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** ''[[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurus]] dominum'', or Rex
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** ''[[TyrannosaurusRex ''[[KingOfTheDinosaurs Tyrannosaurus]] dominum'', or Rex
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* ''TyrannosaurusRex'': Or rather ''Tyrannosaurus dominum''. Present in normal and albino versions. One of the nastiest non-boss monsters.
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* ElectricJellyfish: The Cnidaria ingame have electric attacks on close range and will shock the player during combat.
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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler: The ultimate purpose of the Arks and the Genesis ship, to preserve Earth life from the apocalypse. Both have GoneHorriblyWrong.]]
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The {{Sequel}} and AnimatedAdaptation, ''VideoGame/Ark2'' and ''WesternAnimation/ArkTheAnimatedSeries'' [[https://youtu.be/pUpbCL3HTNU were]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9nvyh9hPoBM announced]] at the 2020 Game Awards.
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The {{Sequel}} and AnimatedAdaptation, ''VideoGame/Ark2'' ''VideoGame/ARK2'' and ''WesternAnimation/ArkTheAnimatedSeries'' [[https://youtu.be/pUpbCL3HTNU were]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9nvyh9hPoBM announced]] at the 2020 Game Awards.
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** The ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', like other herbivores, likes berries. Unlike other herbivores however - or any dino really - its favorite food isn't kibble, it's bug repellant (which is otherwise not even possible to consume as a food item).
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** The ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', like most other herbivores, likes berries. Unlike other herbivores however - or any dino dino, really - its favorite food isn't kibble, it's bug repellant (which is otherwise not even possible to consume as a food item).
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* ExtremeOmnivore: The dossier for ''Moschops'' indicates this. Its desired foods for taming range from common berries to ''organic polymer'' (which is fatally poisonous to anything else, including tamed Moschops).
** Taken even further with Gacha, which will happily eat rocks, equipment blueprints, and Snow Owl waste pellets in addition to the usual meat and berries.
** Taken even further with Gacha, which will happily eat rocks, equipment blueprints, and Snow Owl waste pellets in addition to the usual meat and berries.
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* ExtremeOmnivore: ExtremeOmnivore:
** The dossier for ''Moschops'' indicates this. Its desired foods for taming range from common berries to ''organic polymer'' (which is fatally poisonous to anything else, including tamed Moschops).
**Taken even further with Gacha, which The Gacha will happily eat rocks, equipment blueprints, and Snow Owl waste pellets in addition to the usual meat and berries.berries. Putting basically ''anything'' in it (including cryopodded dinos) will usually lead to it eating it, no matter what it is.
** The ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', like other herbivores, likes berries. Unlike other herbivores however - or any dino really - its favorite food isn't kibble, it's bug repellant (which is otherwise not even possible to consume as a food item).
** The dossier for ''Moschops'' indicates this. Its desired foods for taming range from common berries to ''organic polymer'' (which is fatally poisonous to anything else, including tamed Moschops).
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** The ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', like other herbivores, likes berries. Unlike other herbivores however - or any dino really - its favorite food isn't kibble, it's bug repellant (which is otherwise not even possible to consume as a food item).
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** A wild Ferox will only ever take and eat Element, a rare commodity, as part of the taming process. Once it is tamed however, it will [[SubvertedTrope stop being picky]] and gladly take meat and berries for nourishment.
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* ExtremeOmnivore: The dossier for ''Moschops'' indicates this.
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* ExtremeOmnivore: The dossier for ''Moschops'' indicates this. Its desired foods for taming range from common berries to ''organic polymer'' (which is fatally poisonous to anything else, including tamed Moschops).
** Taken even further with Gacha, which will happily eat rocks, equipment blueprints, and Snow Owl waste pellets in addition to the usual meat and berries.
** Taken even further with Gacha, which will happily eat rocks, equipment blueprints, and Snow Owl waste pellets in addition to the usual meat and berries.
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* PickyEater: Compies can only be tamed by being fed Raw Prime Meat. Ordinary raw meat, or anything cooked, won't work.
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* PickyEater: PickyEater:
** Seabirds ''Ichthyornis'' and ''Pelagornis'' and semi-aquatic Baryonyx are exclusively piscivorous. (despite wild Ichthyornis eating everything else they can take from you)
** Compies can only be tamed by being fed Raw PrimeMeat. Meat (or mutton). Ordinary raw meat, or anything cooked, won't work.work.
