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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.
Just came here to know about this fker after getting me and my Pterror (Ptero) killed. Run, the moment you see this devil, don't think twice, just RUN, I learned it the hard way
When tamed, one of these freaks can rule the water, land and sky. These things breeze through hordes of rexes and (when leveled up) have enough stamina to travel across the map in 1-2 stops. Their sheer strength allows them to carry an absurd about of materials that is great for resource farming at far away places! It can also pick up most of the creatures allowing for crazy combos like holding a diplo with an army of passengers seated on its saddle or even carrying ankys to and from the volcano. Amazing tame!
If u are just a noob run that's all I can say
Option A is to kill them in ark ultimate survivor edition you need a ascendent long neck, ascendent crossbow, ascendent metal bow and some metal arrows then tame a bunch of pts and make them aggro on the rhyno then use your ranged weapon or option 2 sacrifice one of your flying tames then run far ASF from the attack or 3 just make them attack something large like a paraceratherium or a dilopocus or anything bigger than these 2 and then fly, swim or run far away as possible while riding your tame
You don't need to incubate at random dangerous places. Just place your host at your base and then aggro rhyniognatha with high level and mov speed sometime it will distracted but you have to agree again until your reach your base and make sure other dinos are passive and then proceed further and this way you can focus on cravings more efficienctly
This things are like helicopters they fly straight at you shoots something sticky it's says this things are rare rare my ass this things spawns like 2 3 at the swamp area not gonna lie it's easy for me to dodge them I just fly straight down near bronto or other bigger dino they stop chasing me after wards
Those bugs are nothing to mess around with; I just lost my Argy.
I just wrote a tip about this, but I’m literally mindblown by this as a tame, and I can’t stop thinking of nice things to say about it.
It only needs 1 resin in its inventory to carry stuff, so that should be useful for those who are like me and are still working on building a sap factory out of taps and archaeopteryx. I’ve been using my current Rhynio to catch and tame the highest level rexes I can find so that’s I can breed rexes not only for the Dinos, but so I can impregnate a very powerful bred Rex with a higher level female, since the baby rhynios get stats from its host as well.
This Dino is insane, and I can simply pick up a large predator that’s invading and drop it somewhere else, or simply kill it because this bug is so strong.
It also has the status of an apex predator, so everything will leave you alone except for other massive carnivores.
It has useful ranged attacks, can swim horizontally as fast as it flies… why is this thing so perfect?
It looked small and weak… it is not. If you see it run because it will shoot amber at you
If it's close to your base an low level tranq it then kill it I'm suprised this worked
Don't have your dino eat the Pheremone and the cryo it. I tryed doing this and It lost the pheremone effect (to my knowledge).
On my way home, its was my first time seeing it on mobile ulti edition. I got near it a bit, it was a big mistake because I couldn’t out run it with my Iguanodon. It moves fast and not to mention it shoots you with something haha.
So when I was flying my tapujara I was attacked by one. I can't even begin to tell you how scary it was. I tried everything and I couldn't get away and my tapujara died. Unless you want to join him be careful flying over swamps. And I thought swamps where dangerous enough😬
In terms of baby stats:
This has to be looked at as a Mating of your Host creature and the wild female Rhyni you getting the baby from rather than regular taming. Which means like regular breeding the baby can inherit stats from either.
The requrements to inherit the max amount of stats from the host (apart of the usual breeding chance to inherit stats from either female or "male") seems to be at this point:
-fulfill all carvings
-use either a giga, caracho or bronto as host creature
failing to do so reduces the posiible stats by a fairly high %
BEWARE! I’ve lost multiple tames & items getting rushed by these, even up into the Redwoods. They DO NOT stay in the swamp! They know no bounds! Their range is infinite! Seeing one of these is worse than seeing any alpha!
Only 2 will spawn on map at a time. Spawns are along the swamp River just south of the redwoods. Kill the males and take the pheromone from inventory(shotguns work well on them). When you find a female, have a tame nearby preferably a paracetamol for your first time. Damage the bug and peck at it with a low damage weapon to get below 10%. Put your tame on passive and feed it the pheromone. The rhynio will beat on it for a little bit but don't stress, it will fly up and whip down and impregnate your tame. (If you build a trap you can impregnate multiple tames, I've done 35 dinos off of 1 bug)