The Sivatherium is almost an upgraded Galli, fairly tanky, quick, and with three seater capability, reasonably all terrain as I've made sure to give it a fitting step height. Two attacks, neck swing (LMB) for harvesting trees with a big knockback and front leg stomp (RMB) in case anything manages to get underneath you and for harvesting Berries. The Siva is good at gathering Thatch, and in fact can also consume Thatch as well, this can be used as a taming food with the same effectiveness as Mejoberries. Sivatheriums can also run for days! They will lose very, very little stamina when sprinting.

I've made it the Sivatherium as that was the largest known Giraffe relative, although in reality in was a bit stumpier and more heavily built with a shorter neck than the modern or Atlas Giraffe. It actually had a bit more of an ornate horn arrangement irl, but all together I think it works well enough.

Sivatherium_Character_BP_C

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Base Stats:

Health - 600, Stam - 800, Torpor - 770, Food - 6500, Weight 600

Damage - 41

Torpor Drop - Slow

Taming Method - K.O.

Preferred Taming Foods: Regular Kibble, Veggies, Thatch, Mejoberries. For taming times/amounts refer to the Paracer on your preferred taming app.

Spawns: Scorched Earth, Ragnarok and Extinction desert regions, Valguero Savanna

Saddle: Available from level 31, three seater saddle

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EngramEntry_Saddle_Sivatherium



I love the Ostrich model and animations, and think it works really well as one of the largest ever flightless birds, the Moa. As well as being a fast and agile mount, the Moa has highly insulative feathers which make it able to effectively incubate Fertilized Eggs held within its inventory. It will incubate them at the regular rate, and take your server settings into account, all the way down to 1%. It also has the ability to slowly regenerate any lost health on Fertilized Eggs.

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Base Stats:

Health - 270, Stam - 200, Torpor - 300, Food - 1500, Weight 180

Damage - 17

Torpor Drop - Very Fast

Taming Method - K.O.

Preferred Taming Foods: Simple Kibble, Veggies, Mejoberries (will add a kibble type at a later date. For taming times/amounts refer to the Terrorbird on your preferred taming app.

Spawns: Scorched Earth, Ragnarok and Extinction desert regions, Ragnarok Jungles, any map that uses the base Jungle spawner (including the Island, Valguero and the Centre)

Saddle: Available from level 45,

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EngramEntry_Saddle_Moa



Whilst not quite as well known as its more prominently canine endowed relatives, the Homotherium was a very successful and wide spread cat. A plains hunter with sharp cutting teeth. Mostly resembling a Tiger, although with a sloped look due to longer front legs, not something I've been able to emulate but the Atlas Tiger model works pretty well.

As the Tiger is based on the Thylacoleo skeleton, it would have been remiss not to use the Thylas climbing abilities, although the Homotherium finds climbing much more stamina intensive than its marsupial cousin. The ♥♥♥♥ (yes, I said ♥♥♥♥, stop snickering in the back there) has three attacks, Bite (LMB) which causes a bleed (uses the Deinonychus bleed debuff) this attack is also good for stripping Prime Meat from a corpse but will not gather hide, Claw Swipe (RMB) slightly more base damage than the bite with more knockback but slower over all, this attack can be used to flay hide from a corpse but will not gather Prime, and of course the Tiger has a mighty Roar (C) which imbues it with a 'Resolve' buff increasing damage and damage resistance for 30 seconds. I have now removed the glowing stripes entirely from the regular Homotherium, as it was not correctly respecting only working on Aberration, as such there is now an actual Aberrant Homotherium.

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Base Stats:

Health - 350, Stam - 300, Torpor - 500, Food - 1200, Weight 300

Damage - LMB 22, RMB and Maul 28

Torpor Drop - Fast

Taming Method - K.O.

Preferred Taming Foods: Superior Kibble, Raw Mutton, Raw Prime. For taming times/amounts refer to the Thylacoleo on your preferred taming app.

Spawns: Aberration Fertile Land, Extinction Forest, any map that uses the base Grasslands spawner (Island, Ragnarok, Valg), The Centre Snow Grasslands

Saddle: Available from level 43,

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EngramEntry_Saddle_Homotherium



Finally, the Livyatan can make it to the oceans of Ark! In reality, the Livyatan wasn't that massive, estimates put it at about the size of the Megalodon, although they also think it preyed on Megalodon's, so not sure about that, certainly in Ark that would make it tiny, so I've taken creative license and made it roughly the size of the Mosa, although the Mosa does trump it in girth and muscle, so therefore I may increase it further. My thinking with this monster is to make it into the aquatic raid dino, a temporary tame, but one that will shred through alpha Mosas and Squids, ability to break structures. The sort of thing you'd tame to obliterate the sea caves of the Island, or get at enemy tribes underwater installations. Limited to a couple per map, tamed by severely weakening with Ballista Bolts. May combine the presence of this monster with a re-work of Leedsichthys, taking the aggression towards rafts away from the big dumb fish and giving it to the actual whale instead.

