Gorgonopsid (Inostrancivia rapax): The Ultimate Warhound

[Cgdino]

Introducing the Gorgonopsid:

 

Dossier Concept made by me

 

Info: 

Species: Inostrancivia rapax

Time: Late Permian

Diet: Carnivore

Temperament: Aggressive 

Tameable: Yes

Rideable: Yes 

Breedable: Yes

Taming Method: Passive

Preferred Food: Raw Mutton

Preferred Kibble: Exceptional

 

Wild:

 

The Gorgonopsid is found in grasslands and other open biomes. They are very aggressive towards other creatures, survivors, and their tames. When attacking, Gorgonopsids inflict the gnash effect, draining its prey’s health. The Gorgonopsid also has the ability to tear chunks of meat off of larger prey. This doesn't kill the prey immediately or cause gnashing, but it does deal a decent amount of damage. The Gorgonopsid is rather large, being larger than a Tylacoleo, yet not as large as a Rex.

 

Art by me

 

Taming:

 

In order to tame a Gorgonopsid, you must first prove to it that you’re a worthy survivor. Once you initiate the taming process by feeding it, the Gorgonopsid becomes passive for a short period of time and follows you around. Next, the Gorgonopsid will give you a challenge to test your abilities. This can be killing a certain amount of creatures, crafting a certain amount of items, or traveling a certain distance, among other challenges. Once you complete all the challenges, the Gorgonopsid will be tamed (the number and length of challenges may vary depending on the Gorgonopsids level). But if you can’t complete a challenge, the Gorgonopsid will become aggressive again and you’ll have to start over. 

 

Domesticated: 

 

Once tamed, the Gorgonopsid is a very useful companion. You can ride it without a saddle, and equip it with a normal saddle that has two rider seats and can be crafted around level 75. But it also has a special war-saddle that can be crafted around level 80. This special saddle has a grenade launcher attachment, and can fit a maximum of three survivors. You can use this saddle to fire numerous types of grenades, and maybe even craft new grenades to help with taming or just general destruction. 

 

Saddle Concept by me

 

War-Saddle Concept by me

 

Even before getting the war saddle, the Gorgonopsid is a very useful creature to have on your team. The Gorgonopsid can run very fast, making it a great travel mount. You can also utilize its ripping ability to gain great amounts of prime meat from large creatures to be used in taming or cooking. The

Gorgonopsid also has a unique smell ability. By placing a certain resource into the Gorgonopsids inventory, it can sniff out any of that resource in the area, which will be highlighted. The smell ability might also allow you to locate certain creatures nearby similar to the gene scanner.

The Gorgonopsid even has a fear roar ability similar to a Yutyrannus, and while it can’t boost tamed creatures attacks like a Yuty, it can scare off wild creatures and creatures from rival tribes. 

 

Possible Controls: 

 

Left Click: Gnash Attack

Right Click: Rip Attack

C  :Fear Roar 

X: Sniff

Spacebar: Jump

Left Ctrl: Enter fire mode 

Left Click while in fire mode: Fire grenade

Right Click while in fire mode: Swap grenade type

 

I know Gorgonopsid is kind of a cliche creature, but I think that this adaptation has some potential. Also, this creature isn't designed to replace an exiting predators like rexes or gigas, but rather act as an ally to them. For example, a Gorgonopsid could act as ranged or mid ranged support during a trial war. I also think that a scent ability would allow for a great way for players to find certain resources and creatures without using websites to find their spawn locations. Either way, the Gorgonopsid is long overdue for an implementation in ARK. I think we can all agree with that. 

 

VOTE FOR THE GORGONOPSID!!!

Numerous depictions of Gorgonopsid above, including Primeval, Walking with Monsters, and even concept art from ARK: Survival Evolved.

Edited February 11 by Cgdino

[Mylifeisontheline]

To me it just sad to see people want basically bigger versions of what already exists in ark like giant otter be regular otter or arctodus which is basically the same as a dire bear or even a gigantophis when you could just get some eggs and tame titanoboa or buy the new mod that just came out. Y’all should be ashamed for not appreciating what already exists in game. Love seeing people make real good recommendations such as sivatherium or nothosaurus, but I think that ark should have one Dino they’ve been saying they were going to release since ark survival evolved. Gorgonopsid  I’m not sure what the abilities could be maybe a scent tracker that’s strong enough to tank a giga or a Rex at least. I also think ark should have a new phase of tlc for Dino’s that have been in game since it’s initial release like the pachyceplasaurus or carbonemys before releasing more Dino’s.

