Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
I’d give you a tip, but I’m getting mauled by a thyla trying to get ingredients for veggie cakes. Remember to look up. Also please send help.
Stop parasuar abuse they don't deserve to be bait for taming creatures #stop parasuar abuse
To easily find one in the redwoods, set your graphics quality to low. It's easier to spot them as they do not blend with the trees
These can be found in the redwood area and the easiest way to tame them is picking them up with a quetz and then dropping them in a trap made out of 4 behemoth gates
It's actually a marsupial. That's very mean. And dangerous. And oh shiz run.
some really nice guy on a fire wyvern was at the area where I was about to try and get a thyla and I said “don’t murder me I’m tryna tame a thyla”
he then flew off and I went to try and find a thyla when he flew back to my raft and dropped a level 50 thyla right into my boat trap
U need a lot of narcotics to keep unconscious be aware
The thylacoleo is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in australia from pléistocène to the late pléistocène (2million to 46 thousand years ago). He were the largest mammalian predators in australia of that time. The estimated average weight for the species (thylacoleo carnifex) ranges from 101 to 130kg
Easiest way to tame: make a dino pen, pick one up with an argy, put it in the dino pen then follow along with a basic taming process (knock it out, feed it). Make sure you have lots of narcotics on you!
Best thing about them: they can climb up really steep hills and they can potentially do lots of damage and can be fast.
Where to find: most commonly found on trees (they will be hanging upside down, high up on large trees) in the redwood forest areas (mainly on The Center) or I find lots of them in the Ragnorok desert.
Very good tame! They're like pet tigers.
Have a wyvern and land near a thyla. Shoot the thyla and let it agro, it will just circle your wyvern leaving you safe to shoot at it below.
Fly OVER the big trees or else you get the punishment
Flew on my Argy through the red woods and spotted a level 140 on a tree. Then a stone trap nearby. I shot him with my pistol to aggro him to come down. I flew by and picked him up and dropped him near my trap. First time I missed but landed near the opening on the ramp to the trap. He fell right in
Dispite how effective these things ambush is, it abides by a few simple rules that allows you to dodge a thylacoleo attack.
1. Wild thylos in ambush position have no gravity. When a wild thylo jumps at you it can go forever at a constant speed and can even jump at things flying above it. When a thylo is tamed it cannot do this and will eventually fall to the ground. Flying away in the same direction that the thylo is jumping is not an option as this zero gravity affect will last until you are out of range of the thylo.
2. Thylacoleos lead their targets. If you are moving fast through a thylo's targeting range it will jump ahead of you to compensate for the time it takes for them to get to you.
3. Thylacoleos cannot change speed or direction of a jump. The only movement a thylo can make while airborn is a rotation. Since it leads targets, stopping as soon as you hear a thylo causes it to miss as it plummets to the location it thought you would go to. This wont work if your tame is slow.
4. Thylacoleos prioritize the closest prey in this order: player/small wild dino, small tamed dino, passenger. Sitting in the passenger seat of a dino won't usually help as the thylo can rip the mount from under you and target it instead.
5. Thylacoleos can share trees. It is rare but thylacoleos can be in the same tree or in adjacent trees. This is the worst thing to happen to you in a redwood forrest as both thylos can jump at you, one snagging you and the other grabbing your tame. That being said, if one jumps at you don't relax because there could be another one close by.
6. Thylacoleos will only be in ambush position on the bark parts of large redwood trees. You will never see a thylacoleo climb a tree or ambush you from the leaves of a tree. They will also only climb a tree when out of render distance.
With these rules in mind: if you have a slower tame, a thylo will not lead enough where you can dodge it. Have your flyer on passive and come back to collect it. If your tame is relatively fast you can dodge it by flying out of its path (under, over, strafe). Make sure to not fly directly at trees so that they don't have a straight shot to you. Any land based tames have on neutral and be sure they can kill a thylo in two hits or so.
Stay safe.
If you are going to tame this thing, BRING A MILLION NARCOTIC! This thing will wake really quickly like the Therizinosaurus, so be prepared