** ''Archaeopteryx'' only eats chitin, and the dossier says it's picky about what bugs the chitin comes from!
** ''Achatina'' will only eat Sweet Vegetable Cake. Thankfully their hunger depletes ''very'' slowly after being tamed.
** Most wild carnivores prefer raw meat to cooked meat, and are tamed more efficiently. ''Thylacoleo'' GREATLY prefers cooked meat, to the point that cooked common meat is equal taming food to raw prime meat.
** Seabirds ''Ichthyornis'' and ''Pelagornis'' and semi-aquatic Baryonyx are exclusively piscivorous. (despite wild Ichthyornis eating everything else they can take from you)
** Compies can only be tamed by being fed Raw Prime
** ''Archaeopteryx'' only eats chitin, and the dossier says it's picky about what bugs the chitin comes from!
** ''Achatina'' will only eat Sweet Vegetable Cake. Thankfully their hunger depletes ''very'' slowly after being tamed.
** Most wild carnivores prefer raw meat to cooked meat, and are tamed more efficiently. ''Thylacoleo'' GREATLY prefers cooked meat, to the point that cooked common meat is equal taming food to raw prime meat.
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** The Unicorn. It's literally just an Equus with a horn, but only one can exist wild on the map at a time (taming and cryopoding it will allow another to spawn).
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* VideoGameCaringPotential: Tamed dinos generally help a lot in terms of gameplay. Working with other humans also accelerates growth in the form of shared EXP.
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* VideoGameCaringPotential: Tamed dinos generally help a lot in terms of gameplay. VideoGameCaringPotential:
** Working with other humansalso accelerates growth in the form of shared EXP.EXP.
** Tamed dinos help a lot - for transportation, hauling, gathering, combat, and more. Players often name and bond with their favorites.
** Small dinosaurs can be carried on your shoulder. Aww!
** Baby dinosaurs need to be manually fed and, for the best stats, cuddled and walked. They will imprint on whoever cared for them and, when all grown up, get a huge bonus to stats when ridden by that player.
** Some advanced players chose to help new players - giving them metal tools or starter dinosaurs. It's the best outcome when a fearsome beast appears outside your thatch hut!
** Working with other humans
** Tamed dinos help a lot - for transportation, hauling, gathering, combat, and more. Players often name and bond with their favorites.
** Small dinosaurs can be carried on your shoulder. Aww!
** Baby dinosaurs need to be manually fed and, for the best stats, cuddled and walked. They will imprint on whoever cared for them and, when all grown up, get a huge bonus to stats when ridden by that player.
** Some advanced players chose to help new players - giving them metal tools or starter dinosaurs. It's the best outcome when a fearsome beast appears outside your thatch hut!
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** You can force feed unconscious living beings. Force feeding an unconscious player is apparently a thing.
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** You can force feed unconscious living beings. Force feeding an unconscious player Most dinosaur breeders will cull baby dinosaurs without the desired stats or colors. Welcome to the world, now eat a sword!
** One of the most efficient ways to get polymer isapparently to club defenseless penguins - especially the babies!
** Some players will blow up every base they find, even the wood and thatch huts of new players too poor to have any loot.
** Some raiders will go on athing."meat run" against their rivals - eating every single tamed dinosaur with some huge carnivore, wiping out hours of work in minutes!
** One of the most efficient ways to get polymer is
** Some players will blow up every base they find, even the wood and thatch huts of new players too poor to have any loot.
** Some raiders will go on a
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** Unconscious players can also be drowned.
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** Unconscious players can also be drowned. As they are technically killed by the environment, they don't get a message saying who killed them. It's the perfect crime.
** Players can be held prisoner - in a cage, in handcuffs, in a cell. Used to prevent them from defending their base, as punishment for perceived wrongdoing, or - for the especially cruel - arbitrarily against random new players. It's not uncommon to see pleas for rescue in global chat.
*** You can force feed unconscious living beings. Slow suicide by starvation/punching the walls is an escape, but attentive jailers can knock out prisoners, feed, and heal them. The most dedicated tribes can keep prisoners for days, even weeks, by doing this in shifts!
*** Some evil geniuses will put an unconscious/logged off player in a Bond-villain DeathTrap, to be e.g. dropped naked into a pit of attack Dodos when they wake up.
** Players can be held prisoner - in a cage, in handcuffs, in a cell. Used to prevent them from defending their base, as punishment for perceived wrongdoing, or - for the especially cruel - arbitrarily against random new players. It's not uncommon to see pleas for rescue in global chat.
