Cryopod in boss fights BUT NOT THAT WAY YOU THINK

[Knight4x]

Can you put your dinos into the cryopod during a boss fight?
(SO NOT DROPPING OUT)

[🦊 Hermit]

I know you can put dinos into pods in the tek cave, before teleporting to the hall of history and the Overseer boss. But in the actual boss fights themselves, I don't think I've seen any reference to that as to whether it works or not.

If it did work though, you'd be putting yourself in huge danger jumping off and standing still long enough to pod a creature, as the bosses tend to prioritise attacking players on foot over dinos, even if the dinos have done much more damage to them. I remember one time doing the dragon on my private server with friends, my yuty died to fire breath, and the dragon started after me while my friends on rexes were biting it's ankles. I actually kited the thing around the arena for a little while before it caught me, but he was dead set on chasing me and completely ignoring everything else. So even if pods did work, I don't know that you'd have the time to get the dino into it.

[Knight4x]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

I know you can put dinos into pods in the tek cave, before teleporting to the hall of history and the Overseer boss. But in the actual boss fights themselves, I don't think I've seen any reference to that as to whether it works or not.

If it did work though, you'd be putting yourself in huge danger jumping off and standing still long enough to pod a creature, as the bosses tend to prioritise attacking players on foot over dinos, even if the dinos have done much more damage to them. I remember one time doing the dragon on my private server with friends, my yuty died to fire breath, and the dragon started after me while my friends on rexes were biting it's ankles. I actually kited the thing around the arena for a little while before it caught me, but he was dead set on chasing me and completely ignoring everything else. So even if pods did work, I don't know that you'd have the time to get the dino into it.

Thank you for the answer.
Here is my plan: I want to bring a MEK (for testing) into an island boss arena by deploying it in there and then cryo it when I killed the boss, because they do not spawn back from the arena

(My total playtime: ~1680 hour)

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

I know you can put dinos into pods in the tek cave, before teleporting to the hall of history and the Overseer boss.

EDIT: Nevermind i misread. You can indeed cryo up the dinos in Tek Cave. Just not deploy them.

[Knight4x]

Originally posted by Alucard †:

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

I know you can put dinos into pods in the tek cave, before teleporting to the hall of history and the Overseer boss.

EDIT: Nevermind i misread. You can indeed cryo up the dinos in Tek Cave. Just not deploy them.

👍

[Knight4x]

Originally posted by Knight4x:

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

I know you can put dinos into pods in the tek cave, before teleporting to the hall of history and the Overseer boss. But in the actual boss fights themselves, I don't think I've seen any reference to that as to whether it works or not.

If it did work though, you'd be putting yourself in huge danger jumping off and standing still long enough to pod a creature, as the bosses tend to prioritise attacking players on foot over dinos, even if the dinos have done much more damage to them. I remember one time doing the dragon on my private server with friends, my yuty died to fire breath, and the dragon started after me while my friends on rexes were biting it's ankles. I actually kited the thing around the arena for a little while before it caught me, but he was dead set on chasing me and completely ignoring everything else. So even if pods did work, I don't know that you'd have the time to get the dino into it.

Thank you for the answer.
Here is my plan: I want to bring a MEK (for testing) into an island boss arena by deploying it in there and then cryo it when I killed the boss, because they do not spawn back from the arena

(My total playtime: ~1680 hour)

Or can a MEK spawn back from the arena?

[🦊 Hermit]

According to the game's official wiki it should work, yeah, and you wouldn't need a cryopod for it:

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Unassembled_Mek

This item can be used in Boss fight to allow the Mek to fight, but the Mek in question will only persist for that arena. It will return to the map after the fight, but due to its drag weight, may not enter any other boss arenas.

[Knight4x]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

According to the game's official wiki it should work, yeah, and you wouldn't need a cryopod for it:

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Unassembled_Mek

This item can be used in Boss fight to allow the Mek to fight, but the Mek in question will only persist for that arena. It will return to the map after the fight, but due to its drag weight, may not enter any other boss arenas.

Thx