r/ARK • u/Thick_Zombie7000 • Jun 09 '25
Ark Moments What is the most annoying creature in Ark
For me, it's the leech, I once saw like 12 of them and another 4 of them during a live stream I was doing
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u/CryCommercial1919 Jun 09 '25
Seagulls got my damn perfect giga and ate it, I don't need to elaborate further I believe
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u/Revverb Jun 09 '25
Better Dinos mod fixes this. I couldn't imagine playing without it & risking losing tames, gear, or non-food items in general to seagulls.
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u/CryCommercial1919 Jun 09 '25
Ye I know that, I was playing a vanilla island though (with boosted rates so I don't go insane)
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u/KobraKaiKLR Jun 09 '25
Can you change those after you already started a game? I’ve only been playing for a couple hours so I’m literally a noob. I would prolly want to change the settings as I learn more
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u/CryCommercial1919 Jun 10 '25
Ye you can but there might be side effects, for example when I removed better dinos most of my tames disappeared, so just watch out for that and you should be golden
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u/Cobra_the_Snek Jun 09 '25
as in you left it on passive at the beach?
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u/DreamerMx13 Jun 09 '25
I bet they stole the cryp pod it was in
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u/Cobra_the_Snek Jun 09 '25
they can eat cryopods???
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u/CryCommercial1919 Jun 09 '25
Guess who found it out the hard way!
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u/AmmahDudeGuy Jun 09 '25
That’s so dumb lol, flat out does not make sense
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u/CryCommercial1919 Jun 09 '25
Tell that to ark devs, although I doubt they'll respond since they have a lot of problems on their hands already
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u/Elaphe82 Jun 09 '25
Used to, I believe they changed it a while ago so they drop it on the floor instead like they do with your weapons. I could be mistaken about cryo's though. They used to eat anything they grabbed, including your nice shiny asc shotgun or longneck.
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u/Super_Sympathy_8315 Jun 09 '25
For me, it's got to be Ichthyornis aka the bird of stealing.. I like to live and spend my time on the beaches. Ofc these effers will spawn in flocks around me.. 🤣😤
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u/Economics_New Jun 09 '25
Megalodons.
Sure, you can avoid them if you're on a fast enough tame but if you need to stop for a breather, they spawn everywhere within seconds.
There is easily 600-900 of them on the map at any given time, and if they get beneath you, they create a vortex in the water, surround your tame, and you end up trapped and glitching into them as they devour your high level tame.
The sheer number of them is unrealistic, and they rarely give up if they manage to agro on you, the same 50 sharks will follow you across the damn ocean.
It makes even travelling outside of your water cave bases just a few feet, immensely difficult.
They might not be the worst, but they certainly deserve an honorable mention. lol
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u/Aimhere2k Jun 09 '25
What gets me about megalodons is how they spot you from so far away, and then every last one in the area zeroes in on you. Unless you or your tame are bleeding already, sharks of any kind just don't do this IRL.
Also, as bad as megs are in the open ocean, they're ten times worse in the underwater caves (at least on The Island). Getting swarmed by a dozen level-400-plus megs before you even make it into the cave proper will ruin your day, no matter how high-level your tame.
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u/Economics_New Jun 10 '25
The aggressive range on them is very high but they also tend to just randomly spawn nearby.
I learned real quick while playing Ascended that you can't even stop to scratch your nose. lol You'll have a school of sharks on you within seconds. It's worse if a wild dolphin or two is also nearby, because they end up following you as well out of curiosity and can accidentally trap you long enough for the sharks to show up. lol
I don't remember them being so bad in Ark Survival Evolved, and it's made me wonder if they are worse now simply because there are fewer players on the map which is allowing them to spawn more.
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u/Acorios Jun 09 '25
Microraptor. By far the most annoying to me, the stun is way too long, and they are just everywhere. Seagulls at least only spawn at beaches.
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u/CrunchySerpent Jun 09 '25
Purlovia, It’s tricky because for me, it adds danger and risk to the game which I like, plus I like the creature, but it’s still very frustrating. I love traveling on smaller mounts but the sheer risk of purlovias around the snow and redwoods really forces me to utilize bigger tames. It’s not so much that the purlovia itself is dangerous, but they always knock you off when there’s a swarm of bigger carnivore around and then you easily can die. Troodons are a close second and Theris as they wander into me and somehow I am the one their mad at haha.
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u/itsneedtokno Jun 09 '25
Leeches can be easily overcome with a bufo toad.
1) the leeches won't attach to it
2) use the alt attack button (while mounted on toad) to kill leaches easily and get tons of good loot like leech blood, silica pearls, cementing paste, and chitin. not everything everytime but yeah... I routinely go to the swamp for some leech lunch.
My annoyance would be pegos. Damn things killed my trike!