[Sp4rtn343]

Gorgonopsid, the blood hound
Species: Inostrancevia Gorgonopsid
Time: Permian
Diet: Carnivore
Temperament: Aggressive

Wild: Native to the arks deserts, redwoods, and grasslands, Gorgonopsid is a powerful predator similar in size to the Thylacoleo. However unlike the marsupial lion, this gorgon isn't adapted to climbing, being instead more adapted to tracking injured prey with their amazing sense of smell. This sense of smell allows Gorgonopsids to not only track potential prey but give them information on how injured the prey is while letting them keep track of its location no mater how far they may have gone.

With this powerful tool, Gorgonopsids are unique in the fact they will target larger carnivores then they usually would if they are injured enough. When attacking with it's long powerful jaws and saber-teeth, the Gorgonopsid inflicts a gnash effect, causing it's prey to bleed out. This makes Gorgonopsids a living nightmare for any survivors on injured mounts on the warmer habitats they inhabit as your best option is to run and hope the Gorgonopsid finds a more tasty meal or to swim as these predators do not seem to be well adapted to swimming.

Domesticated: With such a powerful sense of smell and powerful gnashing bites, many tribes use Gorgonopsids as a powerful battle mount and tracker. Many of which will be used to hunt even the mightiest of apex predators! However their main appeal is their powerful sense of smell, allowing those who tame Gorgonopsid to not only track and identify the strength of wild creatures but also tamed animals, making it an amazing animal for tamers and for scouts. It can even track certain items such as eggs, explorer notes, loot drops, artifacts and even apex drops on apex predators.

To tame one of these saber-toothed therapsids however may be counter intuitive for those who are not familiar with them. With their powerful sense of smell the best way to tame one is too use a rare flower scent, which normally aggravates nearby creatures, to mellow down a nearby Gorgonopsid as they seem to enjoy the smell. This makes taming these very dangerous due to the neighboring wildlife as you will have to feed them while the scent of the flower covers you to avoid being attacked by the Gorgonopsid.

Gorgonopsids, named after the Gorgon of Greek myth, were a group of predatory stem-mammals that lived before the dinosaurs during the Permian period. Related to Purlovia, they were the top predators of their time. They are characterized by a long and narrow skull, as well as an elongated upper and lower canine teeth, making it much similar to mammals despite having a more reptilian body.

Also, if you did not know. This is the ONLY creature ARK has confirmed to appear that never did. Back in ARK’s early days there was a list of all the creatures they planned to add on Steam. All of the creatures on that list were added eventually, with the exception of the Gorgonopsid. The gorgonopsid used to share this title of “Forgotten Creature” with the Giant Crab, but Karkinos has been added in Aberration.

Gorgonopsid will spawn in warmer locations such as deserts, redwoods, grasslands.

It is a mid-tier to end-tier tame, being a decently powerful mount similar in scale to Thylacoleo. However, the gorgonopsid also has a very specific but incredibly useful ability.

This gorgonopsid would have the strongest sense of smell on the ARK, able to use its nose for a variety of different uses.

Abilities:

-Tracking: By pressing the sniffing ability, a crosshair will appear on the rider’s screen. When released onto a creature in sight, regardless of what it is, where it is, or who it belongs to, the Gorgonopsid will be able to tell its general direction, allowing the rider to track this creature across the map, regardless of its location. This can act as a more organic form of the transponder, as you could give the gorgonopsid the scent of your flyer before you travel. In the event you die but your flyer lives and buzzed off somewhere unknown, you can take out your gorgonopsid to find it. This also has utility in PvP, since this ability can identify and track enemies from a far distance without their knowledge, for the most part. Players will be completely unaware of their tames being tracked, but players will be notified if a gorgonopsid is specifically tracking their character. Another counter is that gorgonopsids lose the scent if the creature they’re tracking is put into a cryopod. Gorgonopsids will remember their last scent if they themselves are put in cryopods, however.

