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**Dossier:** Name: Rhaphorhynchus Species: Aerial Glider Diet: The Rhaphorhynchus is a carnivorous creature Intro: In the skies above the diverse and Element-infested landscapes of ARK Extinction, the Rhaphorhynchus gracefully soars with unmatched speeds, a remarkable and nimble aerial glider that fills the role of a flying messenger and scout. With its distinctive appearance and unique gliding abilities, it stands out even among the exotic creatures that inhabit this post-apocalyptic world. Source: https://nixillustration.com/tag/rhamphorhynchus/ Appearance: The Rhaphorhynchus is a moderately sized gliding reptile, typically reaching a wingspan of around 6 to 8 feet. Its body is compact, designed for aerial agility, with long wings and a slender tail. The wings are equipped with elongated fingers that support a membrane, enabling it to glide effortlessly. Its beak is lined with sharp teeth, indicating its carnivorous nature, and its agile legs are equipped with curved talons. The creature's size has been adjusted to allow survivors to ride it, making it an ideal companion in the challenging environments of ARK Extinction. Source: https://blog.everythingdinosaur.com/blog/_archives/2010/10/11/4656983.html Habitat and Behavior: This aerial glider is often found high above the diverse landscapes of ARK Extinction, utilizing the air currents to conserve energy during long flights. It is a solitary creature, usually encountered alone or in pairs. Rhaphorhynchus is known for its keen senses and remarkable agility in the air. Altough the ramphorhynchus has unmatched speed and agility its one of the weakest in combat it feasts on small creatures and likes to avoid confrontation but will fight if provoked. Abilities: 1. **Aerial Glide:** Rhaphorhynchus is an exceptional glider, capable of riding air currents in the Element-infested wastelands of Extinction. This ability allows it to cover vast distances efficiently while conserving energy. Additionally, its improved wing design enables it to reach higher altitudes, giving it the advantage of acquiring an even better vantage point to navigate the challenging terrain. 2. **Dive Attack:** When threatened or hunting, Rhaphorhynchus can perform swift dive attacks. It uses its sharp beak and talons to strike at prey or deter potential threats. Survivors who encounter this creature should beware its aerial assault, adapted to the challenging environment. 3. **Sonic Scream:** Rhaphorhynchus has developed a unique defense mechanism to survive in the Element-infested wastelands. When threatened, it can emit a powerful sonic scream, disorienting and stunning nearby Element-infused creatures. This ability serves as a last resort to deter attackers in Extinction's harsh landscape. 4. **High-Altitude Observer:** Rhaphorhynchus can send out a unique "ping" or echo from its location, a form of aerial echolocation. This allows it to detect movement and pinpoint threats or valuable resources within its field of perception. The information is relayed to the rider or nearby tribe members, providing valuable insights for survival in the ever-changing, Element-infested world. This ability also allows it to stay aloft with ease. 5. **Versatile Climbing:** Rhaphorhynchus possesses the ability to climb and access high ground from virtually anywhere in ARK Extinction's diverse biomes, whether it's cliffs, trees, or even the ground itself. This exceptional climbing skill enhances its survival in the wild, where terrain is as unpredictable as the Element itself. 6. **Wind Current Manipulation:** Rhaphorhynchus has the unique ability to sense nearby air currents and manipulate them to its advantage. This sensory adaptation allows it to stay aloft for extended periods without expending much energy. Survivors who ride this creature can utilize this ability to identify and harness favorable wind currents for longer glides in Extinction's challenging conditions. Rhaphorhynchus can also use its wind current manipulation to maintain altitude and extend its glide duration, making it faster than any other flyer in Extinction. 