custom art & dossier Abyssosaurus: The mesmerizing hunter of the deep (See you for Lost island)

[hybrid20002]

Introducing Abyssosaurus!

All art by Riskybiscuits + Dossier by Me

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Species-Abyssosaurus Spectrolux

Time-Early Cretaceous

Diet-Molluscivore/Planktivore

Temperament-Intelligent

Wild

During a deep sea expedition, I saw what I can only explain as a S.O.S light pattern. But before I could do anything my body started moving toward it, I was trapped in my body. All light around me disappeared leaving my eyes helplessly staring into the darkness, and something was staring right back. The Abyssosaurus with its mouth open waiting to take a chunk out of me when close enough. Finally managing to snap out of the trance gave me enough time to quickly swim away, looking back just to see the creature lurk back into the darkness before completely disappearing.

Domesticated

Taming an Abyssosaurus is tricky due to the extreme danger they pose plus their body is very dense and hard to penetrate due to the constant pressure of living in the deep. When ready make sure to have plenty of plankton and some flashbangs. Having an Abyssosaurus on your side makes ocean traversal a breeze, with its incredible speed and abilities nothing stands a chance. After some thinking, could there be something bigger deeper beneath the waves? Waiting for some poor unexpecting survivor to get close. 

 

Fan art (Thanks!)

By Drawolf

By Noeark

Attributes

-Bioluminescence (Along the body, the eyes and the tips of the Esca like the anglerfish. It is a color reign, does not need to be recharged

Base stats

Health-2700--Stam-850--Food-5400--Weight-1100--Damage-65

Taming

-Just as you’re about to be hypnotized by an Abyssosaurus, throw a sea flashbang to stun it. This gives you enough time to feed it some plankton and to run before it gets un-stunned and chases you down. Done enough times will tame yourself the king of the deep.

Bioluminescence Plankton swarms

  -These spawn in the deep oceans. These swarms can be collected into a Water jar and it will give you an item called “Jar-o-plankton”. It acts like a food source but can be consumed over 50 times before being completely used up

Unique drops

  -Abyssosaurus Head (A rare drop that has a 1 in 6 chance of dropping when you kill a Abyssosaurus, can be placed on a trophy wall mount or the deco boxes where it can be used as a wall light)

Craftable/Obtainable items

 -Sea flashbang (Unlock at level 38. Can only be used underwater, made with 15 angler gel, 1 grenade and 10 crystals. Used for taming Abyssosaurus. Stuns any sea critter for 20 seconds) 

-Jar-o-plankton (Variant of the Water jar that’s obtained once plankton is trapped inside it, can also be held. Acts like a temporary light source when shaken and used for taming Abyssosaurus. Returns to normal water jar when all plankton are used/eaten)

 -Makeshift scuba tank (Unlock at level 19, Keeps oxygen from draining for 10 minutes before having to return to the surface. Takes 2 water skins, 60 hide and 200 fiber. Reduces aquatic creature aggro range by 20% (including Megs) and increase swim speed by 1.5x)

Size

Passive abilities

-Weight reduction (When in water, all resources/items/structures have weight reduced by 65%)

-Dissipated Light (When hypnotized by a nearby Abyssosaurus all surrounding light vanishes, only visible light that can be seen is from Abyssosaurus. Both wild and tamed Abyssosaurus have this)

-Dense skin (In the deep sea, all damage is reduced by 50%, except explosives which are only reduced by 25%. But when in shallow waters or by the water's surface, damage is reduced by only 15% and explosive damage received is increased by 20%. Also makes it Cnidaria and Electrophorus stun proof no matter the depths)

-Deep sea power (The deeper you’re in the ocean your damage is increased by 25%, stamina and health regen increased by 20%, food drain reduced by 15% and speed increased by 15%. But in shallow water or near water's surface, stamina use is increased by 10% and damage dealt is reduced by 15%)

-Shark and Xiphactinus proof (Deals 45% more damage to any Megalodons and Xiphactinus, plus both go out of their way to avoid Abyssosaurus out of fear that they’ll become it’s next meal)

-Gentle Breeze (Abyssosaurus is immune to any and all natural spawning whirlpool debuffs and will gain 25% movement speed when going past one/into one)

-Plesio-Synergy (When Abyssosaurus is nearby any Plesiosaur's, they gain 15% damage, 25% movement and attack speed. Only affects tamed ones)

Abilities and attacks

-//- Head whip (Thrashes its head and neck around to damage and knock back anything nearby. Works on land and in water)

-Hold //-Dragged down (Swims around in a circle creating a whirlpool dragging creatures into it and dealing decent damage. When the whirlpool ends anything that was in it gets slowed by 45% for 10 seconds, any friendly tames/survivors near the whirlpool gain 25% more movement speed. Only works in water.)

