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Spawn Locations

The Island

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

Scorched Earth

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

The Center

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

Taming Process

1. Damage the Acro until it goes into shield stance

  • - The Acro will start sidestepping towards you once it shifts into Shield Stance

  • - Failing to apply damage within an amount of time will revert the Acro out of shield stance

2. Continue to apply damage until it roars

  • - Acros can use a decoy roar as a fake out

  • - Click the button below for more information

3. Passive feed it during the roar

  • - Make sure its not a decoy roar

  • - Bio Toxin is most effective but Narcotic will work

  • - A successful feed will fully heal the Acro

  • - If you miss the feed, the Acro will enter Adrenaline

  • - Click the button below for more information on Adrenaline mode

3. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until it knocks out

  • - Once it's out, feed it like any other knock out tame

Preferred Foods

  • Exceptional Kibble

  • Raw Mutton

  • Raw Prime Meat

4. Congrats, you've tamed an Acrocanthosaurus!

Engrams & Requirements

  • - Saddle unlocks at Level 76

  • - Saddle Engram Cost: 43 pts

  • - Crafted in: Smithy

Saddle Resource Costs

  • - 200 Fiber

  • - 50 Metal Ingots

  • - 380 Hide

NOTES:

  • - You can try to trap the Acro with gates but they can damage stone

  • - Shield stance bash attack damages metal

Roars - Real or Fake

  • - Decoy roar will fully heal the Acro

  • - Continue to shoot at the Acro through the decoy roar to get it to re-enter shield stance

  • - Letting the Acro go through the decoy roar will bring it out of shield stance

Adrenaline Mode

  • - Preceeded by a roaring bellow

  • - Acros gain a red glow on their bodies (more visible at night)

  • - Shatters rocks and knocks down trees

Wild

  • - Wild Acrocanthosaurus will enter adrenaline mode after taking damage and roaring

  • - Adrenaline boosts their melee to nearly double

  • - Acros get a speed boost in Adrenaline

  • - Adrenaline allows the Acro to unleash a devasting triple stomp attack

  • - They become able to shatter rocks and break trees, making fleeing on foot impossible without a mount or extremely good armor

  • - When killing wild Acros, stopping damage when they enter Shield stance will prevent them from entering adrenaline

Abilities & Utility

1. Adrenaline

  • - Adrenaline mode can only be activated when the UI bar is full and blinking

  • - Adrenaline is activated with spacebar

2. Adrenaline Speed

  • - Your acro will gain speed, melee buff, and the triple stomp ability

  • - Adrenaline speed is NOT affected by imprint speed buff

3. Adrenaline Healing

  • - In Adrenaline mode, your Acro will regenerate 0.2% health per second

4. Triple Stomp

  • - Replaces the normal right click stomp

5. Allied Adrenaline

  • - Tapping spacebar when prompted during the activation roar will allow your Acro to give its adrenaline to your allies

  • - The roar does a large amount of damage and knock back

  • - This will deplete your entire Adrenaline meter

6. Shield Mode

  • - Hitting C on pc will shift your Acro into a new stance- Shield Stance

  • - The Acro will sidestep in the direction you're walking

  • - Rider is protected by the Acro's body

  • - Tanks damage in this mode

  • - The right click attack becomes a bash that can damage metal tier structures

7. Battle Mount

  • - Tank: Shield Stance reduces incoming damage while building Adrenaline; also a good way to soak turrets and ranged attacks

  • - Alpha Hunter: Shield stance allows tanking of hits and adrenaline to deal damage as well as heal

  • - Boss Killer: Bred and mutated Acros can be used to fight bosses

  • - Torpor Immunity: Acros are immune to torpor attacks including the Broodmother and Manticore

  • - Golem Brawler: Shield bash attack can damage stone-tier and has no damage reduction against Rock Elementals. The Allied Adrenaline roar also does high damage to Elementals