 -High-Level Tame Finding: While there are creatures like the glow pets that have the ability to detect high level creatures in the area, gorgonopsids have a similar ability that is more direct. When using this ability, the gorgonopsid will show the direction of the highest level creature within a certain radius of itself, and is highlighted to the rider upon being viewed directly. This ability can be refreshed by using the ability again, and the target will change if a higher level creature has moved within range.

-Gnash Bite: With a particularly powerful bite of its saber teeth, the Gorgonopsid leaves a gnashing wound upon the creature it attacked. This gives the gorgonopsid a much stronger scent to follow, allowing the rider to track the creature with much better accuracy than merely gaining the scent from afar. On top of this, since the Gorgonopsid has a much stronger scent from the wound, it allows the rider to see the stats of the wounded creature, akin to an organic and more widespread form of the HLN-A. This would be invaluable when looking to tame certain creatures or scouting for weaknesses in the mist of a battle.

-Sensory Support: Acting as a companion to other tames, the gorgonopsid could greatly extend the range of nearby creatures with similar sensory abilities, like those of the Fjordhawk, Parasaur, Dire Wolves, Troodon, and others.

-Other ways of tracking:

-Able to sniff out traps, explosives and other hazards.

-Able to sniff out explorer notes. 

-Able to sniff out apex drops on apex predators.

-Senses and warns of creatures in ambush (Thylacoleo/Purlovia).

-Using the scent of eggs/tames/dermis to be able to track specific species of creatures in the wild

-Using the scent of stolen items/creatures to track down their original owners

-Bite: deals average armor piercing damage, causing major bleed damage due to its saber teeth.

-Swipe: swipes with claws, does average damage, quick cooldown

-Charge: gorgonops will charge at a target with its jaws wide open and if it hits the target deals huge damage and bleed

-Sniff: smells the air and, depending on what it's set to, will highlight all targets in a certain radius. Scent ability can target creatures and players, explorer notes or loot drops, artifacts, element. They are highlighted in a spherical radius from the gorgonops. The sniff can detect enemies similar to the Parasaur. 

-Roar- Fear roar similar to the Yutyrannus.

-A stealth ability to sneak up on or sneak past creatures and tames.

-High stamina to maintain long distances

-High speed to run towards any targets or escape more quickly

-High Jump to aid in exploration and tracking across rough terrain.

-Damage resistance and less affected by toxins

-Weight reduction on meat, prime meat, mutton, pelt, hide, keratin, chitin

FOR TOO LONG THE GORGONOPSID HAS NOT BEEN ADDED IN THE GAME SO LET'S VOTE FOR THE GORGONOPSID!!!

[hehejeejekeh]

The gorganopsid has lost and not been added to the game. Yes it would fit better in scorched earth but valguaro is good too.

Edited February 3 by hehejeejekeh

[IronEmperor]

Gorgonops Longifrons

[Wounding Tracker] Sabertooth Carnivor

{DOSSIER GORGONOPSID}

WILD

I used to think that finding a Gigantosaurus was hard until I found this creature.The Gorgonopsid is an aggressive solitary animal found in the jungles and deserts of the ARKs. Don't be fooled by their innocence, their bite is as strong as a Rex, and are able to localize any preys around the ARK all by sniffing their flesh. This quadruped is very strong especially when he stands up and shreds his opponents with his fangs or even when he crouches in the bushes to surprise them

TAMING

Gorgonopsids are very hard to tame them. Knocking them or passively bringing food will not be enough. You will firstly need a few Gorgonopsid Ribs to attract them towards you. Then, they will smell you and will widely open their mouth to roar at you. It’s at this very moment that you must give them these Gorgonopsid Ribs and immediately escape. By repeating this process, the Gorgonopsid will later or sooner be your greatest companion.

DOMESTICATED

After taming Gorgonopsids, tribes have noticed that their firearms have significantly became more powerful. In addition, with the Gorgonopsid beside you, you are sure to track any players or creatures around the map by just sniffing its smell (or beds in case its a survivor), it also sniffs out eventual traps, Grenades or even Explorers Notes. Tribes have mainly found its use by decorating its saddle with a Ghilie Suit and its crouch, that can make him almost impossible to detect. Moreover, you can craft a Burrowed Trap with him, implemented in the ground, any enough unfortunate survivors that get impaled by this, will slowly see their blood spreading around.  Don't worry, if you get caught with your saber tooth companion, you can still stand your ground by using the Stand Up Stance of the Gorgonopsid and its claws.

