thylacoleo

[Razzard_12]

so ive been looking for a while for an thylacoleo . i been looking from the coast as i dont want to be pounced one then at some point i decided to fly a bit farther in to some trees that i already searched and saw nothing then i heard a roar then one hit the side of my bird and hit the ground lucky but i could only think can it hide at the top of the trees like in the leaves or it is only the log bit where i was looking? (is there any better way to find them perferbly without risking my gear) appreciate any help:)

[esthergray]

Not really, they can hide on the back side of trees and you never see them until it's too late.

[Razzard_12]

ive been looking for ages and i see lots of bee hives have no idea what they do or can be used for but can that be a problem?

[🦊 Hermit]

I don't believe thylas can be in the highest extremities of the trees, no. Perhaps above some of the lower level branches, but not so high that they would not be visible from the ground.

And when it comes to looking for them - honestly I would suggest going in on the ground to look for them, myself. On a bird it can sometimes be a little difficult to see the wood for the trees, as the saying goes - because you're flying through foliage and at a level with the kitties, they can blend into the background easier and be more difficult to spot. Plus when flying, you have some small drift when you let off the controls, which could see you drift into the path of a leap without realising it. And a bird isn't the best equipped to defend you if you get knocked off.

Whereas if you're on the ground, the angle that you look up into the trees makes it a little easier to see thyla silhouettes against the backdrop, I find. A land dino isn't as likely to drift forward without your permission. And if you do get knocked off, you can have the dino (even a small army of dinos) on follow to you and set to 'attack my target', so they will instantly come running over to free you from the thyla's claws. Just make sure the creatures with you are medium-large size, so they can't be pinned by the thyla themselves.

Beehives give you honey, which is used for some cooking and crafting recipes, and can also be used to bait traps to make dinos walk in. And you can also tame the queen bee which comes out of a hive, to get beehives at home so you don't have to find them in the wild.

[william_es]

A lot of times, they're up in the high branches of redwoods, and you won't see them.

The only easy way to spot them would be a powered tek helmet, or vision modes from tames like the snow owl or a bloodstalker (and I assume you're on TheIsland so those aren't available as tames).

Most of the time I just find them by letting them jump me. Once it launches at you, it will keep running around on the ground. Just make sure you don't have a shoulder pet that can kill a thyla. I had level 200+ dimorphodons that just straight up ate thylas. I'd get jumped, land on the ground, and poof. Thyla gone. I'd find a thyla claw in the dimporph's inventory, which was the only way I figured out what happened to the thyla the first time it happened.

have a respawn point nearby, and another argentavis you can ride parked nearby. Biggest priority is to go grab the dumb thyla before it riproars around the redwoods attacking everything in sight. It can eventually get enough damage to kill it because it will literally just keep chasing stuff. Grab it, drop it in a taming pen, then go get your gear from your corpse (and possibly retrieve your other tame you were flying on).

[Razzard_12]

the stego has the harden plate that stops you from being dismounted does that stop you from being pounced off?

[william_es]

Originally posted by tanker:

the stego has the harden plate that stops you from being dismounted does that stop you from being pounced off?

Even if it did, I wouldn't want to be on a stego with a rabid thyla running around. They will tear through stuff. When I go thyla hunting, its on the back of an argentavis, so I can grab the thyla and carry it to a taming pen.

[DarkFaceGlow]

I use a flyer and go through the redwoods, but stay high enough to not get sniped.

[RequiemsRose]

My thyla hunting technique tends to come down to my current gear and level of irritation with the hunt. Ive been known to purposely invoke the pounce just to find thyla before when they were being especially irritating and I had good gear to take the hit with.

If I'm actually trying to be careful about it though, pen taming is usually the safe bet. An argent can snag a thyla and toss it in a pen for you, so the only hard part is spotting them before they spot you. If you have ever worked with tree platforms, the thyla spawn at roughly slightly below where the lowest redwood platform would sit on the tree (have even had wild thyla spawn on a tree with a platform, though an s+ version of said platform, and they indeed sit just below the platform height). You can get away with flying in the treeline without getting pounced, as long as you stay near the top of said treeline.

[esthergray]

I saw Phinger Phoo do something, yesterday, that makes a lot of sense. He carried a parasaur set to identify enemies with an argie. He carried it at the tree top level and any ping that the parasaur showed in the trees would be a thyla. You might try that.

[Razzard_12]

Originally posted by esthergray:

I saw Phinger Phoo do something, yesterday, that makes a lot of sense. He carried a parasaur set to identify enemies with an argie. He carried it at the tree top level and any ping that the parasaur showed in the trees would be a thyla. You might try that.

is it possible that you can link the video here?

[esthergray]

Originally posted by tanker:

Originally posted by esthergray:

I saw Phinger Phoo do something, yesterday, that makes a lot of sense. He carried a parasaur set to identify enemies with an argie. He carried it at the tree top level and any ping that the parasaur showed in the trees would be a thyla. You might try that.

is it possible that you can link the video here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n4Fs9dGJo0 It starts at the 18:45 mark.

[Razzard_12]

thanks esthergray for the tip you a legend. i found only low level ones but its better then none i appreciate it. thanks to everyone else that answered as well