Variants

Acrocanthosaurus

- Spawns on the Island
- Spawns on The Center

Ascended Acrocanthosaurus

- Spawns on the Island
- Spawns on The Center

Scorched Acrocanthosaurus

- Spawns on Scorched Earth

Spawn Locations

The Island

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

The Center

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

Taming Process

1. Locate an Archelon

  • - They can be swimming or lumbering around on land

  • - Cnidaria spawn around them

2. Passively feed your Archelon

  • - Be aware of surroundings, Xiphactinus and Megalodon will attack the Archelon

Preferred Foods

  • - Superior Kibble

  • - Bio Toxin

3. Congrats on your new Archelon!

Engrams & Requirements

  • - Saddle unlocks at Level 45

  • - Saddle Engram Cost: 44 pts

  • - Saddle Crafted in: Smithy

  • - Sushi crafted in Industrial Cooking Pot (Vanilla version)

Saddle Resource Costs

  • 600 Fiber

  • 200 Metal Ingots

  • 850 Hide

  • 250 Wood

Abilities & Utility

1. Algae

  • - They will slowly grow algae on their shells over time

  • - Being submerged drastically shortens the growth timer

  • - Leveling Food will increase the amount of Algae an Archelon can generate

  • - Can be harvested with the radial wheel

  • - Algae is used to make Sushi in the cooking pot

2. Sushi

  • - Sushi will restore some taming effectiveness when forcefed to an unconscious creature

  • - Crafted in the vanilla Industrial Cooker

  • - NOTE: Do not use sushi on passive tames as it may break taming

  • - NOTE 2: Some modded creatures (most it seems) are bugged and won't allow you to feed them the sushi

Crafting Cost

  • 20 Archelon Algae

  • 3 Raw Prime Fish Meat

  • 10 Longrass

  • 1 White Coloring

Usage

  • - Force feed the sushi from the downed creature's inventory

  • - Some modded creatures don't get the effect from the sushi

  • - Not for passive tames

3. Saddle

  • - Seats five (driver + four passengers)

  • - Gives unlimited oxygen to mounted survivors

  • - Give oxygen to survivors in close proximity

4. Jelly Killer

  • - Immune to Cnidaria

  • - Jelly Killer buff drastically increases damage

  • - Efficient bio toxin harvester

5. Mobility

  • - Slow on land

  • - No ill effects for being on land

  • - Decent swim speed

Breeding

Can breed on land

  • - Eggs won't instantly die on land

  • - Babies can hatch on land

Growing Babies

  • - Must be brought into water within 5 minutes of hatching or they will die

  • - They must remain submerged until fully grown to prevent death

  • - Must be fed Bio Toxin (adults can also eat berries)

Spawn Locations

The Island

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

Scorched Earth

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

The Center

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

Taming Process

1. Locate a Ceratosaurus

  • - Ceratosaurus are highly aggressive and will attack most things so clear the area

  • - They do spawn with babies if you don't care about bonus levels or have a Gigantoraptor

2. Feed your mount a Hemogoblin Cocktail

  • - This will give your mount a buff and will attract the Ceratosaurus to attack it

  • - You'll know it's active by a bright pink cloud around your tame

  • - Recommended to use a tanky mount; Rock Elementals work well as do Acrocanthosaurus in Shield Stance

3. Let the Ceratosaurus get Blood Drunk

  • - The percentage will show in pink floating numbers as it rises

  • - You may need multiple cocktails

  • - Once the Ceratosaurus hits 100% drunk, it will stop attacking and become passive

  • - The red cloud and sparkles are the blood venom debuff from the Cerato

3. Passive feed the Ceratosaurus

  • - Easy as it sounds, just be aware of hostile creatures in the area

Preferred Foods:

  • Extraordinary Kibble

  • Raw Mutton

  • Raw Prime Meat

3. Congrats on your new Ceratosaurus!

Engrams & Requirements

  • - Saddle unlocks at Level 60

  • - Saddle Engram Cost: 40 pts

  • - Saddle Crafted in: Smithy

Saddle Resource Costs

  • 270 Fiber

  • 20 Metal Ingots

  • 130 Hide

Abilities & Utility

1. Cerato Venom Spine

  • - Killing Ceratosaurus will drop Cerato Venom Spines, an ingrediant needed for Hemogoblin Cocktails to tame them

