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Roll Rat

🌿 Herbivore Live birth
Temperament
Neutral
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Mammals
Period
Holocene
Species
Heterocephalus magnus

Base stats

StatBase (lvl 1)Per wild levelPer tamed level
Health850+20.0%+5.4%
Stamina300+10.0%+10.0%
Food3,000+10.0%+10.0%
Weight400+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

Transport

Roll Rats can transport several people safely and quickly by rolling. When riding the rat and holding , , or , it rolls forward at a fast pace. On its way, it breaks rocks and trees that are in its path; however, this reduces the durability of the .

Harvester

The Roll Rat is a good harvester and a decent Mushroom and Berry harvester and will even harvest berries and mushrooms by itself.

It also has 80% weight reduction for and .

Fertilizer

As with most creatures, feed Roll Rats and they will produce a very high amount of feces.

Bulldozer

Rolling into trees, large mushrooms and rocks will destroy them. This can be used to clear out areas of land quickly to be used for construction, although the resources from the trees and rocks are not harvested. In the same vein, Roll Rats can bulldoze their way through wood and stone structures with relative ease, making them primitive base breakers or turret removers. They do more damage the faster they're going and leveling up melee damage amplifies the damage they deal.

Travel

the Roll Rat is one of the best land travel mounts, they are faster than a , or even a . and more fun to travel with unlike flyers like the .

Raider

on PVP the roll rat can be one of the best Raiders, with their roll they Can quickly break and s, also they can't be immobilized by and it gives you nearly protection from Tranquilizer Darts.

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