A lot of people say white snow leopard is power creeped right now and I can agree, I haven't been able to find a good solution to Panthera other than Panthera himself. Obviously there are resilients that have shields and stuff that remove dodge and speed increases, like Kentro, but creatures like Kentro are too squishy and does little to no damage. Armor giants like giant ark turtle (Carbonemys) doesn't seem to work either, and Balances like Ankylodicurus just dies to it if you spam double strike and rampage, it's fruitless. A lot of resilient's long defenses also does damage, which makes it counter strike and immediately disable to shield. Low Level Epic-Legendary flocks melt under double strike so I'm actually curious. What actually counters the white snow leopard?

I have a singleplayer game of Ark: Survival Evolved I have been running and have quite a few names already. I am not limiting my names to any specific game in the series though.
For those who do not know Ark Survival Evolved is a challenging survival game where players attempt to survive and thrive on various maps by exploring, harvesting resources, crafting, building, killing, and taming the many creatures with the eventual goal of defeating the bosses.
Some names I am currently using include: Lystrosauruses named Confessor and Initiate (since they can inspire nearby tames to level faster) Crusader Tank for a Rex (since its strong but not that strong compared to some animals) Mechanic the Oviraptor (definitely thinking of changing that one but can't think of a better name for something to boost egg production) A Carnotaurus named Lasher Light Tank. (Fast but not that tough or strong comparatively) 1 Dimetrodons named Weather Control Device. (Since it can regulate the nearby temperature) 1 Parasaur named Mobile Sensor Array (Since it can detect threats from a distance and can be deployed to constantly do that) 2 Paracerathiums named Battlemaster and Gatling Tank (Effective tanks but not the best ones either). 1 Icthyornis (like a seagull) named Rocketeer (Flies and attacks) 1 Pelagornis (kind of like a huge pelican) named Sea Wing (Flies and can swim) 1 Castoroides (big beaver) named M.C.V. (since it harvests and its saddle can be a portable smithy) 1 Doedicurus named War Miner (Tough animal that harvests well) 2 Ankylosauruses named Heavy Harvester and Rig (Harvests well and the resources are useful for crafting and building later game items) 1 Pulmonoscorpius (big scorpion) named Terror Drone (Fast moving and can be a little scary since they can knock things unconscious but not that hard to take down) 1 Beezelbufo (big frog) named Bullfrog (since it's a frog) 1 Argentavis (big vulture) named Apache (strong flying animal and quite big) 1 Pteranodon named Harpy (fast flyer that can effectively harass) 1 Triceratops named Shielded Harvester (good at harvesting and carrying and it looks shielded) 1 Iguanodon named Flak Track (fast animal that can effectively hit weak targets, maybe I should call it Ranger (RA1) or Attack Buggy) 1 Diplodocus named Troop Crawler (Since it is relatively quick for its large size and its saddle can hold up to 10 people) and others...
C&C Names I plan to use: Giant Squid for a Tusoteuthis (Since it is a Giant Squid and it would be capable of sinking rafts) Stingray for a Manta (Since it's a weak attacker that can hit hard and literally is a Ray) Dolphin for an Icthyosaur (Since people call them dolphins and can be as friendly in game as irl dolphins) Emperor Overlord or Apocalypse Tank for a Giganotosaurus (Since it is one of the toughest animals in the game, one of the strongest attackers, and huge) Mammoth Tank for a Mammoth V2, or V3 Rocket Launcher for a Chalicotherium (Since it can throw rocks which are powerful projectiles that can damage tough structures in game (not far though)) Amphibious APC for a Carbonemys (Since it is a turtle that can swim and tank damage well (although I don't remember those particular APCs being tough or all that slow))
TLDR: Looking for fitting C&C name suggestions for tameable creatures in Ark Survival Evolved, preferably unit names but other names are fine as long as there is a good reason.
Also not sure whether to flair this post as OC, Fanart, Discussion, something else, or leave it flairless. Hopefully that can be edited. For now I'll start with Discussion.

I've heard of Ark before but have never played it myself, thus I never knew how little handholding there is in it. I also got its main premise wrong - dino's as farm animals, battle companions and mounts, is not "just a little extra gimmick" as I initially thought - just getting a single dino under your control starting out makes a massive difference!
While I have experience in a game called Subnautica, its baby flippers compared to this 'Survival of the fittest' raw experience of Ark.
Anyway, here are some of the absurd experiences I had with it for the last...10 hours:
- Spawned on a beach, a weird lizard dog spat on me and I died;
- Stupid ants attacked me, don't they know I can still crush them with my bare hands despite their irregular size? Then I died;
- I saw an Otter! Now that should be an easy meal ri---- I died to a freaking Otter (came really close to closing the game when that happened);
- Hit tree once in the swamps, three crocodiles and four mutant pythons choke me to death;
- I died several dozen times, no joke, before I could even build the damn Bed or be reliably capable of making it back to my own base since there's no map and everything looks the damn same per biome;
- Eventually became semi-decent at 1v1ing the smallest of predators, using a shield, slingshot and later on bow. The shield gameplay in particular reminded me of Dark Messiah;
- My first dino pet that wasn't a Dodo was one of the Ptero camel-like things, which died five minutes after I gave it a saddle as I drove it through the swamps, thinking i'd be easier to cross with it now;
- Speaking of the damn swamp the python things are freaking op, venom that paralyzes you ensures that it is simply impossible to ever fight back alone;
- After hours of masochism I finally managed to make it to the 'goalpost' of building a tiny base with a Bed, and from there on the flow of the game stabilized in my favour.
- As of right now, my base is between two regions, I have a Dodo and three Carbonemys turtles in total: my first and main gal with a saddle, a male I picked up for her, and their offspring daughter that just hatched (good thing I was paying attention, creature births in this case are so much more interactive/demanding).
Edit: I forgot to mention, this is all Singleplayer.
I accept advice from veterans galore.

Was feeling nostalgic about Ark and thinking back to moments that genuinely made me freeze up with shock. (Very much an ark thing to have that effect on you.)
What is everyones biggest moments of either freezing up, confused screaming or your flight or fight response telling you NOPE.
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Got plenty but one I have in mind always makes me laugh.
Came back to Ark during the beginning of lockdown for a while, hadn't played for a couple of years at this point. We introduce someone new to Ark and are discussing taming, how things work and guiding them through thier first tame on the beaches of the highlands on Rag. (He tamed a carbonemys)
Someone comes to the beach and starts harassing us. We knock them out and take thier revolver off of them. (They were naked by the way)
In the chaos, the person killed our buddies first tame. So we hand him the gun after locking the griefer in a wooden cage and let him get revenge. Shoots them in the head and thier corpse proceeds to transform into spaghetti and create constellations in the sky. (We aren't at the scary part yet)
So this apperently marked us for revenge for I guess killing them. The person comes back with a friend (still naked) and we assume we are just gonna go back and forth knocking each other out with fists and torches. One goes down and the other is just kinda staring at the group.
We are like "So... you gonna run or you fightin' us too?"
He pulls something out and throws it at our feet. In what seemed like a hack at the time from a bunch of pixellated light sprang forth a goddamn MUTANT RAINBOW CLOWN VOMIT COLOURED THERO FREAKIN' SAUR!!
It immediately charges at us as I stood there in shock as my brain tried to process what was happening. I got cold sweat at the sight. (I dread theros in general so this felt like a personalised nightmare)
We hadn't played in a good while and we had NO idea that cryopods were introduced, probably the biggest game changer in a long time. To have a tame just materialise before your eyes was the unknown and made me freeze up with no idea what was happening.
So after much running, confused screaming and swearing, we realised we HAD to make some of these pods. Remember kids, for you own sanity, check any logs or updates so you can avoid a heart attack.
So anyone who's in a reminiscing mood, feel free to share some of your favourite "OH CRAP!" moments.

My entire base full of all sorts of early game dinos just got massacred by a single therizino. It killed 2 trikes, 3 dilos, a few pegomastax, a parasaurolophus, a carbonemy, and anybody else I can't think of. All that's left is my raptor and pteranodon I hid behind my house, along with some hidden dodos, 2 lystros, 2 pegomastax, and my sleeping friend.
I tried to build a taming box, but I failed miserably because I'm a scaredy cat and couldn't lead him in there. He literally spawned like a mile down the peninsula where it connects to the rest of the island, BUT NOoOO. He HAD to walk this way, he HAD to block my path to the trees so I couldn't build spikes, and when he finally aggroed my dinos, they all HAAAD to run into the ocean!! I thought my beautiful peninsula sanctuary was gonna be safe forever, but no. I got Ark'd.
^{i'm bouta load up my backup save and godmode this little shit from existence}
EDIT: Me and my friend did it in one try! I built a 3 wall high tower and we climbed up using a ladder. We kept shooting her with tranq arrows, but she managed to knock us off the tower. Fortunately tho, she was focused on obliterating the tower, not us. Once she started to run, we chased her across the river and got her unconscious. Tamed her and named her Luna in honor of my real life doggo, who would eat little kids if she got the chance to lmao

I started playing single-player on The Island some time ago, i got over 80th lvl. There were plenty of trilobites on the beaches when i dodn't need them. I started killing them for silica pearls and chitin. They have been spawning for a while, but now i haven't seen a single one since few irl days (about 15 hours or even more). It is the same when it comes about dilophosaurus, raptors, carbonemys and many other. Literally im flying around the map and in the places i have already killed some creatures, get some materials, there are empty fields and beaches. I don't know the reason of it bc im fairly new to ARK. Is game telling me to go to more dangerous areas or what?

Help is asked so often, and though I don't want to write the same things over and over, I figured I'll just make a guide to link to new people.
It's a long text I know hahah, so maybe just jump to where you think is the info you want.
Note: I am a mediocre player myself, pros can comment their wisdom if they feel like it and it's much appreciated, that way I can learn as well. ♡
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This game is quite lot to take on at first. It'll get easier for you eventually - but be warned, that it may devour all of your freetime. ( ! )
There are so many ways to play and do things, that I don't think there is a one and only true way to go about it, but here's some tips anyway.
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GETTING STARTED - Servers
There are many kinds of servers with different variations of each and it can get very confusing. The most relevant types however are Player vs. Player / Player vs. Environment and Official / Unofficial.

• PvP is competition between players, raiding and killing each other, destroying buildings etc. How aggressive the culture is depends on the people - but watch out.
  
• PvE is more relaxed, players can't harm each other directly and the point is to focus on the story, building, exploring, taming, breeding or whatever. Griefing (being an asshole) is still possible through different mechanics.
  
• Official servers are tough and cancerous with griefing regardless if they're PvP/PvE. Some people like a good challenge still, and some even enjoy the pure madness.
  
• Unofficial servers are hosted by a player, they often have boosted settings so things are easy to get. They also almost always have different rules and mechanics than the "normal" official game. Obviously everything depends on the person hosting the server, but many times the culture is way friendlier.
  

Less relevant, but ones I'd like to mention too are Offline Raid Protection (PvP) and Primitive Plus servers.

