Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
This is a great early tame for most survivors. It offers decent weight…

This is a great early tame for most survivors. It offers decent weight carrying capacity combined with enough HP to tank raptor and carno damage. It is an above average berry harvester and decent with thatch and wood. You can fire a weapon from its back while mounted. Combining that with its good speed and its special ability (running on all fours uses no stamina) allows early game explorers an easily tameable mount (bola and club) that allows for easy tame escalation.
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A must tame, why?
It's easy. Bola, tranq arrows and berries.
Best travel mount: Unlimited stamina and you can improve movement speed. Pump 10 levels into speed and this thing zooms everywhere!
Fairly tanky: It can take a beating meaning better survival chance but also good for taming aggressive creatures.
You can shoot while riding: Making taming safer and easier. Anything tries to run away they have no chance.
Berry Gathering: Good for taming or just eating.
Seeding: Good for starting a small farm of your choice.
They can fight back, fending off Dilos, raptors, even Baryonx and Sarcos.
They can jump: Good for clearing obsticals but also getting on high rocks as a vantage point to tranq out creatures such as Carnos.
They're fast swimmers: Not something you want to take in the ocean but fast enough to cross small lakes and rivers and fast enough to outrun Jellyfish. Mine can outswim a Megeladon lol.
Kibble: They're eggs make decwnt kibble which in turn can help tame decent mounts.
Basically they're awesome!