Things to do: Rework saddle so that it fits properly, increase size, set up raid dino mechanics, taming mechanics and spawning mechanics, rework all stats.

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EngramEntry_Saddle_Livyatan



The Eurasian Cave Lion was well spread over most of the continent during the ice age, and whilst they didn't live in caves per se, they were called this because their remains were often found in caves where they have been killed hunting Cave Bears, or humans. But this is Ark, so we will take things literally here! The Cave Lion can indeed be found in caves on most maps. Individually not that strong, the strength of the Lion lies in the Pride, and in their native environment the creatures that they share their homes with have learnt to respect the power of the Pride. Lions receive both a gang bonus up to a maximum of 6, and are a pack creature. Lions will mostly spawn as females, but males are bigger and stronger with more health and do more damage than females, females in turn are faster. All male lions are able to roar, and the highest level member of the pack can also roar. This will imbue all members of the Pride with an 'Emboldened' buff for 90 seconds, increasing damage resist and output, and give them a speed increase, it will also stop most cave creatures from aggroing on them for the duration of the buff (inc. Scorps, Spiders, Snakes, and Arthropleura, not including Megalania or Megalosaurus)

Panthera_Character_BP_C

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Base Stats:

Health - 230 (Tamed males receive 25% extra), Stam - 250, Torpor - 500, Food - 1200, Weight 230

Damage - LMB Male 28, Female 22

Torpor Drop - Slow

Taming Method - K.O.

Preferred Taming Foods: Regular Kibble, Raw Mutton, Raw Prime. For taming times/amounts refer to the Direwolf on your preferred taming app.

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center Cave Spawners, Scorched Earth Cave and Dunes, Extinction Forest Cave and Wastelands, Ragnarok Dunes, Valg White Cliffs Plains

Saddle: Available from level 48,

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EngramEntry_Saddle_CaveLionAoA



So as I previously mentioned, I was struggling to really come up with anything for the Atlas bear, but then whilst exercising my Google-fu, I came across this fella, the Kolponomos, or Otter Bear, an early semi aquatic bear relative of modern bears. Whilst it's often depicted as having a very square, otter like face, the pictures I found of the actual skull looked like the shape of the Atlas bears noggin would be good enough for rock and roll.

So what does the Kolponomos bring to the party? He's amphibious, whilst there is an oxygen stat it's high and Kolp's a very good swimmer. Penguins and shellfish being his preferred food, he does 4x damage against Kairuku (and the Atlas Penguin when it gets introduced) Eurypterids and Trilobites with his left click attack, Kolpo can also gather pearls using its right click attack. Very buoyant, when ridden will always be looking to float to the surface, when on the surface and riding him, you'll be able to whip out your fishing rod and have a bit of a dangle.

Like its cousin the Direbear, Kolponomos gets cranky when you invade its personal space, although if you want one to be your friend you'll have to get up close and personal as it is a passive tame (top tip, Ghillie and crouch) Because of its high penguin diet, Kolpo's have a thick layer of organic polymer of their own which grants them a very high torpidity with a rapid rate of drop, and when riding one you'll be able to laugh in the face of pesky cheap stunning dinos, as he is immune to stun debuffs from the likes of Baryonx and Purlovia. Although still take care, Baryonx will still dismount and stun you, but the Kolp will still be able to fight back. Eels and Jellies will still effect you, so you're not exactly Psoidon while riding one. Koponomos is very good at gathering Organic Polymer from Kairuku, and enjoys Organic Polymer as its preferred taming food.

Kolponomos_Character_BP_C

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Base Stats:

Health - 300, Stam - 500, Torpor - 1500, Oxygen - 500, Food - 2600, Weight 500

Damage - LMB 38 (Does 4x damage against Penguins, Trilobites and Eurypterids), RMB 45 (Can be used to gather Silica Pearls)

Torpor Drop - Very fast

Taming Method - Passive, minimum level 30

Preferred Taming Foods (Pending Kibble overhaul): Organic Polymer, Prime Fish Meat. For taming times/amounts refer to the Direbear on your preferred taming app.

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Valg Snow Spawners

Saddle: Available from level 35,

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EngramEntry_Saddle_Kolponomos



At the suggestion of my buddy UpFromTheDepths, Tyrannosaur fan boi supreme, I've decided to go with the Drypto for the Razortooth. It works pretty well in terms of body shape and stance, and there is a plethora of paleo art depicting it as feathered, or with feathery protrusions at least, and I'm really happy with how this fella turned out.

Dryptos are ambush predators, not overly strong in a heads up fight although fairly quick and nimble, they are able to camouflage themselves in any environment. They'll then let their presence be known with an ear splitting scream that disorients their prey, leaving their vision blurring and ears ringing, slowed and stumbling and trying to run in blind and deaf panic (so yeah, I tried to dress it up, but this is the Yuty Fear roar with a few adjustments to cooldown and effectiveness and a different Post Process effect) Unlike the roar of its cousin the Yutyrannus, the Drypto's scream does effect humans.