• ORP server is a kind of PvP server that protects your belongings when you log off. A beautiful idea, but of course abused badly. Indestructible dinos and buildings all over the place similiar to PvE. Your base and dinos, while cannot be directly harmed, go docile... meaning, you are very easy to mess with or ambush.
  
• Primitive Plus is toggled from the "Game Mode" option in the start menu. It's another beautiful idea gone wrong... there is no advanced items, but more primitive ones instead. It's a lot of fun, but also very broken and sadly won't ever be fixed.
  

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GETTING STARTED - Maps
There are maps that advance the story of Ark and then there are maps just for fun. It is importnant to understand, that one can travel through Obelisks between MAPS, but not different SERVER TYPES.
Note: I can't tell you a lot about the more "scifi" maps because honestly, I haven't really played on them. All I know is that they are key maps to the story and have incredibly useful things found on them.
Story maps in order are:

• The Island, also the common place for beginners, but imo actually quite difficult because it lacks many useful regions, items and dinos. The dinos themselves are often low levels.
  
• Scorched Earth, a hard desert map to survive in. It also lacks many regions and dinos found elsewhere, but at the same time has many items for example that other's don't.
  
• Aberration (???)
  
• Extinction (???)
  
• Genesis: Part 1 (???)
  
• Genesis: Part 2 (???)
  

The no-mainstory maps:

• The Center, a lush jungle map. Pretty popular, has different biomes.
  
• Ragnarok, one of the most popular maps. It is diverse and has griffins and common wyverns in the same map, doesn't have whales that destroy rafts.
  
• Valguero, simply beautiful, lacks some cratures but also has it's own ones.
  
• Crystal Isles, the place to get crystal wyverns easily and atm the place I like to start from scratch on because of that. Also has some Aberration things that are useful.
  
• Lost Island, all I know it's vast and pretty with mayewings.
  

Bosses
The main story progresses through finishing boss fights that are in different arenas on different maps. To get to those bosses, one must bring certain trophies and artifacts (found in caves) to the oblelisks and then travel to the arena. Boss fights are no joke, search for info and prepare yourself well. Successfully defeating bosses not only advances the story, but rewards you with element, that is used to power tek items.
Pieces of the Story
Around the maps one can find little bits and pieces of the story "left behind" the story's characters. These are called explorer notes. Finding them gives a nice xp boost.
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GETTING STARTED - First Steps
Choose a server
Try to make up your mind about what it is that you want to do. It's a bummer to get established and then realize no, I want to play on a different server.

• Many people recommend single player, PvE and/or boosted servers for beginners, so you don't struggle as much while still learning. However I'd like to throw newbies to that cancerous official PvP right away... so they can man up. Low population servers aren't as crazy though and better to start on.
  
• You'll die a lot and it's normal. Try not to care about it much. Also I'd say don't invest too much feelings in the game (dinos, builds, items etc) if you're playing on PvP servers. It's like hunger games for those who enjoy it. PvE may truly suit you better, if you really want to focus on other things like story/building/exploring.
  

General Advice
These are some tips that I think work perfectly on all servers.

• Keep the Wiki/Dododex/Youtube or something open, you'll need to do a lot of studying when you start this game and will probably have questions constantly.
  
• Explore the controls and menus, if even just a little. They look weird at first, but later it all starts to make sense little by little.
  
• Make a tribe instantly even if you're playing solo, the tribe log gives you useful information. Also use taming tracking.
  
• Get that hotbar sorted the way you like. Bolas are good for dealing with many situations, personally I always carry 10 and even have the crafting button on my hotbar next to the actual bolas.
  
• Always carry food & water with you if you don't want to die. What I mean by that is, dying doesn't always matter much. Depends on the situation. You can just get your stuff back with full health in the best case scenario.
  
• There are many ways to level up fast, but usually I get those levels "naturally" by focusing on getting my hotbar sorted. Dying a lot just means I'll craft those things over and over and therefore get xp. Other ways for example are doing an explorer note run and crafting cooking pots.
  
• Level up weight & speed at first. You'll really need weight for building and crafting items, and outrunning things helps a lot when you can't fight them yet. Being fast simply keeps you alive later on as well. Stamina is useful too for the same reason. Health and melee are importnant of course, but they can wait a little. Never waste points on food/water. Oxygen only on boosted servers imo. Fortitude is a matter of opinion, it helps in certain situations but can also be replaced by using armor & craftables.
  
• Engrams are "recipes" for things you can craft. Opening them uses points so be wise in your choices.
  
• When you're advanced very far in the game, you can craft a mindwipe tonic to start over with your levels and endgram points.
  
• Pretty much all creatures have something special and useful about them. What's your arsenal really just depends on preference. Some are common choices for everybody.
  
• Taming is a long study of it's own that I recommend you educate yourself with. Simply put, some dinos are knocked out and then fed by putting preferred food in their inventory. Some are hand-fed. Dododex is a good handbook, but doesn't know all the secrets...
  
• Berries have different purposes, but in the beginning only narcoberries matter (don't eat them). Mejoberries are a cheap food for taming herbivores. Stimberries make you thirsty and you won't need them right away so just throw them away.
  

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GETTING STARTED - Surviving in Hell
Other things after those mentioned above really depend on the server you're on. I'm thinking about official PvP from now on, to simplify explaining and because I don't think your choices are so very, very importnant on other servers. You can still use a lot of this info regardless of server.
Note: I think this is the most controversial part. Remember I'm a humble Bob myself, just trying to help out the total noobs. I'd suggest don't mock, but instead enlighten us little people.

• If you have friends, it helps a lot, but be very paranoid of who to trust if you don't know them. This game is aggressive.
  
• Stash spoiled meat, narcoberries and arrows to make tranq arrows and tame things. A parasaur is easy to tame and can help you to detect threats & carry things. (Other players get noted of its detection so it can also reveal you.) Maybe tame some dilos or raptors to protect it and get more meat. Also getting a pteranodon at some point is a good idea to be able to fly, which just helps with everything. Don't get too attached to the first dinos (or well, any dinos in general) they're just meant to help you to get on your feet and will probably die.
  
• Make a little starter base somewhere that has basic resources (wood, stone, bushes) and not too many hostile creatures. Some metal and pteranodons close by is good but avoid building right next to importnant resources... they attract people. Try to hide, so build as small as possible, not in plain sight or common "highways". Build a stone base right away if you can. This tiny base can be used as an outpost later and I recommend eventually making many around the map in strategical places/regions.
  
• Personally I use: six triangle foundations in a circle, two walls high, second floor inside with 3 triangle celings in the middle + ladder, door above ground with just another ladder to get to it, so at least the beach trolls can't go chop chop. (You can place the otside ladder right using a ceiling under it first and then removing it.) This thing contains only the very basic crafting stations and a bed, storage and a campfire for food.
  
• I'm still testing if letting people rob an outpost (unlocked doors) will help to keep it there. The structure itself is more importnant than the loot it holds.
  
• Some people make a 3x3 raft base, they're handy mobile small bases, if the map doesn't have those whales that destroy rafts. If there are whales, rafts aren't that great for unexperienced players, but ofc you can try to learn how to watch out for whales. A raft is not a safe base imo, but it can be helpful.
  
• Remember, light is seen a mile away in the dark. Attracting others can be a good or a bad thing... use your head.
  
• A green glow on another player's head means they have swamp feaver. They'll infect you if you get too close. It's a very annoying disease that infects humans and tamed dodos. People are spreading it on official servers like corona. This divides opinions, but I'd try to either avoid getting infected (low pop servers) or get infected on purpose to live with it from the get go (high pop servers).
  
• The thing about swamp fever is that it has many bad effects. Your attributes are weakened, that glow is easy to see and you couch loudly constantly. So why on earth get it? Because it actually improves speed for some reason, and because in a PvP situation it's very bad if you're instantly encumbered for infection that weakens weight attribute (yes, this happened lmfao.)
  
• Study carefully how to use obelisks and item drops. You can keep your most importnant things and dinos in them, out of anyone's reach, but they have timers and some people block them off. Also moving things in or out is a risky business, you could get some very unwanted company while doing it.
  
• Never run around with all you have. Consider what you truly need atm, if you're ready to risk loosing it, and try to move things in parts.
  
• Pay attention to other players. Who is online a lot, who has big bases, where other people are / where they are not. You'll get an idea of who and what you're dealing with.
  
• Think hard what you say in global chat. Telling everybody where you are and what you're doing is like handing yourself to them on a silver platter. Try not to make unnecessary enemies on purpose, there are plenty even without provocation. Acting like an idiot also makes you a less appealing ally.
  
• Getting friendly or at least neutral with the strong tribes is a good idea. You won't stand a chance against them.
  
• Based on the knowledge you have gathered and the resource map and dinos, try to find an area that you'll actually build your real base on (and where to just place more outposts.) Where and how big you're building depends on your overall plans... and do make plans. It'll save you a lot of time if you can make decisions that have a long run purpose.
  

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GOOD NOW YOU HAVE STARTED - Tribes
As a long time solo player I have very little info on tribes, but I guess I know some basics. Friends make life a lot easier... but they can also weigh on you. Finding well fitting people is just as hard as it is anywhere.

• Check the tribe governance settings before you do anything. It's hard to play the fortune teller, but try to decide what settings you are okay with in your tribe. Do you share everything or not?
  
• Find out about the tribe joining/merging functions and what happens when you use them. It can get complicated and mistakes result in loosing everything.
  
• Again, don't trust anyone right away. Take your time. Also... is there some secret you alone want to keep? A hidden staaash for eeeexample? Remember, tribemembers can see & use same beds.
  
• Making an alliance is another option if joining/merging tribes is out of the question atm.
  
• Use whatever communication channel you prefer, like Discord, Steam, or PSN chats. A headset or a mic is nice, but a phone with those apps can do the same thing.
  
• Actually talking to people still freaks me out, but it seems the most reliable way to get friends & it is super efficient when you're co-operating with others.
  
• Find out what their thing is. If you're too different people/players, it's best to go your seperate ways. However you'll need patience with people in any case.
  
• Try to be helpful and respectful. Tell others of your intentions, it's kind of rude to just poof suddenly or not consider what others want. Explaining why you're leaving for example or that you're not sure how committed you are is just good manners.
  
• Do things by yourself as well and let other people do it too. If you need help, ask, but try not to constantly bother or control others against their wishes, as it can tire them out... (yes, this happened too).
  

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GOOD NOW YOU HAVE STARTED - Dinos
Another controversial thing. I want to be careful with this, because I'm no pro. Correct me if I'm wrong.
General

• Dinos, or any creatures, don't live forever. It will save you a lot of negative emotion to accept this right away... believe me. Some are still more valuable than others.
  
• Consider if you need a high level one or if you just need that dino now for something. Especially when you can't protect them yet.
  
• Expandables: easy-to-get dinos meant for everyday use. I like to use some especially in PvP against some slightly bigger & badder guys around early or mid-game. It's a glorious moment of satisfying evil laughter when you pull off using cheap dinos to wreck harder-to-get-ones... and it doesn't really hurt you much if you loose.
  
