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Dire Polar Bear

🥩 Carnivore Live birth
Temperament
Territorial
Diet
Carnivore
Group
Mammals
Period
Mid Pleistocene - Early Holocene
Species
Arctodus dirus

Base stats

StatBase (lvl 1)Per wild levelPer tamed level
Health400+20.0%+5.4%
Stamina500+10.0%+10.0%
Food3,000+10.0%+10.0%
Weight650+2.0%+4.0%
Oxygen270+10.0%+10.0%
Melee100.0%+5.0%+1.7%

Wild base values · use the to simulate a specific dino.

What it’s good at

War Mount

Excellent damage and speed. The Dire Bears area of attack is huge, reaching all the way back to its hind legs and a good meter in front of it. It can use its primary attack at all running speeds, meaning chasing down prey is easy (Level Health and Melee Damage).

Gatherer

Very good at gathering and collecting meat. Not the best, but still gathers , , and (Level Health, Melee Damage, and Weight).

Honey Harvester

Harvests on Alternate Fire () from wild s with 3x rate (15 honey) without harming the hives and without aggro from bees. Also acts as a targeting dummy towards Giant Bees to protect survivors riding on it.

Organic Polymer Harvester

Although its not very good at collecting from creature bodies, it is extremely good at gathering it from the organic polymer plants located on Aberration, Valguero and Fjordur.

Bee Taming Assistant

Thanks to its immunity to the effect of bee stings, the Direbear is a good taming assistant.

All-Purpose Mount

The Dire Bear is a very versatile mount. It can sprint very fast and has a high carry weight, while also having low stamina drain. Its secondary attack is quite powerful, at 65 base damage. All this makes the Dire Bear a valuable mid-game mount (Level Health, Weight, and Melee Damage).

Travel

Though the Dire Bear's sprint ignores its speed stat, a fully accelerated Dire Bear is faster than even an unleveled and . Low stamina drain and decently high weight also enable it in this role, however its inability to jump makes getting around cliffs and ledges troublesome (Level Stam and Weight).

Transport

The dire bear can easily transport goods from one place to another as it has a higher base weight than a and is very fast, but does have some problems in getting across rocky or mountainous areas.

Damage

The dire bears damage is high and similar to a Rex's so it can tear through most creatures' health.

Combatant

The dire bear has damage, decent health, and great speed. it is perfect for raiding lower tier bases.

Stats & breeding from ARK Smart Breeding · creature facts from ark.wiki.gg (CC BY-NC-SA).