How much easier are Thylacoleo to spot from the sky?

[DiaborMagics]

Hello guys,

How much easier are Thylacoleo to spot from the sky? I notice people usually look for them that way in videos, while it seems to me you'll get killed more easily. Or your flyer.

I have spent at least 10 - 12 hours in the redwoods on different days and so far I have found 3 thylas. 1 was found dead and the others died while I was trying to tame them - thought the area was clear both times and both times we got attacked by predators, first an alpha carno, then two allos.

They seem ridiculously rare to me.... Can't count how many times I've walked around and through the red woods by now. Almost all I see on foot are beehives, beehives and beehives. And I am on foot because I take either my 3 bred spinos or 5 of my 10 bred raptors with me to save my ass in case I get attacked. Which happens a lot there. I figured that if I'm on a flyer and a thyla knocks me off there's not much I can do... And the bird might die then too.

So... Have you guys had much more luck by simply looking up, with and without spyglass, on foot, on raptor-size mounts, on spino-size mounts? Because I sure as heck can't find them
:( any tips are welcomed with open arms.

[Deaner]

My girlfriend and I generally just go for a walk through the redwoods with our spinos and just look around. We usually spot them without the spyglass and just use the spyglass to see levels.

I'm not 100% sure but I have a feeling that all the beehives reduce the spawn of the thylacoleos. We went around and cleared out a bunch and it seems the thylacoleos have started spawning again.

[FlyingFish]

You don't find them. They find you.

I have been killed by many a high level thyla. Just flying through the trees looking for something harmless like a doed, and then a thyla drops from the trees and eats me. I care more for building, so most of my levels are in weight and I die easily. Then my passive bird gets eaten too.

I see them often in the trees when the trees bug out when you are flying high. Sometimes they won't be attached to the tree the way they are supposed to be and float a few feet away.

What you can do is place some sleeping bags near the redwoods or make a hut. Have good flyers at the new spawn, and take a bad flyer into the trees and only wear throwaway gear. So when thyla drops down and kills you, then you can respawn and take in the good mount . Either tame it or lead it to a taming pen. Better yet, if you have a quetzal use it to take it to a taming pen.

[necaradan666]

Argents can pick them right off their trees now, easy as pie. Just keep your eyes open and approach from above.

[DiaborMagics]

Clearing out beehives might be a good idea then. I can see sooo many of those.

Putting sleeping bags at the red woods and making a small hut is actually a good idea. I could breed some flyers specifically for taming these things too (we have some imprint and hatching/aging speed buffs on our server).

I think I have a storage box full of s+ wood walls and ceilings left. Only need some foundations and boom, but done.

I just hope it doesn't get wrecked if I use wood :P then again bred and imprint boosted spinos and raptors are excellent guard dogs.
(just realized I can just make some behemoth gates as well... Ahem..)

But back on topic, some say flying, some say on Dino back. Any other voters for this?

And picking up wild dinos. Huh. I have never tried that before. Thought they would attack me in midair. Won't that happen?
I have a wyvern... Might give it a try, though the space needed to turn is headache-inducing.

[DiaborMagics]

Got my thyla! I used a console command to destroy all the beehives, about 1 or 2 minutes after that I already saw my first thyla attached to a tree! Swooped in with my wyvern, plucked it off the tree before it could pounce, brought it to my taming pen and tamed it. Then got another one soon after, one was lvl 140 female, the other 70 male...
Also have 5 babies now ^.^ (short mating cooldown)

The male was all green (do you guys see all green creatures quite regularly, too?) and only the first cub was normal/orange with greyish stripes and the other 4 are all little neon tigers :P

Thanks guys!