• Importnant ones: high level creatures, often (but not always) hard to get, not to be risked lightly. These sit in obelisks when not needed.
  
• Get to know & use cryopods. They may appear hard to make at first but really, they're not. (You can replace polymer with organic polymer if you don't have a base/fabricator.) They work like pokeballs and bypass the dino upload timer on obelisks. Just be careful not to let other players get your cryod dinos.
  

Taming
Always make good preparations. Find info about taming & the creature in question and make sure you know what you're doing. Dododex helps with exact calculating of what you need & when you need it, but bring extra stuff anyway... many things can go wrong.

• Have sleeping bags, outpost with a bed, or something else near. This saves you when those mess ups happen and it's good to stash all those precious narcotics etc. somewhere else close by than on yourself.
  
• Make a trap if necessary and better yet, make a mobile raft-trap. It can actually be many kinds of traps in one if build smartly. This way you can use the same trap many times & sail away to calmer seas with your knocked out project. Whatch out for whales.
  
• Use taming tracking to locate and supervice that sleeping project if you need to leave it.
  
• When taming, the dino must not be harmed in any way or it will loose taming effectiveness: the levels it can gain.
  
• Starve taming means knocking out the dino and then letting it get hungry before giving it any food. Depending on what you're taming, you may or may not still need narcotics to keep the creature under while starving it. This way you don't risk loosing your taming stuff while waiting because it's not sitting in the dino's inventory.
  
• Yay you've tamed a dino! Give it a name if you want, but you don't have to. I'd suggest not naming it anything obvious like pumphealth etc. if it's not an inside-base dino. Why give other people that info.
  

Kibble
It is the best thing to tame dinos with, but also requires some work to get it. Different dinos prefer different kibbles, but probably the most importnant kibbles are superior, exceptional and extraordinary. There are charts about kibble recipes and what they're used for.

• Long story short, kibble recipes include different qualities of eggs for different qualities of kibble, berries, fiber, water and some food items. Kibble is made in cooking pots.
  
• Mayewings may replace kibble farms, but now I'm focusing on farming without them.
  
• Wyvern eggs for extraordinary kibble are simple to get, one just has to steal them. Sounds intimidating and it is a little, but practice makes perfect.
  
• Actual farm dinos are oviraptor for it boosts egg laying, moschops for superior kibble and rexes for exceptional kibble. (If I remember right, one needs rex eggs anyways for recipes.)
  
• To come up with a number of farm dinos, consider the mate boost (17 minute egg lay interval wiki says), combined with oviraptor boost (11 minute egg lay interval wiki says), maybe you'd be happy to get 5 eggs (so 5 females + 1 male) every tenish minutes? More? Count from there what's fast enough for you.
  
• For the other kibble types, terror birds for regular kibble and raptors for simple kibble, consider if you need a lot of those kibbles? Maybe not? Dodos lay eggs like crazy and only produce basic kibble so maybe have just a couple of them if at all.
  

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GOOD NOW YOU HAVE STARTED - The Base
Where the base is, how big it is and if there's a base at all depends on your playstyle. To keep this shorter, I wont go into all the little details. It's also not my strong point.

• Look at the map & even draw your own with details of resources, wild dinos, obelisks and other players etc. It's easier to plan while actually looking at the situation.
  
• I'd say don't use common or well known (everything on YouTube) spots if you're not prepared for constant battle. Either try to hide or be ready to fight.
  
• Personally I want to stay close but not too close to water, resources and obelisks. Water is easy to use against you in many ways, resources attract people same as obelisks. Even worse, others can pull out dinos and gear from obelisks, so consider if you want to be right next to one.
  
• After picking a spot, look at it long and hard through the eyes of an enemy. Imagine attacking it, how would you do it. Are there things to use against you / to your benefit? Is it a good spot to defend?
  
• Plan the build in single player's creative mode in that same location with collision settings matching the real thing. This is to save tons of time and resources. Build in a way that makes sense in your location and use the advantages while trying to cover the weak points.
  
• I don't recommend building the actual base before you can finish it quickly with defences. Work in progress is weak and gives away your intentions before you can defend.
  
• I'm not sure if it's better to claim the area with foundations before you're ready, or make the base pieces in advance to simply spam them right on. I think both ways have their up and down sides.
  

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SOME MORE TIPS - Wild Dinos
Not going to even try mentioning everything, bur here are some useful and interesting creatures + some general info.
Common

• Ichytornis, maybe the most hated dino in the game. It's a seagul like bird flying around the beaches that steals items... which are then gone even if you kill it. Just like many other little nuisances, learn to bola it or deal with it otherwise.
  
• Pegomastax, similiar to the seagul but items can be retrieved when killed.
  
• Troodon, fast little things with torpor damage. They hunt players especially at night, but they fear torches.
  
• Raptor, your ears will learn to hear those steps right before it tears you to shreds... gladly the wild ones don't pounce anymore.
  
• Trike, calm until provoked, these are nice neighbours for beach Bobs because they can deal with many threats for you.
  
• Carbonemys, big turtle that can be killed for keratin. Use a hatchet.
  
• Bronto, also good for keeping the peace, but don't accidentally hit it... or let other players use it against you.
  

Useful

• Beaver, they make dams that contain cementing paste among other nice things, but they won't like you stealing.
  
• Ovis, little sheep that are the source of mutton, which is the next best thing to kibble when taming carnivores.
  
• Bee, one can harvest their hives for honey but they may sting you... build a box around the hive for easier honey stealing.
  
• Leech, to harvest leach blood from, which can be used in a cure recipe or fishing, but these guys also carry disease.
  
• Woolly rhino, their horns can also be used for cure medicine's recipe and they drop fur.
  
• Mantis, one source of organic polymer & chitin.
  

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SOME MORE TIPS - Useful Tames

• Parasaur, of course, for its many uses and easy taming. It can get berries, carry things and detect threats. Know that other players get notified of detection, so it can also reveal you.
  
• Dilophosaur, the venom spitter, I like to tame a little pack of high levels as I go when I have nothing yet. They're small but fisty.
  
• Vulture, easy to tame and high level ones deal decent damage especially in a flock. They can be kept on one's shoulder and work as mobile fridges, though they'll have to harvest things by themselves. They only attack to defend, but one can go around it with an aggressive turret-mode para for example.
  
• Pteranodon, to be able to fly and tame other things
  
• Argentavis, to carry things, fight, work as mobile smithy and to tame other things
  
• Griffin, a great flyer
  
• Ankylosaurus, to harvest metal
  
• Doedicurus, to harvest stone & obsidian
  
• Beaver, to harvest wood
  
• Phiomia, it's stimberry diahrrea provides a lot of poop
  
• Beetles, because they make fertilizer and oil
  
• Achatina, a little expensive to keep but provides steady cementing paste and some organic polymer
  
• Centipedes, to break structures
  
• Otter, for warmth and hatching eggs, they can also carry multiple artifacts
  
• Dimetrodon, it works line air conditioner
  
• Frogg, to knock out other creatures and to swim, they use no oxygen in water, can gather cp from insects
  
• Ovis, to get steady mutton
  
• Kangaroo, to speed up imprinting
  
• Direwolf, it can fit in caves, sniff out many things and has a pack boost
  
• Mammoth, can carry a lot of wood, store & spray water, roar intimidates enemies to make less damage, war drums give boost to allies
  
• Yutyrannus, for it's different roars but especially to scare away tamed dinos
  
• Tropical Wyvern, they are on Crystal Island, most of them are non-hostile and they are very easy passive tames to quickly get on your feet
  
• Maewing, from Lost Island and Genesis pt. 2, they drop all qualities of eggs and are fast gliders with nursing ability
  
• Deinonychus, they are like raptor's psycho cousins from Valguero that can latch onto bigger dinos, climb and take no fall damage, stacking bleed effect
  
• Velonasaur, spike spitting turret dinos
  
• Basilisk, a danger noodle I don't yet know much about
  

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SOME MORE TIPS - Random
Lastly, here are some random tips. Hopefully this is helpful.

• otters are tameable on argy's beak
  
• aggressive turret para makes other tames act aggressive
  
• wyvern milk protects from cold
  
• wyvern milk cures disease + gives immunity for a time
  
• fert eggs can make kibble (hello wyverns)
  
• boss flags can be painted
  
• cactus brew hides players from wild dinos
  
• use gas mask underwater instead of scuba to see better
  
• lava doesn't burn rafts
  
• lassos drag some knocked out dinos
  
• a whip takes other player's items & moves dinos
  

As of current the Basil and Tuso far outclass the other aquatic mounts, and honestly I think the jellies are only partially to blame… The Tuso and Basil just have so much going for them, The Basil is completely immune to any movement hampering attacks, provides an insane insulation buff and gains a health regen boost when surfaced, meanwhile Tusos can grab dinos and leech health right off of them whilst also being able to blind attackers and boost its speed in a single button press. Meanwhile pretty much everything else is just purely attack and hp, nothing else.
Here are my ideas:
Manta: Giving them a topor inducing attack could be a simple and nice addition and give them utility as cheap tranquilizers or maybe just full on poison to their attacks. I do also think they should be passive unless attacked personally because rays in general are not that aggressive plus Megalodons already exist with Mantas just being basically a glass cannon version of a shark and isn’t enough of a threat to other mounts to really cause any hard nerfing of the ocean by having its behavior changed. Its HP should be buffed because its current HP is incredibly low even with imprinting at around the level of an Icthy making it unviable for any kind of combat. It should also be able to move up and down while mounted, it’s ridiculous how hard it is to move with these guys.
Carbonemys: (too lazy to spell check) Make them a jelly counter, immune to stings and deal high damage to them with increased bio toxin harvest and a sharp turn radius. Fun fact: sea turtles IRL eat jellyfish so this would fit pretty well. Also make wild Carbos agressive to jellies because fuck those glowy bastards swimming into shallow rivers. Also movement speed buff in water because currently they are painfully sluggish and not good for anything underwater aside from taming squids.
Mosasaur: Completely overshadowed by the Basil and Squid now with jellies being a hard counter to even the strongest Mosas, there is almost zero reason to use these. By virtue of their size and thick scales, they should also be partially immune to shocks by jellies. Needs a way sharper turning radius too because combat on a Mosa is agonizing. For ability it could have a fear roar like the Yuty on land, or maybe a deep sea attack buff, something to fit with its menacing apex predator role, alternatively its stats could just be buffed up to compensate the lack of an ability.
Dunkleosteus: Should probably also resist jelly stings by virtue of its bony armor. I was thinking of giving it a charge up bite attack that costs stamina but lets the Dunky power up a devastating bite attack, maybe even allow it to use gnashed since it has those bladed “teeth” (fun fact: actually not teeth but part of the jaw itself).
I really don’t like the current Dunky design, it looks too much like a regular fish and the head barely stands out. I would love a more exaggerated head with jagged edges with the armor really popping out.
Angler: IMO currently the worst aquatic mount, it’s slower than an Icthy and IIRC squishier than a Megalodon. Some animals with bioluminescence IRL can actually spray out some of their (for lack of a better word) glowy juice to distract predators, so perhaps the Angler could have the ability to shoot out a projectile from its lure that slows down other dinos and allows either a quick getaway or a offensive advantage.
Could be childhood nostalgia talking but I loved the look of the angler fish in Finding Nemo, I still to this day find that design really cool looking with the big messy arrangement of teeth. The 3 lures just looks ridiculous more than anything.
Plesiosaur: Beasts of Bermuda had a cool gimmick with its Elasmosaur which allowed it to auto track targets as it attacked with the head turning around to snap at whatever is around it. A similar ability would give the Plesi good cave clearing potential like the Squid where it can snap up a large amount of enemies distracted by something else. I know IRL Plesis had very rigid necks but Ark has never really been a staunch believer in realism, so a Plesi being able to swing its neck around like a snake would be pretty tame in comparison to something like a Yutyrannus magically increasing the power of surrounding dinosaurs.

