Almost 120 votes everyone in just two months my Rhynio tip is my 2nd most popular tip! Thank you so much guys but remember that’s not the official tame method that’s what the creator of the concept of the rhynio made!

-TekReaper

This can’t pick aquatics. If one leaves the water it dies I just found that out

This should be a passive tame where you need to find it nesting or somthing on a tree and have to feed it some sort of animal or a new food type like a kibble

You can tame rhaynoignatha by a high level like 100 argy and do a trap and kill male rahynoignatha by a 167%crossbow damage . It easy

Why do people care about having the first tip? And I am I checked…

this will most likely not pick up rexes in real life it was the size of your finger nail and wild card would know this and shrink the size down to a tropical wyvren or something like that.

I’m exited for it to come but I have a strong feeling that it won’t have the same tameing meathod or ability’s it had in the vote well none of the previous creatures from the votes kept there ability’s so I don’t think this guy will keep its ability’s.

A high level bred (Imprinted if you can) Bronto is the best tame to use as a sacrifice for a Rhynio

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

Idk what this is but ignore it if you see it

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:)

Put to sleep with crossbow and get health down and boom you have a Rhynoathia

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

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).

Make a metal trap then tame a rex

Mine won’t impregnate my rex i got it to 98 health and my Rex ate the pheromone but it just killed my Rex anyone know why?

Do got Ark cause of a friend plays it and thought it was cool (still do even after all the deaths I have). So I bought the game in mid 2024. My friend rents a private server so we can PvE as we both not fans of PvP. Well after some health and Aquatica DLC breaking game play in 2025, we came back to Ark. Well since my last adventure in trying to get the Bug (failed horribly, not much helpful tips in fourms) I decided to try again. After another month of failed attempts (a couple were accidentally killing female as we dropped her health) we have finally managed to get our first rhyniognatha. Will tey and break down some helpful tips we did. Note: friend and I are both level 100+ with a lot of resource options avaliable so do take in mind your level, server and abilities when going for a Bug.

To start, I highly suggest you watch RAASCLARK YouTube video on this as this helped us recently.

Most forms told us this: Find male, kill it for the pheromone (if you use a tame to kill it, check its inventory, if not there look on ground where body was for a item cache bag as it be there. Yes we have lost a few cause of the location and not aware tame didnt get the pheromone). Next was find female and drop 10% health (this was the part that caused so much trouble). Next have tame with high drag weight eat pheromone and bam your tame is now carrying a baby as host. Feed tame random food and boom you now have a bug of your own.

Well that was what we were working with and yes we tried video searches but didnt seem to find much help as a few were for Ascended. That was till my friend found the video we used for our tame.

Now here is what we learned that was helpful. First, and I believe its crucial is your base location in relation to where these bug spawn at. Bugs spawn in swamp areas and thankfully 2 of the 3 locations are close to our home base, while the 3rd is close to Green Ob which is a long trek with most tames on the ground. If you are decently located between Redwoods and Green Ob then you should be fine. Incubation time for us was 59min, with food request every 9 min (more on this below).

Now determin tame you want to sacrifice (take into account your level as some dinos saddle levels are high to craft) if this is not an issue then great. Some say use Bronto (big and heavy from start), sone say use Trikes, some say use Giga (if you able to tame them) and some say use Para (as they are common around where bugs are). The thing never mentioned when any form or video say is level up the health points on the tame. This part is very crucial as once tame is host to baby, its food level drops to zero and health drops quick so you risk losing all the work. We used a Rex with health point at 30.1K (breed for boss fights) and it dropped quick but here is what made our experience different, we had a Daeodon with food lvl over 50k (if not familiar, they are medical pigs) and lots of kibbles (just recently discovered best option to regain food levels when healing tames). Try to get tame health over 30k, we think it be somewhere over 45k but with a Daeodon (and its high food lvl) 30k+ it's manageable.

Access to random foods is underestimated across all information. There is no list of foods that it can ask for which I feel is lacking so be prepared to craft things from kibbles to soups to veggies cakes. Make sure you have meats both cooked and raw on the safe side. Also, it can ask for an egg (ours asked for a dino egg we do not currently have tamed, the Carcharodontosaurus but we were able to spawn an egg in via admin).

Now as stated above in most forms it mentioned getting pheromone from male, I suggest finding the bugs and kill them for awhile, gwt a decent stock of the pheromone and also killing some female ones, chance for a good high level to go after once ready ( we did this a few times after failed attempts and to get more pheromones). Here are some helpful gear, craft a basic simple pistol and few stacks of simple bullets (primitive deals 100 damage vs higher level which could kill bug if not careful) have a harpoon launcher and few net rounds ( this came from video we watched and was the game changer. As we have used the net on other tames, never thought of this til video). Now find an open ground near bug and clear of any creature that could get in the way. Once set, prep your sacrifice tame (place pheromone in the tames inventory, DO NOT force feed it till you are 100% ready) if cryo then deploy it, make sure tame is on passive. Now once your tame is in position, get the female bug to you. Once its near you and tame, net the it. Once its netted, you have roughly 50 seconds, shot bug with simple pistol till its health below 100hp. Now force feed tame the pheromone and watch the magic take place (did have to shot bug once in air to get it to pregnant tame) once you see tame say its incubation, now get it home safely, use daeodon for health and feed the tame its request and soon your own bug. Good luck