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Moschops

🥩 Carnivore Egg-layer
Temperament
Cowardly
Diet
Carnivore
Group
Synapsids
Period
Mid Permian
Species
Moschops cibumutante
Egg
Moschops Egg
Droppings
Small

Base stats

StatBase (lvl 1)Per wild levelPer tamed level
Health375+20.0%+5.4%
Stamina300+10.0%+10.0%
Food300+10.0%+10.0%
Weight200+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

Coward

The Moschops will always flee whenever another creature attacks.

On aggressive, it will continuously flee from nearby "threats", even those that don't attack (e.g. passive/skittish creatures).

On neutral, it will flee when directly attacked (not just when combat begins nearby).

If you whistle to attack a specific target, it will flee from that target instead.

If ridden they now CAN do a substantial amount of damage to an enemy dino.

Fighter

Punches well above it's weight class, though it needs a rider to encourage it. Most enemies will usually underestimate you, and see an easy target, allowing you the element of surprise.

Autonomous Harvesting

This ability makes Moschops one of the most important tames early in the game.

Gathers bushes and trees autonomously while Wander Enabled (berries, seeds, thatch, wood, etc.).

Like , it can gather from bushes. This can provide good quantities of for players without a or a to harvest for themselves.

Berry collection is incredibly efficient and given enough time can easily collect enough to not only feed itself but your character and most herbivore tames as well- be sure to empty inventory regularly as it will quickly fill to capacity.

They can also automatically harvest dead bodies for you.

The moschops is a good, easy source of large eggs used to make . Other sources of large eggs requires a violent tame of dangerous creatures such as and .

In addition to bonus stats, each time you spend a skill point you will also gain the ability to apply "Harvesting Levels" via the tame's wheel menu (see gallery below). Recommended to level in weight for storage capacity.

Each point invested will increase both the likelihood of gathering a particular resource (relative to other drops, "weight") and the quantity of the resource gathered (e.g. 200% is twice the base yield). It is currently unknown if the bonus from Harvesting Levels stacks additively or multiplicativly with Melee Damage.

Contrary to what is believed, you can ride the moschops and have the bonus applied.

The following options for improving are available:

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