7. Elemental Zephyr: Rhaphorhynchus taps into the Element-infused air currents unique to ARK Extinction. However, this ability comes with a trade-off. Initiating the Elemental Zephyr requires the creature to channel energy, which takes time to charge up. During this charging phase, the Rhaphorhynchus becomes more vulnerable to attacks and cannot perform other actions. Once activated, the Elemental Zephyr grants the Rhaphorhynchus an extraordinary burst of speed and agility, allowing it to maneuver through the most challenging aerial obstacles with grace and precision. This ability allows the creature to move in any direction, granting unparalleled control over its flight path. Furthermore, while the Elemental Zephyr is active, all nearby Rhaphorhynchus companions can utilize the wind tunnel it generates. This tunnel remains open for approximately 30 seconds before the entrance closes, enabling other Rhaphorhynchus creatures to access it. This wind tunnel can be used in any direction up down left right so you can use it to get up high or as a trap for other rhaps to either get far away from you or to lose its hight However, it’s important to note that maintaining the Elemental Zephyr consumes a significant amount of stamina. Therefore, survivors should use it strategically. The duration of sustained flight with the Elemental Zephyr ability is limited, lasting approximately 2 minutes before the Rhaphorhynchus needs to rest and recharge. Source: https://a-dinosaur-a-day.com/post/158403141640/rhamphorhynchus-longicaudus-r-muensteri-r/amp Source: Taming: Taming the Rhaphorhynchus remains a challenging task due to its aerial prowess and solitary nature. Survivors interested in befriending this creature must utilize their own gliding equipment, such as a wingsuit or glider suit, to approach it in the skies within ARK Extinction's distinct biomes. To gain its trust, survivors should offer it a selection of prime meat or fish, dropped from their aerial position. Patience is crucial, as it may take several offerings before the Rhaphorhynchus becomes accepting of the survivor's presence. Once the creature decides to ally with a survivor, it can be ridden as an agile glider. Its ability to soar through the air currents, manipulate them to its advantage, and climb with ease to high ground provides survivors with a significant advantage in traversing the expansive and treacherous landscapes of ARK Extinction. **Spawn Biome:** The Rhaphorhynchus can be found in all biomes of ARK Extinction except for the wasteland, where the harsh conditions make it an unsuitable habitat. Source: https://dinosaurpictures.org/Rhamphorhynchus-pictures

English: (Sadly i not have draw of it, but imagine big vulture like real one, with some spike, and the blue "element friendly" corruption like other extinction creature) Cryptogyps lacertosus the cheater death Common name: Crypto Species: Cryptogyps lacertosus (hidden vulture and powerful) Time : Pleistocene Diet: carrion feeder Temperament : opportunist Preferred Food: Golden hesperornis egg Inventory Power: Cryptogyps can store Golden Hesperornis Eggs for a very long time to prevent them from rotting, in addition it can turn 25 Spoiled Meat into Raw Meat and 400 Raw Meat into Prime Meat. Power cheats death: Cryptogyps if his life reaches zero will have immunity to the next damage, if he keeps his immunity or he does not receive damage after losing it for 2 minutes, he will regain 2000 hp and live (or else 20% to see so it's not too cheating) Bird breeder : Cryptogyps can make baby vulture, featherlight, ichthyornis and hesperornis making these creatures obtainable in new ways and in non-canon locations. They will have like normal parents the random stats of the mother or the father however they will not be able to reproduce with their parent (logical it is not the same species) and will act like their natural counterpart Taming Method: Passive To start the taming I know it's contradictory but you have to kill the Cryptogyps then you have to make sure you lock it in a safe place but not too small or else it will refuse the next step, to start you have to do a bait, to do this you must put a taxidermy with a corresponding trophy equip, the bigger it is (so alpha and apex predator) the better the taming will be after the fight, you can put basilisk alpha, karkinos alpha, giga, etc, he will be attracted and you can lock him up to kill him, then once his power cheats death is active you must catch him, either by a metal bolas or by a megalosaurus (be careful, this removes his immunity) once you catch him you must wait 2 minutes (the time he regens, then you can release him wait without attacking him for him to approach you and once ready enough give him a caress, then depending on Cryptogyps's reaction you must react, if Cryptogyps attacks you weaken him to show who dominates, if Cryptogyps is imposing and opens his wings give him a golden egg of hesperornis, then repeat a caress and fight back if he attacks attack, if he imposes feed him, be careful, it will not lose effectiveness if you