2. Hemogoblin Cocktail

  • - Needed to be able to tame a Ceratosaurus

  • - Unlockable at Level 60

  • - Unlocks for 25 Engram Points

  • - Crafted in player inventory

Recipe

  • - 15 Blood Packs

  • - 10 Cerato Venom Spines

  • - 10 Narcotic

3. Attacks

  • - Bite Attack: Straightforward bite, if the camera is angled 90° degrees to the sides or looking behind; the Cerato will bite and pivot that direction (primary attack)

  • - Horn Thrust: headbutts the target and applies the Blood Venom debuff (secondary attack)

  • - Tail Lash: Hits all opponents with its tail when looking to the sides or behind and the Cerato will pivot that direction. Applies the Blood Venom debuff

  • - Reflective Damage: Ceratos inflict reflective damage on attackers for 7% of the damage received, they will also inflict the venom debuff

  • - Cosmetic Roar

4. Blood Venom debuff

  • - When an opponent is hit with the Horn Thrust or Tail Lash attack, they receive the debuff

  • - This debuff will cause a healing surge on the Ceratosaurus as long as it attacks the target

  • - Tamed Ceratosaurus share the healing buff with allied carnivores

5. Speed

  • - Ceratosaurus gain monentum as they run

  • - Running without stopping will fill a bar, at 75%+ the cerato gains a speed boost and will break rocks when it hits them

  • - Using the Horn Thrust attack at full speed will apply more damage

Spawn Locations

The Island

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

Scorched Earth

- Grave of Tyrants Cave and the Oasis Cave

The Center

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

Taming Process

1. Locate a Deinosuchus

  • - They are very aggressive

  • - Recommended to clear out the area before taming

2. Wait for it to bask

  • - They will stop moving and open their mouths wide

  • - They can do this on land or floating in water

3. Run up to the Deinosuchus' mouth and passive feed it

  • - Be sure to approach from an angle that they don't see you from or they'll attack you

  • - Run immediately after feeding it to try to avoid it aggroing onto you

Preferred Foods

  • - Superior Kibble

  • - Raw Mutton

  • - Raw Prime Meat

4. Passive feed until the Deinosuchus tames

  • - You can move them into a trap and feed them through gates if their mouths stick out, if you want a little less risk or are taming multiple

4. Congrats on your new Deinosuchus!

Engrams & Requirements

  • - Saddle unlocks at Level 74

  • - Saddle Engram Cost: 40 pts

  • - Saddle Crafted in: Smithy

Saddle Resource Costs

  • - 200 Fiber

  • - 50 Metal Ingot

  • - 380 Hide

Abilities & Utility

1. Directional Movement

  • - Deinosuchus will turn in place following where you point the camera

1. Bite

  • - Using the primary bite while looking to the sides will use a lunging bite in that direction

  • - Deals a good amount of damage with a decent attack speed

  • - Can be used on land and while swimming

2. Giga Bite

  • - Hold down your secondary attack button to charge the bite

  • - 40% and higher will use the attack

  • - Charging the bite to 100% will inflict a large amount of damage and inflict the fractured debuff

  • - Can be used in water or on land

Fractured Debuff

  • - Inflicts bleed damage on the opponent, less if they remain still

4. Tail Swipe

  • - Using C for PC while looking to either side will use the tail swipe

  • - Can only be used on land

5. Roar

  • - CTRL on PC activates a cosmetic roar

6. Swimming

  • - Swimming at the surface will switch the deinosuchus into Surface Swimming mode where it will stay even if you look straight down

  • - Diving will then switch it into Free Swimming which will allow you to dive and move freely underwater