Dryptosaurus_Character_BP_C

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Base Stats:

Health - 550, Stam - 600, Torpor - 1100, Oxygen - 150, Food - 1800, Weight 300

Damage - LMB 30, RMB 'Scream' Attack, C - Camouflage

Torpor Drop - Medium

Taming Method - K.O.
Preferred Taming Foods: Superior Kibble, Raw Mutton, Raw Prime. For taming times/amounts refer to the Yutyrannus on your preferred taming app.

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Valg Jungle Spawners, Scorched Earth Wyvern Trench, Extinction City Bad areas, Aberration Biolum

Saddle: Available from level 60,

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EngramEntry_Saddle_Drypto



Some will say it's a crow, some will say it's a raven, hence I've gone with the ambiguous title of Corvus Karak (Karak was a character from one of my favourite books, he was sometimes the Crow God, and sometimes the Raven God, and no one could tell which. He liked pretty things)
A smart and social bird, can be found in groups. Whilst mostly inoffensive there's two things that they love, a nice fresh corpse to chow down on, and anything shiny. The latter can work to a survivors advantage and disadvantage. Dropping a shiny metal ingot in the vicinity of a Corvus will get its attention and be accepted as a gift. After a certain amount of shiny tributes, the Corvus will then remain on the ground and as long as it is undisturbed it will allow you to hand feed to spoiled meat to complete the taming ritual. However, wild Corvus will be maniacally attracted to survivors sporting shiny metal armour or wielding shiny tools and will attack en masse!
A Tamed Corvus is handy to have around if you're looking to undergo any crafting projects. It can't be levelled in speed, but instead has a crafting skill. When picking up your clever pet, you will receive a boost to your own crafting skill of 20% that of the Corvus' whilst it is resting on your shoulder.

Corvus_Character_BP_C

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Base Stats:

Health - 115, Stam - 200, Torpor - 125, Oxygen - 175, Food - 800, Weight 100

Damage - 15

Gang bonus up to +8, 0.025 damage and resistance per member

Torpor Drop - Medium

Taming Method - Passive, drop metal ingots (one at a time, it will happily take an entire stack but will not return higher efficiency) until it remains on the ground and allows you to feed it spoiled meat.
Preferred Taming Foods: Metal Ingots and Spoiled Meat

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Valg Grasslands and Snow Spawners, Extinction Forest, Aberration Fertile Land



You won't find a happier more carefree creature on the Ark than the happy go lucky Macaw. Content to fly around chattering away to itself, will flee rather than fight, happy to do tricks for its own amusement and that of others. Easy to charm and make into a companion, when it does alight on the ground, calmly approach it and give it a pat. Once it's happy enough after enough pats it will be your friend for life. Other creatures aren't quite sure what to make of the noises and impressions almost constantly eminating from a tamed macaws beak, and having one on you shoulder will allow you get closer to wild dinos than usual, until you get too close then the illusion gets broken and they may attack (This reduces the targeting range of an enemy dino, the higher the level of Macaw the greater the reduction up to a maximum of 60% range reduction, slightly more effective than full Ghillie) Also keep and eye out for the rare all blue variety of Macaw, sometimes called a Norwegian Blue, sometimes a Spix Macaw, sometimes just 'Blue'
Male Macaws sport a feathered crest, and when tamed Macaws are able to wear your jaunty hats for ultimate cuteness.

Macaw_Character_BP_C

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Base Stats:

Health - 135, Stam - 200, Torpor - 125, Oxygen - 175, Food - 800, Weight 60

Damage - 12

Torpor Drop - Medium

Taming Method - Passive, When on ground, crouch or prone approach the Parrot and Pet by pressing E when prompted.

Preferred Taming Foods: None. The Macaw is a herbivore

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Valg Beach Spawners, Scorched/Ext/Rag Desert Oasis and Green Desert

When on follow the Macaw can be made to either walk or fly, when walking it does an adorable little hop which is why I want the option, select your preferred method of following locomotion via the radial menu.



Kitteh! Yes indeed, all your Ark soft kitty dreams can now come true. As well as just being the most adorable things ever, having a cute widdle puddy cat around can be quite beneficial, as the natural enemy of small annoying flappy things, a tamed cat will scare away wild Ichthyornis, Vultures, Corvus and Dimorphodons before they have the chance to ruin your day. You can also put your furry little friend onto wander, and it will keep itself fed by hunting small squeaky things (represented by harvesting bushes and receiving meat, chitin and hide in its inventory) Your feline companion will also periodically display some heart meltingly cute behaviours when idle. Now you can also find a glowing kitty variant on Aberration

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Base Stats:

Health - 125, Stam - 100, Torpor - 80, Oxygen - 160, Food - 500, Weight 75

Damage - Bite 11, Claws 6 with 3 melee swings, Jumping Bite 4

Torpor Drop - Medium

Taming Method - Passive, When on ground, you must go prone to avoid startling the wee kitty.