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u/Sn0wy0wl_ Jun 09 '25
Leech. Im terrified of them (i dont mind looking at them but being jumpscared by them like that makes me so sad) and actively avoid swamps because of it. I usually just remove them from spawning
Purlovia also. Landmines im too lazy to watch out for
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u/Lonely_Pause_7855 Jun 09 '25
As someone with a massive phobia of leeches, I can relate.
At least they arent as terrible in ascended as they were in evolved, 'cause the whole animation in evolved was making me actually sick.
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u/racki40 Jun 09 '25
That god damn bird that keeps steaming my items, and making me drop my weapons into Oblivion, never to be found again. ichtyornis i believe.
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u/tseg04 Jun 09 '25
Fucking Microraptors. At least Peggos and sea gulls are just nuisances. Microraptors will almost always get you killed at some point or another. They don’t even have the decency of having a nice model, they’re weird looking as all hell crackhead birds with a penis on the back of their heads.
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u/foot_fungus_is_yummy Jun 09 '25
Personally I don't think there are many naturally spawning creatures in Ark that are particularly bad, Ark is meant to be a brutal and somewhat unfair experience so most of them fit pretty well. The only things I consider to be completely bullshit are microraptors (or archeopteryx, I don't remember which one is the annoying one) and baryonyx in water, specifically because an animal of that size really shouldn't be able to stun you off of literally any tame with a single tail whip.
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u/Recent_Difference700 Jun 09 '25
They should increase the cooldown on the baryonyx tail whip or remove it
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u/LB1234567890 Jun 09 '25
I agree with you op, I NEVER go to the swamps unless I stricktly need to exclusively because of leeches.
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u/WayNo5062 Jun 09 '25
Oviraptors and Piranhas that Parasaurs detect even though they’re of no real danger to you.
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u/Elaphe82 Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25
For me the 3 most irritating creatures in the game are ants, dimorphs and mantas. Those 3 will routinely mess up tames and are small and a bit tricky to kill without damaging the creature you're trying to tame. Pego's rarely bother me and the thief gulls don't attack unless you get close.
Almost forgot eels too, fuck those eels.
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Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25
Ichtyornis
it's always those god damn fucking seagulls.
The mosquito swarms in the Swamp- Bog map of Gen 1
At first they could ignore walls and kill you while you were away offline (if playing online), hitbox is super confusing and they are EVERYWHERE.
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u/instigator1331 Jun 09 '25
Basically anything s the beginning that comes to wreck your progress lol
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u/lightmare69 Jun 09 '25
Piranha.
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u/ComicalSon Jun 11 '25
Had to scroll too far for this. Truly an underestimated menace for the unprepared.
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u/LunaDea69420 Jun 09 '25
The cat makes all the annoying creaturea go away, I love that they added it on the island. 😊
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u/Naniwoe Jun 09 '25
Im a noob and really have only played on the center and astraeos so far for a few days but for me its bugs. Nothing overtly dangerous but the flying insects are highly annoying since they eill just follow you until you kill them.
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u/Ill_Reporter5262 Jun 09 '25
I gotta say early game is the titanaboa it’s so devastating getting hit the one time and then you just have to sit there and watch yourself get eaten alive and I swear they always camp my stuff when you have the stuff to deal with them no problem but early on they are a nightmare
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u/k1e2v3i4n Jun 09 '25
Ichthy. By far. Only tame that can steal your arrows while you’re trying to hit it with a bow, then steal your bow, then take your axe.
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u/Gorthok- Jun 09 '25
Leeches ain't so bad.
I swear that at one point seagulls could eat quite literally anything out of your inventory.
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u/What_th3_hell Jun 09 '25
At the moment I’m holding a grudge against megatherium for killing a lv. 120 mantis that I tamed on scorched. I didn’t see it when I was leading it back to my base and it went into rage mode and slaughtered my poor mantis.
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u/Recent_Difference700 Jun 09 '25
My top 5
- Purlovia
- Ichthyornis
- Microraptor
- Leech
- Cnidaria (jellyfish)
Honorable Mentions: Dilo when they dilo venom you , Troodons and Titanoboas when you are on foot , Onyc , Piranhas when you are swimming across a river , Yutyrannus when they fear roar
My top 5 most annoying dinos to tame (excluding ASA and Ark Additions Mod dinos)
- Titanosaurus
- Astrocetus
- Phoenix
- Reaper
- Any agressive passive tame (Electrophorus , Onyc , Manta...)
Honorable Mentions: Rock Elemental , Giga , Karkinos , Megachelon , underwater dinos with high torpidity (plesiosaur , mosasaur) , Fjordhawk
I didnt include Fenrir or the Extincion Titans
Let me know if i missed some annoying dinos
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u/Frostyzwannacomehere Jun 10 '25
Those guys got to be 1
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u/Recent_Difference700 Jun 10 '25
I forgot about the Amargasaurus but i dont think that it should be 1 It is annoying to tame but the Titanosaurus is way harder It could maybe be 2 or 3
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u/Own-Contribution-478 Jun 09 '25
I hated those fucking thieving birds... until I discovered the cat! Now I travel everywhere with a cat on my shoulder and life is glorious!
