Megachelon

Mobile Base

The Megachelon's shell functions as a huge platform saddle, offering the ability to create a base on its back. Unlike any other tame that offers this role, the Megachelon offers both land, and sea versatility, though it is more at home in the latter. Aside from this, it also provides unique benefits that no other tame with traditional platform builds can bring to the table.

Diving Rig

The Megachelon has breathing vents along its body from which it pumps into the water while submerged, allowing you to breathe underwater. This offers immense benefits when harvesting resources from the deep sea, such as and ; letting you swim out on your or , then returning to your Megachelon to catch your breath and unload your spoils, where its high stat gives it a bulky carrying capacity to help make off with the goods. Such a use of the Megachelon can even replace the expensive…

Living Plantation

The Megachelon offers the unique ability to irrigate any number of placed on it's back, (bugged on some versions) providing an infinite water supply to these plots and ensuring they'll never dry out. Likewise producing , they can also provide nitrogen for the crops as well. To aid in this, a can be kept in a on their back and set to wander, to convert the Megachelon's droppings into . In addition, the Megachelon passively produces and in its inventory. This alone is valuable,…

Fishing Trawler

As a platform possessing the ability to reposition itself anywhere in the sea, the Megachelon offers a fine fishing experience. Any number of or may be placed in varying directions, allowing you to make full use of a , which from the previously mentioned ability to fuel Bee Hives placed on their back, offers a limitless supply of the best fishing bait available for a rod. Alternatively, the Megachelon is a wonderful platform to employ the use of if you lack the bait for a rod.…

Dino Ferry

The Megachelon's vast carrying capacity allows it to handle the weight of some of Ark's biggest behemoths. If a isn't an option, then the Megachelon is more than capable of getting nearly any creature over a body of water and to its next destination. This works especially well in maps where the water is less concentrated around the ARK's edges, and more a core feature that separates regions from one another. Maps such as The Center, Valguero, and Fjordur are prime examples of this.

Siege Engine

Though a poor choice to use in traditional combat, due to its slow movement speed and limited attack options, Megachelons can still find a place on the battlefield through a combination of traits that make them a surprisingly effective battle-barge. Megachelon have an extremely large and resistance to projectiles on its shell, allowing it to tank bullets from if positioned properly against them, and perform the role of a turret-soaker. Structures can also be built on the back of…

Chitin Farm

Wild Megachelon can be hunted and harvested for their shell fragments, which equal 50 when put into an industrial grinder. On top of that, tamed Megachelons can be bred, allowing a constant source of shell fragments, and in turn, chitin. This makes Megachelons a secondary source of chitin with the primary source coming from arthropods.