Preferred Taming Foods: Cattle Milk (From Bos) or Mammalian Milk (From my Better Dinos mod), Prime Fish, Raw Fish Meat

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Valguero Redwoods Spawners, Scorched/Rag Green Desert, Ext Desert and Forest Biomes, Aberration Fertile Spawners



P-p-p-pick up a penguin! And get a warm hug in return. The bigger and more adorable cousin of the Kairuku can be found alongside them, but is a very different animal indeed. Although they have a few similarities like being found with younglings, and able to be clubbed senseless for their sweet, sweet polymer, these larger pengwings will bite back if attacked. Though they don't have a large range of insulation, picking one up for a warm adorable hug will grant an insulation buff, but the warm fuzzy feelings will also help you earn a small amount of additional XP. In the water however, these pingwens come into their own. Able to pull along a rider, they have also developed the ability to create and rapidly fire off high speed projectiles with prompting from their rider (left click) as well as being able to do a quick bite (right click) Why can they do this? Something something evolution. (The idea of a machine gun penguin amused me and there's not other underwater projectile firing creatures) Not only that but their eggs are massively polymer rich, and in the pengwens inventory can be crafted into 1 regular and 1 organic polymer. You can also craft Louse Antidote which is essential for the taming and upkeep of Maiabalaena in the AoA Crafting Bench.


AoAPenguin_Character_BP_C

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Base Stats:

Health - 150, Stam - 250, Torpor - 320, Food - 1000, Weight 100

Damage - Bite: 12, Projectile: 10

Torpor Drop - Medium/Fast

Taming Method - Knock Out.

Preferred Taming Foods: Whale Lice, Mutton, Prime

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Valguero/Ext wherever Kariuku spawn, Can be found following Maiabalaena



An early adopter of baleen for feeding, these gentle giants roam the oceans quite happily swallowing gallons of tiny things and generally being rather inoffensive. When I was looking into what kind of whale the gentle whale could become, I discovered Whale Lice that infest modern whales, and sort of became fixated on them, and thus the lice have become intregal to the taming and upkeep of Maiabaleena, and formed a triumverate of dependence between Whale, Penguin and Shark. Normal whale lice are a mere few millimetres big, but I imagine the lice that infest Maiabalaena to be massive inches long things that reproduce massively quick and can sustain cmall groups of sharks and penguins that follow their host whale around like an ever moving buffet.

In the wild you can harvest Lice from a living whale by swimming up to one and pressing E in the same manner as you would get fish from a Leeds. However each whale has a retinue of Sharks and Penguins following it and living off of the lice that you are about to take. The way to tame a Maiabaleena is to cure it of its infestation, using Louse Antidote which is crafted in the inventory of penguins using Lice, Oil, Biotoxin, a Penguin Egg and Citronal. This is a variety of passive taming, you must have Louse Antidote in your 0 Slot, harvest Lice from the whale, and you will then have a 30 second window in which to administer the antidote. Beware though as giving a dose of antidote will attract Sharks and make them come to protect the Whale. Simply rinse and repeat until tamed.

Tamed Maiabalaena are great transport mounts, high health, massive weight, decent speed, and excellent stamina usage. They also will not be targeted by all but the largest marine predators (Megalodon and up) and any allied players or dinos that are close by them (within about 5 foundations) will also escape the attentions of pesky jellies and mantas etc. Like their relatives Basilosaurus they are immune to jelly and eel stings, cannot be grabbed by Tusos, and will give a Insulation buff to their riders. However they are not fighters at all, they do very low damage with a very slow attack speed, you'll want to have a bodyguard if going near anything that might want to attack them. Hammerheads of course are a natural bodyguard and will receive a small boost to damage and resistance in the company of a Maiabalaena.

As filter feeders, Maiabalaena have no food stat. They never need to be fed, however just because you have rid them of their lice infestation once, the little bleeders can return and infect the whale again. When riding you'll see the buff meter (Giga rage meter) keep an eye on that because if it completely fills up your whale will become feral, it will get set to aggressive and wandering, will be unable to be ridden, and will not obey orders until it gets treated once more with a Louse Antidote. It takes roughly 24 real time hours for an infestation to completely take over, so you'll need to treat your whale with antidote at least once a day, either by having it in Slot 0 and then selecting from the radial menu, or by force feeding in the inventory. Note that if a whale does go feral, it will still respect any following orders it already has, so if you don't think you'll be able to get on, put it to follow something to stop it buggering off completely. Using a Cryopod or Soul Ball will not remove the infestation, but obviously will stop it getting worse whilst they are balled up. Baby Maiabalaena are especially susceptible to Louse infestation and will gain it at a rapid rate. However, keeping a tamed Hammerhead or two nearby your Maia's will have the benefit of both slowing down the lice infestation, and keeping the Hammerheads fed (increases HHead food and reduces infestation per allied HHead with a 2000 unit radius of the Maia) It might seem easy to breed something that doesn't require food, but be warned, baby Maia's must be kept near to an adult as they mature or they will rapidly lose health, and HHeads will not keep down the rate of Louse Infestation of babies as they do to adults (they trust the sharks, but maybe not quite that much)

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Base Stats:

Health - 3500, Stam - 1000, Torpor - 2000, Food - N/A, Weight 2500

Damage - LMB 10

Torpor Drop - Medium

Taming Method - Passive, see above for details, requires use of Louse Antidote

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Valg Ocean spawners

Saddle: Available from level 40,

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Vicious, deadly, voracious pack hunters, the rest of the ocean is lucky that this particular species of shark has developed such a liking to the Lice that infest the bodies of Maiabalaena that they pretty much have no interest in anything other than defending their chosen whale and dining all day on a mobile limitless feast. Hammerheads subsist entirely on Whale Lice, so to keep tamed ones going you'll either have to have a tamed Maiabalaena or two around to harvest Lice from, or be prepared to make regular trips into the ocean to harvest wild ones. On the upside they get lots of food per Louse, and it is very good for healing them. Hammerheads excel in groups, they receive a Gang Bonus up to +8, not only that but every time a Hammerhead kills something it becomes Frenzied, increasing it's overall damage and giving it an extra measure of damage resistance. A Hammerhead at full Frenzy will have doubled damage output and receive a 33% damage reduction on top of its Gang bonus. A shoal of Hammerheads is no joke, but they have relatively low health making them somewhat glass cannons. They don't require saddles to be ridden, and are able to use their inherent sharky hammerheadiness to detect nearby threats in poor visibility (Right click gives ESP buff to rider for 30 seconds with 1 minute cool down) Top tip, Hammerheads are great for hunting Lycoteuthis for that sweet, sweet mollusc meat, as they can use their ESP to keep track of the fleeing tentacle boi through the inevitable inky discharge, and are immune to the Squid Ink debuff. Keeping a tamed HHead nearby to a tamed allied Maiabalaena will have benefits for both creatures, keeping the sharks food levels up, and the whales louse infestation levels down.

HHead_Character_BP_C

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Base Stats:

Health - 350, Stam - 350, Torpor - 450, Food - 1000, Weight 300

Damage - 30, increased by frenzy up to 200%

Gang bonus up to +8, 0.1 damage and 0.05 resistance per member

Torpor Drop - Medium

Taming Method - Knock Out

Preferred Taming Foods: Whale Lice

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Valg Oceans, always found with Maiabalaena



Following the Equus/Ovis naming conventions and included by popular request by wannabe cowboys everywhere, the Bos is the domestic cow. Females are gentle, docile, will run from danger, can be passive tamed, and are happy to be milked for nutritious Cattle Milk (Via radial menu, will give 2-4 Milk, 30 minute cooldown) users of my Better Dinos mod will find Cattle Milk is functionally identical to Mammal Milk from that mod. For those unfamiliar see details outlined below.

Male Bos are called Bulls, are bigger than females, highly aggressive when wild, and do 50% more damage, also receiving a 10% damage reduction, they must be ko tamed. Tamed Bos can be ridden without a saddle, will harvest trees with left click and bushes with right click

When tamed Bos can be slaughtered in the same manner as Ovis by holding something sharp and selecting it from the radial menu. Bos drop delicious Beef, this can be used for dinos as a direct replacement for Mutton. It can also be used in custom recipes and will give a higher health and stamina percentage than other meats. To be able to cook Beef, you will need to learn and craft the AoA Campfire.

If breeding Bos, you may want to Neuter any male babies that don't have good enough stats to be put to stud. A male Bos neutured as a baby will become a Steer. It will lose the usual damage and resistance increase, however if you then slaughter and harvest it as an adult it will give lots more Beef than usual (scaling with health like Ovis)

Bos_Character_BP_C

cheat GMSummon "Bos_Character_BP_C" 150 0 0
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/Cow/Bos_Character_BP.Bos_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Base Stats:

Health - 250, Stam - 250, Torpor - 175, Oxygen - 150, Food - 1200, Weight 200

Damage - LMB: Horns 12 females, 18 males, can gather thatch. RMB 10 females, 15 males, gathers berries only

Torpor Drop - Medium

Taming Method - Females Passive or Knock Out, Males Knock Out only

Preferred Taming Foods: Simple Kibble, Vegetables, Mejoberries, Berries

Spawns: Valguero/Rag 'Scotland' areas, Scorched and Rag Green Desert, Extinction Desert Biome, has a small (2%) chance of replacing any Phiomia spawn



Is literally just a chicken. I dunno why, but people keep asking for the chicken. So here's a chicken. It clucks and lays eggs. It's a chicken....

Actually, ignore that, giant chickens y'all! I realised that I actually really like the chickens model and it was a shame to just have it used for essentially a Dodo reskin, so here ya go, giant rideable chickens! The real Mihirungs were more goose like than chicken like, with big bulbous shnozzes, but hey, creative licence will out. Mihirungs have a limited Terrorbird style gliding ability, flapping their little wings like crazy. Not the strongest mount, nor the fastest, definitely not the coolest, but good solid fun to rock around on early doors.

Chickens only eat Seeds, placing them on wander will see them gather seeds in large amounts from bushes with a greater chance of finding them then usual, and when ridden they will only gather seeds from bushes making them a great early source of all types of seeds.

