How to tame this bug:

First kill a rhyniognatha

Then collect its pheromone

Use the pheromone on ur tame (bronto recommended

Then find a high level female rhynio then get its health below 10 percent

Then it will impregnate ur tame

Then ur tame will have cravings that you need to give it

Then a juvenile rhynio will burst out ur creature then Boom! U now have a living apache helicopter

You can't use a tek dino as the sacrificial host. You can have multiple host dinos impregnated at the same time while taming just get them close together on passive and feed them all the pheromone before the Rhyniognatha can impregnate one. Helps to net gun the Rhyniognatha while lowering it's hp

You can fire from its back to tame pretty much any creature and it is remarkably easy to control when you are riding and weilding a weapon. Any dino that is too hard to hit while shooting from this thing's back can be picked up and put into a taming pen or frozen with resign thus making this the ultamate taming mount. If you get off of it and whistle for it to follow you it won't land and you can sit in its passenger seat. This allows it to regen stamina whist in the air. It is the only flyer you can do this with without anything to keep you in the air. There is a glitch that can occour that causes the player to exit tames in third person. This can happen when you land on any vertical surface whilst in third person. It can be reversed by landing on any vertical surface again but this time in first person. These guys have one weakness. If a megatherium kills just one other bug with the bug buff already active a wild level 12 can deal 826 damage while your level 66 rhynio will only deal 44.

RIP. Vjordic

Although you can't breed them you can still get the color mutations like any other tame. Trap a few rhynios and reuse them until you get the colors you want.

How to tame one of these critters:

1. Kill a male one, they will drop a rhyniognatha pheromone that you’ll need later on

2. Grab a creature trike sized and upwards, things like gigas, brontos and carchars work best for this (the bigger the creature, the better it’ll be)

3. Feed the pheromone to the creature you choose

4. Find a female, the higher the level the better of course, and lower its health to 10% like a reaper

5. The rhyniognatha will then impregnate the creature and use it as a host to birth the baby rhyniognatha

6. The host will give birth eventually however you can increase its stats by giving it food. The host will ask for cravings, these cravings will vary between things like brews (calien soup etc), eggs (giga etc) and gasoline for some reason

7. Enjoy your new rhyniognatha, it eats raw meat to keep alive

The only wild one I have found was in the island swamp, I have heard people saying they are on lost island also. To get them you need to kill one and take the special item it drops, then you need to find the one you want to tame and get it below 10% health like a reaper, then feed the special item to a sacrifice dino and eventually the bug will lay its eggs in it, make sure your Dino can eat the special item first as there seem to be some restrictions. you need to feed the Dino with the eggs something special every once in a while like a imprint and eventually it hatches and kills your Dino and you can claim the baby and raise it.

Hey Guys! The rhynio dossier has been released it’s taming method is pretty much the same! It also seems that they removed the level mechanics where you have to be higher or the same level as the female to receive the egg which is good for players that have never ascended before!

-TekReaper

It can pick up 2 medium sized dinosaurs such as rex's and plesio's can attack several enemies at once with all 6 of it's legs and it's head also it can continue holding the dinosaurs while swimming and flying which leads me to suspect that it is the size of a quetzal or as big maybe even bigger than a wyvern it will also cause bleeding and can pick up 2 enemies as well as attacking and pushing several enemies it's wings have a specific pattern representing the eyes of a tusoteuthis which makes it so that you are not attacked while underwater and while sprinting it can not be grabbed by a tusoteuthis.

If you are tired of sacrificing your tames for one of these, just use a mod called MSKYO it takes creatures that you normally have to passive tame or steal eggs for (wyverns rock drakes giant mosquitoes pryomanes etc) and allows you to just knock them out and give them their preferred taming food like meat berries or kibble (the creator of this mod is Trixt3r) I love this mod, this is how we got our first pyromane. I highly recommend this mod if you don’t want to go through all the work of those really difficult passive tames.

- Island Girl