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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for rhyniognatha? Tips and strategies for rhyniognatha in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Need a tip for these things? Avoid them till you can get a rex or a spino saddle and the creature and just look for them. Avoid swamps and redwoods. For taming:
Get a rex if you have spares, find a male, kill it, get its pheromone, find a female, get her to 100 hp, use the pheromone on the rex and have her impregnate your rex and just fill your rex with meat. About how to get levels for the baby before it hatches - it has cravings here and there where it asks for certain foods or rare drops.
These things are all over the swamp biomes in ark UME. One thing you’ve got to look out for is multiple in the same place 😂😂 Got my Rex impregnated and proceeded to be attacked by another Rhynio. Up this for sh*ts and giggles
How to tame a rhyniognatha (rh for short)
Step 1 go to spawn location with a large tame and a argy.
Step 2 find and kill a male and take its rh pheromone
Step 3 find a female and lower it to less than 10% health but do not kill it.
Step 4 feed the rh pheromone to your Dino (I used a bronto and it works great) and it will make it pregnant and fly away.
Step 5 your Dino will go through TONS of food when pregnant with the rh so bring lots of food. Your Dino will also lose health over time until it reaches zero and gives birth to the rh. Your Dino will also ask for cravings those are not required but do increase its level when born.
Step 6 once born wait until it matures and then enjoy the gigs of the sky!
Pro tip: when chased by a rh on a flyer tame do not fly straight fly in an unpredictable way to avoid its ranged attack that will make your Dino unable to move.
Hope this helped
They apperantly don’t leave your body after they kill you so just have them kill u far away from your original death and u should be able to get your stuff if u crouch and walk
ALWAYS CROUCH!!!!!!
Tip, DO NOT go near this guy unless you what to tame it or kill it, & it doesn't matter if it is a Male or female just run away
I was playing the new mobile version for awaile and started to get a hang of it till then when I go near the swamp not even 3 hours later i found one very quickly which is crazy because there supposed to be one the rarest creatures and boi the craziness doesn’t stop here after awhile like 6 minutes i found 2 more which is crazy!.
If you were to want a fight with Rhynio like push them out of your territories or smth. Use a dino with high stamina and health and speed, even battle if you got high damage.
What? Sounds obvious? Well that’s fact, without those you simply got no chance, bye bye human rights, absolute humiliated.
Never think of using a Pteranodon, you just gonna be humiliated in that case
Only fight with Rhynio when it’s land and use it’s claw to attack you
DO NOT, stand still or be close when it’s start shooting it’s lava looking resin.
The Rhynio can chase you like forever, and their speed? Just like a pteranodon sprinting, so avoid the swamp if you don’t have the suitable way to deal with meeting Rhynio
Take in mind during the taming use flak, i got shot with resin off my spino and I died. You need good armor to survive the ranged attacks. I used low health flak and it broke my chest piece.
I just finished taming one and apparently the impregnated Dino’s health drops 1-2 points every second so my trike went from 800 or so health to 1 hp when the timer was over make sure that your Dino has a bunch of health when they are impregnated and make sure to heal them using med brews or a snow owl.
I set my lvl 101 giga with 190% melee on aggressive and wander in the swamp to kill these guys, mainly. They’re stupid.
I hate these mf’s I’ve lost 4 pts to em. You can’t cross the swamp at all with out them comin after you.
That little shitter toke my body and malested it or smth cuz my body and loot was gone after it 4 shot my as
Don’t try to fight it on a flier.
TLDR- fall damage is imminent
I encountered one for the first time on my argy on the island. I saw it and though “woah, that’s cool. Ive never seen that Dino before! Must be like a bug unicorn or something. I’m going to fight it!
Well, I never had problems fighting things on my argy before, It’s a little boosted, but as soon as I engaged this creep it sapped me out of the air and I was grounded to 1/10 health until it finally killed me. Yikers.
Best way to counter them. Tame a high level procoptodon. Only level health and stamina. Take it to an obelisk, then access the obeliskand pick to save the procoptodon and then go scorched earth and jump into a wyvern trench and get the egg.In the island tame a bronto, then transfer the bronto , take it to the trench, lure the wyverns to a turret box use the bronto for cover. Use the wyvern against rhynios
I feel bad about my brontosaurus i just use it for nothing instead of petting a rhyniognatha
These guys are very hard to control because they have high mobility and strong damage. So to make it easier, I will shoot them with tranq arrow until unconscious and then place 3x dinosaur gate to trap (note:place the gate Infront, back and side one gate on each side). Make sure the gates are close to each other. When it gets conscious, just shoot with shotgun and simple pistol you can also use slingshot for a lower damage. For the host, I prefer to use diplodocus because it has a lot of hp and easy to keep it safe. 📌 It will take quite long time for rhyniognatha to get conscious. Hope this helps, enjoy the game.
Can someone please tell me what I did wrong, i did everything that was correct pretty much, but when the timer came to an end, the rhynognathia baby didn't come out of my dinos corpse instead my tame just died