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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Totally worth it, the best tame in “the island” (do be prepared, for it is expensive, time consuming, and takes some preparation to have one) first, get a triceratops (can be any level, preferably 100+), obtain a rhyniognatha pheromone by killing one rhyniognatha , then obtain a quetzal so you can carry the triceratops away when you are done, due that if you cryopod it with the larva it will remove it, do what you must do to bring a wild female rhyniognathta to low HP, somewhere around 10-20% of its health (see blood in body, use shotgun or fabricated pistol ), hit it enough times until it prepares a attack with its tail and rushes at you, that’ll be the egg laying, then carry the trike to your base, there, it should take 8 hours to hatch, killing the trike in the process (make sure you are prepared for the most funky and wacky cravings by the triceratops, I haven’t tested it yet but it should affect level by 25lv/craving, they occur in an hour each), the maturation for rhyniognatha shouldn’t be more than 2-3 days, afterwards it’s fully grown, you can fly with it, faster than most, if not all flying tames, doesn’t waste much energy, has 1500 carry weight , and is optimal against alpha carnos/raptors of all levels, also kitting giga/carcha (all these measures where made with Traz, the 50 level born male rhyniognatha, currently level 101), most importantly, make sure you have a sap farm ready by the red woods , due that your new buddy will consume a lot of it and turn it into raisin that can be shot as three different projectiles and be turned into armor, upgrade life, melee damage and mostly stamina , it can carry yutys, rexes, and smaller creatures (use this at your advantage , due that the rhyniognatha has incredible flying speed). Cheers and success - Leon.
More Rhyniognatha Utility Tips
Reasons why you should tame this:
1. It can gain food by eating berries and meat since it's an omnivore
2. Since it also eats meat that means you can heal it fast by spam feeding cooked meat on it for 10 hp per cooked meat
3. Its saddle has 2 seats so you can bring a buddy with you while riding it
4. You can equip weapons while riding it
5. It has the most weight of any flyer on the island with 1100
6. It has more hp than a rex with 1400 if you're on ase, 900 on asa
7. It is able to carry almost all land creatures except brontos, gigas, and carcharos
8. It is able to scare off almost al land creatures with its roar besides diplos, paracers, brontos, gigas, and carcharos
9. It can fly and walk in all directions including backwards
10. It can swim in water and has 800 oxygen, meaning that it has capabilities similar to a spino
11. It can land on top of water and glide on it like a bloodstalker
12. It can move its entire body to turn where your camera moves
13. It is the 2nd fastest island flyer in the game only bring 15% slower than a tamed pteranodon
14. It can attack on land and does so faster than in the air
15. When you dismount you will be standing on top of the rhynio instead of falling to the ground
16. It will automatically regenerate stamina passively even in air if you are off of it
17. It is an apex predator so if you are riding on it almost all aggressive land dinos will not attack you unless you attack them first except for allos, spinos, yutys, rexes, gigas, carcharos, megatheriums, and other rhynios.
18. You always have an opportunity to imprint it when you tame it
19. It has an ability which can make it take 40% less damage which is resin armor
20. It can shoot resin projectiles that can do 75 damage or more, and can immobilize even the biggest creatures.
These guys can stick on walls, and pick any size of structure, and it ignores the weight of the items inside of the structure, (e.g vaults, industrial forges,) you can even pick up tree platforms and the structures will stay on the platform, plus it has MASSIVE weight making it essential for carrying heavy items. It can skate and land on water allowing you to regen stam whilst on water, plus it can dive, you can shoot weapons from it, and if you dismount whilst flying, it will regenerate stamina, so ya don't even gotta land!
You might think that the rhynio is the fastest flyer on the island, which it is only 2nd fastest but might as well be THE fastest because it literally has the MOST weight of any flyer on the island with 1100.
Top 5 fastest flyer tames on the island:
#5. Quetzal - 12.96 m/s
#4. Tapejara - 15.28 m/s
#3. Pelagornis - 16.38 m/s
#2. Rhyniognatha ~ 22 m/s (tested by myself)
#1. Pteranodon - 25.61 m/s
Note that if you are using flyers to tame other flyers wild quetzals fly at 15.96 m/s and tapejaras fly at 24.64 m/s
It actually does not need to be low health. For me it was only 98% health (I did the maths) and it still impreg’d my bronto. You can also get them to do the Impreg by heightening their torpor (I’m pretty sure). Tips for the noobs, they do not spawn at the green obelisk swamp by the beach AND ONLY THE BEACH ONE. They are fairly easy (for me at least) to tame with a high level spino or rex. They can actually be knocked by tranqs or other methods. You can not lead your impreg’d animal to safety if inside the swamp (because of the groups of Rhyniogatha) but you can if outside. Just bring a Shi Taki mushroom amount of trophy’s and random things to make things like cravings easier. They crave things (for me a wooly rhino horn and exceptional kibble.) so be prepared. And last but not least they can swim, fly, run and attack at abysmal speeds so that is a benefit. I will also add that the stamina stat on these things is crazy and you can ride while wielding weapons!
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