Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for rhyniognatha? Tips and strategies for rhyniognatha in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
You can't outrun them on an average speed pterenodon
Does the dinosaur that carries the baby lose heath well pregnant?
Guide using personal experience.
Prior to tame:
-tamed a 180 bronto and leveled it to 309
-Got a good saddle for it so it didn’t die in the battle with rhynio.
Ready for tame
-killed male for pheromone (DO NOT USE THIS IN YOUR DINOS INVENTORY UNTIL YOU HAVE A FEMALE CLOSE AND YOU’RE READY. I made this mistake and didn’t get the female low health quick enough, pretty sure the pheromone only lasts like five minutes once activated in Dino’s inventory.)
-found level 145 female rhynio, kited back to my bronto in a safe space with a pteranodon (lvl 300+ ptera with asc saddle), activated the pheromone in the brontos inventory and then watched the damage I did (shooting with an ascendant pistol) until it started showing signs of damage (green substance like other bugs). At this point I mounted bronto and just periodically hit with tail swipe until the impregnating was complete (showed a larvae symbol with green check in top right of screen while riding bronto)then killed rhynio and took bronto home to base and filled with tons of berries as they go through a lot of food.
-Completed all five cravings for the impregnated bronto (they were focal chilli, enduro stew, wooly rhino horn, gasoline, wooly rhino horn again.)
-Juvenile rhynio popped out at level 181.
-Whistled follow to a safe spot at base and just imprinted like a normal Dino until raised. (Make sure you have feeding trough or meat in its inventory so it doesn’t starve)
Enjoy your new nightmare bug.
Use gigas brontos diplos shadowmain carchas quetzals rex spinos and allos
To all who say that the Rhynio probably will be completely different the community voted for it because they liked it’s abilities so I doubt they’ll completely change it hopefully they keep the pick up abilities. It would be pointless for such a rad creatures to be nerfed to a meganeura am I wrong?
-TekReaper
Looks like this might be the final creature in ark 1 i have no doubts wild card will spend a lot of time making this one good.
Step by step process to tame the hellfly 1 tame a diplo 2 level everything into health 3 go to the swamp with your diplo 4 find a male hellfly and kill it 5 take the pheromone 6 go around the hellfly nest (the area where the redwoods, swamp and red island {the island with the red obelisk is} are closest) and just almost kill all hellflys and hope that one is a female and it impregnates the diplo 7 enjoy your new hellfly
BTW I haven’t tested this hopefully it works
Not hating on the guy that had this idea but realistically saying these guys are has big has you hand or possibly bigger than your hand but they aren’t that large but these are pretty good I have a few myself
After killing a low level rhynio and taking its pheromones find the level rhynio you desire take a creature out and after getting the rhynio to low health have the creature eat the pharamones and wait about a minute (warning this will kill the creature that ate the pharamones) to get resin you must kill arthropluras with the rhyio and the saddle is unlocked at lvl 90
Rhyniognatha out now get your very now
Me: they added wasps to ark? Cool [ currently flying over swamp ]. What is coming out of its butt? Ow!!!. I need to tame this. [Getting tranquil arrows plus narcotics and different meats] knocks it out. I can’t tame it? It must be a passive tame. This is risky!!! No my archy!! If it is not a passive tame what is this!???!?!! [ looking at Dododex for literally 2 seconds]. So my archy died for nothing!!!!!
How do I get the net attachment on the island
If you can’t find a rhynio and are gonna spawn it in than use this code:
Cheat sdf rhynio 1 420 (it doesn’t have to be lvl 420)
Dont with normal settings fight this thing i call it lobster bee 🐝 my dad says its the giga of the sky
1. Tame a spino
2. Tame the lowest level Rex, trike, Maewing or qoetzal ect you can find may not make sense now, but it’s gonna make sense in later steps(whichever is easiest to you)
3. Go to the swamp spot a rhyniognatha and than agro it
4. Kill (3-4) male rhyniognathas (with a Spino)
5. Look up a rhyniognatha trap were it can still attack you on YouTube
6. Trap a female rhyniognatha in said trap
7. Get it down to 10% health.
8. Get the low level creature that you tamed in step two
9. Put the pheromones you get from the male inside its inventory
10. Get the female Rhyniognatha at 10% health to attack creature tamed at step 2.
In mobile ultimate edition ..I recommend to hatch this animal near your raft because If somehow the imprinting want you to take a walk with this creature .. allow following didnt work and when punching doesnt work just punch it to the raft and sail with it .. it working for me ..
Giant moth ugly piece of shit. Anyways tame it with infection
Had a Rhynio chasing me while on an Argy. Tried fkying into the Redwoods - no good. Got into a turning fight - no good. Tried flying at it - it backed up. Finally dived down and stopped The Rhynio didn't stop and ran into my Argy. I killed it but couldn't find the body. Still a win.
I will definitely be scared to encounter this thing, i wonder if a giga trap will work for it