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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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What is a trilobite used for? trilobite battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
On the left side of the island map, there is a bit that looks a bit like a crooked finger. First of all, you can wall off the part that connects it to the rest of the island and turn the entire finger into your base. It is extremely safe and the only predators there are ichthyornises and dilos. Second of all, at the part where it connects to the rest of the island, there is a small pond surrounded by rocks and in that pond a ton of trilobites spawn. I made my base on this finger and made a chitin farm with the pond. Do with this knowledge what you will.
These are tameable for Pc Users, all you need to learn is the Fish Basket engram and drop one down near a high lvl trilobite and then stand in the trilo’s way and guide it til it’s near your basket then capture it, release it before it expires in your inventory then cryopod it up for save keepings! Trick no ones sharing is you can hide blueprints in abberation trilobites and then hide them underwater ;) p.s you can also tame leeches and then leave them on aggro for biowarfare at obelisks or transmitters lol or Sabre salmon then catch release then cryo them for easier otter taming or attaching c4 to said salmon then attacking underwater targets....
These are soooooooo valuable, you may not need them right away when first playing the game, but kill them and collect everything they drop anyways. Kill them when you dont need them, because eventually, you will, and if you dont, you'll regret it later. I go whole days trilobite hunting on my spino.
If you spawn in The Footpaw (selecting West Zone 2, or sometimes South Zone 1 in The Island map) you can easily find them in early game. Just look for the narrow peninsula in the East (a very safe place with almost no predators, literally none in the South area). You will frequently find trilobites on the southwestern coast.
Trilobites are very usefull, because they're passive and weak: that makes them probably the easiest source of chitin, a convenient source of meat and a source of oil and silica pearls, two important resources you'll need late in the game.