How do doedicrus die?

[Wikumos]

I've tried killing em with op rex's no deal, they just ball up and take no damage. I've gotten them to that state and then tried to use a pike on them, didn't kill them. I tossed 3 grenades on one that was balled up, didn't do anything.

How exactly can they die? Won't this eventually be an issue where an inordinate number are them are spawned, because other things can't kill them?

[Lilkinsly]

The natural enemy in the wild for them is scorpians.

Metal Arrows don't work either, I put 50 into one testing.

1 c4 didn't work either, but 3 did.

[Quxudais]

Wikumos님이 먼저 게시:

So , in short, in our current ecosystem, deodricus have no natural enemy (wild dino) that can kill them? For an ecosystem, I think there needs to be something.... Otherwise, 6 months from now, we'll have 100's of these things on servers, and other dinos will become rarer. Sorta just the opposite of sarco's , they are almost extinct.

scorpions can put them to sleep, also dinos despawn eventually. I imagine there is also a limit on how many of each species can be active at anyone time. The only thing their survivability in the wild will likely effect is how rare high level ones will be, since low level ones do not die as frequently as other dinos.

[Maltheus]

stallioncue25님이 먼저 게시:

^9DSSDahaka님이 먼저 게시:

This little creature curls up after it has taken a percentage of damage.
If you shoot it with tranqs, it seems to get knocked out before it reaches said percentage, so it ddoesnt curl up. Knock it out with tranq, then pike it to death...

You'll never knock it out before it curls up.

You can keep tranqing them after they curl up.

I knocked one out before it curled up the other day as it was running toward me. Didn't take too many arrows either. On the other hand, I came across a curled up one and went through something like 150 arrows, before it would go out.

[icepyro]

There is a max number of wild dinos of any given type that can be spawned in any given ark. If that number is reached, new ones will not spawn. I presently have about 100 on my ark and the most I've seen since I've been noticing is about 120.

As for killing them, knock them out then kill them. Or just leave them alone. who cares.

[MiniMonyx]

if it balls up and you have a spino/rex with very good damage wait for it to unball itself then oneshot it

[harrodeparro]

Recently I did a clean-up run with my (higher level ) 4 spino's and 2 rex's and 2 carno's.. I think the Doedicurusses didn't have time to roll-up, because I killed some in 1 role.

If they are in their shell, I think you can only hurt them by hitting their head. Don't know for sure though. I saw a high level Alpha Carno gave up on a lvl 8 Doedicurus when they were just introduced. They are though little tanks :D

If you attack them solo, they don't roll-up either. A couple of tranq arrows in the head and they are knocked out. I haven't found any very high level ones yet, so your experience might differ.

[GeekyGek]

stallioncue25님이 먼저 게시:

^9DSSDahaka님이 먼저 게시:

This little creature curls up after it has taken a percentage of damage.
If you shoot it with tranqs, it seems to get knocked out before it reaches said percentage, so it ddoesnt curl up. Knock it out with tranq, then pike it to death...

You'll never knock it out before it curls up.

You can keep tranqing them after they curl up.

Incorrect. You can knock them out before they curl, just like I stated in my previous post, else I wouldn't have one right now.

[^9[DSS]Dahaka]

stallioncue25님이 먼저 게시:

^9DSSDahaka님이 먼저 게시:

This little creature curls up after it has taken a percentage of damage.
If you shoot it with tranqs, it seems to get knocked out before it reaches said percentage, so it ddoesnt curl up. Knock it out with tranq, then pike it to death...

You'll never knock it out before it curls up.

You can keep tranqing them after they curl up.

What? i shot a level 108 doedi with a crossbow a few times and knocked out he goes...
No curling up no nothing... Besided attacking me with its spiky tail...

Maybe the one i found had not suffered any hits before i started shooting it...
As i said, curling up is based on percentage of its health.

[Mr Pie 5]

They probably have weak spots if you can get low enough, but I haven't tested that. What I do know is that you can kill them on a dino, but you have to do enough damage to kill them in one shot.