Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a hyaenodon used for? hyaenodon battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
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!
Hands down one of if not the best hunting dog in ark. Cheap to armor, pack bonus, heals when harvesting corpses, and most importantly they are treated as man sized for Dino colishion so even raptors don’t get stuck on them. High lvl pack can down deathworms and alpha Rex BUT require a anchor or the Rex will spin and do massive trample damage.
I'm surprised more people haven't tested these little guys. Last time I played was in 2018 and at that time I could take 8 breed doggies with a yuti and I could take out gigas with them.. the meat pack I had was only journeyman too.. never got around to trying them on bosses. Underestimated tame.
I wasn't too interested in these, until I tamed my dog squad that is! Now Growl, Sniff, Cackle, Savage and my Direwolf, Alpha are the deadliest pack on the island! We've taken down a therizino without a single death! I haven't yet tested them against any carnivores except dilos but they can be brilliant fully recommend them! My pack of four hyaenodons and my Direwolf mount easily fight dangerous creatures so a pack of four seems quite good. And if bred a bit they could be deadly! One of the best tames ever(only behind the bloodstalker and rock drake)🐕🐩🐶😈