Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountered this hideous monstrosity of a creature on The Island, in the dark!…

Encountered this hideous monstrosity of a creature on The Island, in the dark! When you’re the sweet, unsuspecting survivor just flapping along on your pteranodon and then all of a sudden, out of the freaking nowhere, SMACK SMACK SMACK! What the…!?!?!? It’s a giant bug, flying fast and attacking faster! My poor Terrie is lashing out for her little Ptera life and mine. Have to fight because we can’t outrun the beast! We land, I hop off Terrie and we’re not able to do much because we’re SAPPED! Dang giant bug shoots burning sticky sap crap! I finally managed to get my pike out and stabbed the life out of this new “Dino”…but I tell ya, Terrie and I are a bit bug shy now!
My tip: fly with an OP flyer!
More Rhyniognatha Encountering Tips
Don't forget you guys, we can craft insect repellent to appear invisible to these guys!! This trick also works for taming Scorps or Spiders with rotten meat. Bump it to the top for those who are rusty!
If you’re trying to find it in Ragnarok (Mobile) they don’t exist there.
Pro tip: NEVER under ANY circumstances fly a PT anywhere NEAR the swamp. Dododex says they are rare, but you can get four swarming you at once. This will save your life, controller, and pt.
I was just flying near the redwoods to looks around when one of these freaks pulled up on me and my pt. I didn’t realize they were in the new mobile version so I screamed and tried to run away (it caught up) and I had to dismount my pt and run for it. DO NOT GO NEAR ANY SWAMP UNLESS YOU’RE PREPARED. THEY ARE SCARY.
Only spawn when you don’t want them to
Rare??? My ass rare... They spawn in 3-5 stack literally in redwood around swamp area... Yeah they have alreay eaten around 17 pteranodon, 1 iguana, 1 trike, 20 human and lots of my stuff hardly crafted and looted.
rare my ass, these annoying buggers are everywhere near the swamp
In my experience in ASA on the island, i usually one ever get 1 or 2 spawn at once at the swamp. Also in my experience they have fairly low torpor and a simple pistol wrecks them.
In ark mobile edition dont wander in swamp with a flyer they spawn in a pack and will destroy your pt/argy
So basically the swamp is a no fly zone like the redwoods all because of these oversized locusts. They somehow fly faster than a pteranodon and can shoot sap. Learned it the hard way twice by losing 2 tamed high level pteranodons.