  • - A swimming deinosuchus will scare pirahnas

7. Damage Reduction

  • - All damage to the head is reduced by 50%

  • - Deinosuchus' body reduces the incoming damage depending on the type of damage and all those multipliers stack with the head multiplier

7. Ghille Effect

  • - Deinosuchus are ignored by nearly all hostile creatures

  • - This allows them to navigate through caves without fighting, even the Tek Cave

  • - This also allows them to be Giga/Carcha killers coupled with the bleed from the Giga Bite (the bleed and damage output can also make them Titanosaur killers)

Deinotherium

Spawn Locations

The Island

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game
NOTE: They are disabled on the GForce Island server

Scorched Earth

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

The Center

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game
NOTE: They are disabled on the GForce Center server

Taming Process

1. Locate a Deinotherium

  • - You must be LEVEL 95 at minimum to tame a Deinotherium

  • - They travel in herds

  • - Separate the one you want to tame either by killing the others or trapping them away from the chosen one

2. Put Beer in your last hotbar slot

  • - When the Deinotherium detects the beer, it will raise its trunk in the air

Preferred Foods

  • Beer Jar

3. Slowly approach

  • - Stop when the Deinotheirum turns to face you

  • - If you get too close, it will bellow and attack you

  • - This is the start of the taming minigame: watch the Deinotherium's body language

4. When you have good signs, run under the Deinotherium

  • - If you have enough positive signs, the Deinotherium will take a beer jar from you automatically

  • - If you've misread, the Deinotherium will bellow and try to stun stomp on you and attack

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until tamed

  • - back off between attempts lest you aggro the Deinotherium before it's ready for another attempt

  • - be sure to watch those cues

Congrats on your new Deinotherium!

Engrams & Requirements

  • - Saddle unlocks at Level

  • - Saddle Engram Cost:

  • - Saddle Crafted in: Smithy

Saddle Resource Costs

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Deinotherium Body Language

  • - Deinotherium have two tells, their ears and their trunks

  • - If you have one good sign and one bad sign, back off until the Deinotherium starts wandering again

  • - Staying confrontational too long will aggro them

  • - Wait a little bit before slowly approaching again

Ears Flared, Trunk Coiled: BEST

  • - Both soft signs

Ears Flared: GOOD

  • - If paired with an extended trunk, do not approach unless you like to live dangerously

Trunk Coiled: GOOD

  • - If paired with pinned ears, do not approach unless you like to liver dangerously

Ears Pinned, Trunk Extended: WORST

  • - If paired with pinned ears, do not approach unless you like to live dangerously

Ears Pinned: BAD

  • - If paired with a coiled trunk, do not approach unless you like to live dangerously

Trunk Extended: BAD

  • - If paired with flared ears, do not approach unless you like to live dangerously

Abilities & Utility

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Creature

Spawn Locations

The Island

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

Taming Process

1. Locate a Deinosuchus

  • - They are very aggressive

  • - Recommended to clear out the area before taming

Preferred Foods

  • Kibble

Engrams & Requirements

  • - Saddle unlocks at Level 60

  • - Saddle Engram Cost: 40 pts

  • - Saddle Crafted in: Smithy

Saddle Resource Costs

  • - 270 Fiber

  • - 20 Metal Ingots

  • - 130 Hide

Abilities & Utility

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Variants

Acrocanthosaurus

- Spawns on the Island
- Spawns on The Center

Creature

Spawn Locations

The Island

- Spawns are Rough Estimates and may differ in game

Taming Process

1. Locate a Deinosuchus

  • - They are very aggressive

  • - Recommended to clear out the area before taming

Preferred Foods

  • Kibble

Engrams & Requirements

  • - Saddle unlocks at Level 60

  • - Saddle Engram Cost: 40 pts

  • - Saddle Crafted in: Smithy

Saddle Resource Costs

  • - 270 Fiber

  • - 20 Metal Ingots

  • - 130 Hide

Abilities & Utility

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Variants

Acrocanthosaurus

- Spawns on the Island
- Spawns on The Center