Edestus

I think they removed the combine feature for this creature vote.

i love edestus it would be amazing to see him in ARK.

Nice idea. I like the raid factor.

These big fluffy fellows can be found in the red wood forests and the edges of the snow regions. They don’t seem to mind the cold. Their thick fur may be the reason for that. It also allows them to be very resilient against any forms of torpor and just generally quite beefy. These creatures are gentle giants. They only defend themselves once provoked however they do pack quite the punch and can hold their own against most rival animals. If they get heavily injured, they seem to spray some sort of gas. The poor foe affected by this seems to draw a lot of attention from nearby creatures. Maybe a bit too much attention, since the victims viciously get attacked from everything around them, even dodos. Once tamed, they act as a mount of medium speed and can soak quite an amount of damage. Despite their menacing teeth, their main defense tool actually comes from under their tails. They can leave behind a stinking cloud of gas once fed with berries. Weirdly enough the type of gas seems to be dependent of the type of berry they ate. Once your new friend is equipped with a saddle, you can use him to craft all the recipes from a mortar and pestle including new exciting potions. I also noticed that once a skunk is pregnant, it develops this rather gooey milk. It tastes like the gas smells but it seems to help against all these nasty effects from wild skunks. Abilities: Let’s get the more basic stuff out of the way first. Equipped with a saddle your skunk functions as a living mortar and pestle. But next to the regular recipes you will find new 6 throwable potions each with their own unique effect. Which effect you may ask, well lets first go over his main ability. Once you hold down your secondary attack you leave a cloud of gas behind you. This gas slows everything following its trail and obscures vision. However, before you get to spray you have to choose which gas you want your skunk to leave behind since every gas adds a unique effect. Like the TEK-bow or Tropeognathus saddle you can access a menu with 6 different options: Narcoberry gas: As the name implies, this gas is based around our favorite black berry. Any creature or player unfortunate enough to get caught in the cloud you leave behind quickly gets his torpor filled. You could compare it to a gas grenade. Once your target leaves the cloud the effect immediately stops. To activate this mode, you not only have to invest stamina but your skunk will also have to use narcoberries and rotten flesh while you deny area by leaving you mark. You can craft a throwable potion with the same amplified effect. Stimberry gas: Now lets talk about the counterpart to the narcoberry gas. Again you will have to invest stamina and this time – surprise- stimberrys to use this mode. Instead of gaining torpor everything will lose torpor in your gas clouds. The effect ends immediately upon leaving the cloud. You can craft a throwable potion with the same amplified effect. Tintoberry gas: If you let your skunk consume these lovely red berries the trails you leave behind will deal a lot of damage to creatures and players alike (comparable to drowning effect). The effect does stay for a certain amount of time upon leaving the clouds. You can craft a throwable potion with the same amplified effect. Amarberry gas: In this mode your unique effect is an excellent tool to escape or help allied tames demolish your fiercest foe. By using amarberries your slows gets buffed to 30% and any enemy-creatures deal 15% less damage. These effects do stay for a certain amount of time upon leaving the clouds. You can craft a throwable potion with the same amplified effect. Mejoberry gas: Time has proven that for most of our beloved cast of dinosaurs mejoberries are the go-to berry option. They truly love them! They would even chase you over the whole map to get a whiff of your mejoberry gas. Everything that entered the trail will hunt you. Even after leaving the cloud, the effect stays for a long time. You can craft a throwable potion with the same amplified effect. Azulberry gas: Seems like these small berries don’t make our wildlife feel the same way as mejoberries. Quite the opposite actually! Once you start spraying everything that was trying to turn you into a meal will simply walk the other direction and forget you even existed. Even upon leaving the cloud, any threat will be distracted for a lot more time. You can craft a throwable potion with the same amplified effect. To not get affected by all these different effects you can bring a gasmask with you or drink the milk from the pregnant skunks. You could also craft a potion with the same effects as the milk but it may be a bit pricey. Skunks are of course immune to all of these gasses even if the scent comes from a wild skunk. To help you with always being able to enjoy all the modes, berries wild have reduced weight in your fluffy friend’s inventory. Also, meat does spoil faster if you leave it with him.

looks cool

I always start my runs with taming a stego. Good berry farmer and quite strong. Also really easy to tame just find a cliff or kite it.

I would love new weather events. It would make the game harder and it would feel more alive.

I also think the ocean is a bit stale. I dont know if a new shark would really help tho. Especially since it would have to be smaller then the meg. However Edestus or Helicoprion would be the best additions in terms of sharks.

I agree. There should be some sort of incentive for killing these big fellas.

I was considering taming one as it is one of the few tames I still need to complete my dino collection but damn. First of all I still play official pve scorched earth at the moment. My tribe spent about 2 hours searching for this pile of ashe and once we did find it, we got our tents ready and decided to wait....and wait.....and wait. After about an hour or two of nothing we decided to go to bed and tame it the next day. However we didn't think hard enough and now we have to deal with the consequences. Of course there was no trace of the pheonix when we logged back on. I feel like you would have to be insanly lucky to tame one of these birbs. Espacially on official since you not only have to find the pheonix but also have to wait for a heat event all in one go. Or am I missing something?