Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Your guide to the… MEGATHERIUM!
How to tame:
Get a pt (pteranodon) and get a bow and tranqs.
Next fly LOW as thylac (thylacolyo) tend to hide high in the trees where these guys live.
Then you lure it out of the redwoods and lead it to a beach OUTSIDE of the redwood zone.
Tranq till it drops and then feed mejo berries.
Uses:
Harvesting
Killing bugs
Killing anything really
Getting from place to place safely
Breeding and taming a Rhyniogatha
And finally boss fights and caves.
Where to find it:
Redwoods EXCLUSIVELY
Difficulty taming and doing all the other stuff:
6–8 depending on what part of redwoods you find it in, and where your base is
Should you tame based on my experience?
YES, new to middle or even late gamers should tame this creature.
Hope this helps—PycoDaShark!
More Megatherium Utility Tips
Think of your favorite tame... that was cute. Introducing you to your new favorite tame, GOD... I mean megatherium. Sorry, with one kill of a bug they are very hard to tell apart. You remember waking up on the beach naked and running away from those drones? Yeah, now they will have nightmares of a big ass sloth frothing at the mouth for their demise. Giga making you worry next door? Nothing a Megatherium or 20 and some bug crack can’t fix. I promise you getting one of these changed my life. Collects Chiton pretty good I guess. If pretty good is you throwing out 16K cause you’re slot capped. Your future daughter will call this tame daddy, if you already have a daughter... you should have had a son.
I dont know about the guy that says wild dinos ignore you while you are riding megatherium but thats only half of the fact. They ignore you once you have the increased dmg against bugs buff which will appear as a sap icon once you kill at least 1 bug. Only then wild dinos will ignore you. As long as the buff is active the dinos will ignore you.
Megatheriums are one of if not the absolute best way to defeat the Brood Mother, for instance it can easily obliterate any and all cave dwellers that guard the artifacts necessary to summon this demonic demigod. It also receives a damage boost when they kill any invertebrates and therefore, it is essential to use in the boss fight. When paired up with a Yuti and Deadon these killing machines are completely unstoppable; although, I’d recommend both high levels and great saddles.
Please like to help those of whom are planning on beating the Brood Mother.