Killing a wild Mihirung will reward you with 2 Mihirung Drumsticks, cos who doesn't love big meaty thighs? These aren't suitable for human consumption, far too tough and gamey, but wild carnivores will love them, and they can be used in the same way as Honey to attract and lure carnivores. This also works to distract Leedsichthys from nomming on your carefully built raft. Put them on your hotbar and use to drop them, exactly the same as honey.

AoAChicken_Character_BP_C

cheat GMSummon "AoAChicken_Character_BP_C" 150 0 0
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/Chicken/AoAChicken_Character_BP.AoAChicken_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Base Stats:

Health - 250, Stam - 150, Torpor - 150, Food - 1800, Weight 180

Damage - 12

Torpor Drop - Medium

Taming Method - Knock Out

Preferred Taming Foods: Basic Kibble, Vegetable Seeds, Mejoberry Seeds, Other Berry Seeds

Spawns: Extinction City Park, Valguero and Ragnarok 'Scotland', Island Herbivore Island



Alongside the domesticated cattle in the Bos comes their bigger, nastier, and pointier ancestor, the Aurochs. Having not been too impressed with the Bulls model in Atlas, I think it actually comes alive a bit more in Ark. The wild Aurochs are bad tempered buggers, not liking survivors getting too close to their personal space, these big old hunks of meat and muscle will happily put their impressive head ornaments to good use. Females do have a slightly smaller rack than males, but unlike Bos, both sexes are mean, moody and not too happy to see you, and are equally as strong. Taming an Aurochs though has a host of benefits, females will give milk, although not as much as the selectively bred Bos will, but a charging Aurochs can really wreck someones day, they have a rhino style charge building melee damage with speed, although not to the extent of the Rhino being a bit smaller (up to 4x damage at full pelt), they are also capable of doing a straight line charge attack (RMB) that not only increases their overall speed (keep holding shift for the full speed attack) but inflicts a bleed and slow on anything they hit (5% bleed over ten seconds, and 75% slow)

Why not restart the full domestication of cattle with your Aurochs, by hitching it up to its special Cart Saddle! This small platform dragged behind the Aurochs is just perfect for some chairs to transport friends around, maybe a bit of storage to get mats from place to place, or maybe just stick a cannon on it... Any materials placed in storage boxes on the cart will only have 33% of their weight passed on to the Aurochs (as opposed to 100% as is usually the case with platforms) Aurochs make a good all around tame for transport or combat.


Aurochs_Character_BP_C

cheat GMSummon "Aurochs_Character_BP_C" 150 0 0
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/Cow/Aurochs_Character_BP.Aurochs_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Base Stats:

Health - 300, Stam - 300, Torpor - 250, Oxygen 150, Food - 1200, Weight 300

Damage - LMB: 30, rising up to 4x damage when running a-la Rhino charge. RMB: Straight line charge, 50 bump damage causing bleed and slow. C: 30, grazing for berry harvest

Torpor Drop - Medium

Taming Method - Knock Out.

Preferred Taming Foods: Superior Kibble, Veggies, Mejoberries, Berries

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Ext Snow Biomes, Valguero Tundra biome

cheat GFI AurochsSaddle 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/Cow/Saddle/PrimalItemArmor_AurochsSaddle.PrimalItemArmor_AurochsSaddle'"
EngramEntry_Saddle_Aurochs

cheat GFI AurochsSaddle_Cart 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/Cow/Saddle/PrimalItemArmor_AurochsSaddle_Cart.PrimalItemArmor_AurochsSaddle_Cart'"
EngramEntry_Saddle_Aurochs_Cart



This is one warthog for whom hakuna is definitely not matata. Always hungry, always eating, and definitely not fussy what it is they're shovelling down their gullets. If you've seen the film Snatch then I will refer you to Bricktops speech about hungry piggies, if you haven't, well go and watch it, it's a great film. As you'd expect, these little piggies will clear the shop when they go to the market, omnivores that'll scoff down anything, including rare mushrooms and flowers, although with their ability to find aforementioned mushrooms in massive quantities you can safely remove the 'Rare' from their name. Their preferred taming food is Sweet Veggie Cakes, and unlike other omnivores they will indeed receive the health boost that comes with consuming them. The hungrier Metridio's get, the harder they hit, melee damage increasing the lower food gets, up to 2x melee on a totally empty stomach. Killing piggies yields delicious Pork Chops. These operate in the same fashion as Swine Flesh from BD, providing fast healing for carnivores (increased health when compared to normal raw meat with half of the force feed cool down) As with Beef, you can make Cooked Pork Chops in the AoA Campfire. You'll also be able to cook up a mouth watering Full English Breakfast in the AoA Crafting Bench, made using pork, extra small eggs, savoroot, and Rare Mushrooms. Guaranteed a full stomach from this hearty meal, it'll keep your food going up for a full five minutes, and restore a big old chunk of health too. Recently added, Metridio's seem to have developed something of a stomach issue issue since being introduced to the Arks, they've gotten a little, how should I put it... Umm, gassy. When wild or unridden, a piggy who gets reduced to less than 50% health will let rip a massive fart, and then proceed to leg it as fast as their little trotters will carry them. This is definitely not the silent variety, but certainly deadly dealing 5 damage per tick over 5 seconds as it lingers in the air. Even giant carnivores cannot stand the small and will run away from the stench. Riding a Metrio you can put this to good use and make it expel wind on command by pressing right click, but only if it is in need of doing a poop (on the upside you'll be able to let several parps go before it inevitably follows through! A poop icon in your top left corner will let you know when your piggy is ready to go)