-Hold // on land -Hallucinogenic water shot (Uses 15 rare flowers and 5 rare mushrooms from the inventory and shoots a water stream from it's mouth and creates a puddle, makes whatever walks or gets hit by the water aggressive to everything and everyone, but when near Abyss they run away and avoid hurting it when possible. Puddle lasts 10 seconds)

-//-MY EYES! (Consumes 5 angler gel to brighten its bioluminescence to temporarily blind anything around for 45 seconds that removes 75% of water fog. Also scares off Reapers and Nameless.)

-Hold//-Hypno (Enter hypnosis mode. Anything in front of Abyssosaurus will go towards it and when close will become completely docile even when attacked. They won’t flee or fight back for 25 seconds or until killed. Affects tamed or wild land, sea and flying creatures within range)

-Press C/-Lights out (Abyssosaurus will turn its bioluminescence off becoming completely invisible in the darkness of the depths, perfect for hiding in plain sight or ambushing your next target. Any close tames/survivors also get this buff and lasts until they attack/get attacked. Only works in water)

-Spacebar//-Sonar (Sonar lets you scan for any alpha creatures or max level wild creatures in the sea and nearby land creatures)

Land and space capabilities

-While it prefers the deep-sea, Abyssosaurus is capable of surviving on land and in space with the saddle. It coats Abyssosaurus in a protective shield to keep its body from destroying itself. For space travel the saddle has folding thrusters above the front fins

  -It will no go onto land without you riding it. When on land attack is decreased by 35%, movement speed is close to a Stegosaurus and damage resistance is reduced by 40%. When in space it doesn't gain these debuffs. 

Saddle and saddle abilities 

(Unlock at level 69. Cost: 300 hide, 125 Cementing Paste/Achatina Paste, 360 Fiber, 400 crystal, 50 element and 235 metal ingot/scrap ingot. Made in the fabricator.)

-Air dome (The dome is made out of prototype phase ray shield that lets players enter and keeps oxygen from draining when riding. You can't walk in the saddle but you can walk on top if it. If dismounting on the surface you’ll be on top of Abyssosaurus in front of the saddle, when dismounting under water you’ll be in front of the saddle swimming)

Some special mentions that deserve some love 

Brontoscorpio. The space scorpion would be cool to encounter in space.

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/773050-brontoscorpio-vexator-venomous-disruptor/

Also check out Pebanista. Its a very interesting creature that deserves recognition. Guy that created it is a very good story teller as well.

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/772969-pebanista-the-sound-blasting-dolphin/#comment-3702318

Shringasaurus is a unique creature too. Its a support more then anything, but more of those never hurt anyone.

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/773012-roots-of-rage-–-shringasaurus

Anybody order a toxic Snail? No? Well check out Spinyplatyceras anyway

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/773008-spinyplatyceras-the-toxic-snail

 

Edited October 29, 2025 by hybrid20002
Clarify something

[hybrid20002]

5 hours ago, Ermerus said:

The art is beautiful but... don't you think it risks being restricted to a maximum of 3 biomes? Genesis is focusing on diversity, that's it.

It can survive on land and space, but for some reason that stuff didn't copy. It's fixed now

[Ermerus]

On 10/11/2025 at 1:43 PM, hybrid20002 said:

It can survive on land and space, but for some reason that stuff didn't copy. It's fixed now

Perfect, that's what I was talking about.

Edited October 16, 2025 by Ermerus

[Xenorachnoide]

Really astonishing design, deliver my admiration to the authors. From what i'm understanding the hypno ability will work like the Mesmer in Subnautica? Maybe the hypno duration is a bit too long especially if they become docile.

[Xenorachnoide]

4 hours ago, hybrid20002 said:

It can survive on land and space, but for some reason that stuff didn't copy. It's fixed now

I suppose it will be very slow on land isn't it?

