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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for rhyniognatha? Tips and strategies for rhyniognatha in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Quick question, do yall know if I can avoid giving creatures cravings and avoid imprints. I want to tame a trike for this creature. But I don’t know if I can get it without the imprints and expensive cravings. Just for a starter rhynio. And will the rhynio be alive and adult. I don’t need it op I just can’t find an argy or a quetz to tame and all the pts on my single player are max level 30.
It will take traits from the host creature this includes stats, and colors. I'd advise using a high stat giga, or carch, with insane mutations, even a rex will do
They spawn in the swamp -Tested
The rhniognatha was first thought to be thylacoleo sized judging from the dossier however a recent picture of it being as large or larger then a Rex and carrying the Rex, it is speculated that depending on what creature you attach it’s enzyme to it will inherit the size of the creature.
The last sentence is speculation proposed by Syntac and has not been confirmed
I hereby acknowledge that these are worse than a gigantic in my own opinion. I lost 3 pts, a spino, a argy, and a anky.... all at once.... to a single one..... 0/10 would randomly encounter again.
From experience, in case of a Rhynio getting agroed into you, don't panic and try to fly low to the ground (not inside the swamp) and try to fly close by the maximum amount of creatures so it agroes into them. Rhynios easily lose interest in you especially if they can't hit you.
I don't know why but once tamed. You can't whistle command it. It will act like you don't exist.
Here's just some things I've learned while taming these huge bugs.
•If you don't have something like a giga/carcha to impregnate, the 3rd best option would be a Brontosaurus for best stat quality for your baby bug. Though actually getting one to the Rhyniognatha will be quite difficult as you can't simply cryopod it and throw it once you found your Rhyniognatha (as of the Cryofridge and cryopod change in ASA). So you may need to walk it through the entire swamp...
• Keep your shoulder pets passive! This won't affect you if your using a large dino such as those listed above, though if using something smaller (though this is not recommended, most smaller dinos can't even consume the pheromone), you need to have your shoulder pets on passive so they don't attack the Rhyniognatha. I once did this mistake, and as I was going to feed my dino a pheromone, my otter on my shoulder killed the Rhyniognatha as it was on Attack Target.
•Final one, be fully prepared! Bring your pheromone and your creature your willing to impregnate before searching for a Rhyniognatha. This is because these guys love to aggro absolutely everything and get themselves killed, so if you went back to stock up on everything you need once you found one, chances are it is already dead.
Wish you luck!
If u are just a noob run that's all I can say
Look around the swamps near the redwoods lake if your playing in the island map
TURNS OUT IT SPAWNS ON THE ISLAND I shat bricks when I saw that thing and tried so hard to avoid it, rip Miguel 😔 anyways if you are a bit new and don't plan to tame it uuuuh just hope you don't see it, I don't even know how to get away from these things, they're insanely fast.
You can always find at least a couple of these F*****s in lots of swamps. Once it agros on your flyer, you’re dead. Just to know, stay very far away from them.
Carchas can incubate as well - have one player hit the Female Rhynio until she's below 10% health. During this, you ride the Carcha and feed it the Male Rhynio pheromone. When the Female is below 10% health it will automatically disengage from your friend (I assume if close enough) and start hitting the sacrifice tame. It'll have a really noticeable red cloud around the tame when the Female was successful, and then she'll fly off.
The incubation time will begin. You want a dino with a large health pool because it will start to go down as the incubation continues, and when the baby Rhynio hatches it will kill that tame. If the sacrifice tame dies before incubation is complete or if you cryo it, the incubation will terminate and progress will be lost.
I suggest having a 'box' to keep the tame sacrifice in while it incubates, because it takes some time and you want to keep the sacrifice tame safe and alive. I just did stone fence supports and then large stone walls to surround the tame. You can then cryo the baby Rhynio AFTER it hatches (explodes) from the sacrifice tame, bring it back to base, and raise it in safety.
Good luck!
They destroyed this tame, speed compatible to a tally (once was faster than a wyvern) stats are very dull and prone to dying with health averaging 3k-5k, and a 50% decrease in speed when carrying things (again its allready around a tappys base speed)......the sky giga should actually be a sky giga considering how tricky and confusing it is to tame these things compared to an actual giga
Not v hard to tame not even hard its mid hard only here is my setup to get a low level one easily ( 6000 hp rex 1 long neck rifle 1 bow or cross bow 30longneck bullets some arrows ) kill a male one with ur rex or ling neck lure another one to a safe place with an argy where ur rex is in let it hit ur rex set ur rex to passive and shot it with longneck and bow until it is at 10% hp ( u can do the math ur self ) then wait till ur rex is infected by the rhynio and it run away and full its craving till the timer ends it can ask v v ordinary and rare things also its ur. Choice to feed or not effecrs the level that will come out from baby one then just see ur rex die ( DONT HIT IT IT DOSDNT SPEED UP THE PROCESS) then here u got a rhynio baby take care of it and u got a monster who can carry half ur base in its inventory and carry good dinos and big ones also like diplodouces rexes spino ( no bronto no bigger than that )