 

 

{PASSIVES & ABILITIES GORGONOPSID}

 

[PASSIVES] : 50% Damage increase on firearms such as Revolvers, Rifles, Shotguns, etc..

 

[ABILITIES] :

1. TRACKING : Like the Gene Gun of the Bob Tall Tales DLC : SteamPunk Ascent, you can track any creatures you want, by choosing the one you want. Their locations will be shown on the map. However it won't limits itself to that, it will be able to indicate the exact coordinates of a player's or a tribe's Bed(s). But to track players, the Gorgonopsid must have bitten at least one time a member of the enemy tribe in Stand Up Stance or else he won't be able to find their Bed(s). When bitten, the tribe’s Bed(s) location(s) will be shown for 1 hour in the game. By the way, it can also detect the environmental assets like the Parasaur, such as Explorers Note and also aggressive creatures.

 

2. STANCES : The Gorgonopsid will be able to have 2 different Stance Mode. On the one hand, he will be able to crouch (Crouch Stance). This will make him slower but at the cost of a faster Health and Stamina regeneration. On the other hand, he can stand up (Stand Up Stance), turning him into a biped carnivor like the Spinosaurus. This stand will reduce its movement Speed but he will be able to slash with its claws its enemies and also grabbing them to injure the with a severe Bleed Effect.

 

3. SADDLES : The Gorgonopsid has a main regular saddle that has its attributes. As a matter of fact, just like the Equus Saddle, you can craft a trap named the Burrowed Trap. Implemented and dig in the ground, this trap is barely noticeable and can catch creatures with the same Drag Weight of a Raptor. Once trapped, the victims slowly watch their Health drain until they meet their end. This blood spreading regenerates the Health of the tribe’s original Burrowed Trap within a radius of 15 meters. In addition you can disguise its saddle a Ghilie Suit. Indeed, this will make him sneakier and will help furtive survivors to raid bases quietly. This camouflage can even be amplified by his Crouch Stance. 

 

4. BITE : The bite of the Gorgonopsid is very versatile. In fact, it can deal a massive Bleed Effect only in Stand Up Stance. By the way, it will be able to inform the tribe’s Gorgonopsid of the enemy’s Bed(s) locations. Moreover, their bite is similar to an Arthropleura, meaning that it can tear to pieces structures. For instance, TEK walls and Metal Walls can be destroyed.

 

 

{EXTRA INFORMATIONS GORGONOPSID}

 

 

 

This creature is an important part of the Iron Empire, the YouTube channel of my fellow Iron Knights. (by the way :-> https://m.youtube.com/@IronKnightYouTube/featured). Originally, it was planned to be a free ARK Mod for ARK : Survival Ascended set to release in late 2025. It is my very first Mod, and I aim at releasing other creature Mods. In this way, some work has been already made. I have already made the model and textures maps, I need to animate it and to program it. Although, some modifications are still needed in order to fit him in the ARK’s ecosystem. By talking ecosystem, this creature may appear in : The Island, Scorched Earth, The Center and Extinction (maybe later on : Valguero, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles, Fjordur, Lost Island). As for his dimensions, he has approximately the same size of a Thylacoleo and also the same stats. 

 

Of course, some aspects of the scientifically accurency of the Gorgonopsid are not respected, like the scales and the massive head. I made the skills of the Gorgonopsid by relying on its scientific facts about him. Some changes have been necessary in order to align with ARK’s gameplay. By the way, the species “Gorgonopsid Longifrons” never existed, it was inspired from the fictional TV show Primeval.

 

Even if we lose this Creature Vote, the Gorgonopsid will sooner or later triumph with the Iron Empire and will find his glory of Permian predator restored. In other words, the Gorgonopsid Mod will release for free if it loses this vote. 

 

Features : 

Gorgonopsid Ribs

Gorgonopsid Saddle

Gorgonopsid Ghillie Saddle

Burrowed Trap

 

For the Iron Empire,

Iron Knight

 

(Concept Art made by Iron Knight)

Edited February 9 by IronEmperor