My first encounter:

Did that rock just move?

‘Looks away for 2 seconds’

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!

I think there should be a metal golem which is stronger and harder to tame. Maybe it could collect metal only and more effectively than anything else. ps. It’s just some idea I came up with in my spare time

Try kiting it into some rocks. Best way to do it is to use pillars three high so he can't get passed them maybe six or seven wide. Park your parcer about six foundations away and place two more sets of pillars behind the parcel three high to block all rocks thrown. Fire away

Incase you didn't know, rock elementals take headshots. If you hit anywhere else it doesn't count. Don't waste your cannon balls. If you can't get it straight on, aim lower because aiming higher isnt normally within its hit box.

The best for stealing wyvern eggs get a good level one, place it onto the trench,set it to aggressive and turret mode (preferably) grab an egg, let the wyverns aggro to you, lead them to golem, and watch as the golem tears them to pieces

Put metal dino doors (small) while it's rock and then put cannon and u r done

How to spot them:

If you go to the mountains on SE, were golems spawn more frequently, you can easily tell golems apart from rocks as they look SANDY compared to the grey or shiny metal rocks.

In the dunes or else where the golems have better camouflage, apart from being more textured, either use a Parasaur or spyglass to confirm your suspicions.

Also if you see a rock on the horizon ‘Fall’ like creatures spawn, then take it as red it’s a golem.

Unless you are unmounted (rock throw can OHKO unarmored survivors), the Rock Elemental is really easy to run away from, it’s incredibly slow and loses interest in the survivor quickly once you get away a good distance.

Killing one is a bit tricky without a Giga (which ignores the Elemental’s armor). You have a few options however…

1. Bleed. Thylas, Carnos, etc… Bleed ignores HP and armor and can kill the elemental, just be aware you probably won’t get any XP this way unless you kill the Elemental with regular (non bleed) damage from an attack.

2. Explosives. I wouldn’t advise this without a crap ton of resources or a high quality RPG. Elemental’s take full damage from explosives but their massive base HP pool means this will still take a while.

DO NOT USE A TAMED ROCK ELEMENTAL. Like the Giga, tamed Elementals are weaker than their wild counterparts even when saddled. Unless your Elemental is a much higher lvl with a very strong saddle, do not even think about fighting fire with fire.

if taming on offical MUST USE KIBBLE if u dont it will take days on stone and clay

If you see a adobe coloured rock, walk up to it with caution!! It has a high chance of it being a disguised Rock Elemental.

Build 5 stone dinosaurs gates and place them beside each other they should snap... now remove the middle and drag a Golem and lead it in the middle section.. now the Golem is stuck the paracer should be holding the cannon or any KO weapon face the cannon to the Golem and start shooting its head if the Golem is aggro on the stone gates go up to it until he losses aggro and focuses on you grab a shield so it will take less damage while it throws rocks at you the Golem can't run away because the two gates are holding him... hope this work make sure to carry extra ammo for the weapon if you miss the head

Knockout works best if you use a cannon

Remember carnos can bleed rock Elementals to death now

Can be tamed using the cannon module on the back of a Mek. Just be wary of body shots, will cause a lot of damage to the elemental. Took me 3 shells to knock out a 150

Shouldnt it say you can only shoot it in the head? Because thats how it works... isnt it?

Not a rock

Make sure you are not standing too close when you use the Mek. Thought the Rock Golem was doing 4k damage per rock toss but that was just me destroying my own Mek. Rip.

The name is shown even if disguised, but only when you use a spyglass.

(Lol I already see the noobs running around spyglassing even the smallest rock)

Rock Elementals actually gain a lot of experience from harvesting rocks. This way of leveling is only viable for newly takes elementals though cuz they don't need as much exp to level up.

To tame it you need a cannon ball and a trap