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.

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.

Normally a stack of wood weighs 50 pounds but on the dragon of thorny proportions, it only weighs 10!!! Long live the Thorny Dragon!

Can be used to help tame large creatures. If you pull out your crossbow or longneck while riding it you can shoot your weapon and its tail needles at the same time allowing you to tank the creature and save tranqs. You would need to level health and melee though.

Mobile little base all you need is a tent, do to the smithy on the saddle. Put in to health and melee and a little weight. speed is just about perfect for other situations.

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.

These are my favorite mounts. They're the beaver of Scorched Earth. They gather wood very well. The initial carry weight isn't too bad& neither is the health for small fights. So they're also decent battle mounts if leveled properly. One of their biggest assets is their ranged quill attack. In addition to a small amount of damage, it also deals torpor. Not a lot, but could be helpful in aiding knocking dinos out. Overall, they're a great mount in my opinion. They're biggest downside is their slow movement speed. Getting from A to B can take a while. Leveling in Health, Melee, & Movement Speed is highly recommended.

The saddle must be crafted at smithy. Vote to get this fixed.

Each secondary attack deals 10 torpor, can knock out a jerboa in 3 attacks. The secondary attack is mainly used to aggro dinos from afar, even farther than crossbow range.

Works great as turrets pump it full of melee and stam all turret tames do not count as turrets so i covered my base in heavey turrets and dilo and thorny dragons helps kill and blind any raides

Becomes a mobile smithy with saddle on. Most materials weigh much less on it than with other tames. The only way to make some ascendant equiptment is with a thorny dragon with high weight. Decently collects wood and thatch ( mostly wood.) collects hide, chitin and organic polymer well. If useing as a battle tame be sure to have a good saddle equipt. Its ranged attack if used in a group can knock other players out easily. With a 2 day egg to adult period breeding can be very easy for this tame.

It can now be picked up by the Argy

This cute little dragon with 2k health, 1.2k stamina, 200% speed and 400% save me too many times, I love it!!

For those end game items in Scorched Earth, a high weight Thorny Dragon is a must, smithys just don't have the room. It's the only way to be able to build some of the Ascended saddles, for example, a Paracer platform saddle. You'll need near 3000 weight for the job. One may even want to breed out the weight statistic so these items can be crafted easily.

Their invintory works like a smithy

Grab ur chainsaw and use this thing as the pack mule, u average about 500 wood per tree

Very similar to a beaver. I like to think of them as desert beavers. They act as a smithy and have 1/5 of weight of wood on vanilla and 1/10 weight with stack mods. They also have reduced weight for thatch. They have a very quick attack so can be used as attack mounts, speed of attack similar to raptor. However, the spines aren't that good, although dealing torpor, do little damage and are a HUGE drain on stamina

They are primarily used for gathering wood. Wood also ways less on him, just like the beaver on The Island map. The same goes for stone, although he cannot harvest it. Another use is its ranged torpidity attack. Not very good for knocking out dinosaurs, but in PvP it can easily knockout enemy players, since the shot is widespread. Its pretty much a torpor shotgun.

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

The thorny dragon (thorny) is the beaver of scorched earth. There's only one problem. It has little hp and dies very quickly. I recomend using a couple wolves or sabertooth to act as a bodyguard while collecting thatch and wood.