Going by the days I played ark, NOT ark days!
Day 1: Dodos 🦤
Day 2: Dilophosaurus
Day 3: Carbonemys
Day 4: Raptors
Day 5: Pterodactyl
Day 6: Carnotaurus
It progressed quite nicely I'd say 😄

Dododex rates Ark creatures out of 5 stars based on their utility at gathering different resources. However, upon looking at the rankings it seemed incorrect (is the carbonemys really better at berry gathering than the trike? Why is the metal hatchet the third best option for hide collection?) Is it a reliable source?

I was unable to find any sort of completionist list for ark so I decided to make my own. This is currently just for The Island. Comment below if you think of anything I missed or find any typos/misspellings.

1. Kill at least 1 of every dino
   1. Achatina
   2. Allosaurus
   3. Ammonite
   4. Angler
   5. Ankylosaurus
   6. Araneo
   7. Archaeopteryx
   8. Argentavis
   9. Arthropluera
   10. Attack Drone
   11. Baryonyx
   12. Basilosaurus
   13. Beelzebufo
   14. Brontosaurus
   15. Carbonemys
   16. Carnotaurus
   17. Castoroides
   18. Chalicotherium
   19. Cnidaria
   20. Coelacanth
   21. Compy
   22. Daeodon
   23. Defense unit
   24. Dilophosaur
   25. Dimetrodon
   26. Dimorphodon
   27. Diplocaulus
   28. Diplodocus
   29. Direbear
   30. Direwolf
   31. Dodo
   32. Doedicurus
   33. Dung Beetle
   34. Dunkleosteus
   35. Electropharus
   36. Equus
   37. Eurypterid
   38. Gallimimus
   39. Giant Bee
   40. Giganotosaurus
   41. Gigantopithecus
   42. Hesperornis
   43. Hyaenodon
   44. Ichthyornis
   45. Ichthyosaurus
   46. Iguanodon
   47. Kairuku
   48. Kaprosuchus
   49. Kentrosaurus
   50. Leech
   51. Leedsichthys
   52. Liopleurodon
   53. Lystrosaurus
   54. Mammoth
   55. Manta
   56. Megalania
   57. Megaloceros
   58. Megalodon
   59. Megalosaurus
   60. Meganeura
   61. Megatherium
   62. Mesopithecus
   63. Microraptor
   64. Mosasaurus
   65. Moschaps
   66. Ocyc
   67. Otter
   68. Oviraptor
   69. Ovis
   70. Pachy
   71. Pachyrhinosaurus
   72. Paraceratherium
   73. Parasaur
   74. Pegomastax
   75. Pelagornis
   76. Phiomia
   77. Paranha
   78. Plesiosaur
   79. Procoptodon
   80. Pteranodon
   81. Pulmonoscorpius
   82. Purlovia
   83. Quetzal
   84. Raptor
   85. Rex
   86. Sabertooth
   87. Sabertooth Salmon
   88. Sarco
   89. Spinosaurus
   90. Stegosaurus
   91. Tapejara
   92. Terror bird
   93. Therizinosaurus
   94. Thylacoleo
   95. Titanoboa
   96. Titanomyrma
   97. Titanosaur
   98. Triceratops
   99. Trilobite
   100. Troodon
   101. Tesoteuthis
   102. Unicorn
   103. Woolly Rhino
   104. Yeti
   105. Yutyrannus
2. Tame every tameable dino
   1. Achatina
   2. Allosaurus
   3. Angler
   4. Ankylosaurus
   5. Araneo
   6. Archaeopteryx
   7. Argentavis
   8. Arthropluera
   9. Baryonyx
   10. Basilosaurus
   11. Beelzebufo
   12. Brontosaurus
   13. Carbonemys
   14. Carnotaurus
   15. Castoroides
   16. Chalicotherium
   17. Compy
   18. Daeodon
   19. Dilophosaur
   20. Dimetrodon
   21. Dimorphodon
   22. Diplocaulus
   23. Diplodocus
   24. Direbear
   25. Direwolf
   26. Dodo
   27. Doedicurus
   28. Dung Beetle
   29. Dunkleosteus
   30. Electropharus
   31. Equus
   32. Gallimimus
   33. Giant Bee
   34. Giganotosaurus
   35. Gigantopithecus
   36. Hesperornis
   37. Hyaenodon
   38. Ichthyornis
   39. Ichthyosaurus
   40. Iguanodon
   41. Kairuku
   42. Kaprosuchus
   43. Kentrosaurus
   44. Liopleurodon
   45. Lystrosaurus
   46. Mammoth
   47. Manata
   48. Megalania
   49. Megaloceros
   50. Megalodon
   51. Megalosaurus
   52. Megatherium
   53. Mesopithecus
   54. Microraptor
   55. Mosasaurus
   56. Moschaps
   57. Ocyc
   58. Otter
   59. Oviraptor
   60. Ovis
   61. Pachy
   62. Pachyrhinosaurus
   63. Paraceratherium
   64. Parasaur
   65. Pegomastax
   66. Pelagornis
   67. Phiomia
   68. Plesiosaur
   69. Procoptodon
   70. Pteranodon
   71. Pulmonoscorpius
   72. Purlovia
   73. Quetzal
   74. Raptor
   75. Rex
   76. Sabertooth
   77. Sarco
   78. Spinosaurus
   79. Stegosaurus
   80. Tapejara
   81. Terror bird
   82. Therizinosaurus
   83. Thylacoleo
   84. Titanoboa
   85. Titanosaur
   86. Triceratops
   87. Trilobite
   88. Troodon
   89. Tesoteuthis
   90. Unicorn
   91. Woolly Rhino
   92. Yutyrannus
3. Breed every breedable dino
   1. Achatina
   2. Allosaurus
   3. Angler
   4. Ankylosaurus
   5. Araneo
   6. Archaeopteryx
   7. Argentavis
   8. Arthropluera
   9. Baryonyx
   10. Basilosaurus
   11. Beelzebufo
   12. Brontosaurus
   13. Carbonemys
   14. Carnotaurus
   15. Castoroides
   16. Chalicotherium
   17. Compy
   18. Daeodon
   19. Dilophosaur
   20. Dimetrodon
   21. Dimorphodon
   22. Diplocaulus
   23. Diplodocus
   24. Direbear
   25. Direwolf
   26. Dodo
   27. Doedicurus
   28. Dunkleosteus
   29. Electropharus
   30. Equus
   31. Gallimimus
   32. Giganotosaurus
   33. Gigantopithecus
   34. Hesperornis
   35. Hyaenodon
   36. Ichthyornis
   37. Ichthyosaurus
   38. Iguanodon
   39. Kairuku
   40. Kaprosuchus
   41. Kentrosaurus
   42. Lystrosaurus
   43. Mammoth
   44. Manata
   45. Megalania
   46. Megaloceros
   47. Megalodon
   48. Megalosaurus
   49. Megatherium
   50. Mesopithecus
   51. Microraptor
   52. Mosasaurus
   53. Moschaps
   54. Ocyc
   55. Otter
   56. Oviraptor
   57. Ovis
   58. Pachy
   59. Pachyrhinosaurus
   60. Paraceratherium
   61. Parasaur
   62. Pegomastax
   63. Pelagornis
   64. Phiomia
   65. Plesiosaur
   66. Procoptodon
   67. Pteranodon
   68. Pulmonoscorpius
   69. Purlovia
   70. Quetzal
   71. Raptor
   72. Rex
   73. Sabertooth
   74. Sarco
   75. Spinosaurus
   76. Stegosaurus
   77. Tapejara
   78. Terror bird
   79. Therizinosaurus
   80. Thylacoleo
   81. Titanoboa
   82. Titanosaur
   83. Triceratops
   84. Troodon
   85. Tesoteuthis
   86. Unicorn
   87. Woolly Rhino
   88. Yutyrannus
4. Kill all bosses on all three difficulties
   1. Broodmother Lysrix
   2. Dragon
   3. Megapithecus
   4. Overseer
5. Build every structure
   1. Crafting
      1. Campfire
      2. Cooking Pot
      3. Mortar and Pestle
      4. Refining Forge
      5. Smithy
      6. Chemistry Bench
      7. Fabricator
      8. industrial Cooking
      9. Industrial Forge
      10. Industrial Grill
      11. Industrial Grinder
      12. Tek Replicator
   2. Production
      1. Bee Hive
      2. Beer Barrel
      3. Compost Bin
      4. Crop Plot (Small, Medium, & Large)
      5. Feeding Trough
      6. Tree Sap Tap
      7. Air conditioner
      8. Dino Leash
      9. Lamppost
      10. Omnidirectional Lamppost
      11. Cloning Chamber
      12. Tek Trough
   3. Irrigation
      1. Stone Irrigation Pipe (Flexible, Inclined, Intake, Intersection, Straight, Vertical, & Tap)
      2. Water Reservoir
      3. Metal Irrigation Pipe (Flexible, Inclined, Intake, Intersection, Straight, Vertical, & Tap)
      4. Metal Water Reservoir
   4. Storage
      1. Bookshelf
      2. Preserving Bin
      3. Storage Box
      4. Large Storage Box
      5. Wooden Cage
      6. Refrigerator
      7. Vault
      8. Cryofridge
      9. Tek Dedicated Storage
   5. Power
      1. Electrical Cable ( Flexible, Inclined, Intersection, Straight, & Vertical)
      2. Electrical Generator
      3. Electrical Outlet
      4. Tek Generator
   6. Vehicles
      1. Wooden Raft
      2. Motorboat
   7. Other Tek
      1. Tek Teleporter
      2. Tek Transmitter
      3. Tek Forcefield
      4. Tek Turret
6. Craft Full Tek Armor
   1. Tek Helmet
   2. Tek Chestpiece
   3. Tek Gauntlets
   4. Tek Leggings
   5. Tek Boots

Hello! I've recently begun trying to begin a Deinonychus army on Valguero to try and use them to take down the bosses solo. I've run into a little bit of a problem though and I can't seem to easily find out what to do based on what I'm seeing online.
I spent a long time (probably an accumulated 2 hours across 2 sessions) scouring the White Cliffs for high-level Deino eggs. It was quite annoying and after this much time, the best eggs I'd found were 2 135 eggs and a 145 egg (max level is 150 for organic dinos on this server)
Thankfully, I ended up with a male and a female. After hatching the eggs, though, they did not gain the additional levels, like when you finish taming a dino normally, or when you hatch eggs from other dinos.
Like the Carbonemys, for example, I tamed 2 level 150 ones, and so they end up around 226ish once fully tamed, prior to putting any levels in. And then when you breed those 2 Carbonemys, the baby is around that same level if not higher. But with these Deinonychus, they were 135 and 145 after hatched, no additional levels were added.
I figured, maybe I need to breed these 2 in order to get the additional levels? I did try that but to my utter shock, not only did the baby not have the additional levels, but it was only level 129 when its parents were 135 and 145 base levels. See image below:
https://i.imgur.com/MvjvUhi.png
I will say that when I was trying to hatch the egg, the temperature changed and the incubation cancelled and I had to restart it. Does that impact the level? I checked the wiki about Incubation (https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Incubation) and did not see anything about that.
The main reason this confuses me is because I saw this video of a guy showing how you can solo the bosses on Valguero with Deinonychus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtE-llS2AGA), and his Deinos were around 226ish, which I figured sounded normal, if the Deinos get those additional levels. Or perhaps he just leveled the shit out of them before taking them to the bossfights? I sure hope that isn't it!
Still would love to know how I can avoid babies being lower level in the future, and also whether or not there's a way for me to get my Deinos to get those additional levels. Thanks for reading!

