To the guy that said if the cravings are needed or if they improve the rhynio level: Cravings heavily depend their level, you could have two extremely high level parents (check other tips for taking these suckers if your confused on the term “parents”) but only get a level 30-40 rhynio. Hope this helps!

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

How to easily tame one for early access to end-game transportation:

Things needed: spyglass, tamed trike, trike saddle, sword, simple pistol, at least 50 simple bullets

Recommended player level: level 35

1. Tame any trike then after its tamed ride it and destroy trees or kill creatures until it gains enough exp that you can pump several to a dozen levels in health into it.

2. Go to the swamp and find a rhynio, then target it with the spyglass to check if it's male or female and what level it is, obviously don't get close enough that it starts chasing you.

3. Assuming the rhynio is low level and male then you are set to kill it, but if it is too high of a level to kill or female then find a new one. Many tips will say just to kill it but never actually explain how to before it can kill you, so here's an actual good way to kill it:

4. Equip the sword and simple pistol in your hotbar, mount your trike then find the rhynio, aggro the rhynio using the pistol and magdump it until the rhynio gets close enough and starts attacking your trike, then equip your sword and start swinging at its face as much as you can until it dies while your trike tanks the damage. If it starts shooting resin at you then switch to your pistol and start shooting at it (This requires quick and precise aim as the rhynio can move from spots quickly while it is shooting resin). After it dies open its inventory and take its rhyniognatha pheromone.

5. After you take the pheromone, you can wait for your trike to heal while watching the spoil timer of the rhynio pheromone then find a low level female rhynio, feed the pheromone to the trike if it hasnt spoiled yet, then do the same attack process described in step 4 but don't damage it so much that it dies, you can then wait for the rhynio to impregnate your trike then it will fly away.

6. You can choose to satisfy the trike's cravings or not, but since this is a beginners' tip it wouldn't matter if you did or not. Put a lot of berries in the trike's inventory, then you can just wait until the gestation timer finishes and your trike dies.

7. After your trike dies and your juvenile level 1 rhynio pops out and lands somewhere near where your trike was, put enough raw meat in it's inventory for it to last until it becomes an adult and you can imprint it if you want the damage and resistance buffs.

8. You now have a tamed rhynio, end of tip.

9. Just kidding, while you wait for your rhynio to mature you can grind explorer notes until you get to level 91, (takes around 20 on singleplayer) and since the rhynio's maturity timer takes so long you might even be able to craft the saddle before it reaches adulthood.

10. When your rhynio reaches adulthood you now have a flyer that is faster than a quetzal, has more weight than a quetzal, can pick up almost all land creatures in the game, and cannot be attacked by most aggressive creatures unless you attack them first.

Note that since you have a level 1 rhynio you should avoid fighting other rhynios, as it can easily be killed if 2 or more rhynios attack you at once

Before you tame you need to know that they kill your tame after its been impregnated

TAMING

- Get a TRIKE that you DON’T love

- Bring it to the Swamp

- Kill a MALE Rhyniognatha

- Bring a FEMALE semi-close to your Trike

- GET THE FEMALE BELOW OR EQUAL TO 100 HP

- FEED the Trike the PHEROMONE you got from the MALE

- IT WILL IMPREGNATE THE TRIKE

- YOUR TRIKE WILL REQUEST 5 DIFFERENT FOODS

(YOU DONT HAVE TO FEED IT THE FOODS BUT IT WILL HEAVILY IMPACT THE LEVELS AND STATS)

- Once the timer hits 0:00 Your Trike will go UNCONSCIOUS AND DIE

AND THERES YOUR BABY RHY 🥳 (R.I.P Rex lvl 72)

Traumatic experience tried to outrun it on pt🫩

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

Take a high hp carnivore creature and fill it with meat s

o once it starts to crave you feed the creature the meat and he dont die i did that with a 7k hp t rex and it luckly worked

DO NOT CRYO AFTER IMPREGNATION, When you do it the dino will not be pregnant,

Just a quick tip, Now only males will drop pheromones,

DONT KILL THE FEMALES!!!

the quality of the baby rhynio depends on few things, the wild rhynio level (150 for the best result), the host drag weight must be above 900 (bronto,carcha,gigan on the island), the host's level and stats (stats is important because the host is also a parent so its like normal breeding), and the cravings fulfillment. also imprint the baby for the best stats, ive tried this multiple times with my bred brontos and i always get 240+ baby rhynio

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!

Use a direwolf on ark ascended to easily tell when it is below 10% health

These bugs make taming other dinos a LOT easier, and grinding more bearable. Now you don't NEED a high level one.i got a lvl 35 weeks ago, now lvl 95, doing wonders for metal gathering because of their high weight, though if you're far from a metal source, i'd recommend argys, since rhynios, when carrying dinos move horrendously slow.

𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚍𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚐𝚘 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚗𝚎?

Well, it's simple (not really, but still pretty simple for their uitility that they give you) first, find a male (level of the male doesnt really matter, but females do) after killing one check your dinos inventory, or the rhyniognathas dead body inventory. If you cant open the rhyniognathas dead body, then the pheromone should be in your dino's inventory.

𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩.

Select a tamed dinosaur, preferably a brontosaurus, or carcharodontosaurus, or gigas. Though rexes, paracers and other animals could work, but not all of them. 𝙎𝙀𝘼𝙍𝘾𝙃 𝘼𝙍𝙆 𝘿𝙄𝙉𝙊 𝘿𝙍𝘼𝙂 𝙒𝙀𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏𝙎 Drag weight matters very much here, because it ensures full stat transfer from the host dino to the rhyniognatha, 900+ drag weight is the max limit for stat transfer, making carchas, gigas and brontos the best option, if you want a rhyniognatha specifically for resource gathering, sacrifice a bronto, if you want damage, sacrifice a giga/carcha. Brontos have high weight, carcha/giga has high damage, if you want one SPECIFICALLY to just be a speedy fighter jet that doesn't fight, sacrifice a bronto with high speed, if you even level it up on brontos.

Second, find a female, high levels are great, but if you're desperate, low levels are great too. If you've located one DO NOT FIGHT IT YET! If you have a cryopod, use it to store the sacrifice and uncryo it near the rhyniognatha, if you don't have one then you'll have to go primitive and ride the sacrifice, or make it follow you near the rhyniognatha, feed your sacrifice the pheromone you got from the male, and quickly get aggro from the rhyniognatha. Attack it, lead it near your sacrifice using your dinos, or weapons till it reaches below 10% of their hp. The female rhyniognatha should shoot out some orange glowing blob at your sacrifice, your sacrifice is now bearing a rhyniognatha. (It should be glowing orange) from there, prepare the foods it will request. Search the things that it might ask for in its "Still stuck inside your sacrifice" Phase, just incase prepare element, they can request it.

𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙊𝙍𝙏𝘼𝙉𝙏: 𝘿𝙊 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝘾𝙍𝙔𝙊𝙋𝙊𝘿 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙎𝘼𝘾𝙍𝙄𝙁𝙄𝘾𝙀, 𝙄𝙏 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙊𝙑𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝘼𝘽𝙔 𝙍𝙃𝙔𝙉𝙄𝙊𝙂𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙃𝘼!

𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙀: 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙄𝙎 𝙊𝙉𝙇𝙔 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝙎𝙊𝙐𝙍𝘾𝙀𝙎 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝙍𝙀𝘿𝘿𝙄𝙏 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙏𝙐𝘽𝙀. 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝙀𝙓𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙉𝘾𝙀, 𝘽𝙐𝙏 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙈𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 𝙂𝙀𝙏 𝘼 𝘿𝙄𝙁𝙁𝙀𝙍𝙀𝙉𝙏 𝙊𝙐𝙏𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙀, 𝙄 𝙋𝙐𝙏 𝘼 𝙍𝙃𝙔𝙉𝙄𝙊𝙂𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙃𝘼 𝘽𝙀𝙇𝙊𝙒 10% 𝙃𝙋 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙄𝙏 𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙇𝙇 𝘿𝙄𝘿𝙉'𝙏 𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙂𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙀 𝙈𝙔 𝙏𝘼𝙈𝙀! 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝘿 𝙁𝙀𝙈𝘼𝙇𝙀 𝙍𝙃𝙔𝙉𝙄𝙊𝙂𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙃𝘼 𝙃𝘼𝘿 2𝙆 𝙃𝙋, 𝘼𝙉𝘿 200 𝘽𝙀𝙇𝙊𝙒 𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙐𝙇𝘿 𝙈𝘼𝙆𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙈 𝙁𝙇𝙀𝙀 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙂𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙀 𝙈𝙔 𝙎𝘼𝘾𝙍𝙄𝙁𝙄𝘾𝙀 𝙍𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏? 𝙉𝙊! 𝙄𝙏 𝙒𝘼𝙎 𝙐𝙉𝙏𝙄𝙇 𝙄𝙏 𝙂𝙊𝙏 𝙏𝙊 70 𝘽𝙀𝙇𝙊𝙒 𝘿𝙄𝘿 𝙄𝙏 𝙄𝙈𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙂𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙀 𝙈𝙔 𝙎𝘼𝘾𝙍𝙄𝙁𝙄𝘾𝙀!

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

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

On mobile it chooses a new craving directly after you feed a craving to your dino similar to imprinting, but you wont see it until the cravings cooldown is up.

This means if you are save scumming to get better cravings you should do it before you feed a craving to your dino, then after you feed it wont tell you the next craving so you need to wait until the cooldown timer is up, then if you get a bad craving you need to download and wait out the cravings timer again.

this also applies to the first craving you need to save before your dino dies instead of before the first craving timer ends if you want to roll a new first craving

If you save seconds before the cravings timer is up, you will get the same craving every time you download your save.

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

“Wahoo! My genius plan to kill a male worked! Now I just have to search my 25 carnivores for the pheromone… AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

IDK how I'm soposed to manage to get a giga egg even though I have yet to come to see one

Unfortunately, to the guy who asked if the pheromone can spoil… Yes, it does spoil. It takes a whole day thankfully. Just make sure you’re prepared to take on two rhyniognatha in a day and you should be fine. 👍