ATTACK MY TARGET OR NEUTRAL FOR BASE DEFENCE?

[123]

Hi, everywhere i go people seem to be saying contradictory things about this. I'd like to know whether if you set some tames to attack my target will they defend each other and the base if you're not there. Also if set to neutral will they defend each other and the base? It seems contradictory that they'd do anything unless directly atttacked if they're on neutral and seems like they should defend each other and your base if on attack my target because that's what you'd do. anyway, would appreciate some feedback. when my tribe picks up a bit i'll disable the turrets and test this out. I looked on gamepedia but it's not always accurate or comprehensive. Thanks

[Kazarl]

attack my target seems to behave like neutral unless a player is near them i usually like to have tames set to aggressive but following another tame thats on passive to work like a leesh but you risk your tames being led away from base if have that set up

[TeacupDragon33]

I couldn't tell you much about base defense but from my experience neutral and attacking target are the same thing, BUT if they are on attacking target and you stab or bite something, they will start fighting too. Even if the stabbed dino does not bite you back.

[cELLOPHANE]

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

Neutral is all you need and all animals will defend each other. They won't "defend the base" per se but the base itself is never attacked if you're not there - only the animals in it.

(An additional little trick of mine is to put a handful of raptors on aggressive and wander. If they attack anything it'll drag the others in instead of them waiting to be attacked before they trigger).

this can backfire really heavily though. I was one time online smelting ♥♥♥♥ inside my stone base that was in a cliff on ragnarok. The base was nearly finished, I had transferred from another pvp official server that we got raided in and I had just moved in to this new server transferring a lot of tames. The cliff was nearly completely surrounded by wooden spikes to prevent tames from falling off, and I had some stone pillars near the entrance with just a tiny gap. Some ♥♥♥♥ came in a lvl 200+ griffin and swooped down trying to grief me. Once he saw i was actually inside the base, he ran away and my two spinos and nearly every other dino chased after him for about 600m. When I first transfered to the server, I pulled an operation dunkirk and transfered 20~ dinos across the forests of North West ragnarok, having to cross difficult terrain and swamps, and avoid dire bears as well as other dangerous creatures. I managed to get every single dino across like 800m safely as a pack within an hour. It was one of the coolest yet most stressful things i've done in ark, but once they all chased after the griffin I just gave up. The terrain is so hard it would take many many hours if not days to find every dino and get them back up to my base, I just quit ark from there.

[cELLOPHANE]

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

Originally posted by little mark:

this can backfire really heavily though. I was one time online smelting ♥♥♥♥ inside my stone base that was in a cliff on ragnarok. The base was nearly finished, I had transferred from another pvp official server that we got raided in and I had just moved in to this new server transferring a lot of tames. The cliff was nearly completely surrounded by wooden spikes to prevent tames from falling off, and I had some stone pillars near the entrance with just a tiny gap. Some ♥♥♥♥ came in a lvl 200+ griffin and swooped down trying to grief me. Once he saw i was actually inside the base, he ran away and my two spinos and nearly every other dino chased after him for about 600m. When I first transfered to the server, I pulled an operation dunkirk and transfered 20~ dinos across the forests of North West ragnarok, having to cross difficult terrain and swamps, and avoid dire bears as well as other dangerous creatures. I managed to get every single dino across like 800m safely as a pack within an hour. It was one of the coolest yet most stressful things i've done in ark, but once they all chased after the griffin I just gave up. The terrain is so hard it would take many many hours if not days to find every dino and get them back up to my base, I just quit ark from there.

On PvE I always fence my perimeter for that very reason. Been doing that always. In PvP you wouldn't normally have your dinos outside - for that very reason too.

Yea, It was a small base because I had to wake up super early otherwise the dinos would disappear because i had uploaded them the morning before. The base design did however have a bit of dino storage for small dinos. It was a 4x4 and fit some important dinos like our ptera, doedicurus, and dire wolf. Our spinos and other less important dinos were outside for then, and I planned to prevent that by building spikes around the cliff and was working on behemoth gate and pillars to stop them from getting out on their own. Unfortuantely, the same day after me only getting 5 hours of sleep and waking up really early to do all this it was all for nothing. It reminded me of that scene in the walking dead on this new season where the guys face a lot of enemies and they make it to the end and say "not one" (they didnt lose anyone), that's how iIfelt transporting all the dinos and being really motivated and excited at that feat, but then in the show they all get shot in the end by a 50 cal and only 2 people survive out of their entire group proving it was all for nothing. Exactly my situation.

