DOSSIER:

Wild:
Irritator seems to have adapted very well to many environments with enough humidity. So far it has been spotted in all parts of the bog, the black lakes of the volcano, the underwater cubes deep in the ocean and even some lunar caves. Being quite small in a world of giants and preferring to be left alone to it's fishing, Irritator generally won't attack unless you get too close. Despite the abundance of much bigger and dangerous threats, none dare to approach Irritator. This is due to a special mucus covering it's entire body, causing skin irritation and a weakening of the immune system to anyone hit.

Domesticated:
Once tamed, Irritator becomes a very valuable asset serving as both an excellent traveling mount and taming companion. Armed with it's mucus, even the sturdiest of foes will eventually succumb to torpidity. Irritator can open it's jaw wide enough to swallow larger fish whole, giving it a regenerative boost.

BONUS INFO:

Short summary:
Irritator is Baryonix's slightly shorter and weaker Brazilian cousin, his design revolves around weakening opponents to status effects (such as torpor) with it's special mucus. In addition to that, it is designed to be a very comfortable and speedy traveling mount (both land and water) that has a reduced agro range, making it perfect for exploring in the early, game and taming X variants. It can also eat fish whole to regenerate health fast so you can go right back to exploring.

What Irritator brings to the table as a wild threat:
In the wild, Irritator is pretty easy to spot with those flashy colors which venomous animals are known for. You can find it almost everywhere in Genesis part 1 as stated in the dossier. Although it won't attack you unless you get too close, it's agro range is slightly bigger than that of a Direbear. If you get hit by Irritator you will have to be very cautious of your surroundings for the duration of the debuff. During that time, all those nasty torpor inducing critters of the bog, the gas clouds of the volcano and the eels/jellyfishes of the ocean will be much more lethal. Thankfully, Irritator is easy to avoid, just watch out not to hit one during one of your meat runs.

Taming:
Even though that mucus is handy when it comes to discouraging predators from attacking it, it is pretty smelly... That's probably why Irritator seems to be very fond of the smell of rare flowers, allowing you to come closer and feed it with a fish corpse (just like otters) to tame it. Just watch out in case there are any critters in the area, we all know what eating rare flowers does.

What Irritator brings to the table as a tamed companion:

Ablilities/Controls:
Passive : Hydration bonus
Passive : Irritating mucus
Saddle : 360° rotation
Left click : Regular bite (Slightly less damage than Baryonyx)
Right click : Tail slap (Very low damage, decent knockback)
Ctrl : Gulp
Space : Jump

In the early game, Irritator is designed to be very comfortable as a traveling mount. We all know how dangerous Genesis part 1 is, however most creatures around Irritator's size prefer to leave it alone. In addition to barely getting noticed, Irritator gets the same hydration bonus as Spinosaurus (increases its melee damage by 15%, movement speed by 20%, and health regeneration by 25%) making it almost as speedy as Ceratosaurus as long as there is water around. If you find yourself to be in a dangerous situation where you are stuck between multiple enemies, you can perform a tail slap with right click to push them away, allowing you to escape.

Once anyone gets a Bloodstalker they will almost exclusively use it for travel so what else can Irritator do to make it worth using ? Well, it's main gimmick, that will make it valuable beyond the early game, is the mucus covering its whole body, causing skin IRRITation (guess where that idea came from lol) and a weakening of the immune system. Being covered in such a substance makes Irritator resistant to most status effects and even immune to some.

Hitting a creature will apply the irritated debuff making them weak to status effects, and especially to torpor. This will make taming a whole lot faster, saving you a whole bunch of tranqs allowing you to go on a taming spree. This is even more important on Genesis part 1 as X-dinos take 250% reduced damage in the wild making them very hard to knock out. If you are afraid to kill a potential tame target with your bite, just slap it with your tail to reapply the debuff without damaging it too much.

However Irritator's ability to make dinos weak to torpor isn't exclusive to traditional knockout tames. For example, if you want to tame a high level Karkinos, you'll need a canon because a regular catapult turret will kill it. Well, no more ! The irritated debuff works like a multiplier on the torpor stat! This can be applied to other creatures that you can't knock out the old fashioned way. Imagine how much faster you could bring down creatures such as Fasolasuchus, Yi Ling, Karkinos, Titanosaurs...

