Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a rhyniognatha? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a rhyniognatha.
Not every creature can “eat” the pheromone that the males drop.. like this tip so Dododex can see and add which creatures can eat it and which ones can’t.
I know some that cannot:
Megatherium
Stego
Tek Creatures
Anky
Doeds
Sarco
Baryonyx
Carno
Managarmr
Some that can eat:
Wyverns
Rex
Quetzal
Maewing
Trike
With more testing we could have it set up fully and implemented into DodoDex
Taming these things are confusing, but I believe I have figured out how they work.
Step 1 is to kill a wild rhynio (can be any gendrr) to get the pheromones, next it is best to make a trap, the best design i know of is basically a stone dino gate griffin trap, but with behemoth gates. Next you want to find a high level wild female rhynio. Think of the level of the rhynio as the taming effectiveness you will recieve 150 being max. Next you need to lower the rhynio to below 10% hp, you can net them to make this easier. Once it is below 10% hp you need a mount with a high drag weight in order to inherit the best stats, carch/giga have best chances. Feed the creature the phermone and mount it. The rhynio should impregnate it within a few seconds. DO NOT CRYOPOD THE DINO IT IMPREGNATED! YOU WILL LOOSE THE BABY! once your tame is impregregnated it will go through a gestation period and ask for cravings. It is important you furfill as many as possible as they have a major effect on the level the offspring will be and the stats inherited. Once the timer is complete your dino will fall unconscious and die, however you will now have a new perfect tame rhynio!
I suggest you find a nice beefy dino If you don't already have one, make sure it's carnivourus so you can deal damage to the Rhynio, use that dino to kill a low lvl Rhynio, because if it's a high level female it would save you time searching for one, once you go out and kill one lower the Rhynio to 10% this part is very tedious you can easily kill the Rhynio with a good dino, once you get it low enough, feed your dino the pheromones and when it gives your dino a quick sting and your dino has a buff on it showing the amount of time until a baby, feed it's cravings or else you'll have a extremely low level one, make sure to immediately feed the baby and imprint on it the second it comes out, good luck!
All of the currently known cravings for host creatures include
Giga eggs
Carchars eggs
Quetzal eggs
Golden hesperornis eggs
All kibbles
Shadow steak saute
Fria curry
Enduro stew
Focal chilli
Lazarus chowder
Veggie cakes
Black pearls
Achatina paste
Gasoline
Element
Rhino horns
Ammonite bile
Bee honey
Battle tartar
Dont trap, trapping it will some times bug it to the point where it wont do the stabbing animation. Especially on high ping server. Almost guaranteed a stab every time.
Use a direwolf on ark ascended to easily tell when it is below 10% health
So a lot of people think they need to heal the host. You do not need to heal the host, and in fact, healing the host is a waste of resources and time especially if using daeodons. The health lost is inevitable and is always a ratio with the time being a negative percentage of health the host should be missing. Meaning if four hours have passed of the total eight incubation hours then the Dino will be at half health as it should be. Healing past that half will temporarily increase the host health, but it will quickly go back to half health. You do not need to heal it.
In addition, placing food in the dinosaurs inventory and sitting on the Dino, will automatically feed it faster and keep the food meter higher than zero this only works to maintain the food at 6% it won’t work there is about 6% food left or so. You can test this by dismounting and seeing the Dino’s food bar go to 0 then mount and watch it rise to 6%ish.
Just a quick tip, Now only males will drop pheromones,
DONT KILL THE FEMALES!!!
It’s just came out with the new update.To tame it is kinda like the reaper.But instead of u getting impregnated it’s ur Dino but use a disposable Dino as once it gives birth the creature dies.from my own experience you need to kill one then get its pheromone gland then feed it to I am pretty sure ur creature once u found one u want to tame then find one u want to tame then eat the gland then keep attacking it until it impregnates u then u have to wait for a bit and u need to feed ur dino random things cuz it craves stuff.What I got was black pearls Lazarus chowder and absorant.I think the more u feed it the more older the baby is once it bursts from ur dinos chest then u need to raise it from there
The best thing that worked for me to tame this creature was a Trike!
to get a high level it depends on the host dino, the best ones are gigas, carchas, and brontos at the top. and rhynios get stats based on the host. even being said, its not guaranteed the stats such as it might not get the 30 points into health that the host dino had to put it into a example, and another factor is you have to give the host cravings. if not it might not be a max level either, they also dont get the hosts speed stat, their cravins contains: carcha egg, quetz egg, giga egg, golden egg, all the rockwell recipes and i mean all, element, absorbent substrate, black pearls, and gasoline. if helpful punch the sky
When "taming" the health of your dino will drop rapidly, it scared me ans my mates half to death, its meant to, when the health of the dino reaches 0 itll drop to the floor unconscious for a split second before dying and being consumed. No amount of healing will save the dino. The dino wont die before the timer finishes unless its being attacked by an outside source. Goodluck everyone
This is not passive taming
You have to get it to 10 percent
And let it get your dino pregnant then a baby explodes out of your dino killing it
NOT PASSIVE TAMING
High level Brontos worked best for us.
The rhynio has a similar taming method to the reaper you have to kill a male to get a certain item then eat the item which is called fertile essence then you need to find a female rhynio and get is to under 10% of its health and will do a special attack to give you the baby but it has to be done in the air or underwater so it can use all of its legs as required unfortunately the female will only give a baby to someone that’s a higher or the same level as it although that’s not confirmed to stay in the game.
-TekReaper
Rhynio eat:
●Absorbent Substrate
●Achatina Paste
●Ammonite Bile
●Golden Hesperornis Egg
●Carcharodontosaurus Egg
●Giganotosaurus Egg
●Quetzal Egg
●Element
●Gasoline
●Giant Bee Honey
●Superior,Exceptional,Extraordinary Kibble
●Battle Tartare
●Calien Soup
●Enduro Stew
●Focal Chili
●Lazarus Chowder
●Shadow Steak Saute
●Sweet Veggie Cake
●Woolly Rhino Horn
Trap the rhyniognatha after it impregnates your Dino that way you can reuse it later for more rhyniognatha taming
Server ping has to be below 100 to get pregnant on official. Anything above that you will just burn through pheromones without luck.
Tek creatures won't work as hosts. They won't eat the pheromone.
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)