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[Vattende]

i never set all my dinos on attack my target or neutral in my base, most are on passive. Not my thing having to run after my dinos because a compy attacked, XD.
Some terrorbirds, some good guardians set on neutral, or agressive, the rest are in pens, inside buildings, or set passive. This works fine.
I can't stand have to run after animals running away, or worse, birds ... nope.
Believe me, set your animals to passive, use some designed guardians to protect.

[Annethema]

basicly if you want base defenders, have range attack dinos set on agressive/overburdened, or turret mode, everything else in a pen and on passive. Other than that neutral/agressive can be used to lead dinos away to grief or aggro somethng particularly nasty into your base and destroy it.

[123]

if you are saying defending against offline raid then just turrents, because your dinos on neutral/agressive without anyone to ride on then didnot do much damage, their attack speed is very low. so its like if you have 3 rex against one of the enemy, the enemy will win, thats why if you are in a small tribe, you should build more turrents than animals.

[123]

hi, thanks for all the feedback everyone. if attack my target works the same as neutral i'll use that but there has been some debate whether they will defend attacked structures on attack my target vs neutral. we always keep all our flyers on passive and eveything under turret protection but it's useless against sniping or flyers that can shoot. we have a triple thick metal wall base shell around adobe on SE and turrets and plant X all over the base and on towers surrounding the base. there are tons of spawns in our canyon, so many that 10 carnos and 5 scorpions wondering on aggressive with support of turrets and other tames all got killed by new spawns within 12 hours. more dense spawns then i've ever seen in one place around blue ob mountain on SE.

we got griefed all day today by a guy sniping from a griffin. for 5 hours there were 5 of us sniping him and he just kept flying away to heal after taking multiple hits himself. i hit him 5 times in a row one time with fabby and broke his armour and he just flew off and came back 2 mins later. I even grappled to his griffin and set off 2 c4 on it which didn't kill it or him. we've almost finished setting up a colossal metal dino pen 12 walls high but until we have it nothings safe. he killed about 10 of our best tames today. high level quetz, thylo, therizino, ptera, argy's etc. we lost 250 fire wyvern yesterday. all our defences so far are proving to be relatively useless.

[L4DTank101]

Neutral will make your tame attack anything that attacks it or other tames near it if the other thing attacks first. Attack your target does the same thing, but they also attack anything you attack, regardless if the thing you attacked fights back or not. I would recommend using neutral. I can't say how to defend structures against attacking players or other tames, as I don't play on servers with random people, but wild creatures don't ever attack your structures unless you have something aggroed and you go into your house.

[Tetsuri]

Originally posted by James actually.:

It reminded me of that scene in the walking dead on this new season where the guys face a lot of enemies and they make it to the end and say "not one" (they didnt lose anyone), that's how iIfelt transporting all the dinos and being really motivated and excited at that feat, but then in the show they all get shot in the end by a 50 cal and only 2 people survive out of their entire group proving it was all for nothing. Exactly my situation.

thanks for spoilers!!!! No, am just kidding

[Lori37]

Originally posted by Lord.Narayana:

Hi, everywhere i go people seem to be saying contradictory things about this. I'd like to know whether if you set some tames to attack my target will they defend each other and the base if you're not there. Also if set to neutral will they defend each other and the base? It seems contradictory that they'd do anything unless directly atttacked if they're on neutral and seems like they should defend each other and your base if on attack my target because that's what you'd do. anyway, would appreciate some feedback. when my tribe picks up a bit i'll disable the turrets and test this out. I looked on gamepedia but it's not always accurate or comprehensive. Thanks

What I always do is set every dino on neutral, EXCEPT for the birds (pteras and argentavis), those I set on passive. This has always worked very well for me...

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put dinos on aggressive following a passive one (and tanky one)

[Fanne]

I make the neutrals also follow a passiv one to have then go back to the place after a kill. Mostly works fine, as far as you play a bit with follow and attack range.

[Ghost]

I have allos on agressive outside following a passive allo. Also inside i have a pack of compys more then 10 on agressive and wonder.