How to tame one of these critters:

1. Kill a male one, they will drop a rhyniognatha pheromone that you’ll need later on

2. Grab a creature trike sized and upwards, things like gigas, brontos and carchars work best for this (the bigger the creature, the better it’ll be)

3. Feed the pheromone to the creature you choose

4. Find a female, the higher the level the better of course, and lower its health to 10% like a reaper

5. The rhyniognatha will then impregnate the creature and use it as a host to birth the baby rhyniognatha

6. The host will give birth eventually however you can increase its stats by giving it food. The host will ask for cravings, these cravings will vary between things like brews (calien soup etc), eggs (giga etc) and gasoline for some reason

7. Enjoy your new rhyniognatha, it eats raw meat to keep alive

The only wild one I have found was in the island swamp, I have heard people saying they are on lost island also. To get them you need to kill one and take the special item it drops, then you need to find the one you want to tame and get it below 10% health like a reaper, then feed the special item to a sacrifice dino and eventually the bug will lay its eggs in it, make sure your Dino can eat the special item first as there seem to be some restrictions. you need to feed the Dino with the eggs something special every once in a while like a imprint and eventually it hatches and kills your Dino and you can claim the baby and raise it.

Hey Guys! The rhynio dossier has been released it’s taming method is pretty much the same! It also seems that they removed the level mechanics where you have to be higher or the same level as the female to receive the egg which is good for players that have never ascended before!

-TekReaper

If you are tired of sacrificing your tames for one of these, just use a mod called MSKYO it takes creatures that you normally have to passive tame or steal eggs for (wyverns rock drakes giant mosquitoes pryomanes etc) and allows you to just knock them out and give them their preferred taming food like meat berries or kibble (the creator of this mod is Trixt3r) I love this mod, this is how we got our first pyromane. I highly recommend this mod if you don’t want to go through all the work of those really difficult passive tames.

- Island Girl

SUPER EASY TAME STRATEGY,

Use a spino to kill a male for the pheromone, count how many hits it took to kill the male, find a female, hit the female a few less times than the male, or until she is pretty bloody, then eat pheremone and there you go, also constantly consume food while she is attacking to help keep your health high.

Whoever said only 2 of these spawn on a maps full of crap, my game crashed and when i reloaded it of course i got unmounted apon loaded and fell to my death and where i thought i was in my base area ibdidnt pay attention to where i died... apon spending the next 3 hrs looking for my rhyna and my gear i got gang bamged by 6 of these at once they spawn in groups and try to hunt in groups, and will out pace and destroy anything you got if you try to run, best bet is to straf there shots while chageing and pray your tame can dish some damage, that being said they are the fastest flyer and in im gunna say the top 3 as far as swimmers and transition almost flawlessly my furst rhyna was lvl 5 lol lvled it to 55 and apart from a high lvl giga or carcha nothing could trouch it except by an assendant machete that woulda probly 3 shot it and of course getting arked.... so far any carcha, quetz or rhyna iv tamed thus playthru arks got me on everything except gigas but the fact iv only seen one giga above lvl 7 id say im getting arked there as well, but my tamed at lvl 5 with one craving fed itd still wreck lvl 100 rhynas in about 5 hits

For the ping people. We did 9 pregnancies 1-28-24 with 200-350 ping. Used approx 25 pheromones. We use a large boxed in trap. Toxic server killed a 150 we had trapped. Anyway it’s about getting lucky with the angle when they go through their animation. If they miss when they make their dive no prego. Might be ping but I just think it’s the angle. I’m sure low ping helps but it’s not required. We’ve done about 25 prego and only a few had less than 100 ping. Biggest help for us is just flying out of render. Sometimes they’ll get stuck in the tame. But if you fly out of render and come back a lot of the time they’ll be up high kinda where they can start their animation. Sometimes this is hard because a tribemate doing other things. Or the person we are helping wants to watch. We just tell them to stay out of render and we will tell them when it’s done.

Noticed a lot of players having issues getting their tames impregnated. Found a tip online that we tried and it worked nearly flawlessly.

Trap the female rhynio. Using a pteradon works great at pulling aggro.

Get the rhynio down to under 100 hp, NOT 10% of its health! Feed the pheromone to tame, dismount tame and release the female.

She'll aggro to it for a moment then start to fly off but should come right back. (If she continues flying off, use ptera to regain aggro and bring it back).Give it some time, and she should back up and do the animation for impregnating, then instantly fly off. If it was successful it should tell you a timer for incubation as well as the next craving.

Tried it with three bronto (m/f), and it worked with just a single pheromone. Ended up using that female about 15 more times. It seems to have some issue with impregnating rexes, though, as it takes longer for them.