Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a moschops used for? moschops battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
This is by far the best gatherer of organic polymer. Carry the moschops to a frozen island with penguins. Put it on follow. Create a whisle group and whisle with the (Xbox) Lb down d-pad while looking at a corpse. It will collect the penguin corpse. Do not do this whisle in your base.
Moschops are one of the best ways to collect berries early to mid-game, well at least I think so. When you tame them you should upgrade weight, speed, and stamina, if you are using them for harvesting. Easy to tame since they are passive. Some require things like rare flowers. If you want to tame one that needs rare flowers or something like that, then check back next time you play because their food changes over time. And one final thing, on mobile you can't ride them. I played on console then I got mobile, tamed one, then realized it was pretty much useless for me. But still one of the best early tames and I would recommend taming one if you are just starting out. Thanks for reading!
-Tacoboss505
We bred two moschops they had a baby but the baby died and we harvested the body and
It gave us prime meat!! Someone in the dodo tips said they did the same thing and it gave them prime meat to!! So I think if you harvest
Any baby/ juniville animal with a axe it will give you prime meat ( I think pretty sure)
These bad boys are probably the best beginner Dino’s. You don’t have to knock them out just passive tame. They can take a variety of things and if you don’t have the thing they want then just go far enough away and the food they want will change. These guys collect insane amounts of fiber and are really good for collecting berries as well. These guys have a pretty good amount of health and their damage is insane. If you level up their damage enough they can do like 200 damage every hit. They also have decent weight. Not good against raptors unless you take them out fast because the raptors can pounce on you and kill you. The moschops is a big scaredy cat and will run from any fight unless you have it on passive. Therefore you need to ride it to put it’s damage to good use. Stuff like raptors and kapros are things that can take you off the moschops and basically your dead unless your a high level and have good gear. Generally just a great mount.
I play ark mobile on Brutal difficulty(xp gain is nonexistent and wild creatures go up to level 450) and this has been my most valuable tame since I started. Yes, it is a coward, but it is crazy useful. Mine is level 407 after taming, and it has survived EVERYTHING the game has thrown at it so far. I highly recommend taming one as soon as you start the game(not difficult to do and I tamed mine while at level one.) Here are the main advantages:
1: Tanky, so you can use it to take attacks from something while trying to knock it unconscious. Also, you
don't really need to worry about it dying if yours is a decent level,(A level 50 one can have about a thousand health in the wild and might gain a lot more after taming if you are lucky.
2: Crazy good at gathering resources(In a resource rich area, mine collected almost 5000 thatch, a thousand wood and a thousand berries in the span of 3 in game days. Set it to wander if you want it to go collect things for you)
3: Surprisingly strong. While attempting to tame a knocked out stego, accidently killed it with a single attack(Around 300 damage, and yes, I know mine is a ridiculously high level, but my level 40 one with mate boost and a few points in melee hits for about 80).
4: Because they're pretty easy to tame and pretty light on resources to do so, even if it is a high level one (mine only took around 11 berries and a good deal of patience.) You get a lot out of taming one, and because they are easy to get, they are a must have for new players.