I really like the utility of this guy. It’s difficult to effectively harvest metal, stone, and wood on this map since many of the good harvesters are slow and not particularly strong.
I also like the taming method, but I think it needs work. Saving it repeatedly from Dino’s would take an eternity, and would encourage you to aggro enemies from afar and bring them to it, which is counterintuitive to building trust. Additionally, large aggressive Dino’s are virtually nonexistent in the green zone and you would never encounter a reaper or rock drake there.
But I still really like the trust mechanic, so maybe having a mini OSD event and defending it from that would work. You’d have to trigger it somehow, like by giving the shuno a sweet veggie cake.