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5 points   🔧 Utility   2 weeks ago   Report

If your getting bored of hacking trees all day on scorched earth tame up one of these puppies they farm wood more than you will ever need

560 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 9, 2020   Report

I think they should be stronger as tames. Not their stats but what if their bite attack would decrease the targets speed so a Morreallatops couldn't just run away and their torpor damage is to low I'd say. Please make Thorny Dragon viable.

130 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 14, 2022   Report

I built 3x2 stone foundation put stone door ways all around it then I put stairs on one side outside side by side so the dragon can run up

Make it chase you

run up your stairs/ramp

Once it come in run out a door way

Go back on stairs outside n shoot with tranqs

My level 85 took 22 tranqs

Also used same pen to tame X trike n pretty much anything that can’t fit through the door ways

UP IF IT HELPS

625 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 19, 2016   Report

If you are going to tame one of these with no dinos, be sure to upgrade your movement speed and get tranqs. When you see it whip its tail forwards move to the right you will dodge the shots. This worked for me.

623 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 8, 2016   Report

Gathers wood fast and carries it at 1/5 weight stone is 1/2. Weak on the sides so if you really like this dino to patrol keep another dino with it to aid. Excellent at killing mantis to gathering organic polymer and chitin.

500 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jan 15, 2017   Report

Completely irrelevant but I think it looks kinda cute.

4 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Aug 30, 2023   Report

I tamed my first thorny by simply being on a rock ledge above it, paying close attention if any tail spikes were thrown and dodging easlie. The ledge took most of the hits and I used trank arrows to take it down. I didn't know what it ait so threw in everything. Meat, they like meat. So that's how I got my boy, Chibi.

492 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 8, 2016   Report

Thorny dragon can act as a turret, set tange to high, fill it up with stone so it cant move and set to aggressive. It is beaver version in desert,doesnt collect berries thoe.

150 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 8, 2020   Report

If the ark creators are listening make tail for por more effective

220 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 29, 2018   Report

Argent can pick it up now after tlc 2

112 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 23, 2020   Report

I love these guys a lot because they come in so many beautiful colors

94 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Oct 25, 2020   Report

Piss it off the night run behind a creature you want to tame ⬆️ For da noobs

204 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 28, 2017   Report

Be sure and name your first Thorny Dragon "Me So Thorny." Epic.

29 points   🔧 Utility   Sep 10, 2022   Report

These guys are SO GOOD on Scorched. Make sure to tame one ASAP for a good wood harvester on a map where there aren't many good wood harvesters.

150 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 13, 2016   Report

I have 12 on platforms 4 pillars high scattered around my base. I have an issuse with dino spawns in the base. So they act as a long range needle launcher. Weigh down with sand because its weight isnt affected by the dragons buff. Set all to long range aggressive and u have a protected base. Add a few plant X for added assurance. I no longer have spawn problems. Found a ready to tame terror bird today too pretty neat.

40 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 30, 2021   Report

They have weight reduction on stone and wood, wood they collect good.

(Ryhma) and they look so cute. They are battle tames for small animals like dilos and raptors and they can shoot spikes that knock out small animals like dodos and dilos

80 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Oct 14, 2019   Report

For the times i have encountered this they seem to travel in packs so be careful when you are tryna tame this cute boi. Like so people can see

42 points   🔧 Utility   Aug 17, 2021   Report

I always liked these guys as knock out tames. While they don’t deal as much torpor as narcotics they also don’t need any narcotics to produce spines.

96 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 29, 2018   Report

No longer carries wood at 1/5 weight, now carries at 1/2 but can now be carried by argentavis and can farm wood similar to farming metal with an argentavis and anky, upgrade melee damage to get the most wood possible.

13 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 13, 2022   Report

If you have a flyer carry one to a taming pen, it's gonna aggro and start throwing spines at everything it sees the minute it lands. Plan accordingly, and use solid walls so it can't shoot through them.

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