AoAPig_Character_BP_C

cheat GMSummon "AoAPig_Character_BP_C" 150 0 0

admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/Pig/AoAPig_Character_BP.AoAPig_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Base Stats:

Health - 300, Stam - 250, Torpor - 700, Oxygen 150, Food - 300, Weight 300

Damage - LMB: 20, rising up to 2x damage with decreasing food. Can harvest bushes and trees, 3x multiplier for Rare Mushrooms, with a 100x chance of getting Rare Mushrooms

RMB: Unleashes gas cloud from the pigs rear end causing a cloud that will do 5 damage per tick over five seconds. This damage can be prevented with the use of a gas mask. It will damage allied players and tames, but not any pigs themselves. Dinos up to a certain size will flee from the cloud. This can only be used when ridden if the Metrio is in need of a poop, there will be a visual indicator in the top left to tell you when it's ready. attempting to use it otherwise will display a Cannot Use message. When you are able to fart the Metrio will automatically poop 2 seconds after unleashing one, but you may be able to let several go in that time. Wild and unridden Metrios will only fart after receiving 50% damage and will then attempt to flee. Be careful as the fart cloud will damage the pigs rider and other allied tames as it lingers around, nobody is safe.

Torpor Drop - Medium/High

Taming Method - Knock Out.

Preferred Taming Foods: Sweet Veggie Cakes, Raw Mutton/Beef, Raw Prime, Rare Mushrooms/Flowers, Raw Meat, Veggies, etc...

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Valg, Redwoods, Ext. City Park (East Side), Scorched Oasis'

cheat GFI MetridiocheorusSaddle 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/Pig/Saddle/PrimalItemArmor_MetridiocheorusSaddle.PrimalItemArmor_MetridiocheorusSaddle'"
EngramEntry_Saddle_Pig_AoA



The Atlas Wolf looks quite different to it's Ark cousin, and I wanted to include it but obviously the Direwolf does pretty much everything you'd expect a wolf to do so it was hard to really find much to do with it. Therefore the Timber Wolf has been shrunk down to more of a normal size (although still big bois for puppers) retaining it's pack and gang mechanics but with lower overall stats than the Dire's. Unridable, but you can still make the pack leader howl and buff the pack via the radial menu. You can also make your good boys lay down and look adorable as well as receiving a health regen buff (same as chalico/hyaena sitting) As much as I'd like to also have a sitting animation, I just ain't there with animating so the laying down will have to do for now. Very aggressive in packs in the wild, Timber Wolves are passive tames, but to avoid having them tear you limb from limb you'll have to employ the use of something they are afraid of, fire! Hold a torch or be in the close vicinity of a standing torch or campfire and they won't attack unless attacked first, they will also flee if given any sort of fire damaging buff. There may be another thing or two to come in the future with this creature, but they'll be fine companions in the meantime.

TimberWolf_Character_BP_C

cheat GMSummon "TimberWolf_Character_BP_C" 150 0 0

admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/TimberWolf/TimberWolf_Character_BP.TimberWolf_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Base Stats:

Health - 150, Stam - 260, Torpor - 150, Oxygen - 150, Food - 900, Weight 150

Damage - 13

Gang bonus up to +4, 0.025 damage and 0.015 resistance per member, pack member buff gives 25% damage increase and 15% resistance, pack leader buff gives 50% damage increase and 25% resistance

Torpor Drop - Medium

Taming Method - Passive, Wolfs are naturally aggressive but will not attack a player holding a torch or in the close vicinity of a campfire, dinos equipped with a torch on the saddle or standing torch

Preferred Taming Foods: Raw Beef, Raw Mutton, Raw Prime, Raw Meat

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Valg Redwoods, Extinction Forest



Little squids ftw! Although of course in this case 'Little' means 'Not ten million foot long!'

Although IRL Lycoteuthis are teeny tiny bioluminesent squid, this is Ark mo-fo's, so they're roughly about the size that the actual IRL Tusoteuthis would have been. They're very pretty, nice and glowy, can be ridden without a saddle and essentially when tamed, are just small Tusos, approximately 1/4 the everything when compared to a Tuso. They can be ridden without a saddle, although one is available, making them rather squishy, but make up for it with a rapid burst of speed after inking, they can of course grab other creatures, anything smaller than a Megalodon, and just like the Tuso will inflict torpor when carrying and drain their victims health. Unlike the Tuso though, you'll find these beauties swimming around at the surface, and they are very very skittish. They will ink and flee pretty much as soon as they take damage. Also unlike the Tuso they are KO tames, prepare to chase them! They have a quite low torpor, and it drops very quickly, just like their bigger cousins they prefer Black Pearls as their fave taming food. So why are they such wusses? Well, quite frankly, everything thinks they're delicious, and they know it! Harvesting a Lyco will give deicious Raw Mollusc meat, Pescavores absolutely love this, basically it is to fish eaters as mutton is to meat eaters, providing more than double the taming effectiveness of Raw Prime Fish meat.

