Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
When hunting for eggs be sure to use a high level bloodstalker. a lower level is fine but riskier. use it to get past the cave critters and in the back of the cave is a cliff that overlooks the nests that is safe. use the glide parachute function to get over the nest and once all magmasaurs are away or led away you can quickly jump down and grab the egg. once grabbed get back on bloodstalker and double jump straight up and aim for the ceiling not the cliffs or you'll get glitched. once you're back on the safe cliff you can teleport out. beware of onyc when in the nests they can mess it all up. and at all costs avoid the mortor strike attack of the magmasaur, the bloodstalker cannot grapple while under burning effect.
for raising use air conditioners ranging 10 to 30 depending on biome and then use ankylosaurus to farm Ambergris on lunar biome before hand. keep it on a dino for max spoil travel time till you can get it to a fridge for the maximum preserve time and hatch the egg, enjoy!
More Magmasaur Taming & KO Tips
This is how I got an egg on fjordur
1: have an argent (better if it's bred and 100% imprinted)
2: find an explorer note (or rune on fjordur)
3: level up stamina slightly then raise its health stat to 7000+
4: make a cactus broth
5: get close to the magmasaur cave then eat the broth
6: go in grab an egg then get out
To breed them without lava enable mating and continuously hit them with wyvern fire
I found out the adults are easy to tranq. While they sleep the eggs are easy to get
Please Note: This tip isn't only Taming, it contains Utility too! I'm on my phone writing this, so sorry if the formatting is bad!
Taming/Raising
To get a Magmasaur, you have to steal one of their eggs, hatch it, and raise it yourself. To my knowledge, as babies they will only eat sulfur. However, as adults, they will take raw meat and can be force-fed to heal like a carnivore. I ran into the cave on Lost Island with nothing on several times and came out with 2 eggs. Please note: They can and will shoot fireballs at you. We haven't tried breeding them yet, but to my knowledge they can breed while in lava.
Utility
AMAZING. They can get metal, crystal, obsidian, and more really well, they can cook it on the go (Drawback: Rapidly drains hunger and disables sprinting,) they can fight, and they can cook meat in their inventory for you (Unsure if they need to be on smelting to do this.) They're also decently fast on the ground.
At full charge, their "Searing spit" (Hold RMB to charge) does high damage and a powerful burn effect. This ability requires metal ingots to use.
If you press space, they will do a taunt that enrages wild creatures. It might do more, but I don't remember. Sorry!
Extra
Originally thought they were all the same color, but I have been proven wrong! Me and a friend on a non-dedicated have 1 Magmasaur each, and I noticed his has blue tail tips while mine doesn't. This is everything I've found out about Magmasaurs so far, and it may not be everything.
Latest patched! Now you can raise Magmasaur baby with sulfur!
Pegos are so dumb. Took my crypod with my baby 150 magmasaur and then jumped into the wyvern trench and died 😭
I feel like these guys should be on scorched earth, it would make sense, up of you agree
When it comes 50% age, will eat 0.1 food in sec. That mean 360 food for hour. 4000 Food enough to leave overnight. I hope I helped you^^
I’ve found the eggs. The eggs are located inside the volcano in an amethyst cave. There are lava pools with groups of magmasaurs in them. There are small islands with craters in them, within those craters the eggs are nestled within. But be careful there are lots of magmasaurs, magma, and what look like varient rock elementals.
On fjordur is you go into the cave at the end of the fire wyvern trench and fly to the nests steal one egg then lead the rest of the magmas under the bridge in that area lead them against the right wall going in with the spikes when there all in there enjoy getting all the other eggs in that area I got lots of eggs doing this