Leveled and with great stats, these things can help with boss fights like Val, Rag or even Center with the right support tames!
Velonasaur
The Velonasaur is a living turret in ARK: Extinction with a unique turrent-like spike-shooting attack. It can be enabled while you are not riding it. It also has the ability to swing its body back and forth to attack preys.

Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Velonasaur in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Have em set up at your base to sit on the wall, attack anything and not move. Boom! Automatic turret
Stone 2x2 with 2x high stone door ways, if you have something to carry it drop it in the top, if not than build stairs and lead it up. Or run/hover circles around it.
You can just either walk up to it and tank the hits with your body and armor ONLY if you have decent to good armor. Or you can use something that has good hp and tank it like that, preferably something that’s tacky, and you can use weapons on. They don’t take a lot to tranq…
You can just either walk up to it and tank the hits with your body and armor ONLY if you have decent to good armor. Or you can use something that has good hp and tank it like that, preferably something that’s tacky, and you can use weapons on. They don’t take a lot to tranq out, can indeed use a prim 100% crossbow.
Okay, to Escape this, it's simple, take a argy and fly away. To battle it, a managarmr or a high level trike (for the shield for a head) and a daeodon on follow, and some flak and ghille as armor.
These guys go through food pretty fast. Found this out while using them for loot drop raids. Their food levels were always at 0 after only a couple waves, so definitely keep that in mind.
upgrade a dodos hp a lot the have it shoot the dodo instead of you
Don't have tame following you that's bigger then your velonsaur the needles hit the tame instead of the target.
It's a really easy tame aggro it get it in turret mode then slap it with a boomerang
They stun flyers out of the sky! Makes wyvern a easy
Dont waste your precious materials on turrets, put these on turret mode and aggressive wandering, and they act as turrets.
It's a overpowered living turret that can do more than 200 damage per second with enough levels
Traps are overkill for taking these. A friend and I have a strategy where one tanks hits on a gasbag (anything with high health will do) and the other just tranqs it from the side. A person with a metal shield can work as a distraction too, but not for long. This is an…
Traps are overkill for taking these. A friend and I have a strategy where one tanks hits on a gasbag (anything with high health will do) and the other just tranqs it from the side. A person with a metal shield can work as a distraction too, but not for long. This is an effective strategy as velonasours have low torpor and will be knocked before it does too much damage.
I found a level 11 of these. I walked in circles and hit it with a club, it only took 10 tries. Tip, use something better. I did end up taming it with a club.
Just pump your stats into damage and stamina a little health and you will dominate!!!
Thees are basicly living turits
For taming regular raw meat works to
Easy to knockout with darts. avoid when it goes into turret mode, even a lvl 20 will melt your health. runs when close to knockout though so you may need to trap it using a quick wall if your worried about bigger predators. Starve taming this is so easy you don’t even need to…
Easy to knockout with darts. avoid when it goes into turret mode, even a lvl 20 will melt your health. runs when close to knockout though so you may need to trap it using a quick wall if your worried about bigger predators. Starve taming this is so easy you don’t even need to waste the time making kibble. Use raw prime if your able to. These are organic turrets, meaning no bullets, they eat fish or meat when tamed. You only need to pump stats into Stamina and melee, they are a small creature so pumping health is only good if you mutate for health maybe. Good luck
All yu really need is a high health stego on passive get higher than the velonosaur then stand behind it and tranq it out
They have a very bad melee attack if you have good enough armor or enough health you can beat them with clubs