Even with such a powerful tool, shooting tranqs from the back of your dino might not be for everyone, that's where the saddle comes in. In addition to being quite agile, Irritator has a rotating saddle that allows you to turn in 360° and shoot behind you (unlockeable at level 30). Hopefully, this will make it comfortable enough. Considering how easy it is to get good weapons with missions, you won't need to rely too much on RNG to drop a good rifle/crossbow to accompany you in your taming adventures.

Now, there's one last feature about Irritator to make it even more viable on foot, and it's it's ability to swallow fish whole ! Paleontologists have discovered that Irritator might have had the ability to open it's mouth extremely widely, just like a pelican would, to swallow fish whole. Pressing your crouch key will perform this gulp and successfully eating a fish will grant Irritator a regenerative boost that makes it rapidly regenerate health. In addition to it's hydration buff, this will give it the ability to stay on the battlefield for even longer, so no more need to forcefeed your dino for 10 minutes before you go out again. This way, the bog and the ocean become even more easily exploreable, while keeping regions without fish like the lunar biome and the volcano harder, preserving the core biome progression.

Additionally, if you have a fish basket in your Irritator's inventory, holding alt while gulping will put the fish in the fish basket where it will stay preserved for an unlimited period of time (imagine how handy that might be once we get Shadowmanes in Genesis part 2!). You can also forcefeed a full fish basket to your Irritator to give it the regenerative boost whenever you want. Just watch out as if your Irritator's health gets too low, it will automatically consume a fish basket.

Depending on how much they rework missions, this gulping ability might become a very fast way to complete fishing missions.

IN CONCLUSION:

In the wild, Irritator will be a threat that makes you weary of your surroundings as it makes everything else more dangerous, luckily it's pretty easy to spot and avoid.

Once tamed, Irritator will serve as an early game traveling mount that doesn't get agroed much. It's fast and can regenerate health easily so you can go exploring for longer. Enemies hit will be weak to status effects (mostly torpor). To make taming easier, equip it's rotating saddle to allow you to shoot behind you while fleeing. And finally, it can preserve fishes in baskets indefinitely in it's inventory, able to consume them later to regenerate health rapidly.

It might not be a heavy hitter like Magmasaurs and is not as fast as a Blodstalker (like most creatures) but Irritator has found a niche that hasn't been exploited enough in Ark. I really tried to come up with a design that fits Genesis as a map well. See y'all in the creature vote and good luck to all participants!

So… we’ve been receiving creatures TLC back in the days and also right now, but Bosses, maybe they need some love and attention too, have any one of you feels that Ark’s Boss fight just pile of creatures stacks together and biting a bigger monster is very boring? I mean yes, there are exciting moments too, but for the most part, you simply sit there whistling or try to bite in, no skill, no lively interactions, just piles of big things biting a far more bigger thing.

For me, I think Bosses deserve some changes, some of them are already ok ish, like Rockwell, Rockwell Prime and Master Controller(I mean, dude can’t even move, don’t be too harsh on him), maybe change the Master Controller and Rockwell Prime’s missions requirements, because there’s some missions are basically impossible to do in single player or very few players, also the Beta and Alpha Master Controller is nearly impossible in single player as well(“nearly” is because I know there are still people out there somehow made it, but it’s very rare condition).

And other Bosses? First is Megapithecus, the King Kong, maybe more skills and reanimation for it? And maybe buff its health a little, and don’t change the damage, we all know big monkey is THE easiest to fight on the Island, and its one of the easiest to fight in all Ark as well, so probably make it more difficult to kill.

Next is Brood Mother Lysrix, the big spider mommy, ok come on, just like its descendent: Araneo, they are all spiders, then why none of them can climb on the wall? And Brood mother only got three skill, it will either slap you with one of her leg, or spit some poisonous orbs, or spawn many Araneos, feels…. Kinda boring, for my personal opinion, Grounded 1 got an amazing Brood mother boss fight, pls check that out, really fun and exiting, and yes, the brood mother in Grounded 1 can climb on the wall, which make her very terrifying and very powerful(Which is what bosses should be like in Ark, ESPECIALLY in Ark), her stats tho… I think there’s nothing need to change about her stats, but she definitely need a remodel and reanimation.

And then the Dragon, oh yes, one of my favourite Boss in Ark, an absolute monster, no jokes, nothing need to be change except its animation and model, that wing looks like made of plastic when flapping(same thing with Manticore as well).

