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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.
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
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.
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!.
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
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.
For different kibbles the host requests you can use extraordinary kibble, since it works like normal taming with higher tiers of kibble counting for lower ones.
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
A high a level theri should be able to kill low levels. I have a strong theri and it took out even max levels with pretty decent ease.
Just hope ur on a fast dino and go near alot of big dinosaur so it gets distracted if u encounter it suddenly