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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.
A high level bred (Imprinted if you can) Bronto is the best tame to use as a sacrifice for a Rhynio
Dude, I can’t find it in the wild anywhere on lost island and the island no matter how many videos I watch on where you can find them I can’t find them! So I just spawned them in at lvl 420
I have seen these guys on aberration in the blue area!
Just find a female then tranq it and while it's unconscious keep hitting it with an hatchet and lower it's health down to 10% easy
Wanted to apologize for my last tip where I said that if you cryo the tame it will reset the request. This is incorrect
Put to sleep with crossbow and get health down and boom you have a Rhynoathia
This idiot won’t spawn for me on my Nintendo switch,
Nor does the engram appear for its saddle,
where the hell do you find this idiot
Idk what this is but ignore it if you see it
I don’t like cheating on my solo games, but I’m flying up and down the Island map using the destroywilddinos command and hoping they spawn. I’d rather look for giga hearts than search for these things.
These guys are extremely easy to knock out with tranquilizer and shocking darts.
Varies upon settings, but a +200% long neck, with shocker darts, can 2 tap a lvl140.
Sorry to burst your bubbles but this can’t pick up aquatics. I know this because as soon as an aquatic leaves the water it dies and it would be stupid to let it pick up rexes it would be a completely buffed quetzal and give the quetzal less reason to tame also in almost every creature vote wild card only had the creature in the game not the ability’s so the chance it will be able to pick things up is not 100% but since the community would like that it would probably be able to pick up stuff around what the wyvrens can and I don’t think it would be as big as shown it will most likely be tropical wyvren size. Hope you understand that not everything will probably make it into the game and it would be helpful for others to see this as well so they know that not every ability from the vote will make it in most likely so if you could give this tip a like it would help others understand. Thanks if you understand what I’m saying:)
They are so hard to get, since they eat EVERYTHING and you have to SACRIFICE A TAME!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡But they are very useful. I do not actually have one, I’m going based off of what people say.
Great tame but impossible to get unless spawning 1 in wasn't worth the time an now I never use it
Be careful sometimes they are in groups of more than 5. It might not seem like it but they are there!
I hate this thing I was just flying on my pt after taming a lvl 80 thyla and I had it in a cryo pod and then it just appeared and killed me I was so mad I tried to get my stuff back but just got killed
Use Tranks/weapons to knock out then knock them and kill them with a rex pls like so ppl can see
These are as rare as Gigas (supposedly), so be sure to plan accordingly. Though they can be hard to spot in the wild sometimes, they seem to spawn in almost immediately after another one dies. There are almost always two at any given time on our server and there are no modificatioms to creature spawns. While it may seem worthwhile to "tame" a low-level female given how long it took to find it, it may be better waiting for a higher level one and using that time to stock up on all the different comfort food options. When you're ready to find one for taming, it may be beneficial to spend time killing males and lower-level females until an ideal one shows up.
Kill a male Rhynio to get a Pheromone to use on your sacrificial tame. Pheromones last for 8 hours in your inventory or 30 days in a fridge and do not stack.
Tame either a high-level Paracer, Bronto, or Carchar and name it "Fodder" and upgrade the crap out of its health. SAVE ONE UPGRADE POINT!
• Parcer prefers Superior kibble but only has 600 drag weight (89% host size quality)
• Bronto prefers Exceptional kibble and is slower to move, but has over 650 drag weight (100% host size quality) - I recommend leveling up its health to at least 20,000 and dumping all but one point into movement speed. You can still level it up once it's impregnated, and leveling up its health afterwards can recalibrate the health drain on your baby's timer if you're worried it won't make it.
• Carchar would be easiest to transport safely and has 100% host size quality, but what a waste, y'know?
1. Bring net gun and kill a male to get its pheromone - Net gun is not necessary. Rhynios are surprisingly easy to kill.
2. Find female Rhynio and feed Fodder the pheromone. Pheromone effect only lasts for 5 minutes, so be aware of that. It might be beneficial to bring two just in case.
3. Bring pump shotgun, assault rifle, and magnifying glass - do bulk damage with shotgun and peck away at its health with the assault rifle. Check its health with the magnifying glass as needed. Bring LOW LEVEL assault rifle so you don't accidentally kill the female. If you're using a Bronto, you cannot use weapons while riding on it, so a magnifying glass becomes more or less impossible to use here. Rhyniognatha's health needs to be below 10% in order to impregnate.
4. Once impregnated, safely get Fodder back to base without cryopodding it. Cryopodding your creature will lose the baby. YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO MOUNT/RIDE THE IMPREGNATED DINO and will instead need to whistle for it to follow you (this was my personal experience so I would be remissed it if didn't include it, but I'm happy to be proven wrong). Being that these tend to be in or near the swamps and redwoods, you may want to bring support dinos for safety. I'm not sure how damage inflicted on Fodder after the pregnancy affects the health drain, but once you get it back to your base, I would spend that last level up point on its health. But only when you're sure it's safe.
5. Fodder will ask to be fed specific specific things for its cravings, including Giga/Carchar/Quetzal/Golden Hesperornis Eggs, black pearls, ammonite bile, absorbant substrate and Element. Feed these to Fodder to boost the babies' taming effectiveness. It will only have five cravings. Gestation can last up to 8 hours on official servers. Fodder will constantly need to be fed as it will consume one food PER SECOND while gestating. To feed it the food that it's craving, equip the food into your last hotbar slot and hold Triangle (PS) / E (PC) / Y (Xbox) on the creature. There should be a special option on the menu wheel on the top-right side to feed it its comfort food. DO NOT FORCE FEED IT THE COMFORT FOOD OR YOU WILL JUST BE WASTING IT.
6. Once born, Fodder will die. Fodder's health will tick down the enitre time and will reach 0 once the baby is due to be born. There is apparently a glitch that can cause Fodder to die from starvation seconds before the baby arrives, so force-feed it for a solid two minutes before the timer is up. The baby can be claimed by ANYONE, and will need to be fed like normal. They will not be hostile like a baby Reaper. You can pick up a baby with a Maewing (but we don't have that option right now on ASA).
I found it in the Asgard swamps on fjourdor