Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Encumber them so they don't move around
So their easy to knock out, taming it.....not that easy, they eat eggs. The larger the egg, the more efficient it tames. You can tell the size by the weight of the egg. These guys are very useful, put them on wander in your base, and they'll collect all your creatures eggs.
Oviraptors will only cover a set area, make sure you place it near the Dino's you intend on farming eggs from. Otherwise you may want to tame multiple ovi's for larger Dino pen's.
For those who don’t know, this thing is a secret prime meat harvesting GOD! While I’ve been breeding argy for stats and mutations, I tend to get a lot of bad one, so I just kill them. This little guy (who’s making everything lay some more eggs) would run up to the dead body, and attack them. Nothing ever happened, he kept attacking till the body would eventually disappear. One day, the same thing was happening, and I got sick of it, so I grabbed the bird to move it. This thing harvested it. I was shocked. I checked it’s inventory, and it was LOADED! Cooked all of it as fast as I could.
First off, if you're on official rates and you don't have access to a giga egg, get comfy cuz you're taming dodos for the next 2 hours. One male and as many females as you can. They have a chance of laying an egg every time they poop so even though you literally need like 200 for a mediocre Ovi, it still might be faster than waiting for another creature to pop out enough for you. Secondly, do find a way to trap it before you knock it, ANYWHERE that isn't near those dang ichthyornis birds. I had just knocked an oviraptor once when that bird swooped down and just like that I no longer had the amount of eggs I needed. It's happened with narcotics too. Just stay away from those avian beach bums. Third and last of all, the ovi will NOT hold all the eggs it needs to eat all at once. So you'll have to pay attention and keep adding eggs as it eats. This guy needs some serious babysitting while being tamed, but the buff is definitely worth it.
tame the highest level you can find if you want one that has any range for egg pickup. it is absolutely the level NOT the melee that increases range. so put your points on health. you also do not need to put points into weight either.
You'll read a lot online that says the weight of the egg determines the taming effectiveness gain. That is B.S.
An argent egg and a carno egg weigh exactly the same but the carno egg is worth about twice the tame percentage.
Note that oviraptors do NOT collect the eggs of your (tribe's) tames. Oviraptors are useful because they will collect wild eggs and will allow you to pick them up without aggro-ing any nearby dinos.
To use them, set them to passive and following you/your flyer, drop them near the egg, fly closer to it, then pick your oviraptor up after it snatches the egg. Fly to a safe place (if you're in dangerous territory) to collect the egg!
You want a high level oviraptor and put all levels into melee. Melee damage affects the size of area they pick up eggs. Then put your ovi on lowest follow distance, line them up next to a fridge and put railings round them. You can move the eggs to the fridge really easy then not have to worry about the wanderer skedaddling
For beginners or people who don't want to risk getting eggs from bigger dinos, just use dodo eggs since dodo's lay eggs so much.
Stats have no impact on the egg buff, so get a low level one to safe time and eggs. The egg buff will only occure when the Oviraptor is set to wander, just fill it's inventory with junk to make it stationary. The buff does additionally not stack, so getting more than one only makes sense if you need to cover a bigger area.
The Oviraptor will eat meat once tamed and does not increase the chances for mutations or multiple hatchlings.