Find out everything you have to know about the Ankylosaurus in our ARK: Survival Evolved guide. But also how to catch it, tame it, feed it, and breed offspring.
You can find the Ankylosaurus on every Map of the ARK-Universe, where it is wandering around snacking some berries.
This is the Ankylosaurus in ARK: Survival Evolved
Appearance: The Ankylosaurus looks a bit like a turtle. Its relatively small legs make it appear flat and rather medium-sized. Its back is armored and protected by bone plates, spines, and osteoderms, but its head also features spines and bone plates. Like other herbivores, Ankylosaurus has a beak. At the end of its tail, it has a spiny club that it uses for attack or defense. The abdomen of Ankylosaurus is the only part of its body that is not protected by armor.
Wild: Like many other herbivores, Ankylosaurus is a peaceful comrade that roams the land eating leaves. However, if it is attacked, it will attack as well. Not even praying will help whoever gets close to its tail then. With its incredible strength, the Ankylosaurus will smash anything and everything to pieces – so be careful.
Domesticated: Once tamed, the Ankylosaurus is a little farm talent. It is ideal for metal, crystal, obsidian, or flint farming, stone farming is also possible. Likewise, it can farm large amounts of berries and moderate amounts of wood and thatch. Since the Ankylosaurus is a good swimmer and can easily fend off attackers with its tail, even in water, it is also suitable for oil-stone farming.
In combat, it offers a good attack due to its strength, as well as a good defense, but has a disadvantage due to its relatively slow running speed. In the water, the Ankylosaurus is faster than on land.
How to tame the Ankylosaurus in ARK
How to hunt the Ankylosaurus: Quite unspectacular, you take your crossbow or your bow and simply run away from it. In between, you turn around and shoot it with tranquilizer darts. Due to its slow speed, this simple taming method is possible. But keep in mind that you always have to keep enough distance from its tail.
How to tame him: Once it is unconscious, put Kibble (recipe below) in its inventory and wait for him to eat it. To keep the stun value up while taming, put Narcoberries or Narcotic in its inventory, and force-feed it, when necessary. Normally, the Stegosaurus will be tamed quickly.
How to make the Ankylosaurus Saddle
To craft the Ankylosaurus Saddle, you need to reach level 36 and 18 engram points to unlock the recipe. For crafting, you need the following resources:
- 260x Hide
- 140x Fiber
- 10x Metal Ingots
How to feed an Ankylosaurus in ARK
Once you have tamed your Ankylosaurus, it is important to know what it eats. Ankylosaurs are herbivores, which makes the choice of food easier:
- Regular Kibble:
- Ingredients: 1x Medium Egg, 1x Cooked Meat Jerky, 5x Fiber, 2x Longrass, 2x Savoroot, 1x Water
- Ingredients Cooked Meat Jerky: 1x Cooked Meat, 1x Oil, 3x Sparkpowder.
- Kibble (Dilophosaurus egg):
- Ingredients: 1x Dilophosaurus Egg, 1x Citronal, 1x Cooked Meat Jerky, 2x Mejoberry, 3x Fiber, 1xWwater
- Ingredients Cooked Meat Jerky: 1x Cooked Meat, 1x Oil, 3x Sparkpowder.
- Crops
- Berries
- Fresh Barley
- Soybeans
- Fresh Wheat
- Dried Wheat
How to breed the Ankylosaurus in ARK
How to prepare to breed: If you have a male and female specimen, build a pen, that is large enough for both of them. Place both dinos inside the pen and set them on “Wander” via the command menu. Alternatively, you can set them directly on “Mating”, but therefore a player must be near the pen, for the time it takes, otherwise the mating will stop due to the rendering.
The breeding interval of an Ankylosaurus is 18 to 48 hours.
This is how you hatch eggs: Once you have received a fertilized Ankylosaurus egg from a successful mating, incubation begins. For this, the ambient temperature of the egg should be between 16 °C and 20 °C. According to standard settings, the little Ankylosaurus baby hatches after about 2.5 hours. After that, it needs about 5 hours of your attention, during which you will have to keep putting food into its inventory. Pay attention to the imprinting intervals every 8 hours to get the greatest potential of the baby.
Once it has reached an adolescent status, it is able to feed itself through troughs. The entire maturation period takes approximately 2 days and 1 hour.
Beginner tips on breeding in ARK can be found here:
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