Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a hyaenodon used for? hyaenodon battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Great On Fjordur - Giga walks over them without clipping/stopping. Easy meat runs on Asgard. They stay close enough to transfer meat after dismounting giga and follow closely when searching for meat. Just be sure to turn tame name plates on in UI. Used four with meat packs, easy black bags of meat.
Easy to find, breed and level. King of Cave Diving. Can use golden hesperornis eggs to quickly level up petting and pack bonus make the tanky with high dps. Can easily reach 4k hp with 500% meelee. Yutyranno buff will make them extremly hard to kill, they heal themselves when eating corpses are small and get armor through their saddle one of the most reliable creatures on the ark.
Great things to bring with you when your gonna tame something because it can carry prime meat and the prime meat will last longer inside it's meatpack. All you have to do is cryopod it and bring it over to your soon to be tamed creature then throw it out and put the meatpack on it and just stuff with your prime meat for your tame and wait until the knocked out creature is hungry then put one prime meat out from your hyaenodon meatpack into it. And then repeat until it is tamed.
Best way to tame a whole pack: make a normal ramp trap, but add FIVE extra foundations in a line away from the main body of the trap separated by a double door. At the end of the foundation tunnel, put another double door and a ceiling with a hatchframe surrounded by walls, the one at the end should be a single door. Make sure the ground is level enough for you to get under this.
Lure the pack into the trap (either by aggro-ing a 3+ member pack or using honey) and get the alpha to follow you down the corridor and lock it in the hatchframe room. It is now far enough away that the rest of the pack won't register as too close to it to tame. They are SO much more chill like this, you can just stand in their face and pet them, seriously. Tame any packmembers that catch your eye, then kill the rest.
Now the alpha is alone and tameable, but also far more jumpy. Crawl under the hatchframe and carefully pet it through the floor. It CAN still sense you if you're in the open part of the hatchframe, so stick to the edges and touch those tootsies when they stick through. And boom, entire pack is yours. Put some meat packs on them, breed them to see the cutest babies in the game and enjoy!