Some of you tuned in last Saturday to watch and assist during my big move from the spawn point to my new base of operations. We knew we had lost all our hotdogs (Lystrosaurus) along the way, but thought we made it to our cliff with everyone else accounted for. We didn't, pretty early on we lost our trike (Triceratops) and like the absolute jerk I am, didn't notice until I needed them. Sorry, buddy, Honestly you deserve better. My first tame that allowed me to travel off the beach a bit, we go way back, I let you down.I have attached a map [https://flic.kp/2mehbTr] for reference. We spawned in at W1 near the footpaw. I had collected a little rag tag team to accompany me, with the most exciting park being the tickle chicken (Therizinosaur) I had SOMEHOW managed to tame. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAEkcvAkssE&t=934s) I posted the video of that, as in Ark fashion, if it can go wrong, it will. I rode my Paracer (Paraceratherium) who carried a lot of walls, foundation, ceiling, stairs, feeding trough, compost bin, bed, fabricator, and more stuff I built ahead of time. When you have a mount that can carry everything, might as well make a drag and drop shelter. I used the whistle command to send the tickle chicken (aptly named Ninja, after a very helpful redditor and viewer, shouts out again to you!) and my raptor, Christoph (another super helpful viewer, the real grown up who helped me with technical issues) ahead of the moving party to kill any potential threats.We landed at our camp with 1 Paracer, 1 Tickle Chicken/Death Turkey/Edward Scissorhands/Therizin, 3 Parasaur, 4 Pteranodon (Don't ask, I love having back up in the form of an air raid), 1 turtle (Carbonemys), 1 Saro (Sarcosuchus), 1 Raptor, and uh, no Trike...I was building along, minding my business, and needed fiber. No problem, I'll jump on my trike! ....Shit, somewhere along the way we lost it. Guess I'll find it later, let's get base going first.Here I am collecting materials when I turn around and notice a Carnotaurus *uncomfortably* close to me. I rush back, and build a trap with wooden door frames. Pop in the ramps. My only very fast dino is the raptor, but I hadn't put much into weight and he really wouldn't be fast with me and the 100 or so tranq arrows I have. I go out on foot, shoot it, and RUN.
It walks right out of the trap :') I believe I ran to my base and all my neutral dinos destroyed it. However, I wanted to try again. I had backed up my save, (don't judge me) so we reloaded, and I built the trap walls higher. Rinse, repeat, fail. It just didn't use the trap this time, I basically had to use it for shelter to take it down. It was low level, I finally managed, but the CHAOS. It could reach me pretty easily so you mostly just see me running in circles in panic.We later use this same trap to try and tame a pair of trikes who also nearly take me out. I cannot to this day explain why I thought I needed two low level trikes when I fully planned to go recover my OG. I see a dino, I wanna take it home. I am essentially using them as a living fence at the moment, we get raptors, troodons, and diplos pretty regularly. My base is set behind many large boulders so I can bottle neck wild dinos who try to approach and they are pretty instantly thwarted.
I left this adventure having recovered my trike, stuck wholly on the worlds skinniest tree, and one of the loyal hot dogs, named Bubblebutt. I set my next big goal to tame my first Argy (Argentavis).
Watch the chaos here: (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1097193119)
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I played last night with my favorite Aussie friend (we will call him Oz), who brought along all the skeleton skins. My little dino army is half flesh, half bone. I'm here for it.We go up to the back of the volcano, The Grand Hills area, on Pteranodons, to scope out the area. We find where the Argy live, as I don't have fur armor so snow biome is out. We end up heading to the top of the volcano, just to check it out, and I can't help but try to mine some of the obsidian that's right on the lip. Meanwhile, Oz falls in. I fly in too to bring him his Pteranodon. Let's just say, if it can go wrong, it will. We're trying to get these things to land, but the ledges are narrow. He ends up dying in the volcano. I end up dying in the volcano. Good times. Shout out to Terry the pteranodon for knocking me in with your wings. We respawn at base, and get working on building two more saddles for the remaining two Pteranodon. We head out on Ninja, the tickle chicken, and Christoph, the raptor, to collect chitin, keratin, and hide. We end up taming another Carno, and a Doedicurus. We fly back to the volcano, which takes much longer given the back up Pteranodons are much lower level. After much more awkward maneuvering (just LAND OVER HERE TERRY AND TUNA) we recover our stuff and take the whole crew home. Back out on foot with the tickle chicken and raptor, and a bunch of tranq arrows. I had planned before the move to use dino gates to trap an Argy. Oz is more of a "shoot it and run" type. I figure, he's got thousands of hours in the game, let's give it a shot. The first one destroyed three pieces of my chitin armor. Cool. But it works. We name her Pumpkin. Somehow, we end up taking on two at once. Here is where it would have made more sense to use the gates. In all the chaos, we both hit Pumpkin with tranq arrows. We're also out of food now, and spend a considerable amount of time with me running down the hill to the bushes, finding stim berries for Pumpkin, and berries for us to eat. Then, awkwardly trying to get back up the volcano, getting stuck often, while he babysits the tames in progress and poor Pumpkin. Eventually, the tames finish, huzzah! I name the males Aubergine and Carrot. We all wait an obnoxiously long time for Princess Pumpkin to awake.
We make our way back, our flock of danger birds in tow, half naked and half starving. The next step is to collect all the materials for their saddles. Again, ALL the chitin/keratin and hide. Side note, how do you guys pronounce chitin? I'm US based and when in discussion of insects, the ch makes a k sound, like "kie-tin". I don't know if Oz is wrong, or it's said differently in Aus, but I also wager that most people don't use it conversationally and I probably wouldn't either except that I work with and keep exotic animals. Insect levels of moisture, fat, protein, and chitin are regular discourse. Let me know.We make a plan to hit the Western Plains, there are a lot of stegos and trikes down there. Since it's close to home, we decide to do some leveling on the lower level raptor, FortniteSux (we had to ban some teenage trolls, before they were invited to leave for inappropriate behavior they of course were asking me to play Fortnite. Sorry to Fortnite fans, I hope you'll understand. But it kinda sux, bro). I took the Carno. I had laughed way too hard about it's sausage arms, forever pinned to it's side. It felt appropriate to name her Oz, because it's not her fault and she tries hard anyway, felt like they had that in common.~
Apparently the Western Plains get plenty of snow biome fauna. We got to tango with more Agys and sabertooths. FortniteSux almost didn't make it out alive. We did manage to tame two more Argys, a Seattle Seahawk colored one, notably. We named this one Kiwi, and the other, Plum.
Why would one need five Argys? Because one sucks at killing everything while on a mount, and five Argys can carry more than one. Again, I like my air raid, don't judge me.
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I go live with the next chapter in the Ark Chronicles Friday, 11AM PDT, and then Saturday, 6 PDT.
Tune in here (twitch.tv/hoochieha) and/or join the Discord here (https://discord.gg/BpbVAPbwBp)
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Backseat gaming VERY welcome, honestly I'm hopeless without y'all, haha.
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I want to hear everyone's best Ark fail stories, bring 'em on.

I am very new to ark and me and my friends have just unlocked guns on our private server. I am not sure of what sinos to tame rhogh we have a few Carbonemys's, raptors, 1 iguanadon, dilophasaurs and 3 pteradons.
I am not sure where to go next with our tamjng though. If anyone has any suggestions on what we should get please let me know. BTW we are playing on the island.
Thanks in advance.

Hello , so I just got ark and I was trying to tame the carbonemy and than when I tried to put some narcoberrys in its inventory it would not go there and I am on ps4 . It is so extremely frustrating please help immediately !!

About 2 years or so ago I posted a list of all dinos and their utilities that I made for myself prior. I use it all the time as a personal resource and figured I should share it. Especially now that I have FINALLY finished my goal of taming every creature (and every variant) on here. This list has been updated to include all the TLCs and DLCs that have come out over the last couple years and, with Genesis Part 2 dropping tomorrow, this is probably as good a time as any to share once again. Did my best to proofread it but please let me know if I missed the mark somewhere so I can fix it. Feel free to save, share, or do whatever with this. Without further ado, the list.
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Tamable ARK Creatures:
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Vanilla:

1. Achatina - generates cementing paste and organic polymer, can store organic polymer and increase its spoil time
   
2. Allosaurus - high dps bleed and pack bonus
   
3. Ankylosaurus - gathers metal, crystal, oil, flint, and obsidian extremely well, weight reduction (metal), flint/stone in great ratio for sparkpowder
   
4. Anglerfish - gathers angler gel and silica pearls
   
5. Araneo - web attack slows enemies
   
6. Archaeopteryx - passively gathers tree sap and acts as a parachute
   
7. Argentavis - high weight/weight reduction (obsidian, metal, metal ingot, polymer, and stone), smithy saddle, can carry creatures in both the talons AND the beak (at the same time), can heal by eating corpses
   
8. Arthropleura - acid spit destroys armor durability, can damage all structures even tek
   
9. Baryonyx - decent amphibious fighter, has stun attack, no oxygen stat, can sprint underwater
   
10. Basilosaurus - generates oil and is immune to shock damage, insulates, damaged by deep water, heals in shallow, can’t be grabbed by squid
    
11. Beelzebufo - gathers high amounts of cementing paste from bugs (meganeura, titanomyrma, jug bug, glow bug), great travel mount, and leeches don’t agro
    
12. Brontosaurus - gathers enormous amounts of berries, plus high weight and platform saddle
    
13. Carbonemys - huge damage reduction shell
    
14. Carnotaurus - armor piercing main attack, bleed damage on alt attack
    
15. Castoroides - extremely high wood gathering (also does this passively), resource weight reduction (fiber, thatch, stone, wood), and saddle acts as smithy
    
16. Chalicotherium - acts as a catapult, gathers berries extremely well, throw causes speed and vision debuff
    
17. Coelacanth - none
    
18. Compy - can sit on shoulder and have pack bonus
    
19. Daeodon - powerful heal of all nearby Dino’s, also gathers cactus sap and rare mushrooms
    
20. Dilophosaurus - spit can blind enemies
    
21. Dimetrodon - act as air conditioner (increase damage stat)
    
22. Dimorphodon - good at swarming enemies and are hard to hit
    
23. Diplocaulus - acts as oxygen tank, also kills trilobites instantly for some reason
    
24. Diplodocus - can carry up to 11 players in saddle, huge knock back potential, decent speed for its size
    
25. Direbear - gathers huge amounts of fiber, can gather up to 15 honey from a hive without damaging the hive, player immune to bees when riding, also gathers meat resources and berry resources, great weight and attack, extremely fast with charge, also small passive insulation
    
26. Direwolf - high pelt, leech blood, and angler gel gatherer, pack bonus howl, can sniff out unfound explorer notes, buried/hidden Dinos, and wounded players/dinos
    
27. Dodo - livestock for eggs or prime meat (with use of ichthyornis), also expendable suicide dino for alarms, bioweapon, distraction, suicide-bomber, etc.
    
