Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved Companion
Tips & Strategies
twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the ground so high
Like a nightmare in the sky
What I've learned from battling these to find an R-Reaper:
1. As you've probably read, they project a spotlight passively, if you find yourself within this cone of light, prepare for a fight.
2. THEY HAVE A SHIELD. Save your ammo/element, their shield only comes down for approximately 1-3 shots of a tek rifle, or one shot of a shotgun. If working with another player time your shots & shoot together.
3. It's either summons or spikes! They will shoot a round of spikes at you OR they will shoot a slow moving purple ball down towards the ground, causing dinos to spawn. Unless the spawns are fliers just ignore them, stay in the air, and continue the fight.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The shield will stay up until it finishes the attack or finishes spawning in dinos, stay on the move until then!
Good luck and stay vigilant my friends
Step 1: put mutagel or mutagen in your last item slot.
Step 2: approach from outside of its light area, and click E.
Step 3: die a horrible death
Step 4: I wasted your time
These things are like watch guards. They have a light that shines from them that when you go in it they summon R variant creatures that are super hard to kill. It also has “babies” that appear after acquiring mutagen or spawning naturally, these swarms are a MUCH worse version of the insect swarm. Good luck to anyone encountering this!
It’s favorite food is Admincheat: forcetame
Once tamed it can be ridden
When ridden you go inside it’s Sheild
Right click activates/deactivates the sheild
Left click shines a light
C opens the mouth, letting you use a different set of attacks
Left click fires purple orbs
Right click fires one large orb
They cannot be tamed, only forcetamed
When you forcetame there rideable
There’re Rockwell’s security patrol they make everything harder. Take out the force field or make them tame able
Whenever you encounter one of these things, or plan on encountering, or just found it, you should most likely bring some flak armor and a pump action shotgun, also make sure to bring a few extra pairs of armor, because when this thing attacks it is completely invulnerable. Hope this helped!
-XYZ
once they spot you with their light they shoot some kind of projectile and that spawns different creatures that will attack you i’ve come across snow owls, bats shadowmanes, quetzals, sabertooths, argy etc. best way is to not get spotted if u get spotted the light will glow red
Be careful when getting mutagen in Rockwell’s innards, one teleports to you when you pick up the mutagen thing and they spawn lots of high level dinos that attack you
-The_Spino
Although you cannot tame regularly, you can force tame it if you do you are able to ride on it just like the boat destroyer aka the leed which also cannot be tamed regularly but when it’s force tamed it can be ridden on!
-Tek_Reaper
These guys aren’t tamable but you can force tame
Figured out a really good way to avoid these things in the cave is to use a shadowmane since you can go invisible to un agro them. Works really well as Rockwell’s innards are pretty difficult with these things everywhere
Force tame one.Will be temporary rideable.Don't eat anything.
Best way to kill is to put heavy turrets down and then shoot it and you get gelatin
Devs should add a macrophage page for those annoying pests