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

how to tame and use moschops:

step 1: locate the moschops

step 2: feed it it's desired food

step 3: get angry because it wants cooked prime

step 4: exit and re-enter ark

step 5: hop back on and hope it wants mejo/tintoberries

repeat steps 3-5 if needed

step 6: tame the moschops

now you have a big iguana sitting around.

after taming, use it to kill members of its own against will

or maybe even trap multiple females to exploit their ability to create superior kibble with their eggs

or just use it as a fiber/berry gatherer

don't forget about those harvesting levels by the way. level in something, take your little buddy with you, and harvest, trust me it can be worth it

recommended stats to level: weight, health, melee (if being used to fight)

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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.

Best starting dino to tame. Why?

1. You can tame it easily even on your first day.

(You can just look for another Moschop if you don't have the taming food it wants)

2. You can ride it without a saddle.

3. You can use it to gather berries especially Narco Berries for future tames.

4. Good at gathering fibers. You don't need to waste skill points and materials for a sickle.

5. It can also gather thatch and minimal wood.

6. It has specialty skill point stat for bonus gathering % like prime meats, etc.

7. Decent weight, health, stamina and damage.

8. Good for killing Dodos, Dilos and Turtles for their meats and hides.

9. Poop generator for your starter plots.

Imagine having all those on Day 1.

-Appleworm

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.

Moschops cannot be ridden on mobile. However, this doesn’t make it useless since it can still harvest loads of stuff. Whistle it to follow you, lead it to the thing you want harvested and then whistle it to stop. Then it’ll harvest whatever is in front of it.

Hope this was useful info.

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.

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.