Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

One of the easiest ways to get past most caves, is to take in a high lvl DireWolf and just slap those pests into the walls. It makes it so much easier when you use the dire wolf’s knock back to counter those pesky bats. Personally, I suggest a lvl 230 Eerie DireWolf, coz that allows you like 20-40 to level health and melee, and pretty good base stats to begin with.
More Onyc Encountering Tips
First of all… these things are very violent.
These bats stop me from raiding my arch enemy’s base they killed all my dinos which included 13 Rexs and 7 of my tribe mates came with me and died extremely quickly.
Beware, they give you bat-aids (mega-raibies)
Their mega rabies is super mega annoying!
Things to bring
1.) Bug repellant
2.) Flak/Chitin Armor (or higher)
3.) Spiked walls (wood or metal is fine)
4.) A handy ranged weapon (Rifle, SG, Fab. Pistol, AR, etc.)
5.) Narcotics (If ur looking into taming something)
6.) A durable pike (Doesn’t have to be apprentice or higher)
7.) Food and Water (duh)
8.) Tames that allow knock back (not needed btw)
9.) Your confidence to face these annoying fu-
If you have all of these then you’re set to explore the lava caves. And whatever you do, don’t fricken die.
When the onyc sees you, it will slowly fly towards you. However, if you attack it, onyc will fly much faster until killed or you go out of targeting range.
Found in almost any cave, the Onyc is an absolute nightmare for the unprepared.
These guys give you mega rabies btw so be careful
Careful of their swarm in Lava caves they will gank you and quickly surround you and push u just little on every hit ... Make sure you have wall behind you and stand with your back against it while fighting them ... Or else Lava ...
but why they do so much dmg tho