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.
The spawn command is cheat summon rhynio_character_BP_C on console idk if it is the same on PC tho
The baby oneshots all things that it bursts from
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)
Whoever is saying, you can’t use an elixir on them after they’re born is wrong. I’ve used them on several without any issue.
It's has no bby stage unlike the breeding tab states. Pregnancy in your tame then pops out juvi.
Tranq it and you can do damage to it and check with a magnifying glass to see if it’s below 10% then when it wakes up use the pheromones and watch the magic
Use a magnifying glass as quick as possible to take away the lowest number in its health that should be around 10%
ok, do you wonder how to get the perfect rhyino? well it takes stats from both the host and the wild female, to draw more stats give it cravings. it will eat all the island rockwell recipes, all kibbles, black pearls, anthica paste, element, quetz, carcar, giga, and golden eggs. and something else, and another is drag weight. the higher the better. what happens is it draws more stats from the host therefore it will be higher level brontos have one of the highest drag weight (1050), so mutated brontos are good. it only will take points so bronto or giga are no different on how strong the baby is, so lets say you have 50 health points. and you give all 5 cravings with bronto. the baby will probably have 50 health. other good drag weight creatures are gigas, carchas, and megachalons. (950)
Steps to Tame
1. Kill male to get pheromone.
2. Use a large Dino… Rex, Giga, Spino, etc.. base stats that I know of count for a better baby bug. Put this Dino on Passive.
3. Find a Female.
4. Set up a trap using about 6-7 stone Behemoth structure close together, put gates on the ends. I use Tek gate much easier. Leave small gaps to go in and out of.
5. Lure female into gate and shoot with net gun. .
6. Grab your Dino that is on passive and walk it in and close and lock the gates. Try to use a Dino that has decent health.
7. Use Magnifying glass and look at health. You need to get it down to 10% remaining. Use net gun to check health and take your time, have a sleeping bag near by in case you die.
8. Feed your Dino the pheromone, and watch the tail of the bug glow, after it should go to your Dino and impregnate it.
9. Thats it, for breeding it will need a lot of food and some way to heal your Dino like a snow owl, or just force feed it food. Your Dino will want a lot of different things, like kibble, soups, I heard gasoline too lol.
Cheers and Good Luck.
Yes this creature is only on the island and lost island
Theri CANNOT eat the pheromones just FYI
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.
On official I recommend taming while 3x boost. Took us 8hrs to tame on 1x.
Food drain was insane and had to have a tribe mate do berry runs for us. How people are taming these with carnivores is beyond me.
Prepare prepare prepare!
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.
It has to lay eggs on your tames
The breeding tab should inform us how long the Rhynio takes to mature to adulthood once it has been born from the host, depending on the server settings?
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 %
The pheromone can be placed in a fridge to extend it to 33 days.
They spawn in the swamp -Tested
It will take traits from the host creature this includes stats, and colors. I'd advise using a high stat giga, or carch, with insane mutations, even a rex will do