FRIKKIN PIRANHAS, how do you smarty pants handle'em???

[Grimbah]

So yah, sometimes...in the past... I've led my dinos across water and BAM... piranhas kill them! KIlled my first SPINO, right after I tamed and tried rafting it to home!! DEVASTATING! On my raft watched as 20 of them nipped at her tail.... and the blood built up... SOUL CRUSHING.

Lost half a dozen carbos to them!

I now manually put each dino to "passive" to race them across water. And/or avoid piranhas areas. But even dinos attack other dinos and charge into water and YEP... piranhas!!! LAME!!

How do you uppity upps handle it??? (and I mean that in the snarkiest respectful way, cuz you all are super helpful! Serioulsy.)

[Housatonic]

Go in a short way, keep an eye out. If nothing approaches for some time, go for a quick cross, if they come out, go back to the river bank and pike them to death. Or chew them to death, whichever.

[Rutherford]

Making a boat, not swimming where there's piranhas, and also if I have to get a dino across I either use a raft or build a bridge. Some dinos also weren't meant to get across the water easily, such as the titano, giga, or even the bronto.

[Mongchengly]

build bridges!

[Housatonic]

Or depending on your dinos, ride them, if they are capable of fighting piranhas head on. Leaving it to AI to fight is all nope though.

[Paroxyde]

Originally posted by Grimbah:

So yah, sometimes...in the past... I've led my dinos across water and BAM... piranhas kill them! KIlled my first SPINO, right after I tamed and tried rafting it to home!! DEVASTATING! On my raft watched as 20 of them nipped at her tail.... and the blood built up... SOUL CRUSHING.

Lost half a dozen carbos to them!

I now manually put each dino to "passive" to race them across water. And/or avoid piranhas areas. But even dinos attack other dinos and charge into water and YEP... piranhas!!! LAME!!

How do you uppity upps handle it??? (and I mean that in the snarkiest respectful way, cuz you all are super helpful! Serioulsy.)

They have a fatal weakness... bullets... Put a minigun turret on your raft... and kill them.

[Rutherford]

Originally posted by Housatonic:

Or depending on your dinos, ride them, if they are capable of fighting piranhas head on. Leaving it to AI to fight is all nope though.

Mhmm, and to be fair a bronto, titan, and giga would beat the snot outta those fishies.

[Grimbah]

A bridge!!!??? Holy moly.... my next project!!! Come on 55th level, I need that beaver saddle!

If I pike... I then gotta move my dinos away so they don't come bumbling into water and end up dying AGAIN to these lil bastards. Also, my disaster usually happens when I ain't planning on even going there. Dinos rush off to attack a fleeing dino I didn't think would flee that way or get pushed that way.

[Grimbah]

Maybe I can tame a bronto and just leave it in the water where piranhas spawn near my base????

[Housatonic]

In that case, master your all-target whistles.
; for passive all, - for neutral all, = for attack my target all.
J for follow all, U for stop following all.

Double check your settings to make sure you have the right keys, but other than that, a must if you want to handle a crowd.

[Housatonic]

Originally posted by Grimbah:

Maybe I can tame a bronto and just leave it in the water where piranhas spawn near my base????

Oh, your animals are running off into water on their own? In that case could try to set a turtle on passive, and put animals to follow it, with a short follow/aggro range, they should return to the turtle when wandering off.

[Paroxyde]

Originally posted by Grimbah:

Maybe I can tame a bronto and just leave it in the water where piranhas spawn near my base????

Tame beavers or mantas, they clear piranhas quite effectively. But mantas sometimes kill themselves on the coast... Stupid IA... Not that I forgot to make it stop following. I swear.

[Kresslack]

Originally posted by Housatonic:

Go in a short way, keep an eye out. If nothing approaches for some time, go for a quick cross, if they come out, go back to the river bank and pike them to death. Or chew them to death, whichever.

Such this...

Dip the toes, run out, stab stab stab.

Lots of free fish meat for your carnivores :)

[Bragok]

Originally posted by Housatonic:

Go in a short way, keep an eye out. If nothing approaches for some time, go for a quick cross, if they come out, go back to the river bank and pike them to death. Or chew them to death, whichever.

this

[Sir Crashalot]

Bring a slower friend.

[Mashed Potato]

Or just kill them with a pelagornis :)