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ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

Tips & Strategies

If you ever catch these guys in the wild and wonder why their heads are glowing red, you should probably run because thereβs a Rex/Spino in the area.
More Triceratops Utility Tips
If the triceratops head is glowing that means there is a large predator nearby
With the new TLC, it has OUTSTANDING thatch collecting ( 1000 in 4 trees with a max charge. )
5 Tips for Trikes
#1 They can climb most rocks
#2 I suggest making a trap it wat easier
#4 They make great NARCO BERRY COLLECTORS
#5 They are poop machines
Thank you for reading. I'm Lilly and I'm gonna be doing 1 tip every week
I love these so much for early game, so useful but stegosauruses are better in my opinion.
I can not stress enough to my friends how useful the trike is. Early game it makes a great pack animal. Late game in groups of three or four it can be used as a decent battle mount. Taming a trike early on can be a great way to start a large base and keep you well fed with berries.
Trikes offer a few abilities, a basic trot that uses stamina, a charge attack that uses stamina and can be charged which you can use to run down groups or lines of trees for fast thatch and wood gathering and quick Trike exp, and a head swing that applies a knockback that you can use rapid fire when you press and hold the right side of your screen or the action icon if you use the button layout.
The charge attack when fully charged or almost fully charged will stun any target hit and will slow them as its wearing off.
It takes 8.5 seconds to fully charge which can be activated prematurely with various lvs of speed and utility depending on how long you wait before activating the charge, to cancel the charge just run into something like a living target or a rock or double tap the right side of the screen or tap the action button to perform a head swing stopping the charge.
The Trike at higher lvs is extremely useful as you can fend off attacks from almost any Dino you come across including a t Rex without sustaining any damage if you time the head swings properly.
Some dinos will focus on you while you are saddled, the Theri predator is pointless to remain on the Trike saddle if it's attacking as it will hit you and dismount you, just dismount and let your Trike be a tank while your Trike attacks it and you hide to the left or right of your Trike's body while shooting the Theri.
Any flying Dinos will target you while mounted but can be hit with the head swing if timed right and the Trike's head is pointed close enough to the flying Dino to hit. Exception is the Argentavis which will usually fly pretty close to the ground when attacking allowing you to easily keep hitting it with your Trike's head swing.
It stands to reason that using your Trike to kill a Megaladon isn't recommended even though it CAN work if done right and only works if it's in front of you or close enough to the head to get hit with the head swing and this only works close enough to shore where the Megaladon can't circle you, get under you, or get above you.
It's not recommended to fight most water dinos with the Trike unless you can do so basically from the shallows.
A few land dinos to avoid attacking or just avoid unless you know you can win, deodicarus, Ankylo, the turtle as it usually has much more hp than your trike at the same, lower, or slightly higher lv while not being knocked back much by the head swing, the raptors, any dino with a longer attack range, any other Dino that resists or ignores knockbacks, the Allosaurus, the Giga (both the Predator and the Herbivore whose names start with Giga) the herbivore Giga because it has a longer attack range, does more damage while applying a very far knockback, and at just about any lv has far more Hp per lv than any Trike. My lv 412 Trike has 8.5k hp, the Giga at anywhere near lv 40 can easily have 15k+ hp wild and however much you have put into it if tamed which I highly recommend pouring ALL stats into hp and weight but more like 80% hp and maybe 20% weight, if you want more attack then 65% hp, 20% attack and 15% attack. Avoid attacking a Titanosaur for what should be obvious reasons unless you enjoy dying in 2 seconds flat at basically any lv if on any close range Dino. There is a longer list but I'm done typing for now.
Cool tip!
Just realized, if you put rockarrots in their inventory they wonβt spoil!
βοΈ So nubs can see!!
I had a trick and I named it rody..but after a few months I got a higher level trick and than I thought of unclaiming rody....GOODBYE RODY ILL MISS YOU BECASUE YOU WERE THE BEST STARTER I EVER HAD IN MY LIFE. (Also dinos die after unclaiming them..) UP THIS FOR RODYππππ’
Who thinks these should drop βtrike hornsβ they can be made into a trike spear needing the following things and does same slightly more damage than pike but has not great durability and can be thrown. Also it + bio toxin = tranq trike spear. More than tranq arrow more than dart less than shocking dart.
1 trike horn
25 thatch
5 wood
40 fiber
Requires spear and pike engrams.
This took looong to type please read the whole way thru.