Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Their eggs are the opposite of wyverns, they need to be very cold to hatch. It took mine 20 air conditioners to get to the right temp! You feed them Nameless venom when they hatch.
People keep asking why they're not on Valguero. They were on Valguero back when it was a mod map. When the devs made Valguero an official map, they removed rock drakes and reapers from it because they don't want people to have Aberration content without buying the dlc itself. There was a quarrel with the devs and the original creators of Valguero, because the devs removed so many creatures from it. Eventually we got where we are. Valguero got a lot of creatures removed from it, and the original creators released a mod for Valguero that adds a bunch of creatures to it, rock drakes included.
They are really easy to raise. In 10 minutes they lose about 57 food and in 1 hour they lose 343 , also , 1 nameless venom gives 400 food.
Rockdrakes are on Fjordur !!!!!!!
This is not really about rock drakes but everyone who plays aberration must know . If you want to protect yourself from element poisoning ( purple rivers ) eat aserbic mushrooms to temporary protect yourself against element poisoning but don't eat too many or you'll get knocked out! Or you eat stimulants after . P.s to protect yourself against frozen spores ( found in blue areas ) eat aquatic mushrooms . Eat the brown mushrooms to protect yourself against colourful spores which make you suffercate found on top layer not surface ! The less oxygen you have the more damage colourful spores will do to you
For everyone whining about how this needs to be in Valguero, it was originally the case. That’s why they added the irradiated/luminous area into The Emerald Forest, as they were planning on adding the rock drakes and their nests into it. While I do know that, I’m not sure why they discarded actually adding the rock drakes... more than likely a time constraint or because ‘drakes didn’t fit Valguero’s map.
DFL’S GUIDE TO ABBERATION CREATURES PART 1: The Rock Drake
Temperament: Aggressive
Location: the Rock Drake can be found wandering the map, mostly around the blue zone and the red zone, they rarely make their way up to the green zone
How to Tame: you can’t tame a Drake like you tame any other creature, you need to steal the Drake eggs from the nests, much like a wyvern. Make your way to the Drake trench, the deepest part of Abberation, there is where the eggs will be. After finding the eggs equip climbing picks, and climb down to the nest, this is the most dangerous part. If a deal doesn’t spot you, the will when you grab the egg. After you grab it, run back to the spino or karkinos you came down on, and start killing the drakes that are chasing you, and then run, if you can’t get away fast enough then you will probably die. Drakes are fast and deadly and will kill you quite fast in large groups.
Raising: After successfully escaping from the trench, just hope you built twenty air cons before hand. I had an otter and leveled it up by killing baby spinos, and that helped so I only built twelve. While the egg is incubating go out and leave your light pet at home, grab some nameless venom from the nameless, that is what your Drake eats. Make sure you imprint it, and now you have your very own Rock Drake!
Hope this helped
-DFL
Ok so I have a lot of drakes and I know how to raise them easily.
If your on aberration:
if you have an adult drake, reaper, or megalosaurus and hazmat go into the blue zone and head for the purple forest area that’s where I normally get nameless venom. When you find them start killing them but always leave 1 left to be the orange leader guy. Then it will spawn more nameless and you can kill them down to 1 again if you have a nameless trap then get 1 in that and kill the rest.
On any other map:
You will need a snow owl or a daedon and heal it once it is low go I recommend venom raising rather than this because you might have to watch it most of the time.
Once adult:
Drakes are awesome and all that but here’s some things I like to do with them
1. So with good stamina drake you can glide around for ages and look for things to tame
2. I have a lvl 395 drake and he’s my favorite drake and has some nice stats and I use him to well get more nameless venom lol
3. Scare friends, invisibility for the win! Fly invisible into a friends base after having a friend open up. It could scare them but I like that because it’s a ragnarark server
I play on switch so I hope this helps idk if it’s different on other platforms.
-Wolf
My personal Egg Raiding Technique:
I usually use the Upgrade Station Mod, farm resources like an idiot, upgrade my Armor to the Max, for close combat fights, get sword and do the same.If you don't wanna get to close, upgrade another Weapon of your choice. Then go and slay them and afterwards comfortably steal the eggs.
Recommended Equipment:
Climbing Hooks
Hazard Suit (Maxed)
Sword/TekSword (Maxed)
Other Weapon of choice (Maxed)
Enough Ammo (I recommend atleast 100-200)
Cryo Pods
Friends (If you, unlike me have some playing Ark)
Tanky Mount
If you didn't level you Melee DMG, I wouldn't recommend close Combat
Hope this maybe helped,
A close combat ARK Maniac
With TLC Update 3 out and wyverns are now breedable, I would definitely recommend getting a 190 high base stat breeding pair ready for the future as I don't see why they wouldn't make Rock Drakes breedable as well.
You can get the eggs on fjordur
They are in a cave on Asgard I will tell step by step how to get them there
1. Get Hazard gear: The cave has radiation so you have to have this gear
2. Get a spino: They are immune to radiation, so it will be a big help
3: Get a flyer of your choice
4. Head to Asgard on fjordur: Go through the portal in the “cave” with the portals
5: Locate the cave: The cave is in the area with the purple trees, locate that cave and suit up (WARNING Shadowmanes are in that area)
6. Go into the cave with your spino
7. Pick off any lone drakes you can find, this will help clear the area of the egg
8. Find a nest, and grab the egg, doing this will make ALL of the drakes in the cave aggro on you, so back into a corner with the spino and fight them off (Or sprint out as fast as you can)
9. Hatch your egg
10. Enjoy the drake!
There are also tan rocks in the abberation cave on main map fjordur, if you mine them they give nameless venom, this can be used to raise the drake.
If you wanna raise a baby rock Drake and you don't have nameless venom, you can use a Daedon, just activate the passive curation mode. Take care of the food of the Daedon
If you have an egg incubator. Rock drake eggs hatch at -85
Hope this helps
Try 20 AC units. I thought the game was broken just keep going!!
If you use a snow owl to heal the rock drake, you do not need the nameless venom. Just keep an eye on it as it is maturing and as the health goes down due to starvation, hit it with the owl😉