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What ARK players use the Megatherium for, and how to get the most out of it in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

Wild dinos ignore you while you are on it unless you attack them.

4,086 points6 years oldReport

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…

2,383 points5 years oldReport

350% melee = 1000 chitin per arthropleura, 500 per scorpion, 400 per spider. THE MACHINE

1,861 points9 years oldReport

Very good for gathering berries,thatch and fiber and very good for fighting the broodmother because of the buff they get when they kill bugs.

1,240 points6 years oldReport

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…

14 of these, three Yutyrannusses and 3 Daeodons can and will kill The Broodmother on every difficulty

548 points9 years oldReport

In Ark mobile, they collect 1600 chitin from rhynio carcass. UP SO EVERONE CAN SEE!!

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…

These things can do alpha broodmother with no support just 20 imprinted ones, they do it in 15 minutes max.

146 points5 years oldReport

If someone hasn't already I'd like to point out that these creatures are omnivores.

THIS DUDE IS LITERALLY A THERI ON CRACK its attacks have wider area damage then a theri, its faster then a theri, it does more damage then a theri, it collects fiber with the default attack, it excels in collecting thatch, chitin, and it has bug buff

Alpha raptors and alpha carnos will also ignore you while you are on it unless you attack them. This does not work for alpha t rexes as they will attack any ground tame including tamed rexes and megatheriums.

Absolute godsend for meat runs in caves. Only things that'll aggro up on it are Pirhana, Megalania and (presumably) Megalosaurus. Otherwise, everything else (including Arthropleura and Sarcos) won't aggro. Have at 'em!

156 points9 years oldReport

Use this beast to hit the burnt trees in Ragnarok to harvest tons of charcoal! Best way to make gunpowder!

135 points9 years oldReport

It's great at collecting berries, fiber and chitin from insects/bugs. He also doesn't collect charcoal from the burnt trees near the volcano in ragnarok anymore. Great for fighting broodmother and doing artifact runs on the island and caves that are filled with…

87 points6 years oldReport

Ah yes, the good ol bug eater. But can it eat bugs as much as we expect? Today I will test that out to fight the gamma, beta and alpha broodmothers! By the way the megatheriums aren’t mutated and are level 430-470

Gamma: Set them to aggresive for bug buff. Oh boy, soon…

cute (just ignore the potbelly), strong enough that anything smaller than an allosaurus ignores you, and it's stronger than a Rex when it kills a bug (the effect lasts two full minutes)

you can make them sit, a must tame for any serious tribe

100 points9 years oldReport

I haven’t tried this myself but if you get a Megatherium and a Beelzebufo and set the Megatherium to aggressive on some bugs and set it to don’t harvest victims you can use the Beelzebufo to harvest them and get a lot of cementing paste you could just use the Beelzebufo but…