*** You can force feed unconscious living beings. Slow suicide by starvation/punching the walls is an escape, but attentive jailers can knock out prisoners, feed, and heal them. The most dedicated tribes can keep prisoners for days, even weeks, by doing this in shifts!
*** Some evil geniuses will put an unconscious/logged off player in a Bond-villain DeathTrap, to be e.g. dropped naked into a pit of attack Dodos when they wake up.
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** The ''Titanosaur'' also subverts it by having a countdown timer like the dragon.
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** The ''Titanosaur'' also subverts it by having a countdown timer like the dragon.dragon.
** The ''Liopleurodon'' subverts it by only lasting 30 minutes.
** The ''Bloodstalker'', a hematophagous spider creature, will turn on its rider and drink their blood if its health gets low.
** The ''Liopleurodon'' subverts it by only lasting 30 minutes.
** The ''Bloodstalker'', a hematophagous spider creature, will turn on its rider and drink their blood if its health gets low.
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** The EarlyGameHell is particularly prominent in Aberration, owing to the fact that the "Easiest" spawn point next to the entrance portal is a bit of a hike away from a water source, and that spawn point is also a spawn point for basilisks and raptors.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Some of the larger species are many times bigger than their real world counterparts. In particular the ''Giganotosaurus'', ''Brontosaurus'', and upcoming ''Titanosaurus'' are near {{Kaiju}} size. The boss monsters like the ''Dragon'' and ''Megapithecus'' are similarly enormous.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Some of the larger species are many times bigger than their real world counterparts. In particular the ''Giganotosaurus'', ''Brontosaurus'', and upcoming ''Titanosaurus'' are near {{Kaiju}} size. The boss monsters like the ''Dragon'' and ''Megapithecus'' are similarly enormous.
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** The upcoming ''Extinction'' expansion features an Earth that has been contaminated with Element that turned its wildlife even more vicious than the one in ''Aberration'', with several large dinosaur species having been possessed by an Element-powered hive mind that renders them untamable and makes them attack in coordinated groups. There are electromagnetic storms that block GPS signals, mechanical creatures that want your carcass, and mountain-sized Titans roaming the maps at leisure.
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** The upcoming ''Extinction'' expansion features an Earth that has been contaminated with Element that turned its wildlife even more vicious than the one in ''Aberration'', with several large dinosaur species having been possessed by an Element-powered hive mind that renders them untamable and makes them attack in coordinated groups. There are electromagnetic storms that block GPS signals, mechanical creatures that want your carcass, and mountain-sized Titans roaming the maps at leisure.
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* BreakableWeapons: Spears are highly breakable. Sometimes it takes only one poke to a dino to break it.
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* BreakableWeapons: Spears are highly breakable. Sometimes it takes only one poke to a dino to break it. Aside from that, every weapon and piece of armor has a durability meter. If they break you need to take it to the Smithy Table or the Fabricator to repair them.
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* GuideDangIt: Pracrically everything! Aside from a brief guide outlining the basic controls, the game offers you no information whatsoever. While this isn't a great obstacle early on, advanced crafting will particularly require you to look up some sort of online guide.
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* GuideDangIt: Pracrically Practically everything! Aside from a brief guide outlining the basic controls, the game offers you no information whatsoever. While this isn't a great obstacle early on, advanced crafting will particularly require you to look up some sort of online guide.
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* GuideDangIt: Pracrically everything! Aside from a brief guide outlining the basic controls, the game offers you no information whatsoever. While this isn't a great obstacle early on, advanced crafting will particularly require you to look up some sort of online guide.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: See DomesticatedDinosaurs.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: See DomesticatedDinosaurs.You can ride nearly every dinosaur you can tame.
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* SetTheWorldOnFire: In ''Aberration'', the Surface above the (relatively) safe caverns is a nearly lifeless wasteland that regularly gets set on fire by the sun.
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* NobodyPoops: Averted. All creatures -- including the player character -- eliminate regularly; if you don't press Numpad + (PC) or select "Defecate" from the wheel menu (console) when your food meter turns light blue, you will defecate automatically. Feces can be used as fertilizer to help grow crops, or fermented by a compost bin or a dung beetle into a superior fertilizer. The ''Aberration'' expansion also features mushroom spores that up the ante with ''explosive diarrhea on the spot'', which is implemented as emptying your entire food meter while pooping multiple times consecutively.
