Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
You can activate the “Magmasaur heat” damaging effect by holding the secondary attack in until you have 100% searing spit, then primary attack (bite) and you will cancel the searing spit attack, and the charge will slowly go down, doing a good amount of heat and fire damage to any creature in a radius, this doesn’t trigger neutral creatures like trikes into attacking you, they can be killed as they don’t count the magmasaur heat damage as you attacking it.
More Magmasaur Utility Tips
Magmasaur is able to destroy ALL STRUCTURES utilizing its searing spit. While it is a walking forge it produces metal at the same rate as a refining forge. You can use the jump button to taunt other creatures and when holding searing spit use crouch to erupt. (This attack pushes creatures back and leaves magma everywhere) it is breedable in lava. Hope this helped
Get one of these, they harvest everything in abundant quantities.
Want to build? Bring your thatch and start harvesting.
Want metal to trade with other tribes? Get a Magmasaur. They tend to get metal out of any source of stone or metal node anywhere, and better than an Anky... and I have 900 mêlée Ankys, and I would still use a Magmasaur.
And they are FAST while they harvest. They sprint around like nothing.
Eat a Dino that drops raw prime and you need it cooked right now? “Enable Smelting”. Your prime will be cooked.
Your Magmasaur is low on food? Force feed it stone. Works better than meat to fill its food.
Want to tame a basilisk? Breed your magmasaurs and use the fertilized eggs to tame a basilisk. Then have your new basilisk follow you and carry your junk, just level weight.
Want to survive inside the volcano on Genesis during an eruption? Mount your Magmasaur and don’t get out of the saddle until the eruption is over. It’ll kill your shoulder pet, though.