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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a parasaur used for? parasaur battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
I see lot of people saying it's a good starter dino but in my opinion it's not good at all go tamm an iguanodon it's way faster can fight great for berries and he can even jump the parasaur will be killed by raptors. Carnos everything runs faster than it. Just good for telling you were ppl are around your base.
Get three paras appropriate for your level (what I mean by this is that they can balance out with your speed and compensate for the amount of materials you need to carry but cant because you dont have enough weight) and name the first one Mule A. The next Mule B. The next Mule C. Focus all of their levels on weight. If they are too fast they’ll be like diplo squads for low levels. All they do is circle around. Next go out farming for specific materials you need. Whenever you have too much in your inventory one of them will be behind you. Dump the materials into them. Repeat until each of the paras is at weight right before being encumbered and before you are encumbered. Even if you have enough materials make sure to get as many as possible because you may need more sooner or later. When you get home to your base put the materials into crafting stations/storage boxes/storage. Then go out again if needed and repeat gathering materials if needed. Have a nice day :P
Every mount has its advantages and disadvantages. While a parasaur can’t truly defend itself well, it has the ability to get lots of berries and rare carrots, lays eggs to make kibble for raptors on mobile, and has a long sustained sprint for travel. It can also carry decent amounts of weight, but it requires some sort of protection in order to go to dangerous areas of the map.
My tip for taming these things:
1: casually approach para
2: stay far away
3: bola that thing
4: get out the wooden club and smash it
5: give it every berry you have in your inventory just to be safe
6: remember you’re only level 6 and realise you can’t make a saddle
7: watch it get killed by raptors
Actually the new rework for the parasuar makes a great raid protection dino. Set it to turret mode by your base put players and tames only in the alert settings. Name it- Player At Base! Or - raid protection. And detects all the nasty raiders. Also good for detecting players that are hiding from you during raids.
How to tame (full,for beginners to)
1.craft a Bola and a parasaur saddle
2.get those black berries that make you tired and purple berries
3.craft a bat or a slingshot
4.find the dino and trap it with a Bola
5.knock it out with the bat or slingshot (stop hitting when it falls)
6.but the blackberries and purple berries in its inventory
7.when it's tamed put on its saddle and give it a name
8.Enjoy!
(Make sure to give it some berries for food in its inventory just the ones you would eat)
They aren’t as bad as I thought.
I was walking around in the dark when I accidentally pressed a button and a weird signal came out of its head and on the top said ‘ your parasaur detected a enemy.
If you press ZL on Nintendo, a signal travels around the area trying to find a enemy.
When I did it for the first time, it detected a pack of trodons.
The accident saved us from them.
Easily one of the best first tames you can get. Tames in minutes, it's on every map, and doesn't fight back. It's got pretty good weight, stamina, and it will likely be able to go faster than you. I personally use these early game as a beast of labor, carrying me while I harvest stone and wood from its back or have it at my side for when I get encumbered. It's scare ability is phenomenal for dealing with those pesky early predators like raptors that'd normally kill you without a mount. And it's enemy detection system is helpful even late game for finding hidden dinos like thylas or a dormant Phoenix. Or in pvp it can double for helping you find hidden enemy players. All around a good dino you should tame as soon as possible and keep around for utility.
A pretty good tame for the beginning of the game. It has really good weight and moves fairly speedy. They could also work a distraction or bait for a dino you’re trying to escape from or tame. They got a tlc update that allows them to scream at things to make them run away. They are also alarms, they scream when an aggressive dino is nearby. They also have a cheap saddle that you only need to be level 9 to obtain. In conclusion, it’s an easy early game tame that is useless mid-late game but has lots of uses early game.
Low on berries? Use a parasaur to get those numbers up again they are great at harvesting berries and even trees they are the best for harvesting berries for begginers (Behind Trikes) and they can easily kill an alpha compy the Dilo sometimes they can even beat an iguanadon with ease but stay away from those rock throwing giant therium rats that roam around (One killed my ptera) just watch out for stronger creatures specially the sarco and the Jellyfishes when on beaches.