Protoceratops - the head-butting biter

[TheIronWolf45]

Name: Protoceratops andrewsi

Time Period: Late Cretaceous

Diet: Herbivore

Temperament: Aggressive 

 

Wild

A smaller cousin of the Triceratops, the Protoceratops is a hornless dinosaur that has expertly survived the dune seas of the Paleozoic era. While smaller yet nimbler, it is not a threat to take likely, as the Protoceratops jaw is powerful enough to break the bones of smaller dinosaurs or even human survivors. A small herd, they are known to be a pest towards even larger carnivorous dinosaurs should they mob up on one. They are very aggressive for little guys, so its best to approach one while on a bigger animal.

Domesticated

While they can be tamed, its no easy feat. Protoceratops are naturally aggressive and will attack on sight to protect each other. However, it seems they can be pacified with cactus broth, as the hydration will dull out their aggression, allowing you to come a bit closer without being bitten to ride them around, and proceed to feed them before they become aggressive again.

Once tamed, a substantial amount of these hornless dinosaurs will pose a mob threat as they will prevent the enemy from escaping, making their foes limp to be subdued. They are also masters at speeding through the sandstorms, as they need to seek shelter, persistent to get comfortable. If a Protoceratops were to charge a crippled enemy, they would take a higher amount of damage.

 

Feel free to suggest anything else.

 

 

[ShadowShadex]

Meet the Protoceratops
 

The Protoceratops is the herd of the desert.

Abilties:

THE HERD- When in a herd the groups abilities to regulate body temperature and is useful for human companions.

Defensive Pack- the herd protects its own and while in a group, the pack offers defense bonuses that scales on herd size.

General Attacks

primary attack- small head butt

Secondary attack- small head charge

Special attack- defensive stance that reduces mobility but provides rider protection and reduce creature damage.

 

 

 

 

[Eromanx]

Protoceratops the smaller but more angry relative of the trike 

Wild protoceratops are usually found in large herds near vegetation were they have made their nests. They are very aggressive if anything comes near the nests, they seem to get especially aggressive when things that are around the same size as raptor come near the nest almost putting them into a frenzy. 
 

Taming  there are 2 methods to taming these guys. The first and most dangerous way is to try and steal the eggs. Now you can’t just pick the eggs up, the nests are like beaver dams, you need to access the inventory to get them, note that before you even get into the nest just being near the protoceratops nesting ground will make them aggressive and they will do everything they can do to keep there eggs safe. The eggs don’t take much heat to hatch and the babies will just eat berries. Now the second method is more challenging and only works for male protoceratops if you want to get female you have to steal an egg but this method provides with a greater reward. There is a chief protoceratops in the herd and rarely another male will challenge the chief if the loser gets kicked out the herd and is usually killed but if you are watching the fights happen you can help the loser protoceratops. The male that lost is on low health, slower and is no longer aggressive. To tame him you need to help him by boosting his moral. First you need to passively feed the male till he gets full health , they eat just about any type of vegetation like berries, crops but sweet veggie cakes will heal them the most then he will have gained your trust. Now you must get him to kill things, the male is now faster but wont move around much and you have to lead things over to him for him to fight essentially they are seen as challengers Note you cannot interfere with the fights as that will make him loose moral which is essentially his taming effectiveness and you cannot just give him tamed creature to kill he needs a challenge after all. After each fight you can feed him up to a maximum of 3 veggie cakes to heal him. You have to be careful as if he gets to low he will go right back to being sad again and you will have to gain his trust once more so be careful when finding things for him to fight. Once he has killed enough things and has filled the bar he has been fully tamed with the benefit of having a new thing called “moral booster”. The male can now boost other protoceratops in your group when they get low which increases there damage output by 25% and they start to heal up to 20% faster as well

Domesticated once tamed protoceratops provide as a very useful tame to survivors by themselves protoceratops can’t do much against other carnivores but once in a herd of a minimum of 3 they are very dangerous. Note that in the herd once tamed the males no longer fight so there is no need to be afraid of your makes challenging each other. The highest level male will be the chief and gets a 5% stamina and speed increase. When against something that is around the same size as allo all the members will get a buff called “mini grudge” which boosts damage output, damage resistance and stam by 10%. Protoceratops has a couple attacks its main 2 attacks being a quick headbutt and the other a bite which does a new effect called “snapped” which causes a small amount of bleed but also make the opposing Dino much slower essentially it breaks there bones. The headbutt doing less damage but can be used rather quickly but the bite does have a small cool-down and uses stam. They also have a back kick which can stun smaller creatures and knock back larger ones. The protoceratops saddles would be unlocked somewhere in the levels of 25-35

Why it should be added?

protoceratops is essentially something relatively early game that can even lead onto later into the game that acts as a reliable mount for survivors to tame as a way to protect themselves from all the dangerous on Scorched. When you start there are many packed small dinos around to kill you like sabers, wolves raptors so something that gets boosted by them to protect you would really help out plus I feel like this would be a fun way of taming them as it’s brand new to do it plus we don’t have any other type of ceratopsid and there’s not even trike on this map so it would be great to see this little guy come running into scorched