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* NobodyPoops: Averted. All creatures -- including the player character -- eliminate regularly; if you don't press Numpad + (PC) or select "Defecate" from the wheel menu (console) when your food meter turns light blue, you will defecate automatically. Feces can be used as fertilizer to help grow crops, or fermented by a compost bin or a dung beetle into a superior fertilizer. If you build a toilet (available at Level 32), you can poop in and immediately produce fertilizer.
** The ''Aberration'' expansion also features mushroom spores that up the ante with ''explosive diarrhea on the spot'', which is implemented as emptying your entire food meter while pooping multiple times consecutively.
** The ''Aberration'' expansion also features mushroom spores that up the ante with ''explosive diarrhea on the spot'', which is implemented as emptying your entire food meter while pooping multiple times consecutively.
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** The reaper is an obvious shout out to [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Alien]], down to reproducing in the exact same way.
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** The reaper is an obvious shout out to [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Alien]], ''[[Franchise/{{Alien}} Alien]]'', down to reproducing in the exact same way.
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** ''Titanoboa's'' dossier states that it is untamable when it is in fact tamable, via feeding it fertilized eggs. Justified in this case; the dossier also mentions it being immune to torpor-inducing methods which are a "crucial step" in taming, implying that Helena simply hadn't discovered this was how a ''Titanoboa'' was supposed to be tamed and leaving it to the players to find out.
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* GameBreakingBug: Sometimes, in a multiplayer environment, terminals that are about to initiate a boss battle may fail to teleport some tamed dinos or players to the boss arena, even if they are well within the teleport radius. While simple-sounding, having this bug occur can be absolutely devastating - it can stop key teammates and creatures from joining the boss battle, jeopardizing the endeavor and [[UnwinnableByMistake even potentially rendering the battle unbeatable]] if victory would have depended on having the one guy that the terminal failed to teleport.
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* BreakableWeapons: Spears are highly breakable. Sometimes it takes only one poke to a dino to break it. Amusingly, they never break when thrown.
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* OlympusMons: The ''Titanosaurus'' and ''Giganotosaurus'' arguably qualify, as they're much rarer and stronger than the other creatures in the game, although they're still just really big, powerful animals. The Titans from the ''Extinction'' DLC are a much straighter example, being colossal {{Kaiju}} that they player can still tame and control.
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* StockSoundEffects: A few sounds in the game have been heard elsewhere, such as the player's old death sound, or the sound of a tree falling over (previously used as the sound for the statue falling on the Zoohunter in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' video game).
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* StockSoundEffects: A few sounds in the game have been heard elsewhere, such as the player's old death sound, or the sound of a tree falling over (previously used as the sound for the statue falling on the Zoohunter in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' [[VideoGame/{{Madagascar}} video game).game]]).
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The {{Sequel}}, ''VideoGame/Ark2'' [[https://youtu.be/pUpbCL3HTNU was announced]] at the 2020 Game Awards.
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The {{Sequel}}, {{Sequel}} and AnimatedAdaptation, ''VideoGame/Ark2'' and ''WesternAnimation/ArkTheAnimatedSeries'' [[https://youtu.be/pUpbCL3HTNU was were]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9nvyh9hPoBM announced]] at the 2020 Game Awards.
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The {{Sequel}}, ''VideoGame/Ark2'' [[https://youtu.be/pUpbCL3HTNU was announced at the 2020 Game Awards.
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The {{Sequel}}, ''VideoGame/Ark2'' [[https://youtu.be/pUpbCL3HTNU was announced announced]] at the 2020 Game Awards.
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The {{Sequel}}, ''VideoGame/Ark2'' [[https://youtu.be/pUpbCL3HTNU was announced at the 2020 Game Awards.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: According to Mei-Yin's journal, the implants allow people to hear any other language spoken as their own (although it doesn't change their lipsl sync to mach it). This is how so many people from different locations and time periods are able to communicate well enough to form larger tribes.
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** When you reach the Tek tier, you can equip special saddles onto megalodons. It turns them into [[Film/AustinPowers frickin' sharks with]] [[FrickinLaserBeams frickin' lasers]] [[Film/AustinPowers attached to their frickin' heads]]. The reveal trailer for this even has a guy who looks like Dr. Evil appear, complete with the "One million dollars!" pose.
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** When you reach the Tek tier, you can equip special saddles onto megalodons. It turns them into [[Film/AustinPowers frickin' sharks with]] [[FrickinLaserBeams [[EnergyWeapon frickin' lasers]] [[Film/AustinPowers attached to their frickin' heads]]. The reveal trailer for this even has a guy who looks like Dr. Evil appear, complete with the "One million dollars!" pose.
