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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a moschops used for? moschops battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
If you want to use these to collect fiber on mobile you need to set them to wander and use the whistle to get them to stop following you. I personally let my Moschop out of my base to wander and collect fiber while I stay near it collecting stone and wood. They will also occasionally take down trees for you and eat corpses.
if you put moschops on aggressive on mobile it harvests automatically, although it sees any animal as a threat and will run away so my recommended dino settings to have are following and targeting on low and aggression on aggressive and make sure wandering is on, if they start running, kill any dinos that are close or move away, also make sure they get left in a relatively bushy area.
If you tame it you can ride it , also you can level them in special stats like organic Polymer farming, when you level you can increas the droprate for the item that you want . It is a good early and late Game Tame . The best thing is that they can gather rare ressources like organic Polymer or rare Flowers or Rare Mushrooms or Filet.
Also a good beery and fiber gatherer.
So I tamed one on my 2nd day on ark. It was a level 90. It is definitely helpful for people just starting out because if you set it to wander it collects a good amount of fiber, berries, wood, and thach. I recommend it to anyone starting out because it can be a great help getting those resources that you need.
The single best early tame! You could basically get them as soon as you leave the character creation. With a little bit of luck berries will be enough to tame one up. Get some mushroms and flowers in the swamp if you want to increase your chances. Less than 5min of work and you got yourself a survivable, decently hard hitting and quick enough mount that doesnt require a sadle. As the cherry on top it can gather every plant and dino recource there is. Use it to get your narcotic production started which is going to xp boost you up to crossbow levels in no time from where you can comfortable tame whatever you like. It is the ultimate kickstarter for your playthrough.
When sending these guys out to gather, go to herbivore island (the one in the southeast where you must use an Ichthyosaurus or a raft and not the one near the red obelisk) or you run the risk of them dieting to predators. Believe me, I currently have one named Rusty (for his color pattern), and he’s got 1216 health currently. He was attacked by a Spino while he was innocently gathering berries for me one day, and he continued to gather from trees while attacked accidentally biting the Spino as he did so, doing about 200 damage each bite. This MASSIVE amount of damage was enough to scare away the Spino after about 5 or 6 bites, and then my scorpion chased it until it ran to the water for safety in an act of surrender. If you don’t have access to rafts or Ichthyosaurus (do the quest to tame one to get a saddle for it) then do your research on the island’s regions and then find a safe region so your Moschops can gather in peace. Thanks for reading.