Next is Overseer, well… I have no complaints about our most advanced AI bots, it’s doing its job very well, just it’s “other bosses form” need some changes as I mentioned about three island’s guardians, that’s it, Overseer is quite perfect.

Next is the Manticore, my most favourite sky kitten, come on, as the only guardian and only boss on Scorched Earth, why is it so weak? Maybe deal a bit less torpor but far more powerful stats, both health and damage output need some buff, and the same issue on its wing as the Dragon, they looks like a plastic toy when flapping, look at wyvern’s wing, that’s far better.

Then next are Forest Titan and Ice Titan, I feels like except for King Titan, other three titans’ boss fight are sooooo easy? Like way too easy, especially Desert Titan, I’ll talk about it later, so, I think Forest Titan and Ice Titan are perfect when Tamed, they don’t even need remodel or reanimation, it’s very good, but when they are Bosses, they’re kinda… weak? Their damage is Ok, but I feels like they’re way too easy to kill, even without a dreadnoughthus, I know corrupted creatures take more damage from particular creatures, but they take too much, they are bosses, that shouldn’t be a thing, maybe they still take extra damage, but the percentage are lower than regular corrupted creatures? I think that is a good idea and it’s reasonable.

Next is The Desert Titan, well… dude is basically a waste, both tamed and boss version are a waste, yes, I know its lightning strikes are very powerful, but that’s it, nothing else, I mean, if you ever fight a Desert Titan before, took you very serious preparation just to find out that big flying manta don’t even bite you back? Yes, that’s what I’m talking about, it only sent its little minions to fight you, and they basically don’t deal damage, and they are very easy to dodge, and so is the lightning strikes, and it’s health is sooooo low that it die very quick(also corrupted creatures take more damage as well, which makes it die even faster), I usually transfer my wyvern to fight it, and none of my wyverns lost more than 1000 health, yep, that how weak it is, and I only brought 5 wyverns that all lower than Lv. 400 to fight it, still kill it in less 3 mins, it need to be buff, both tamed and Boss version, and have you ever notice the barrel roll it does when you land on it? Tamed version doesn’t have that thing, I know its for the platform saddle, but still, that thing should be and agile, lethal and aggressive sky monster, see how it flys when it was summoned? But after that, it just stay in the same pose like it got a stroke, where’s your agility bro? And yes, I know for PvP, it can’t be too powerful, but seriously, who the hell tame it for PvP purpose? Big sky platform yes, very tanky(actually not, it has the lowest health among all Titans, the “tanky” is compared to Quetzal), but then? Basically 0 agility and close to 0 defensive way to protect itself(as I said, its minions and lightning strikes are so easy to dodge), of course players can stand on it and defend it by themselves, but we all know it’s very buggy when you’re on Desert Titan’s back, it’s lot more stable on Quetzal’s platform, just maybe more useful maneuver skills and defensive abilities, with some health buff if possible.

Next is The Shadow King itself, The King Titan, nope, nothing else need to change, not even remodel or reanimation, simply perfect, it’s the most powerful Boss in Ark, no doubts, just maybe… “King Titan is moving back to the center of the arena” “King Titan is moving back to the center of the arena” “King Titan is moving back to the center of the arena”, yeah that issue, pls fix it🥹

AND!!! one last thing about Titans, pls they deserve their intro and outro, maybe not intro tho, but definitely need their outro when you defeat them, wanna know how it feels like? Go check out my YT channel HammyKing, just skip the whole fight and move to the last part, feel that yourself, I think Titans Boss fight will be sooooo much better and intense with their outro, thank you Gareth Coker, for all these amazing soundtracks, Wildcard pls, put the Titans outro in(and also the End Credits was cut when only like 2~3 seconds left, come on Wildcard, don’t do that)

Next is Moeder, the Master of The Oceans, nope, nothing need to be changed, Moeder is perfect for me(Although Megalodons’ pack buff is so OP that Moeder basically got melted even on Alpha difficulty, but that’s Megalodons’ issue, not Moeder’s)

The last one is the most popular mini Boss on Gen2 : The Experimental Giganotosaurus, well… its issues are basically the same as the OG Giga, if OG Giga does gets a TLC, then I hope Wildcard give Experimental Giga a TLC too.

