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Dunkleosteus

🥩 Carnivore Live birth
Temperament
Territorial
Diet
Carnivore
Group
Fish

Base stats

StatBase (lvl 1)Per wild levelPer tamed level
Health710+20.0%+5.4%
Stamina200+10.0%+10.0%
Food2,000+10.0%+10.0%
Weight910+2.0%+4.0%
Oxygen150+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

Damage/War

Being the only tameable water animal that can break stone structures, the Dunkleosteus gains a valuable place in water raids. Use them as a cheap method to get into stone bases underwater.

Level up: Health, Stamina, Damage and Speed

Tank

The Dunkleosteus has 40% damage reduction from projectiles damage, this in combination with its good base makes it a good option to tank turrets on moderate quantities.

Level up: Health

Taming Tank

Thanks to its damage reduction, the Dunkleosteus could be used for taming creatures like because it can easily resist its attacks while the taming is in progress. Also it can just tank other creatures damage while the player is shooting tranqs to them.

Level up: Health

Gatherer

Excellent at collecting large amounts of and from underwater nodes, and , and whenever those nodes are available for marine enviroments. It will also harvest from dead s.

Level up: Weight, Damage and Speed

Ultimate Marine Collector

On maps like Genesis: Part 1, Lost Island or Fjordur the ocean biome has a lot of different map elements that allows the gathering of resources like , , , or underwater, and most of those resources are obtainable by the Dunkleosteus, allowing the sustainable life under the sea with hardly the need to go out for basic resources.

Level up: Stamina, Weight, Damage and Speed

NOTE

On the maps that have ocean got a lot of updates on that biome with more resources in them, allowing the Dunkleosteus to be a more than decent option to harvest on the new oceans.

Transport

With with an outstanding base , the Dunkelosteus makes for a decent pack animal in the water, as they are a lot easier to tame than the , though they don't have a platform saddle nor the Mosa's damage/health, however, the Dunkleosteus inventory reduces the weight for some resources (See below), making it an excellent option to transport those materials underwater.

Level up: Stamina, Weight and Speed

Chitin Source

Currently the Dunkleosteus is one of the creatures that drops the most when it dies, this makes it an interesting option to kill in case that the tribe needs massive amounts of chitin.

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