Stegosaurus

Gatherer

Stegosaurus are very good at gathering berries with Sharpened Plate, thatch with Heavy Plate, and wood with Hardened Plate (similar to ) (Level up Melee Damage and Weight).

Lunar biome plant harvester

Stegosaurus are exceptional at harvesting wood, thatch, stone, and crystal from the lunar biome exclusive plant nodes with their sharpened plate mode. They can gather these lunar biome resource nodes far better than an ankylosaurus. However, they can get quickly encumbered due to the heavy weight of the stone and crystal.

Heavy Plate Mode

Resource nodes that look like Sea Urchins which give thatch, stone, and wood.

Sharpened Plate Mode

Resource Nodes with cubic crystals and long strings that give fiber, stone, and crystal.

Transport

Able to carry a great deal of weight and with high health, Stegosaurus make for great pack animals. Also traversing at places where wild dinos can dismount you makes them unable to do so as long as you are at the stegosaurus (Level up Weight, Speed, and Stamina).

Genesis Bog Travel

Bloodstalkers cannot dismount the survivor from Stegos, making them perfect, albeit slow, bog biome mounts.

Travel

Stegosaurus makes for a strong, albeit slow, mount (Level up Speed and Stamina).

Tank

Stegosaurus has a pretty high base damage and knockback which makes it good for fighting multiple enemies smaller than itself (Level up Health, Melee Damage, and some Speed, and utilize Hardened Plate). With only a primitive saddle with a 25.0 armor rating, a yutyrannus' courage roar, a Mek's M.D.S.M, their mate boost, and their hardened plate mode will only make stegosaurus receive 14.2% of damage, making a large group of them difficult to kill and will be challenging for even players on…

With only hardened plate mode and a primitive saddle alone, a stegosaurus will already have a 75.0 saddle armor rating and taking only receiving 1/4 damage from creatures.

Experience Gain

Stegosaurs have high and extremely high making it an absolute killing machine and an amazing dino that can take care of a lot of experience giving dinos such as Hyenas, Spinosaurs or even a Giga

Boss Killer

The stegosaurus, if well-bred, is a useful tool against the many bosses in the game. It is favored by many tribes since no Rex are on Aberration, it can dish out a decent amount of damage and can be healed easily through vegetable cakes. This is even more useful with either Hardened Plate for additional survivability. Overall, they can act like a shield for your tames. You can also equip weapons while you are mounted on it, turning the stegosaurus into a literal tank.

Stegosaurus can be a great diversion to get the boss' attention with its hardened plate mode to allow your damage tames to surround it.

It can be useful as a diversion in the Overseer fight to distract most of the defense units.

In Genesis

Part 2, they are useful in stalling Corrupted Survivors that attack it if you pumped alot of health into it. With faster mounts, the Corrupted Survivors are stuck in dealing with the stegosaurus.

Stegosaurus can withstand a prolonged fight against the full might of the Experimental Giga if it is fully imprinted, has a 100+ saddle, high health above 40k health, has high melee damage, and has Veggie cakes in its inventory.

Mobile Armory

Stegosaurus can carry plenty of armor sets to a boss battle for each player that joins the fight since it has one of the highest carry weights amongst creatures that can be brought to boss fights. Have the stegosaurus far away from the chaotic parts of the fighting. When a player's armor set is broken, they can run to it and replace their armor safely since the plate modes prevent dismounting. Create folders within its inventory so players can easily see through the armor sets…

Damage

Great Compared to an easy early game tame

War Mount

A mounted Stegosaurus with full stamina is basically invincible, as they can deliver damage without touching their opponent, allowing you to take on powerful creatures like Spinosaurus and Paraceratherium and come out unharmed. The only disadvantage is their attack range may strike unintended targets, destroying your tame efforts and starting unnecessary fights with other animals. When fighting with a stegosaurus, make sure to have its tail side facing the enemy, further increasing…

PvP Turret Soaker

Utilizing Hardened Plate, Stegos can protect the rider and also reduce the damage of projectiles such as arrows and bullets by a significant amount. If angled correctly against opposing Auto Turrets the Stego can soak more bullets than even a Bronto. This tactic will require a lot of practice and can't be used in every situation but the rewards are plentiful to any tribe that can utilize this niche to its maximum effectiveness.

Level up: Health and stick to Hardened Plate.

PVP Armor Destroyer

With the Stegosaur's Impale Ability, it can impale Humans until their armor breaks ( Level Up and optionally ) Humans would not be able to escape although they can still use weapons such as the and (note that the Stegosaur impale Ability can be finicky to aim so it requires some practice)

Impaler

The Stegosaur can certain Creatures draining their and as well as rendering them immobile during the impale:

Forest Titan Killer

Even though the Forest Titan doesn't look like it can be impaled, a stegosaurus can actually impale it because its drag weight is 35. With the Forest Titan having a health pool of 400k, a stegosaurus' impale ability damage would scale to high numbers. Level up health and have a high quality saddle to make sure the stegosaurus can tank all the Titan's heavy attacks.

Corrupted Master Controller Killer

Like the Forest Titan as mentioned above, Rockwell's digital avatar has a drag weight of 35 as well, making it vulnerable to a stegosaurus impale and will result in high damage in a quick burst. On gamma difficulty, damage can spike up to around 560 damage per tick. The Impale attack can deal an average of 1324 damage per tick on beta difficulty. For Alpha difficulty, the impale attack deals an average of 3320 damage per tick.

Orbital Supply Drop Tame

Although its average damage is dwarfed many times over by other raw damage creatures such as Giganotosaurus and Carcharadontosaurus, stegosaurus is strongest in tactics and strategy to control the flow of corrupted creatures coming in. It cannot be walked over, making it an invisible wall to corrupted creatures when formatted with other tamed stegosaurus head to hip to form an air-tight barrier around an OSD. This requires setting all stegos to passive and heavy plate…