28. Doedicurus - gathers stone and sand extremely well with huge weight reductions for them (can also gather passively), fast rolling, huge damage reduction shell
    
29. Dung Beetle - converts poop into fertilizer and oil while wandering (must be able to move)
    
30. Dunkleosteus - gathers oil, crystal, stone, and metal really well, weight reduction (obsidian, metal, stone, crystal, black pearls), also head has high damage reduction, can break stone structures
    
31. Electrophorus - shocks enemies which will slow and weaken damage output
    
32. Equus - saddle acts as mortar and pestle and also makes lassos, weight reduction (cementing paste, cactus sap, clay, sand, chitin/keratin, and stone), has back kick that can cause torpor
    
33. Unicorn - see equus
    
34. Gallimimus - extremely fast land Dino and can carry three people
    
35. Giant Queen Bee - can be turned into a beehive structure which consumes rare flowers but generates honey
    
36. Giganotosaurus - apex carnivore, hunt alphas, gathers prime meat extremely well, tank, high speed and weight, can break stone structures, rage mode when high damage is taken causes it to kill everything (even rider)
    
37. Gigantopithecus - passively gathers fiber, can throw rider high and far, can carry shoulder mounted Dinos, has knockback and can attack armor durability, can act as zip line motor and go up and down zip lines
    
38. Hesperornis - gather organic polymer and lay golden eggs that give exp boosts to Dinos
    
39. Hyaenodon - saddlebags act as fridge, they heal themselves quickly, and gain pack bonus
    
40. Ichthyosaurus - high sprint speed with low stamina drain, also doesn’t take knockback or torpor so great at black pearl gathering
    
41. Ichthyornis - send it to hunt and retrieve and it’ll provide prime meat or prime fish from common, small creatures like dodos or coels
    
42. Iguanodon - bipedal form for gathering, best at gathering biotoxin, turns berries into seeds, in quadrupedal form no stamina drain and better movement speed
    
43. Kairuku - provides hypothermic insulation, also provides organic polymer when killed
    
44. Kaprosuchus - can carry small to medium creatures, great leap attack, can rip riders off of their mounts
    
45. Kentrosaurus - attacks are armor piercing with recoil damage and can impale enemies on tail spikes while causing bleed damage, also gain pack bonus
    
46. Leech - none
    
47. Diseased Leech - can be used to infect other players with swamp fever
    
48. Liopleurodon - increases rarity and value of loot drop items and lets you reroll crates for 6 hours after leaving dino, also provides reduced oxygen consumption, temporary tame only lasts 30 min before disappearing
    
49. Lystrosaurus - provides exp boost when pet
    
50. Mammoth - two person saddle includes a rider and a drum player, drum has a song mini game that provides a buff to stamina recovery and immunity to fear roars to all within the radius, can grab small creatures with trunk and throw them, roar debuff to enemy damage output, spray water on rider while standing in water to hydrate, remove fire debuff, and reduce temperature, swipe attack gathers thatch, stomp gathers wood and knock back, weight reduction (wood), fast attack rate, fast, tanky, and high weight
    
51. Manta - fastest water mount with fun jumping ability
    
52. Megalania - can climb walls and ceilings, infects players with rabies (which can spread from player to player)
    
53. Megaloceros - males gather thatch extremely well, females are extremely fast
    
54. Megalodon - pack bonus, bleed on bite, decent water carnivore, also has a tek saddle option
    
55. Megalosaurus - can carry small to medium creatures (even flyers), weak and slow during day but powerful and fast at night, no sleep deprivation on Aberration since it’s all underground
    
56. Megatherium - bug killer buff drastically increases damage, gathers huge amounts of chitin, kills death worms (and even the Broodmother boss) easily, also gathers cactus sap, thatch, fiber, and berries
    
57. Mesopithecus - can warn about nearby enemies, throws poop to slow and poison enemies, can open locked thatch and wooden doors from inside, can act as a backpack, also gathers berries passively
    
58. Microraptor - can knock enemy players off their mounts
    
59. Mosasaurus - apex water carnivore, extremely powerful water tame, huge platform saddle, high weight, also has a tek saddle option
    
60. Moschops - constantly runs away, passively harvests... everything
    
61. Onyc - destroys armor quickly
    
62. Otter - gathers silica and black pearls from common fish, also provides insulation, only dino that can carry an artifact
    
63. Oviraptor - increase egg laying of Dinos when wandering, can also steal wild or enemy eggs (won’t steal tamed eggs)
    
64. Ovis - can harvest wool from them with shears, can climb extremely steep cliffs, can be killed for mutton (make sure to select “slaughter” In radial menu, incredible food for taming all carnivores, also great food when cooked)
    
65. Pachy - attacks do torpor, charge attack can damage structures well
    
66. Pachyrhinosaurus - uses pheromones to either make most Dinos passive to you or make most Dinos attack you, carries two players
    
67. Paraceratherium - platform saddle with decent movement speed for its size
    
68. Parasaur - fear ability that makes small Dinos run, can act as a tripwire, can scan for nearby threats when ridden or on turret mode
    
69. Tek Parasaur - see Parasaur but slightly more powerful (spawns with a max wild level of 180 instead of 150)
    
70. Pegomastax - steals items from players, can act as backpack, can collect seeds passively
    
71. Pelagornis - gathers organic polymer really well, can harvest corpses in one hit, can land safely on water, huge attack bonus on fish, can fish while riding
    
72. Phiomia - produces a TON of poop when force fed stimberries
    
73. Piranha - none
    
74. Plesiosaur - platform saddle, high weight, super fast
    
75. Procoptodon - can carry an extra player, can also carry babies (imprinting is better when carried) or shoulder Dinos in pouch, reduced food consumption rate when pouch carried by mate boosted female, knock back kick, fast, good weight, good health, reduced fall damage, aimed jump
    
76. Pteranodon - extremely fast flying mount, can barrel roll, can grab players
    
77. Pulmonoscorpius - capable knockout Dino (wait at least 10 seconds between hits)
    
78. Purlovia - can act as a land mine by burying and surprise attacking, also can act as a hidden vault
    
79. Quetzal - platform saddle, super high health, weight, stamina, can carry harvesters effectively, perfect taming mount
    
80. Tek Quetzal - see Quetzal but slightly more powerful (spawns with a max wild level of 180 instead of 150)
    
81. Raptor - pack bonus and vocalizations give buffs, very fast, can pounce and pin targets to the ground
    
82. Tek Raptor - see Raptor but slightly more powerful (spawns with a max wild level of 180 instead of 150)
    
83. Rex - best tank/dps for bosses, powerful hunter, roar will force non-allied players and certain Dinos to poop and be stunned, also has a tek saddle option
    
84. Tek Rex - see Rex but slightly more powerful (spawns with a max wild level of 180 instead of 150)
    
85. Sabertooth - gathers chitin, keratin, and hide and pelts fairly well, reduced fall damage
    
86. Sabertooth Salmon - can be killed for prime fish when harvested with a sickle
    
87. Sarco - can ascend and descend very quickly in water, amphibious mount, doesn’t surface when you dismount, piranhas ignore it, no stamina drain in water and no oxygen stat, has death roll attack that stuns, can lunge forward, can spin 180 to attack behind, can walk on its back like a raft
    
88. Spinosaur - good swimmer, gains boost to movement speed, attack damage, and health regeneration while standing in water (turning radius is slowed, however), can switch between quadrupedal (faster movement speed) and bipedal (stronger attacks and smaller turning radius) stances, strong choice of predator (especially in Aberration)
    
89. Stegosaurus - plate modes (only when ridden) prevent dismount, hardened gathers increased wood and has a major damage reduction buff, heavy gathers increased thatch and applies a slow to target when struck, sharpened gathers increased berries and increases armor penetration, impale attack that sticks the tail in the target preventing movement of both and applying a bleed, weight reduction (berries)
    
90. Tek Stegosaurus - see Stegosaurus but slightly more powerful (spawns with a max wild level of 180 instead of 150)
    
91. Tapejara - can carry three players, can fly backwards and strafe in all directions, can attach itself to walls and ceilings, also has a tek saddle option
    
92. Terror Bird - can glide down, fairly fast mount
    
93. Therizinosaur - gathers wood, fiber, and meat extremely well, can also gather hides and berries (can also gather all things passively), high dps due to each attack hitting multiple times, most big carnivores ignore it, fast mount with good stamina, gains a harvest level with every normal level achieved, can also gather black pearls extremely well
    
94. Thylacoleo - decent speed and stamina and can climb vertical surfaces, good health and attack, can pounce on targets which will immobilize them and kill them without resistance, light attack applies bleed
    
95. Titanoboa - can climb one and sometimes two high walls
    
96. Titanosaur - temporary tame, knock it out and toss on the saddle, will only live ~20 hours since it can’t eat unless otherwise changed in settings, enormous platform saddle, excessively high in all stats, can break metal and tek structures, mainly for wiping enemy bases
    
97. Triceratops - enemy Dino’s can trigger a rivalry buff (increase to health and damage) for all tamed and wild nearby trikes, good for berry gathering, high knockback, head takes seriously reduced damage, great charge attack
    
98. Trilobite - can be killed for silica and black pearls, oil, and chitin
    
99. Troodon - increased aggression radius and movement speed at night, pack bonus, can upgrade scout ability instead of leveling up to locate players, tames, traps, and wild Dinos within a radius, can use venom to drain stamina and knock out players
    
100. Tusoteuthis - can carry large Dinos, constantly inflicts torpor while holding, generates oil, can gather large amounts of organic polymer from penguins, can harvest large amounts of biotoxin from jellyfish, immune to shock
     
