Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
During early game like fresh out the womb early game you might have a little thatch floor your living on when you encounter a Moschops, these medium sized iguanas are often left out when it comes down to best dinosaurs early game or not but simply they here’s why.
Ability,
Tames,
Health and stats,
Utility’s,
Abilities include its gathering, it can gather different berries, thatch, fiber, wood, which makes it super useful.
Tames, early game these creatures are usually particularly low level creatures compared to the Rex or Trike and can often be found on the beach. A few berries can tame these guys depending on the level and berries, as well as the buffs of the server.
Heath and stats, they have quite impressive health not not fighting, they often have high weight levels ideal for gathering and can sometimes have good speed.
Utilities to the player, if you’re getting early game things, trappers, floors and other building prints, food, tools or a variety of others these guys taking care of the gathering of wood thatch and fiber only leaves you with usually stone and or metal to gather aside from hide which is a battle resource. Aside from the ability of not being able to fight these guys are amazing compared to the Dodo which the tutorial try’s to get you to tame or kill. But they aren’t ideal for travel because you can’t ride or fly ‘em, but that of course has an easy solution; which is to tame a flyer or a traveler it’s not the hardest thing to do early game.
More Moschops Utility Tips
This guy is my favorite dino to start. It can farm LOTS of fiber, chitin, berries, rare mushrooms, rare flowers, polymer, etc. And it has a considerably good melee and health. But people don't see its value just because its a big coward iguana... Lmao. But for real, they're really one of the best dinos to get at the beginning, if not the best.
It is one of the only 11 dinos that can harvest fibre (excluding the megachelon), and it’s the best among them. It is a very early game tame, I tame him at before level 10 every time I start a run. He does not need a saddle to ride. Hope this helped and wish y’all a great day.
—Fluxzy
Moschops is literally one of the best chitin and polymer farmers, if not the best. Kill trilobites with it and you'll see how much chitin it gets (and a bit of oil and pearls too). I spent the last hour killing trilobites with Potato (my Moschops) and got two chests full of chitin. Apparently people don't know this so give it an up to let everyone know.