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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a rhyniognatha used for? rhyniognatha battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
It can pick up 2 medium sized dinosaurs such as rex's and plesio's can attack several enemies at once with all 6 of it's legs and it's head also it can continue holding the dinosaurs while swimming and flying which leads me to suspect that it is the size of a quetzal or as big maybe even bigger than a wyvern it will also cause bleeding and can pick up 2 enemies as well as attacking and pushing several enemies it's wings have a specific pattern representing the eyes of a tusoteuthis which makes it so that you are not attacked while underwater and while sprinting it can not be grabbed by a tusoteuthis.
If you are taming something and something else starts attacking it you can ise the rhynio's intimidate attack and it will scare just about anything wothout doing damage. If it doesnt scare them away you can pick them up and mpve them so that you dont accidemtally hit your tame.
Put sap in its inventory to start creating Rhyniognatha Resin, you can use the resin to pick up large scale dinos (caps out at rexes, Diplo's and paracers) structures like vaults and transmitters by holding R1 and pressing R2, Press R2 to place the structure again.(ps4 and Xbox)
Holding R1 and pressing L2 will swap resin projectile type, you have 3 options. Bomb, needle and rocket. Bomb lobs a glob of resin onto the ground and creates a pool of resin that will slow anything that steps in it down, if they're exposed to the resin for long enough, the victim will slow down to an achatinas pace if not completely freeze. L2 is to use resin projectiles.
Needles is especially a gun but with liquid resin as ammo, it's less accurate and takes some practice to use. L2 is to fire, each shot uses 1 resin.
Rocket is like needles except more accurate at the cost of firing speed, it allows you to zero in on anything you target. Hold L2 to target and let go to fire.
The Rhyniognatha is a glass cannon, it can't take a lot of damage but it makes up for that in dishing out a lot of damage towards enemies. Fire is it's ultimate weakness, steer clear of magmasaurs, fire wyverns and the occasional pyromaniac.
Pressing R3 (the right analog stick) like a button will trigger the "Taunt". It scares away larger scale dinos and below, including rexes and Yutyrannus. There is a cooldown to the taunt.
Holding R1 and pressing R3 will activate Resin armor, it's halves any damage dealt to the Rhyniognatha. Similar to the Stegosaurus' Hardend Plates. Will only activate if resin is in the Rhyniognathas inventory.
I hope this helps yall
I am building a house on the Island, and this massive creature has been very helpful towards building, you can build while riding and flying, like on an argy but you can move backwards/move around a lot easier, for me anyway, I do suggest trying them out for building, gives them a new use really-
High levels can be great for carrying Dino’s who run/attack back
The amount of HP And Weight cap is insane for picking up lots of useful Dino’s, it’s great as a carrier as well
Take a rex, for example. Rex are dangerous and you are broke on materials to make a trap but you have a high-level rhynio, use the rhynio (yes it can pick up rexes it’s cool) and pick it up, have your tribe mate go ahead and tranq it out while the rhynio goes ahead and tanks damage (with resin armor it takes 20-40 damage)
Rhynio can also stun/encase creatures with Amber with the sniper mode (RB + LT on xbox) or the grenade launcher mode, you will see a sort of bar on top of the creature and the more you hit it, the more icons get colored with an Amber color, once it turns full and red, the creature is now stuck and has basically to no movement speed, making tames like Gallimimus easy
The Taunt attack (Hold R3 or Right Thumbstick) will do the reduced version of the fear roar from the yuty, making an blue/teal aura around Dino’s
I learnt this from experience, and I will sea you layter
~ CPG
Totally worth it, the best tame in “the island” (do be prepared, for it is expensive, time consuming, and takes some preparation to have one) first, get a triceratops (can be any level, preferably 100+), obtain a rhyniognatha pheromone by killing one rhyniognatha , then obtain a quetzal so you can carry the triceratops away when you are done, due that if you cryopod it with the larva it will remove it, do what you must do to bring a wild female rhyniognathta to low HP, somewhere around 10-20% of its health (see blood in body, use shotgun or fabricated pistol ), hit it enough times until it prepares a attack with its tail and rushes at you, that’ll be the egg laying, then carry the trike to your base, there, it should take 8 hours to hatch, killing the trike in the process (make sure you are prepared for the most funky and wacky cravings by the triceratops, I haven’t tested it yet but it should affect level by 25lv/craving, they occur in an hour each), the maturation for rhyniognatha shouldn’t be more than 2-3 days, afterwards it’s fully grown, you can fly with it, faster than most, if not all flying tames, doesn’t waste much energy, has 1500 carry weight , and is optimal against alpha carnos/raptors of all levels, also kitting giga/carcha (all these measures where made with Traz, the 50 level born male rhyniognatha, currently level 101), most importantly, make sure you have a sap farm ready by the red woods , due that your new buddy will consume a lot of it and turn it into raisin that can be shot as three different projectiles and be turned into armor, upgrade life, melee damage and mostly stamina , it can carry yutys, rexes, and smaller creatures (use this at your advantage , due that the rhyniognatha has incredible flying speed). Cheers and success - Leon.
Great for taming reapers on gen 2. Simply craft a trap (5x5, 15 walls high). Then grab your reaper queen. Take it and drop it into the trap. Get a light pet with high emission range and attack with your rhyniognatha. Use H-L-N-A to see it's hp. If it gets too low drop a parasaur in to feed it. Apart from that it's your average reaper tame
TIP and stuff to be considered
It can grab a reaper queen and spinos
You need resin to grab structures and if you run out of resin while holding the structure it will destroy it so be careful.
For some reason in rockwells innards if you got hit by the tentacles that make you fall to the ground it has a huge fall damage even if it falls from a 2 m height
I almost 3 rhyniognatha testing stuff
What I know so far.
Admin code for it is rhynio (rhynio_character_bp_c)(rhyniosaddle)
Is a preserving bin.
2 seater
Full degree of motion in flight (up, down, left, right, ect)
360 motion on ground (can walk backwards and sideways and diagonal)
Can rotate around target and keep focused on it (takes a bit of practice)
Yes is can pick up rexes, diplo, shadowmane, gacha and more!! (and can just as easily pick up a dodo) can NOT pick up giga/carcha or bronto
It can land on walls!
It has more abilities than I can list here.
All terrain dino! Flys! Walks! And swims!
Definitely most OP thing in game. New favorite for sure.
Down sides,
forces you to third person mode when fluting.
Only on two maps (lost island, the island).
Not like super fast but he isn’t the slowest thing either.