Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

They spawn in the forest near the birch forest in fjord
The main reason I would tame one is for the grinder effect that it has
I've been studying this new map and got a sneak peak on this dino it's huge not bendable tho they might change there might wind current and this is 134 up for more later on🙃
What I used was metal bola and kibble. FEED IT LIKE A PASSIVE TAME. PUT FOOD IN THE LAST SLOT OF YOUR HOT BAR. Or you'll waste an hour and a half figure out why you killed two of em.
MONSTER LOG
Tropeognathus
Behavior: Netural
The Tropeognathus is a pterosaur that is found in Crystal Isles.
I found mine in the red forest by the volcano, but they spawn near the floating islands too.
While slow, you can attach a jet booster on it’s back to soar in the sky at ever so fast rates. It takes gas as if it was honey. It can also shoot grenades via the turret on it’s back.
HOW TO TAME
You will need the following: 1 hand bola, 8 Stone pillar, 2 Stone roofs, 1 ballistic turret, 1 Chain bola, And taming food.
First, find the Trop
Second, throw the Hand bola
Third, Use the stone pillars and build a diamond shaped trap with the trop inside. Add the two roofs
Fourth, Chain bola the trop
Lastly, Feed it the taming food
Have fun taming!
-Dodo
U can ride these without the saddle but u won’t get the jet boosts and missiles. They are also the biological version of a grinder. Use chain bolas on them and passive tame. Keep them bolaed bc they will kill u.
To the person who said there on the island there is no Tropeognathus in the island there only in crystal isles.
How to tame a tropeognathus [trope-eo-ag-nah-this] but the tutorial is detailed
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SUPPLIES NEEDED :
- 3-4 dino gateways (stone or better)
- A dino gate
- 3 pillars
- A ballista turret
- 20 or so chain bolas for a high level just to be safe, but you'll probably not need that many
- 2 ceilings for safety
- 2-3 parachutes also for safety
- A pteranadon with decent stamina and a bit of speed
TAMING :
STEP 1.
Find a tropeognathus on your pteranadon and fly directly below it onto the ground, it's okay if it goes out of render
STEP 2.
Clear out the area of any danger
STEP 3.
Place the four or three dino gateways in a row like a typical trap and the gate at the right end, make sure you there's not too much space between each gateway. Place the 3 pillars on top of each other right at the left end of the trap, and atop the pillars place ceilings leading into the trap. Then put the ballista turret at the left end, sort of between the pillars and the last dino gateway, but make sure not to be too close to the trap.
STEP 4.
Open the gate that leads into the trap, find the tropegnathus, and bite it, then get AWAY, fly down to your trap, they're fast so be quick
• If you get grabbed, whistle pteranadon to follow, and get free, once you're relatively close to the ground use the parachutes mentioned earlier and do step 5
STEP 5.
Fly into the trap, tropegnathus following, and fly out through one of the holes in the trap
• The tropegnathus shouldn't be able to fit through them, if it does, just fly out of render and go back to try again with less space in between
STEP 6.
Close the gate at the other end, stay away from the tropegnathus while doing this, but it should be aggroed to your pteranadon primarily
STEP 7.
Go to your ballista, shoot the tropegnathus, wait until it's free
STEP 8.
After about 10 seconds of being free, shoot the tropegnathus again, you can now feed it the food it requires, it might glare at you
STEP 9.
Repeat until it's tamed, shoot it with the chain bola between each feed or it'll dine on you, you can also use regular bolas to drain its hunger, but not to tame it
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-C [The Reaper Lover]
On valq these things are everywhere nearby the castle and the area around it. I’ve seen them above trees and walking on the ground. They only attack u if u attack it first so use this to your advantage. Gl fellow tamers.
Just use prime meat you lose 1 level but its 4x faster 30 mins instead of 2 hours
Don't leave render of it if you have it trapped, for some reason it will phase out and chase you across the world.
Before taming Bola with a REGULAR Bola and damage it. Shortly after it takes off again it will lose a ton of food and tame in less than a minute. It must be a regular Bola for draining food and a chain Bola to tame.
First trap it, u can find multiple online, then shoot it with whatever you like just hurt it enough so it won’t heal anytime soon. Then wait and it’s food will drop much quicker than just waiting with out hurting it. Then chain bola it and feed it the kibble once u have starved it enough.
This is a copy of another comment, but I added some of my own info that I used to make this easier:
DO NOT TRY TO KNOCK IT OUT (I made this mistake too many times)
Find a Tropeo and normal bola it
Then place 3 dino gateways, (have ready on hot bar with gates), like a triangle around it
Put 4 stone pillars on top of eachother next to the centre of the trap and put some ceilings on them (4 ceilings should be enough)
Then you can place your ballista outside the trap and charge the chain bolas but DO NOT SHOOT
First you have to starve it with normal bolas, (I just used a bola on him every 25-30 seconds until his food was down enough)
Once you have starved him… just chain bola the guy and feed him so it's an insta-tame