They are very good early game games (way better than the patchy), it can gather berry’s like a boss which are used for food and for taming herbivores and they can detect nearby enemy’s and can rotate to scare away medium sized creatures.

Use the sonar to scout out predators and ise the honk to scare away small predators like compys, dilos, raptors and up to terror birds. Bump up speed and weight and they’re one of the most useful exploration dinosaurs.

They aren’t that useless sometimes. They have a detector ability that warns you if there is anything that poses a threat or is hostile nearby.

If u get a para DONT use it for battles (personal experiences) instead use it for prodicting an attack with its enemy sonar! So for all U players out there who keep on being attacked by tickle chickens and being decapitated get a para. It will do you good.

Pros

Can get caught by a bola

Really easy to tame and low levels can hold heavy weight

I have a LEVEL 17 and it can hold 600 weight

Has an ability to pinpoint and locate local threats

Their saddle’s craft-able at level 9

Cons

Their turret mode’s annoying when there’s things around you that are barely a threat like piranhas or compies

They’re slower than bigger threats like raptors

Have a small health pool

Their range is pretty small and can’t damage small creatures like compies when they attack the parasaurs underside

Paras are great beginner dinos mainly because they carry around 350 weight or more, they can also tank a few hits from most dinos. They can also harvest thatch and berries. They have really good stamina also.

Even at high level these can be useful due to how they can alert you with a location of a players, tames, and dinos

Tek parasaur eggs work for kibble in evolved!

Upgrade melee damage to get more berries and then this is a lvl 1 trike pretty much good starter

When you tame this never and I mean never only pump into one stat spread the points out between health,weight,stamina and speed. Don’t put any levels on melee damage, because if you do then it will get killed as it doesn’t do much damage even with about 10 extra levels of it.

Easy way to level up quickly:

Step 1: Tame one if these guys, level doesn't matter at all.

Step 2: Get raw meat and split the stack into ones so all spoil separately. You can add a new stack and it won't effect the timer.

Step 3: Mortar and Pestle, spam craft narcotics.

Step 4: Profit

How is it not a Quick and easy tame it always runs into rocks.(well sometimes)

For the person who was asking how to use radar on mobile. You know the attack button that is a fist? (Or something I can’t remember.) You see those arrows next to the fist? Those are the abilities. Swipe on the arrows where they are pointing and boom you used an ability. The two ability’s are radar and one where he just makes a noise I think.

•ULTIMATE PARA GUIDE

TAME:

•30 berries.

•One slingshot.

•Only use bat if you can repair it.

•Bola (Necessary).

They are not agressive. Just bola them and slingshot them on the head or knock them out with bat. Make sure to always hit the head.

Once knocked out put berries on it's inventory, majo berries preferred. Harvest bushes around if you don't have enough berries.

Make sure to always have a saddle before taming, they're quite useless without a saddle.

UTILITIES:

•Can harvest thatch pretty well and can also get some wood and berries.

•Are fairly fast.

•Can defend you from small threats.

Pros:

•High speed

•Can hunt things like dodo

•Quick taming.

•Quick breeding.

Cons:

•Will likely die to most dinos if attacked.

•Fairly low health and damage.

•Horrible for fighting

• DO NOT TRAVEL WITH IT. PARAS DIE TO BASICALLY ANYTHING.

BREEDING:

Build a two by two thatch house without roofs, enable wandering and let them do it. The egg dies pretty quickly so make sure to be around until they finishing mating as it's pretty fast.

HATCHING:

Needs 2 campfires, putting torch on egg recommend.

Hatches fairly quick, put about 50 berries on baby's inventory.

Make sure to imprint.

PROTECTING YOUR DINO:

Make sure you have a base with spike walls around your base as soon as possible, A para can be killed by literally anything, can't defend itself basically. Build a slopped roof and put them on the top of your house if you don't have spike walls.

Put at least 30 berries on your Para's inventory, make sure to replace the food each 4-6 days.

A quick guide for the single player ark mobile players out there :)

Taming - Use a bola and club/slingshot it in the face until unconscious. Then put berries (preferably mejoberries) and wait, no narcos necessary.

Saddle crafting - relatively cheap. Just kill a whack ton of dodos, dilos, and lystros to get 80 hide.

Utility - a good mount for travelling and carrying heavy materials.

Fighting capabilities - While having good stamina, it does not fare well against similar sized creatures, unless you have 2-3 - then you have a good chance against raptors and such.

This is a good mount for early game players looking to get from point A to point B

For anyone who may be less of a beginner here’s a tip for raiding: first tame a parasaur obviously. second tame argentavis/snowy owl. third put parasaur on turret mode so it pings enemies. Last pick it up and fly around with the argentavis/snowy owl and let it ping until you find enemy base. Also the parasaur doesn’t give exact enemy types ( like if it’s a player or not) so check every mark you see.

Right click while riding a pary on PC it will ping the location of every nearby creature in a pretty large radius great for trying to stay away from danger at night when you can't see.

Wassup,the parasaur is perfect for exploring and scouting areas , this is mostly because of its weight which if you like collecting random useless stuff like me is perfect not to mention it's above average speed and its ability to scout areas it can also gather berries.

Finally I like to put ALL my points into health and weight so i can transport stuff easily, the drawbacks are that unlike the trike which has a giant hit box the parasaur requires aim to efficiently gather bushes .

i the end its the perfect beginner tame .

-VEGEESLOTH

All-around beginner tame. Good stamina and weoght. Definitely not a battle mount, but the tlc alarm system just gives you more of a reason to tame.

There great cargo haulers if you upgrade their movement stamina and weight capacity