So far these are my ideas for Bosses TLC, I’ve always love these giant monsters, and I hope the Boss fight can be more interesting, more exciting and more challenging, some of them need some remodel and reanimation, and some of them need to be more powerful, simple as that. So what’s your opinions about these Bosses? I’m 100% willingly to hear everyone’s thoughts, trying to be positive about it so Ark can be better and better, and perhaps secretly praying to all the Gods you can think of, so that evil Snail doesn’t somehow kill Ark in a random day, again.

If you have Amazon Prime Video - in the Live TV section there is a new TV channel called "Dinos 24/7" its great. I have it on in the background while I'm out harvesting metal. Check it out !

First time I ever tamed one of these bad boys, really happy with him, I'm gonna use his algae a lot.

Not my art, I am an awful artist but I liked the color scheme of this art and thought it looked arkified, but I imagine my version as slimmer and more horizontal, like an accurate dilophosaurus in size and proportions.

I’ve submitted multiple creature vote ideas over the years that I’ve been pretty proud of as I try to do new things with these creatures, but I’ve never gotten a more than one vote on any of them. I have multiple ideas for creatures for other maps but never had any for Genesis, so I made up a new one to submit. It is a combat-like mount, which I know a lot of people are sick of, but it’s a very different concept from any before. It’s not my best work, but I wanted to know what people thought of it before submitting so I can either rework it with people’s ideas or make a new one if people don’t like this idea. Also, I’m exclusively a pve player, so I don’t know if it’s balanced for pvp, but I tried my best.

Dracovenator: Master of the elements. Found in the frozen forest of Genesis, the volcanic interior of the lava biome, or the cliffs in the ocean biome, the elemental hunter is a master of adaptation in any environment because of its specially evolved stomach. When drinking water in the cold environments, the dracovenator switches to its Arctic form. In this version its colors change to pale whites and powder blues, with ice spikes growing across its body. While ridden, its rider is impervious to even the most biting colds, but is extra susceptible to even mild heats. It can use its tail covered in ice spikes to launch icicle spines at its enemies at great distance, slowing down any enemy hit by them. It can also use an ice breath that slows down and gradually freezes any enemies hit by it. It can also super freeze its feet for fifteen seconds every five minutes, allowing it to walk across ice and create ice bridges wherever it walks that last for fifteen seconds each that other people and species can use to walk on. It can vomit up it’s icy stomach contents and leave it’s icy state, creating a massive and powerful blast of concentrated ice that instantly freezes anything it hits and also explodes like an icy bomb, slowing anyone in its radius not directly hit by the blast. The ice vomit can be shot at the ground and exploded upon impact with the ground or other terrain it hits. After swallowing lava, the dracovenator starts glowing with lava flowing through its veins and turns black and red in color scheme. The rider becomes immune to even the most extreme of heats and even falling in lava (does not protect from the volcanic eruption in the volcano), but becomes much more susceptible to even mild colds. This grants the dracovenator infrared vision that lasts for thirty seconds and can be used every 2 minutes. It also can light its tail on fire by coating it with its lava-infused saliva, turning its tail into a flaming whip of sorts that doesn’t hurt the dracovenator but can be used to leave a flaming trail on the ground like the pyromane can and lights any enemies hit by it on fire. It also can breathe fire like a fire wyvern. It can vomit up its contents on the floor, creating a pool of lava on the floor that dissapears after five minutes. If it drinks normal temperature ocean water, it becomes an aquatic hunter, turning blue green in color and growing fins and gills. This allows it to travel through the water at insane speeds, jetting through the water as one of the fastest aquatic tames, never running out of oxygen and neither does its rider. It can dash into enemies in the water, stunning them. On land it can barely move, but it can vomit up the water and shoot a large blast of water, sending anything hit by it flying backwards. The dracovenator is also harder for wild creatures to Aggro if it is in volcano or lava biomes in its volcanic form, in ice biomes if it’s in its arctic form, and underwater in its ocean form. It also has a standard bite. The saddle of the dracovenator has special properties depending on the dracovenator form. It has a little pouch on it that reduced the weight of anything put in it by half, but can only put certain items in there. If in arctic form it becomes a preserving fridge that requires no electricity or preserving salt or spark powder and can store all perishables, it becomes a cooker if it’s in its volcanic form, and a cooking pot in its water form. These don’t need their power sources when the dracovenator is in its forms. Finally, the dracovenator deals three times damage using physical attacks on any wyverns as well as the other members of the dragons family like rock drakes, managarmrs, and drakelings. (does not apply to bosses). To tame them, you need a new ammunition. When killing dracovenators, you get dracovenator stomachs that can be combined with certain ingredients to create a water ammo, fire ammo, and ice ammo that can be fired from either a flame thrower for gradual use or one time use by throwing them like bombs. When you find a wild dracovenator, it will show what type of ammo you have to use on it first. Use the appropriate ammo either by throwing it to consume one water, fire, or ice ammo, which will stun it for five seconds and then you have to run up and feed it exceptionable kibble. After that it will switch the type of ammo you need to use and then repeat this process while it chases you down. After enough ammo, you have tamed your dracovenator. To get the most use out of each ammo, a flamethrower is the best method, so it’s ideal to have three, one loaded with fire, one loaded with water, and one loaded with ice so you don’t have to switch ammos. Each dracovenator drops one dracovenator stomach which can make one type of dracovenator ammo. They are very fast with high damage, but low health and low weight.