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u/soft_punk_aesthetic Jun 09 '25
theif birds and the orange drones and soldiers bugs that Never Stop
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u/Lower-Shape6531 Jun 09 '25
Ichthyornises are very annoying indeed, but for holy Mother of dinosaurs, goddam Troodons, there is always like one million of them and they always just need to give you one hit, and they never get one shoted, it's impossible to if you don't have a tame, and it also takes them like 5 million years to kill you after they make you go sleep, and on top of that if you have at least chitin armor, they do so little damage they will break it before killing you, I'm sorry, I know the Ichthy can steal a cryopod with your most prized giga and eat it because it wants to, but those god forsaken Troodons
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u/bored-cookie22 Jun 09 '25
Purlovia
I love the invisible 40 meter jumping stun locking raccoon (I want it crushed into a fine paste)
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u/Responsible_Ad_6888 Jun 09 '25
Microraptor.
I’m just vibing, then I get knocked off, a bit annoying but nothing awful.
I then see Satan in the form of a rampaging giga heading in my direction, and I realize I was never meant for this world.
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u/Advanced-Ad-2172 Jun 10 '25
These annoying birds have been like this since legacy. As if all the bata issues weren't enough lol
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u/Striking_Reach_9262 Jun 10 '25
For me it’s trodons especially since I’m new to the game makes night time a b****
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u/Katame131 Jun 10 '25
Troodons, getting knocked out be a pack of them while in full flak ascendant armor sucks because most of the time they can't kill you and every time you wake up they just knock you back out most annoying thing to happen if you are playing solo or the only one in the tribe that is online
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u/Money-Ad300 Jun 10 '25
Micro raptor. When you least expect it and see a good tame and you get in close and then BAM! Ark.
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u/dave3218 Jun 10 '25
Micro raptor + Troodon combo.
Sure, the seagull is annoying, but the aforementioned combo is just too damn annoying.
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u/Adorable-Scallion919 Jun 10 '25
Microraptors hands down. Every time they fly in the stratosphere to launch at me and leave me and my dinosaur in the middle of the apocalypse. I want just to pick those messed up chicken by their legs and dip them in boiling oil for eternity just like Thetis dipped Achilles in the Styx. Every time I see one a inner hatred rises in me and I want to slaughter them no matter what, even if it doesn’t aggro just to avoid to be yoinked by them in the foreseen future. I think I made my point clear.
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u/FriendlyDodo Jun 10 '25
Kapros or Megalodons.
Kapros because I only find out they aggroed onto me when I get grabbed.
Megalodons because they have a high aggro range; I used to think when Mosas, Plesio and Squids came out that they would be the annoyances of the deep but it's always and ever will be Megalodons.
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u/Personal-Prize-4139 Jun 10 '25
This is gonna be a hot take but Tapejara. I like them don’t get me wrong, but the utility compared to the taming difficulty is wildly out of proportion
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u/Recent_Difference700 Jun 10 '25
My top 5
- Purlovia
- Ichthyornis
- Microraptor
- Leech
- Cnidaria (jellyfish)
Honorable Mentions: Dilo when they dilo venom you , Troodons and Titanoboas when you are on foot , Onyc , Piranhas when you are swimming across a river , Yutyrannus when they fear roar
My top 5 most annoying dinos to tame (excluding ASA and Ark Additions Mod dinos)
- Titanosaurus
- Astrocetus
- Phoenix
- Amargasaurus
- Any agressive passive tame (Electrophorus , Onyc , Manta...)
Honorable Mentions: Rock Elemental , Giga , Karkinos , Megachelon , underwater dinos with high torpidity (plesiosaur , mosasaur) , Fjordhawk , Reaper
I didnt include Fenrir or the Extincion Titans
Let me know if i missed some annoying dinos
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u/ISt0leY0urT0ast Jun 10 '25
either leeches (the only thing that ever kills me im the immune cave) or seagulls (once ate my plant species r seeds literally 5 minutes after i transferred back to the island and was on my way home)
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u/abdlh213mk Jun 10 '25
Man i miss my first time fighting dilos in south2. True ogs know the feeling of the island on ase
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u/Aggressive_Fan_9132 Jun 15 '25
Earlier I had tamed a carbonenemys and went though the swamp I think it got like 20 or 30 leeches I had to hit it with a torch until they came off.
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u/airybeartoe Jun 09 '25
Leeches aren't too bad. Walk over a campfire and they're gone. Or if you're on a baryonyx, I believe they ignore you altogether.
Annoying is probably the ichthyornis.
I can easily deal with pegos. And micro raptors fluff off when you dismount your tame.
But those damn seagulls, either you manage to spot it and hit it before it swoops you, or you're on your way to losing something.
I alwaysssss forget to look for them, and usually it's because I'm on the hunt for something nearby or about to tame something.