn when (and only when) you load into the ark. Because Giant Bees only despawn when you LEAVE the ark, there’s a small window where you may be able to encounter an inhabited beehive that spawned the last time you logged in. I encountered a wild Bee this way, so I know I’m on the right track.
Are they there in mobile?if so where?
I'll be honest with you, taming these on scorched earth, Ragnarok and modded maps with scorched engrams and recourses is best, "why?" Because there you have flame arrows and flame throwers, simply shoot the hive with your gun of choice, I recommend anything but a rocket launcher or tek rifle since whenever I try it with those nothing comes out, then burn the drones with a flamethrower, it's most effective, once you've gotten rid of them run up to the Queen, jump, and feed her, that's how it's done, all the drones will tame to you and you should be good, then just obtain bee hive and once you get back to base place the bee hive and demolish it, your bee will come out just fine, if you want honey just place the hive and give it rare flowers, I recommend having camouflage on so they don't attack you, you'll soon get some honey for taming bears and liopluerodons, and making veggie cakes, I believe it's in megalania kibble as well.
The drones die once they go a certain distance from the hive or queen. To safely break the hive without a bear just go slightly out of the range they can travel and shoot with a crossbow.
Bolas do not actually work on the queen bee I threw 8 before I realized
IF YOU CANT FIND A HIVE IN THE REDWOODS! My game had zero nest spawns I had to use admin commands to input "admincheat destroywilddinos" will reset wild spawns so be aware if you built somewhere dangerous. Only way I was able to get quetz and bees to spawn. (dedicated PS4 server)
Couldn't tame until I used bug repellent
You guys! I was Arking when I saw weird crystals (they were orange, a cluster of three or four) it was closest to green obelisk and I went to the crystals to investigate, and I heard buzzing! Then all the sudden I am falling, and OH MY GOSH it was a giant bee hive, with other bee hives in it! I found the exit, and a dire bear. I tamed it, and harvested so much honey. It was awesome guys I’m telling you! Also, thanks Dan for creating Dododex! 🦤🦤🦤🦖🦖🦖🦕🦕🦕