101. Wooly Rhinoceros - charge attack is highly damaging even to large creatures, running will knock down trees automatically and it won’t slow it down, has high weight, gathers thatch and berries very well
     
102. Yutyrannus - courage roar boost the attack and decreased incoming damage by 40%, intimidation roar will cause Dinos to run in fear (even when mounted) and causes a debuff that increases damage taken and decreases attack by 50% in addition, the feared Dinos will poop themselves constantly and not respond to commands, knockback and all around decent damaging mount
     

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Scorched Earth Added:

1. Jerboa - can detect what weather is coming, can also act as a backpack
   
2. Lymantria - has slowing gas ability, terrible speed but niche use thanks to incredible stamina (can outlast wyverns)
   
3. Mantis - can equip tools so it can gather any resource, increase damage, or apply torpor, also great jump ability, produces eggs far more often in “unknown” areas of map (called “wilderness” on Ragnarok)
   
4. Morellatops - acts as water tank, gathers berries, thatch, and cactus sap, also pretty fast jack-of-all-trades mount
   
5. Phoenix - super fast flying mount, burns golems easily, acts as campfire and forge cooking food and metal alike, and poops silica pearls
   
6. Rock Elemental - natural 50% damage reduction, can throw rocks like a catapult and damage stone structures, can hide in the form of a rock, will sink to ocean floor but has no oxygen stat, can collect most base resources including stone really well
   
7. Thorny Dragon - gathers wood extremely well, weight reduction (wood, thatch, fiber, stone), saddle acts as a smithy (can feed it focal chili to make it craft faster), can shoot quilts to inflict torpor and keep enemies at bay or knock out Dinos
   
8. Vulture - can attack from shoulder for extra protection, meat has 4x spoil time in inventory but must be gathered by the vulture, passively harvests meat when on shoulder and standing next to corpses
   
9. Wyvern (Fire, Lightning, Poison variants) - gathers wood, thatch, and cactus sap well, can carry many Dinos, very very fast with low stamina drain, fairly maneuverable, powerful bites and specialized breath weapons, Fire shoots a cone of fire directly in front of its head dealing high damage to all targets in cone and leaves a burning DoT, Lightning shoots a beam of lighting directly at whatever the head is aiming at which deals extremely high damage and some torpor, Poison shoots a ball of poison gas that travels for a long distance in a straight line that is hard to aim but explodes on contact leaving an AoE gas cloud that damages the rider as well as the mount
   

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Ragnarok Added:

1. Dire Polar Bear - see direbear
   
2. Griffin - extremely fast flyer with powerful divebomb attack, dive increases its speed, can carry two players and small Dinos
   
3. Ice Wyvern - see wyvern for basics, ice shoots a cone of frost breath similar to the fire except it causes the target to be slowed rather than applying a fire DoT
   

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Aberration Added:

1. Basilisk - high torpor attack, extremely high weight, high damage, high speed, and has no oxygen stat, can also burrow, also shoots same ball of poison that poison wyverns have
   
2. Bulbdog - provides charge (best capacity) and detects players and max level Dinos
   
3. Featherlight - provides charge (low capacity but best range) and detects players and max level Dinos, also only flying Dino that can wear a helmet
   
4. Glowtail - provides charge (low capacity, best recharge rate) and detects players and max level Dinos, also cannot fight back
   
5. Karkinos - can traverse Aberration well due to massive jumping, can pick up two creatures at once (tamed or wild), no oxygen stat and straight vertical jump in water, immune to radiation, can carry harvesters, little to no fall damage depending on distance
   
6. Lamprey - can unclaim for it to attach to you and provide charge and radiation protection
   
7. Ravager - decent stamina, decent speed, can use zip lines, excellent jumping, weight reduction (wood, fungal wood, thatch, metal, green gem, fiber, crystal, obsidian, stone), also pack bonus, little to no fall damage depending on distance
   
8. Reaper - apex Aberration carnivore, super powerful, fast and can jump, it floats on water, immune to radiation, can burrow making a super charged tripmine or hidden vault with a powerful guardian, acid attack can slow enemies, huge innate damage reduction that disappears when exposed to charge light
   
9. Rock Drake - extreme mobility thanks to gliding, swimming, AND climbing walls/ceilings, can turn invisible with camouflage ability, the feathers on their head will stand up when reapers are nearby, can be used to easily gather more rock drake eggs, can carry an extra player, also has a tek saddle option
   
10. Roll Rat - gathers wood well, weight reduction (wood, fungal wood), rolls quickly and can carry multiple players, can quickly remove trees and rocks by rolling through them, keep in mind that the saddle can break, also produces poop like a phiomia with the use of stimberries (but only when ridden)
    
11. Shinehorn - provides charge (balanced charge capacity and recharge rate), detect players and max level Dinos
    

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Plus the Aberrant versions of the following Dinos (they have 4% less health, 6% more damage, immune to radiation, and glow in the dark). They have the same utilities, however, so they will not be listed twice. See above for details.

1. Achatina
   
2. Anglerfish
   
3. Ankylosaurus
   
4. Araneo
   
5. Arthropleura
   
6. Baryonyx
   
7. Beelzebufo
   
8. Carnotaurus
   
9. Carbonemys
   
10. Coelacanth
    
11. Dimetrodon
    
12. Dimorphodon
    
13. Diplocaulus
    
14. Diplodocus
    
15. Direbear
    
16. Dodo
    
17. Doedicurus
    
18. Dung Beetle
    
19. Electrophorus
    
20. Equus
    
21. Gigantopithecus
    
22. Iguanodon
    
23. Lystrosaurus
    
24. Manta
    
25. Megalosaurus
    
26. Moschops
    
27. Otter
    
28. Ovis
    
29. Paraceratherium
    
30. Parasaur
    
31. Piranha
    
32. Pulmonoscorpius
    
33. Purlovia
    
34. Raptor
    
35. Sabertooth Salmon
    
36. Sarco
    
37. Spinosaurus
    
38. Stegosaurus
    
39. Titanoboa
    
40. Triceratops
    
41. Trilobite
    

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Extinction Added:

1. Enforcer - fast, agile, wall-climbing AND teleportation, also AOE knockback attack, don’t take fall damage, deal 4x more damage to corrupted creatures, can harvest Metal remains for resources
   
2. Gacha - solitary (can’t have another within 12 foundations of each other unless mated, ONE mate), this negates the following, transmutation, fed stuff and creates resources after dropping crystal from back, crafting skill to increase quality and speed of this, feeding snow owl pellets provide buff to speed and resource amount, also amazing at harvesting a variety of resources, weight reduction (metal, stone, wood, fungal wood), will pick up anything lying around on the floor so it can gather poop and stuff for you, however, will eat literally anything but poop so be careful
   
3. Gasbag - high weight, can fly in an odd way, sucks in air and can release it to jump and float away, increase oxygen to increase flight time, increase speed for flight speed, won’t take fall damage unless gas meter is empty, also takes 80% less damage when full on gas
   
4. Managarmr - by far the squishiest of the draconic tames, meant for support/travel, has ice laser breath with good range but weak dps to freeze targets, extremely fast walk/run on ground, can chase down literally anything, can launch itself into the air and glide, extremely maneuverable, can dodge midair, no fall damage, note: nerfs have left it with only one dash, three jumps, and six dodges before it needs to land (still pretty good though)
   
5. Mek - literally a giant suit of armor for killing Godzilla, uses element for fuel, has a heat meter when overused and must cooldown, can’t level, has a sword and pistol, has different modules that can be attached, 1, MDSM allows deployment of a forcefield that blocks projectiles but not mobs from entering, when retracted enemies inside get debuff and take more damage, 2, MRLM allows firing of a barrage of rockets, 3, MSCM allows firing of a single cannon shot at a target (best way to tame a Titanosaur), 4, MOMI allows merging with three other meks to form a megamek to kill the alpha king titan ONLY, also 9x sword damage and 3x pistol damage multipliers on enemy tamed titans, also high weight
   
6. Snow Owl - can glide by flying directly downward like a griffin, can also dive swipe like a griffin, can freeze itself and any creature nearby (friendly or otherwise) to stop movement and rapidly heal, also provides damage reduction while frozen, doing this while midair will cause it to drop like a rock and affect a larger range for slightly longer, has heat vision, vomits owl pellets which are great for Gacha or fertilizer
   
7. Titans - world bosses that can be killed (4) or tamed (3, king can’t be tamed), destroy corruption to knockout, then just activate to tame, spawns with its own saddle, temporary in official, can’t heal or feed, permanent in solo but can only have one of each at a time, literally tamed bosses with stupidly high levels and stats, desert titan, largest platform saddle in game, can fly, weight of creatures/players/structures not added to titans weight, also buff allowing movement even if overencumbered, best support titan, forest titan, best tank titan for killing the King, cool/powerful attacks, can freeze itself in place with a block that reduces damage, ice titan, best dps titan, can jump large distances, all three necessary for King Titan but know that they take 5x damage from him
   
8. Velonasaur - similar to raptor in speed, health, stamina when leveled, swing attack can damage enemies around it, can act as a machine gun by shooting its spines to shred enemies at a distance, can be set to turret mode and used for base defense
   

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Valguero Added:

1. Ice Elemental - see Rock Elemental
   
2. Deinonychus - similar to a raptor but they can latch onto large Dinos and bite them while hanging on causing huge bleed damage, can pin down small Dinos, can latch onto walls and jump to climb them, pack bonus and vocalizations, can glide a little bit, boss killers with huge bleed potential
   
3. Chalk Elemental - see Rock Elemental
   

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Genesis Part 1 Added:

1. Astrocetus - warp ability to teleport a short distance through anything (creatures, structures, terrain) and works like enforcer teleport, only saddle is a tek saddle with three turrets and a bomber mode, level speed to increase “cosmic power” for more warps and bombing, level melee for increased bomb damage, will take damage when dismounted outside of lunar biome for no reason, can viably kill titans with bombs, extremely high weight
   
2. Bloodstalker - provides “spider vision” when ridden and works like tek helmet outlining nearby dinos with red if hostile, white if neutral, and green if allied, note that this doesn’t work through walls or on structures but does work on turrets, web slinging for movement is tricky to control but very fast and can latch onto anything for momentum, can web small creatures and players to feed off of them for health and food, can pull out weapons while riding, can walk on water, walk on walls/ceilings, and swim, will drain player health (or consume blood packs from inventory) when health drops below 40%, note that when breeding eggs can’t be moved so mate near air conditioners
   
3. Ferox - shapeshifter, can sit on shoulder when small and be ridden when big, when small will occasionally bring player element dust, feed element to change to big form, can climb surfaces like deinonychus, powerful jump, has rock throw, can wear helmets (in both forms), provides insulation like an otter (in both forms), very powerful, element addiction mechanic, higher addiction means higher element cost for transformation, better stats when transformed, and shorter transformation time, each transformation increases addiction by 5% but will decay slowly over time, only breedable at max addiction
   
4. Magmasaur - searing spit ability uses metal ingots and shoots a giant ball of lava that damages on impact and cluster bombs (can be charged up for more damage), charges faster in hot biomes/lava but much slower (or not at all) in cold biomes/water, if charged but not shot, it will explode shrapnel around head with small self damage and damage to surroundings, can taunt with gas, acts as a forge/campfire but consumes food super fast, can do full damage to rock elementals, gathers same resources as anky but with higher health, weight, and is ignored by dangerous dinos, weight reduction (metal, metal ingots, ambergris), immune to all fire damage, players can survive the volcano eruption while riding this, can only breed while immersed in lava pool
   
5. Megachelon - can build on shell without saddle, provides constant oxygen, can shoot bubbles that force targets to float to the surface, super high weight but no special reductions, powerful but slow, passively produce rare flowers/mushrooms and azulberry/amarberry seeds with no limit (more flowers and mushrooms increases the amount of foliage on its back), can swim and walk on land, automatically irrigates and plots on its back, shell has damage resistance, only breedable at the deepest parts of genesis, ragnarok, and the center
   
6. Tek Triceratops - see Triceratops but slightly more powerful (spawns with a max wild level of 180 instead of 150)
   

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Plus X creatures that deal 250% more damage and 60% damage resistance from all sources (including torpor) and have very unique, biome dependent skins. Once tamed, they have 5% more damage, 3% less health, can be leveled 88 times (vs 73 for all other dinos on official), have hard level cap of 500 (vs 450 for all other dinos on official), and provide 2.5x the experience for killing them. All other utilities are identical to base creatures so see above for details.

