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ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

Tips & Strategies

Makes a good early game meat collector but I wouldn't waste time doing that late game. Amazing wood collector, I suggest a few points in movement speed in case you run into a rock giant, but the rest should go in stamina and weight. Can also be used to deter enemy fliers, if you're using it for that level up melee damage and health
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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.
This is the easiest of the wood gatherers to obtain. I'm a solo player on ragnorak. They don't wake up as fast as beavers and don't take as long as mammoths. It's a bit of a distance, but if you have a ptera I'd say find the highest level Thorny Dragon that you can find so it doesn't wake up too fast, then fly to the highlands and kill a sheep or two and mutton tame it.