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taming companion Giant Porcupine – Hystrix Gigantea – taming companion
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Giant Porcupine – Hystrix Gigantea – taming companion About The Hystrix Gigantea or H. Refossa is an extinct species giant porcupine 20% larger then its closest living relative, lived during the Pleistocene era, 2.5 million to 11,700 years ago, was widespread amongst Eurasia with specimens discovered in Israel, Java and northern Greece. The real world counterparts cannot spit or fire quills, with the species from the Americas being tree climbers, able to jump and swim, and the European species being mostly nocturnal and living in burrows or underground dens. This extinct species will take from both the European and American species along with some typical ark liberties and fancifications. Some quills have been found to have antibiotic properties Length 115cm or 45 inches, upto 40KG Dossier Common name: Giant Porcupine Species: Hystrix Gigantea Time: pleistocene Diet: Herbivore Temperament: Docile Wild Taming the giant porcupine would be a passive tame that would need to be distracted with giant bee honey before the survivor sneaks up behind the giant porcupine to feed its favourite kibble, savaroot or berries once tamed this creature can be carried similar to kairuku and dodos Abiliites Antibiotic Quills A tamed Giant Porcupines quills could be harvested and used for there antibiotic properties, healing Swamp Fever, mega rabies, radiation poisoning but the quills will not be strong enough to provide immunity, thus fitting in below the already established ‘lesser antidote’ which grants immunity for a short time. Taming Companion a tamed one throw down next to an unconscious herbivore (or carnivore?) would be able to rub up against it and heal the herbivore through its antibiotic quills, this would not ruin taming affinity being fed a specific diet of organic polymer and narcoberries/narcotic/biotoxin, a the quills take on a torpor applying ability allowing the tamed Giant Porcupine to be able to keep even the largest of creatures torpor up, no longer do we need to torpor watch an unconscious giga or other fast torpor creature Climbing Mount Much like how the diplocaulus is not a mount unless it is in water, the Giant Porcupine can only be mounted while it is climbing. Simply throw it at a wall then hold onto its tiny saddle handles as it can climb, albeit rather slowly even during earthquakes Base Defence Like a lesser Velenosaur, although unrealistic, this small mount can throw its quills at enemies, and coupled with its ability to deal torpor when fed the correct diet, this works as a ranged base defence creature that can deal fast torpor and knock out any invading player or small mount Scarer Depending on its level a tamed Giant Porcupine can scare off small, to medium and maybe even weaker large sized creatures working as a good mount to carry around with you while on adventures, at the sign of danger, throw this guy down and he will rattle his quills creating fear in the wild creatures similar to a yutyrannus Unique Items Antibiotic Quills – will have a spoil timer and a small stack size and a short cooldown between usage to encourage players who can, to use lesser antidote and he correct armor for the job. Quills (& Blowpipe) – along with antibiotic quills, regular hollow quills can be harvested from a wild corpse or a tamed Giant Porcupine with a sickle, these can be used ina blow pipe or longkneck rifle as tranq darts, to counter the cheaper cost to make (not needing ingots) these tranq quills will spoil In a similar fashion to shocking tranq darts Sources: https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Hystrix-refossa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hystrix_refossa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_porcupine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_porcupine -
Ypresiosirex Arkus - A Rock Wasp, a Utility shoulder Pet
Reduku posted a suggestion in Creature submission archive
Ypresiosirex Arkus Time: Early Eocene Diet: Omnivore Temperament: Highly Aggressive A giant predatory wasp which seems to be a frankenstein species resembling multiple wasp and sawfly species but not quite matching any particular species. The erect large clay hives for the flightless queen like females while the more dangerous males patrol and retrive food of the hive. Like several species of social wasps a hive can contain multiple queens, with the hive growing more dangerous with the more queens it contains. Both the males and females have a stamina draining venomous bite, while the males also having a torpor inducing venom in their sting, to bring prey back alive for females to lay their eggs in. Similar to the mantis here, the Ypresiosirex seem to possess a high level of intelligence for an insect species. Taming: Although they seem to be a social species, the Wasps are very individualistic and can be tamed albeit under dangerous and cruel circumstances. Males must be isolated from the hive to be tamed and their trust can be earned it seems by passively feeding it fresh corpses. The flightless females however can only be approached in their hives during sandstorms and must be presented their favorite prey, a live unconscious Jerboa, which the Female will deposit her eggs into and die. The Jerboa must then be protected until her daughter hatches and chews its way out from its host. Regardless of gender, tamed the Ypresiosirex wasps are highly beneficial in a number of ways. While their low health prevents them from being useful in combat, while clinging to a survivor's shoulder they can deliver a stamina draining and slow inducing bite that can help unlucky survivors escape should a predator get to close. Males can also be trained to sting instead of bite delivering minor torpor damage to rambunctious creature in melee range that the survivor wants alive and asleep rather than dead. Females can of course with help from a survivor build a hive. Once in a hive a female will convert food given to the hive into potent biotoxin and will protect the immediate area with smaller drone wasps. Unlike the hives of the giant bee, multiple female wasps can occupy a hive, increasing the size of immediate area protected by the hive as well as the rate at which the hive produces biotoxin.- 1 reply
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