1. X-Allosaurus (volcanic)
   
2. X-Ankylosaurus (volcanic)
   
3. X-Argentavis (arctic)
   
4. X-Basilosaurus (ocean)
   
5. X-Dunkleosteus (ocean)
   
6. X-Ichthyosaurus (ocean)
   
7. X-Megalodon (ocean)
   
8. X-Mosasaurus (ocean)
   
9. X-Otter (arctic)
   
10. X-Paraceratherium (bog)
    
11. X-Parasaur (bog)
    
12. X-Raptor (bog)
    
13. X-Rex (volcanic)
    
14. X-Rock Elemental (volcanic)
    
15. X-Sabertooth (arctic)
    
16. X-Sabertooth Salmon (lunar) (also has rare variant, just bright green glow, no name change or icon after taming)
    
17. X-Spinosaurus (bog)
    
18. X-Tapejara (bog)
    
19. X-Triceratops (volcanic)
    
20. X-Wooly Rhino (arctic)
    
21. X-Yutyrannus (arctic)
    

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Crystal Isles Added:

1. Crystal Wyvern - (Ember, Blood, and Tropical variants) see Wyvern for basics, note that these can be tamed passively, also faster and tighter turning radius than normal Wyverns, lower bite damage and slower attack speed than normal wyverns, breath will not hurt allies, can eat crystal if hungry, can be fed and healed by sweet veggie cakes, Tropical shoots long range jet of water for low damage but applies “scolded” that reduces target health and stamina, also buffed by water like Spinos, Blood shoots blood stream mid range, inflicts “blood curse” DoT on enemy and adds “blood curse recovery” HoT to self, Ember shoots tighter stream of fire long range which does a ton of damage and increases damage with rage, rage meter increases with breath uses
   
2. Tropeognathus - acts as an industrial grinder, saddle has a jet with two speed modes and consumes gasoline and stamina, evasive maneuver flips direction while jetting, has a turret that shoots grenades, has knockback like Wyverns but can be used in air and on ground, can pick up small dinos and players, otherwise acts exactly like a tapejara
   

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Genesis Part 2 Added:

1. Astrodelphis - acts as an upgraded tropeognathus or mini astrocetus, tek saddle that has thrusters and laser cannons, costs element to run, can fire a heavy homing blast of energy, can shoot grenades from its inventory, same evasive maneuvers as a tropeo, can reveal nearby creatures underwater with sonar ability, killing a creature drops a glowing buff that increases damage, damage resistance, and movement speed for 60 sec when flown through, buff can stack with a second fly through for an upgraded buff for 40 sec
   
2. Exo-mek - smaller mek, acts as a tek replicator, four modes, (1) combat mode with punch attacks, not as strong as a normal mek, (2) storage mode with ability to pick up structures and store them in virtual module for placement later at different locations, (3) carry mode with the ability to pick up structures (not foundations) and place them elsewhere, this includes storage containers with all items still inside, (4) RTS mode that literally turns the gaming into an RTS, enters a birds-eye view allowing highlighting and moving creatures like troops far more effectively than whistling
   
3. Maewing - nursing ability acts as a trough for babies when appropriate food is in its inventory, leveling nursing effectiveness increases range, can carry/steal babies with saddle equipped up to 99.9% maturation, automatically pop out at 100%, eggs of random quality can make kibble of that quality, can breed two despite being genderless, extremely fast when gliding and can slide on the ground or water surface after glides, weight reduction (berries, meat)
   
4. Noglin - can temporarily mind control other players and creatures allowing control of them as if they were tamed creatures, target is automatically killed (10mil damage applied) when time runs out, mine controlled players can open doors and activate generators, wild creatures different than tamed ones act as tamed ones when controlled (like gigas), can only mind control enemies with at least 50% health and lower level than noglin, short list of creatures exempt from mind control on wiki
   
5. Shadowmane - saddle-less but have natural armor, powerful charged jump ability (both genders), no fall damage after jump and reduced fall damage in all other cases, basic attacks fill bar that allows for power attack when full, if power attack kills a target then it will automatically refill and allow for another use (both genders), invisibility (solo for males, all creatures nearby for females) with slowed movement speed, dash attack that damages and briefly stuns target (hold to target multiple creatures, both genders), courage roar (male only but only usable when mate boosted), enemies poisoned when attacked causing damage reduction and a DOT, both stack up to 5 times, hydration buff boosts damage, speed, health regen when touching water and for 30 sec after leaving water, no oxygen stat, stays when dismounted underwater, super fast swimmer, can jump underwater, can carry a passenger
   
6. Stryder - mobile tek transmitter but no creatures, mobile bed, can recharge batteries in inventory, can change settings to always/never charge or always/never use the batteries, can be set to replant foliage when walking by, can be linked to a dedicated storage which will transfer all of that resource from its inventory to that box from any distance, changing storage resource type will update the stryder automatically, excavator rig will only mine storage resource when setting is turned on, two rig slots for head (H) and body (B) that cannot be unequipped or changed, all rigs use charge which generates over time or used batteries, (H1) Excavator will harvest every resource in the game except extinction light poles/benches/tables, (H2) Pulse Cannon will shoot tek laser blasts, (H3) Silence Cannon which prevents all roars for 30 sec, (H4) Radar detects nearby living creature distance and levels and can track a detected creature, (B1) Phase Cannon shoots concentrated tek blast, (B2) Resource Attractor provides weight reduction for every item in the game by 65% (all resources, structures, gear, etc), allows setting for resources harvested nearby with a mining drill to go to stryder inventory instead of player, (B3) Shield Generator drops a shield that acts similarly to a tek shield generator, (B4) Shield Projector displays a shield in the direction the stryder looks and is directly related to health rather than charge, note that ONLY the stomp attack scales with melee damage, mining and attack rigs are not affected
   
7. Voidwyrm - a tek Wyvern so see the Wyvern entry for basics, the breath shoots a short range flat triangle of electricity that deals heavy damage, dismount riders, and stun lock creatures, breath can also damage tek structures
   

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Plus GEN-R creatures that have very unique skins. Once tamed, they have 5% more damage, 3% less health, and have hard level cap of 500 (vs 450 for all other dinos on official). All other utilities are identical to base creatures so see above for details.

1. R-Allosaurus
   
2. R-Brontosaurus
   
3. R-Carbonemys
   
4. R-Carnotaurus
   
5. R-Daeodon
   
6. R-Dilophosaurus
   
7. R-Direwolf
   
8. R-Equus
   
9. R-Gasbag
   
10. R-Giganotosaurus
    
11. R-Megatherium
    
12. R-Parasaur
    
13. R-Procoptodon
    
14. R-Quetzal
    
15. R-Reaper King
    
16. R-Snow Owl
    
17. R-Thylacoleo
    
18. R-Velonasaur
    

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Events:

1. Zomdodo - see Dodo. Only claimed after defeating the Dodorex
   
2. Zombie Wyvern - combination of scorched Wyvern and crystal Wyverns. Same three variants as scorched wyverns (lighting, fire, poison) but the same size, speed, and turning radius as the crystal wyverns. Can be claimed after defeating the Dodowyvern
   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3VgWaiuyqk

Clip #	Title	Author	Curator	Score	Source	Direct Link
#1 [00:00]	"(RIP PEARL CAVE) DVS ON TOP #1 #ARK #PVP "	JustTryMePlz	None	0.1486	medal	[CLICK]
#2 [00:59]	"Might aswll close my eyes and fight....BOB"	Gummi4dayxz	None	0.0288	medal	[CLICK]
#3 [01:24]	"Mantis on top tho"	Carbonemys	None	0.0208	medal	[CLICK]
#4 [01:47]	"i believe i can fly"	PIGGY POGGY POG	None	0.0198	medal	[CLICK]
#5 [02:05]	"ARK - PVP -2x Grapple Cage Save"	Ellante	None	0.0198	medal	[CLICK]
#6 [02:22]	"i dont have anything to raid it...."	Gummi4dayxz	None	0.0172	medal	[CLICK]
#7 [02:42]	"Gen Day 1 Grief"	Lujo 29457	None	0.0149	medal	[CLICK]
#8 [03:04]	"Thats a dead Tappy"	JettMain	None	0.0137	medal	[CLICK]
#9 [03:26]	"Rekt by Ifamaz "	fugplaysgames	qu33n0fdrag0ns	0.01248	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#10 [03:54]	"fortnite in ark"	Exo1	None	0.0115	medal	[CLICK]
#11 [04:25]	"Can you look up Clown ? "	tomkill115	tomkill115	0.011	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#12 [04:55]	"finally i get recognized"	Carbo	None	0.0108	medal	[CLICK]
#13 [05:17]		Protosszea	None	0.0103	medal	[CLICK]
#14 [05:38]	"Stalker"	EternalPh03nix	None	0.0102	medal	[CLICK]
#15 [05:54]	"Ma gaucheter dans toute sa slpendeur XD"	qcdiva	qcdiva	0.0065	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#16 [06:14]	"lol"	theebeardedalien	riccleonidasthe5th	0.0041	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#17 [06:42]	"raptors"	aaroncollins	larz491	0.0023	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#18 [07:13]		pterodactylsftw	zeno1h	0.0022	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#19 [07:51]	"tf just happen"	kkokkee1	123paat	0.0021	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#20 [08:11]	"Pizza Time"	omnikevfka	ts_cryptik	6e-05	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]
#21 [08:38]	"Inglés sin barreras!"	malcaidecr	marr_83	4e-05	twitch_clips_discovery	[CLICK]

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