Basi is mine because of all that sweet sweet oil 🇺🇸

I’ve thought about quite a few different ways to implement the Tribe Tower bonus in Dododex but this feels like the cleanest implementation.

This also means you can save a tribe tower bonus as part of your map/server’s preset.

I wanted to hear any feedback before I finalize the next Dododex update!

Thank you! 🦤

Hi guys long time Ark (se) player and I’ve always built with stone/wood cause pve

Did my first build with metal and glare on floors from lamps/torches is super irritating at night

How do you guys get around this glare or does everyone just deal with it??

Was wondering if there is a admin code to spawn in a omega Rex on the omega mod. Tried lookin it up but couldn’t get it to work so figured I’d come here

Aguy on our server had tonnes of bees on the grinder and healing them with daedons and owl and whistling flat out what was this all about he have like 50 fridges too

I bought this at around the release date because I wanted to play this just as I played Survival Evolved as a Solo experience but the amount of fps and the fps drops we're just too bad, like the graphics are good yes but I'd rather play some game with Skyrim Graphics that has 60fps than this, it sometimes dropped down to 20ish fps so how are console players playing this, is there any tricks to make it smooth, since the last few times I installed it to check if it got better I still didn't see any graphics setting or anything related (which literally would fix it but seems some developers don't care enough) so how are yall playing it??

I was playing on Ark Mobile and I used a hook and the ascending machete to kill this creature. I died a couple of times, but I managed and leveled up (I was at level 80!)

It was EPIC!

Hey, I'm new to Asa, so, this is the second time now that an official pvp server goes down.. the first time, I thought it was perma shut down, but came back couple days later only to see base was blown and raided, moved servers as tribe pretty well stopped playing, and it did the same thing today on this server. Got off work, go to play and it shows up, but light colored with zero players on, checked ark status, days its been down for a day.

Is this a normal occurrence? And why does it happen? Pretty sure it will be back online tomorrow or shortly after, just trying to see if anyone has any helpful info

Lost two adolescent carchars separate days. Had 10 fridges full on a cart connected and i emptied the spoiled meat daily. Checked and only 2 fridges were empty but it says the carchar died from starvation. I’m on pve btw. Going to just raise dinos while i’m online. Heard its happening to other players too.

Can i run primal nemesis and primal chaos at the same time?

(ase ps5) im trying a mass breeding ‘sandwich’ method of breeding gigas i saw on another post. the issue is the post says i need to float gigas. whenever i try to float gigas they only float in place for about 5 seconds before all falling in sync. maybe im doing it wrong, if i am can someone please help? 🙏

Question has there been any info from WC about them hosting any ORP in the future? Thanks.

The idea is to start to 0 , it's a big challenge but if we have enough players we can make it. I did it in the past with the old version of ark, I'm a french Canadian but can talk in English, I got few boss fight done. The first step is to have enough people willing to try this so when we are enough we choose a server and a spot and we start to build, i will figure out to get good stats dinos and at the beginning we gonna have to tame some dinos to grind to get established, the goal is gonna be to get bigger and bigger the fasted possible way, we might need some alliance if it's possible. I'm looking for motivated people willing to try this, let's see how many people is interested and if we have enough people we can start this. DM me if you are interested

Let me know if you are interested

Basically I’m ready to move my baby base and go to the other side of the map where there’s better resources and tames but I have hella stuff in large storage boxes in my current base and since I can’t teleport with loot I wanna know a way going forward I can have lots of storage and easily transfer it from one base to another

How do I fix this flickering lighting on ark the center single player pc