Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a pteranodon used for? pteranodon utility tips and strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
These guys are amazing when tamed. Low levels may not be able to carry you, so try waiting for it to level up and upgrade weight or drop items in your inventory. The barrel roll attack is super good. A low level pteranodon can kill a lot of dodos in a single barrel roll. Now I know why the devs made the saddle A high lvl bc its so good. A must tame and it is totally worth waiting for to get the saddle.
If you want to have the blueprint for a pteranodon saddle at lvl 30 something here's an idea
1.Use a settings that if you break a thing it gives all the resources that needs to craft it
2. Gather a LOT of stones and hides
3. Craft 15-25 mortar and pestle
4. Use 2x XP buff
5. Place all of them around you and then break them and then re-craft it over and over again until the XP buff run out
So me and my pteranodon was planning on traveling ark in a safer way so I said goodbye to my tames and went of. I rode my pteranodon to the mountains and these griffin looking things attacked us. But the thing is it didn’t say it was one. It started with an I but I forgot the rest. And at the bottom it said “does not respect you” it attacked us and my pteranodon attacked it. My pteranodon was only 1/4th of its health. They fought and the battle was on. My ptery died sadly. It was one of my fav tames other than the rest. I went back in rage and attacked it and shot it with arrows. But I then died to. I am planning on bringing back more pteranodons to avenge them. R.I.P Watermelon 😭
These guys are ideal for crystal Wyvern taming, get 2 parachutes, a few water skins and a fair bit of food, set the pteranodon to follow, then wait for the Wyvern to land, dismount from the pteranodon, land on top of the Wyvern, and stand between the shoulder blades, feed crystals until tamed, use parachutes if you need to, and boom, you have a Wyvern at level 50!
A lot of people say these are mainly early game fliers, but I do not agree. I bred and imprinted one and levelled up its hp and melee. Now it has 8K hp and does 1K damage per barrel roll. Found a lvl 100 giga but I wanted a better one, so I took out my pteranodon and barrel rolled into its tail repeatedly. After a few minutes it’s dead. It managed to bite me a grand total of 7 times while I hit it ~80 times. Since I had an ascendent saddle it only did ~3k damage (most of these came from bleed) with those 7 bites. Imo the pteranodon’s barrel makes it the strongest flying battle mount in the game by far.
I actually recommend using a pteranodon as your flier. They are the fastest flier in the game, so they can travel quickly. They aren’t the best for carrying things, but a high level ptera can have alright weight stats. They spawn commonly so finding them shouldn’t be hard either. They are immobilized by simple bolas and can be knocked out with anything.