Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Whoever said that the sky is too easy in ark, do I have to introduce you to wyverns and managarmr?
One spawned right in top of me, and began flying close to the ground.
Like an idiot, I thought it was a Tapejara, and threw my bolo at it.
It was only when I realised it wasn't what I thought it was, and was a passive tame, that I left it behind.... It chased me all over the mountain.
Every time I thought I was free, and began looking at dinos to tame, it appears like the embodiment of winged death.
Eventually it knocked me off my Dino, into a pit of 5 hungry dire wolves, and myself and my max level iguanadon died.
Always double check your target before attacking.
We need to see these in lost island
It’s a non violent tame so don’t tranq it use bola to drain food and chain bola to tame it is a carnivore and is nuetral I hope this was useful good luck
If you want to drain it’s hunger use a bola, trap it then damage it.It will use its hunger bar to heal
Easy method for passive filters build trap big enough for it lure in with rare flowers riding a pteranadon once aggression goes away tame.
This Dino has a total of 5 different speeds!
[Without Saddle]
It has basic flight speed and sprint flying
[With Saddle]
Once you activate jet mode you will automatically be moving forward, but if you also press your forward key it will go faster, and on top of this it has a boost mode. (assuming sprinting with jetpack)
It also has an evade while in jet mode which makes the dono do a full 180° turn.
I found it very easy to use a snow owl if you have one. Let's say it's just floating up there in the sky and you can't seem to get it down. Use the freeze ability and it will force it to land, where then you can proceed to chain Bola it from a ground unit. It won't cause aggro to freeze it either so there's that. I did the same thing with a quets and it was relatively the same results, except the quets took back off again after about 3 seconds or so.
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.
Single player uses:
1. Travel mount: Tropeognathus' speed without a saddle is slow af, but put a saddle and give it some gasoline and it's the fastest thing in the game.
2. Wyvern egg stealer: Seems obvious
3. Giga killer: The grenades can be slightly expensive with how many are needed, but Tropeognathus can kill basically any land animal in ark
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]
Absolute fastest way to tame while retaining taming effectiveness is to find a tropeo, find somewhere nearby to place ballista on a single foundation, load it up with 10-12 chain bolas, take a wyvern to BITE the tropeo and get it aggro'd to the wyv, fly back to ballista and chain down the pursuing tropeo, continue hitting the tropeo with the remaining bolas (they stack the timer), then feed kibbles. The bite damage and bola stack will immediately drop the food stat so you can be done in a minute or two with no loss in taming effectiveness.
To take the tropeognathus, chain bola it and feed it a food of your choice. if you try to tame the tropeognathus without a chain bola, it will likely grind your armor.
Btw they attack back and they hurt
Stupidly rare or my luck is bad
To tame it, use a chain bola to trap it, then feed it kibble/raw meat. They’re neutral, which means they’ll only attack if provoked (the chain bola will aggro them)
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