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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a oviraptor used for? oviraptor battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
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
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!
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.
Want a Kibble farm? Get one and set it on wander in an enclosed space with Kibble dinos nearby. This will give all nearby creatures an egg laying buff (I was so confused when this happened and all of my creatures had egg symbols , even the ones that didn't lay eggs lol) -The OrchidDragon 🐲
Level does not matter when it comes to just using them for egg farms and all that. Make sure to put on wandering in order for the effect to happen, put some wood, stone, etc. anything that doesn’t have a spoiling time so your oviraptor stays in the same place while it is still getting the effect.
Is this worth to tame?yes it is here i present to you oviraptor dont understimate its small size it can boost your dino egg production just let it to wonder put it on a box so it wont run away then get your dino and place it near the overaptor then in few weeks you already have lots of eggs
ASA Auto egg collection with oviraptors!
You want to have two oviraptors tamed,
1 for the egg laying boost (On Wander)
1 to collect eggs
The one used to collect eggs should be as high of a level as possible to increase the range it can pick up eggs. (No need to level a specific stat like weight or melee to increase range just level!)
Dino you need to tame for kibble farms. Easy way to keep them in place:fill their inventory with metal ingot and they’ll be encumbered. And female Dino’s that lay eggs in the area will have an egg laying buff.Tame a male of that Dino’s species and u have infinite eggs 4 kibble. Female Oviraptors even have egg laying buff!
On Ark ASA leveling melee damage does NOT have increase range of egg collection or buff. The only thing that increases its range is the total level of the creature. Only the number floating over their heads will control the range. The only stat you should be leveling is food to keep it fed longer.
The pickup radius for the Oviraptor is a cube not a circle. And the square is lined up to the North, South, East and West. So if your base is not perfectly lined up with the compass it might be harder to get the best range for egg collection.