Can otter survive long time underwater?

[Rimika]

can I actually take otter with me for long underwater trips? If it on shoulder it won’t drop oxygen? And what about if it swims on follow does this make oxygen go down?

[Boomer Voncannon]

I would guess that the otter, being an air breathing mammal should need oxygen yes. Are you looking to take it on deep underwater trips for temp protection? If so you might want to either level both oxygen and melee, but I can't say definitively it's oxygen does go down underwater, just that all non water based creatures do.

[KitsuneShiro]

You could always experiment with this in SP.

[Elgar]

Tamed dinos never use oxygen if they are unridden or if they are on your shoulder. They can't drown.

EDIT : Pets on your shoulder are safe underwater, and unridden tamed dinos use their oxygen underwater but surface when out of oxygen.

[Boomer Voncannon]

Originally posted by Elgar:

Tamed dinos never use oxygen if they are unridden or if they are on your shoulder. They can't drown.

Did not know this. Good to know.

[Elgar]

Originally posted by Boomer Voncannon:

Did not know this. Good to know.

To be honest I didn't know either. Searching "ark shoulder pets oxygen" in Google gave the answer, from dozens of sources (be sure to filter on one year old max of course). We tend to forget good old Google searches nowadays.

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

Ehh I'm pretty sure that I recently saw an unridden tame losing oxygen.
But I'll believe that shoulder pets can't lose oxygen though. I've forgotten I was even wearing my otter when I went underwater with scuba some times for more than 30 minutes and my otter was just fine. I have also never touched an oxygen stat on a dino before.

[Rimika]

Thank u all for answers:)

[Raina]

They definitely can drown without being ridden. (And don't even need to be fully underwater) Lost a bronto that way.

[Elgar]

Originally posted by Raina:

They definitely can drown without being ridden. (And don't even need to be fully underwater) Lost a bronto that way.

How long ago ? It was possible before, but they patched it.

[orion winterfire]

Originally posted by Elgar:

Tamed dinos never use oxygen if they are unridden or if they are on your shoulder. They can't drown.

Since when?

[Elgar]

A long time, it seems : https://www.reddit.com/r/playark/comments/5ncfgr/can_shoulder_pets_drown_under_water_while_on_your/

Other links say the same thing. But maybe they're all wrong. Time to test it to be sure !

[Nokim]

Pretty sure they take damage from frozen water, I took a swim in the islands snow cave and it died on me.

[Lordbufu]

Originally posted by Nokim:

Pretty sure they take damage from frozen water, I took a swim in the islands snow cave and it died on me.

That's a fairly isolated case, since that is the only place on the island that has water that can and will kill you and your dino.

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

I just tested with a direwolf in normal ocean water. Unridden dinos will still lose oxygen.

[orion winterfire]

Originally posted by Tiny Hippo:

I just tested with a direwolf in normal ocean water. Unridden dinos will still lose oxygen.

What? You mean to say that some of the information available on the web is false?
Careful; I hear that there are dark, hidden forces that punish such blasphemy.