AoASquid_Character_BP_C

cheat GMSummon "AoASquid_Character_BP_C" 150 0 0

admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/Squid/AoASquid_Character_BP.AoASquid_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Base Stats:

Health - 675, Stam - 300, Torpor - 400, Food - 1500, Weight - 200

Damage - LMB - 20 per 'slap', RMB Grab - 2

Torpor Drop - Very Fast

Taming Method - Knock Out

Preferred Taming Foods: Black Pearls, Raw Beef/Mutton, Raw Prime, Raw Meat

Spawns: Island/Rag/Center/Valg Oceans, Aberration Fertile Lake, Genesis Ocean Biome

Saddle: Not required to ride, but available from level 45

cheat GFI LycoteuthisSaddle 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/Squid/Saddle/PrimalItemArmor_LycoteuthisSaddle.PrimalItemArmor_LycoteuthisSaddle'"
EngramEntry_Saddle_Lycoteuthis



Egg thieves extraordinaire! These highly aggressive aerial predators will attack most things that move, especially survivors, and look to carry it up the air and drop it to its death! However, if there's anything they love above all else, it's eggs, and they have become something of a specialised egg thief, which you can use to your advantage to both tame one, and then put to good use afterwards.

To tame a Ludo, equip an egg in your 0 slot in your hotbar as for normal passive tames, however, the opportunity will only arise for you to feed it if the Ludo grabs you and carries you upwards. You will want to take something to soak the damage, either be riding a tanky tame or have a shield and good armour at the ready. When it grabs you you'll be able to feed it the egg, it will then lose interest in you for a short amount of time, which is somewhat unfortunate as it will then drop you and let you fall to your doom, so make sure to have parachutes or an Archaeopterx. Rinse and repeat until it tamed. Don't worry (!) if a Ludo grabs you and you're not attempting to tame it it will drop you after a few seconds of holding you. All in all it's not wise to attempt to take on a Ludo if you are not well prepared, on the upside though one good whack will see them fleeing, and they do of course take increased damage from projectiles like other flyers.

Once tamed you will have a pretty fast flyer, somewhere between Ptera and Argent for speed and stats, it can barrel roll, but if pointing downwards a cross hair will appear and pressing C will unless a rapid forward burst of speed dealing damage to anything you hit on the way past, and allowing you to escape from anything that may be chasing you, and if you're using a Ludo correctly things probably will be chasing you, as Ludos can be effectively used to raid wild nests for juicy eggs. Land near to a nest and use left click to attack an egg and the Ludo will collect it and add it to its inventory, doing this will *not* alert any nearby parents like it would if you picked up an egg normally, but of course you still need to get in and out of there so watch your stamina and time your dashes well (also make sure to have some meat on board, as a Ludo will happily scoff down any eggs in it's inventory if it's not otherwise fed)

Ludos can also swim quite happily on the surface of the water, but can also go under the surface by holding down you Alt-Fire button (left control by default) Ludos are very good at harvesting Prime Fish from anything that can drop it. On top of all that Ludos also receive a small gang boost. All in all the Ludodactylus is a fantastic flying addition, especially at home on Scorched Earth or Ragnarok.

Ludodactylus_Character_BP_C

cheat GMSummon "Ludodactylus_Character_BP_C" 150 0 0

admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/Ludodactylus/Ludodactylus_Character_BP.Ludodactylus_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Base Stats:

Health - 280, Stam - 250, Torpor - 150, Food - 1350, Weight - 200

Damage - LMB: 20, when landed will pick up any dropped egg you attack, when swimming will harvest Prime Fish Meat effectively from those creatures that drop it.

RMB: No damage, grab attack. Will be used by wilds and is part of the taming process, you can be grabbed off of your mount. Max drag weight 100

C: Barrel Roll when crosshair is not showing: 60, Dash attack when crosshair is showing: 90

Torpor Drop - Fast

Taming Method - Passive Agressive. As detailed above, allow the Ludo to grab you and carry you, only then are you able to passive tame it.

Preferred Taming Foods: 1; Fertilised Wyvern/Drake/Magmasaur eggs, 2; Yuty Eggs, 3: Fertilised Deinonychus Eggs, then Extra Large, Large, Medium, Smalll, Extra Small Eggs in that order. Golden Hesperornis eggs cannot be used.

Spawns:

Saddle: Available from level 59

cheat GFI LudoSaddle 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AtlasImports/Ludodactylus/PrimalItemArmor_LudoSaddle.PrimalItemArmor_LudoSaddle'"
EngramEntry_Saddle_Ludo