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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for megatherium? Tips and strategies for megatherium in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
After you take one and go chitin hunting with it, be careful not to get to close to another and think it's okay because the other is half the level of yours. It's a quick way to lose a lot of work.
if you don't have kibble, they also like honey, raw mutton and raw prime meat :3
I found a max level one I netted it and a pack of wolfs attacked and my snow owl went to kill them but missed and killed the megatherium 😭😭
Check the area first before taming
Will be aggressive in the wild with bug buff. Tame one immediately. If you disagree with that statement watch someone use it in swamp cave.
Metal Bill Boards are an easy way to tame it, but alternative stone traps may work (Argentavis Trap, 2x2 door way trap). I highly recommend Honey, easy to get and is practically kibble, but mutton works fine.
Don’t punch it or you’ll die so yeah don’t punch it
Great chitin farmer.
Be careful around these monsters, one of them destroyed my MC armor in 2 hits and killed me instantly, build a pen or bring an animal to tank it while you tranquilize the f*er, good luck survivor!
Even if they see a bug they will go in a blind rage and try to murder everything in its path. Be careful if you use a rhynio to transport it to a trap and make sure you don’t have to carry it far.
THIS DUDE JUST WIPED OUT MY GROUP OF MAX LEVEL SCORPIONS ;((((((((
I MADE A GODDAMN MISTAKE OF WEARING CHITIN ARMOR ;-;
Be careful if you see one that's on fire killing bugs if you go near it when enraged like this they will kill anything
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Mainly found in Redwoods I found one and tamed it.
despite what the ark wiki says i could barely find any of these guys on the crystal isles and had much better luck finding them on valguero in the tundra region near 40.20
Please be cautious while taming. If they have the bug killer boost, you may die. Because you are a bug to them because PUNY HUMAN.
to tame these in ark mobile, go into the dungeon and retrieve its implant then leave (by dying) the dungeon. It will take around 30 amber to revive and eats meat to tame
How can I tame a megatherium in Ark mobile?I haven’t seen any of this in ark mobile
These things attack you just for having chitin in your inventory.
I play on my fiancé’s account a fair amount (mainly to do some of the tedious things like getting metal, turning it into ingot, making narcotics, stuff like that.) I was flying around in the forest on one of the bigger islands south of red ob, just vibing, considering taming something if I found something I liked. I was kinda eyeballing a carno, when from behind me, one of these comes zooming, in a fight with a pack of dilos. I watched as this beast killed a good chunk of that herd AND the carno before sadly falling to one of the last dilos. I was didn’t get the level on it but I was highly impressed. I’m more tempted than ever to tame one.
My hate for these guys is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Here I was chilling on a rock right outside my base with my sweet Jerboa on my shoulder. I had tamed this jerboa because I saw it roaming around alone as a baby. And I named it Poor Baby because it didn’t have a mom. I decided I’d be its mom. So anyways we’re just chilling on a rock, and my dumb self thinking these mesotheliomas weren’t aggressive was SHOCKED when one walked by and slapped me and Poor Baby into another time zone. Because it saw a BUG. An oil jug bug to be exact. We both died. RIP Poor Baby!