Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

Tips & Strategies

Fantastic early-game tame! Mount without a saddle, you can tame one at level 1 as it just requires mejoberries, they can wear a hat, and they gather fiber while on wander, which you can use to mass produce cloth hats to level quickly and the list goes on!
~Luminin of the Rated Ark Podcast
More Gigantopithecus Utility Tips
These things should wear full body armor and weild weapons!
Would be awesome if Gigantopithecus could ride two-seated mounts with you, even if just for us singleplayers to feel like we have company!
TLC patch to be added in March 2018 to add armor degrading attack, jump ability, and aiming system for throw. Like for people to see!
On mobile, you can actually harvest fiber with them. Just get off of your ape in a bush and they will squat down and gather a good amount of fiber.
Possibly the most useful creature to go caving with as his small size but large health and damage allows him to withstand onycs,spiders and scorpions haven't encountered a arthurplura yet so not sure how effective he is against it
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canβt carry dodos this is very important
Can get fiber passively when put on wander and unmounting on top of a bush.
To the people saying that these things should be able to wield swords:
Imagine being on a pvp server, and then someone with a fully imprinted and mutated big monke with 1.5K% melee shows up and pulls out an ascendent sword that does 400 base damage...
Sounds pretty balanced and fun
Situation described above will result in 6000 damage per hit btw, aka enough to kill tamed giga (without saddle) in 3 hits
I plan to have a gorilla army that can breed give them flack/riot helmets name them bodyguard also set to aggressive and make them guard my base