[hybrid20002]

8 minutes ago, Xenorachnoide said:

Really astonishing design, deliver my admiration to the authors. From what i'm understanding the hypno ability will work like the Mesmer in Subnautica? Maybe the hypno duration is a bit too long especially if they become docile.

Yeah like the Mesmer, and I'll adjust the time. Thanks for the feedback

[hybrid20002]

9 minutes ago, Xenorachnoide said:

I suppose it will be very slow on land isn't it?

I was thinking it would be semi faster then either a Trike or a Stego

[JrOfficerYak]

Love this Idea, i hope it wins or even be a mod, just wanted to ask how it would work in the space biome (like would the saddle make thrusters with the element to become a sort of rocket or would it just use the zero gravity or even a Tek variant that can fly idk, again really cool design and definitely what the ocean deserves 

Edited October 11, 2025 by JrOfficerYak

[hybrid20002]

14 minutes ago, JrOfficerYak said:

Love this Idea, i hope it wins or even be a mod, just wanted to ask how it would work in the space biome (like would the saddle make thrusters with the element to become a sort of rocket or would it just use the zero gravity or even a Tek variant that can fly idk, again really cool design and definitely what the ocean deserves 

Originally it would of had thrusters by the front fins, but given I was busy and completely forgot to say that it didn't happen 

[hybrid20002]

 

I'm happy for all the support Abyss is getting. Thanks everyone

Edited October 13, 2025 by hybrid20002

[ARKExtreme]

I love this!

[hybrid20002]

12 minutes ago, ARKExtreme said:

I love this!

Thank you! Happy to hear it

[Ka15er12]

I think this is an amazing idea and fit perfect in the depths of the ocean

[hybrid20002]

2 hours ago, Ka15er12 said:

I think this is an amazing idea and fit perfect in the depths of the ocean

Exactly what I was thinking, thanks for the support  

[Lise]

"Megalodon proof" - just that on its own would be wonderful but everything else is even better. I'm pretty sure that Megalodons attack every creature or boss that enters the ocean, even winged ones that get knocked into water so having something that might actually repel them is great!

More cool things for the ocean are just what the ocean needs.

[hybrid20002]

11 minutes ago, Lise said:

"Megalodon proof" - just that on its own would be wonderful but everything else is even better. I'm pretty sure that Megalodons attack every creature or boss that enters the ocean, even winged ones that get knocked into water so having something that might actually repel them is great!

More cool things for the ocean are just what the ocean needs.

Figured since I was making a aquatic creature, so why not add something everyone wants. Something that the Megs won't attack 

Edited October 13, 2025 by hybrid20002

[hybrid20002]

[Assasain578]

This is an AMAZING idea. love the artwork. quick question. do you know how to submit a suggestion? i have tried multiple things but it hasent worked. and is the create topic section exposed to be greyed out? if you know anything that could help thanks. 

[PrimalNacho]

3 minutes ago, Assasain578 said:

This is an AMAZING idea. love the artwork. quick question. do you know how to submit a suggestion? i have tried multiple things but it hasent worked. and is the create topic section exposed to be greyed out? if you know anything that could help thanks. 

 

I believe u need to comment a couple more times to post/vote

 

[hybrid20002]

3 minutes ago, Assasain578 said:

This is an AMAZING idea. love the artwork. quick question. do you know how to submit a suggestion? i have tried multiple things but it hasent worked. and is the create topic section exposed to be greyed out? if you know anything that could help thanks. 

Thanks, and it says in the guidelines you have to have 6 posts/comments to participate . So you could comment on the crunches for example or comment on creatures forums like this. Hope this helped

[PrimalNacho]

 

I proposed this to someone else, but I'll propose this to u too: maybe u could paste all of the info into this table so it could be more eye-catching? 

Love the creature, especially the synergy it has with plesi

If its too hard tho, don't break ur back over it

Edited October 13, 2025 by PrimalNacho

[NobelmenWill]

nice

 

[KaineParkerXL]

Cool..no bad

[hybrid20002]

36 minutes ago, NobelmenWill said:

nice

 

Glad you like it

[hybrid20002]

11 minutes ago, KaineParkerXL said:

Cool..no bad

Thanks