are the one attacking it, but if it is another creature (wild or tamer) this could affect its effectiveness. Cryptogyps also accepts golden mushrooms, basilisk egg, element ores and element as an alternative if there is no golden egg but will be less effective and therefore more likely to have to fight. Maps transfer or and spawn : Aberation, Extinction,the Center, Crystal isle, lost island, Genesis 1, genesis 2 Breedable : Yes (80% of baby will be torgos arcam, featherlight, hesperornis or ichthyornis) Saddle: Tribal Crypto armor unlock at lvl 68 (argentavis I think) add 65 armor need to craft : golden egg, fiber, hide, sarco skin, Rex Helmet Skin Saddle tek : Tek Crypto armor unlock at Dinopithecus king, crystal wyvern queen (make these boss cool to make because many only make island scorched boss and Rockwell) or the best a special boss for him because the center not have special boss)can swap mode : Add 120 armor, can use element for reflect projectile and dmg, Swap armor to dmg so normal make 120% dmg, can use element to make element charged attack, when crypto bite or lacerated make more dmg and have 25% chance to make bleed Swap armor to life, heal regen to 120 per second when use element and spoiled meat, transform with time into Mummy element after 24 hours if crypto possess in inventory many element, spoiled meat and golden egg (beware of spoil meat become meat) Mommy element is lvl of Cryptogyps who craft it, mommy element can be put in inventory of death bodies to resurrect it, but function only for tame was below or same lvl of Cryptogyps, if try on more lvl dino it resurrect but lost lvl to correspond to crypto lvl, when death body eat mommy element it transform into mommy before become alive. Mommy element can be use on wild but don’t tame them, so you do tame them by normal way. Immobilized by: Chain bolas, megalosaurus (it take it on neck), thylacoleo Immune by : Net, blood, radiation Wild : Have you ever seen a mummy movie? Well I think Cryptogyps could correspond, he has an immense power over death, able to protect himself from damage incurred or to kill before being killed, he can even literally mummify to protect himself. Unlike its counterpart Torgos Arcam, it is very tall, really very tall, it is easily the size of a argentavis on the arch, at the start when I crossed it for the first time I would have thought to see one, in sum Crypto at a pace that could be mistaken for an eagle, let's say that it is especially his long neck that betrays him, moreover, I saw him once one of them being taken by a megalosaurus that he had inadvertently just woken up, and he got caught, not something you would commonly see on other specimens of his size. Tamed: When I see some of these abilities, including the one on the element, it scares me horribly, could he be one of Rockwell's minions? He is able to corrupt the element in his own way, giving his resurrection power to creatures that come into contact with the mummified element. I've seen some of the best inventors in the Federation and URE build tek armor for this creature, allowing it to amplify its already existing powers or force it to corrupt the element, this armor doesn't do I find only worsen the threat that crypto can cause. Having a tamed Cryptogyps lacertosus can however be useful for travel, you can ride on its back as a flying mount, but you can also travel in caves with it, if the air pressure of a cave prevents it from flying, it can be clinging to your spine, being like Torgos Arcam quite light, and serving as a glider, it can hover in the air, but it can also move and therefore hover and make three leaps in the air before being forced to to land. He is not worth a draconis obscurum for traveling but he is rather useful for those who are not fortunate enough to have this mount, moreover, perhaps because he knows the element well enough to corrupt it, he does not is unaffected by radiation and elemental water, allowing survivors to travel through this hostile area well accompanied or to caves in other arks to hunt for artifacts. French : Cryptogyps lacertosus, le tricheur de la mort Common name: Crypto Espèce : Cryptogyps lacertosus (Vautour caché et puissant) Époque : Pléistocène Régime: Charognard Tempérament : opportuniste Nourriture préférée: Golden hesperornis egg Pouvoir d’inventaire : Cryptogyps peut stocker les œufs d’or d’hesperornis pendant très très longtemps les empêchant de pourrir, de plus il peut transformer 25 viande avarié en viande cru et 400 viande crue en viande supérieur. Pouvoir trompe la mort : Cryptogyps si sa vie atteint zéro aura une immunité au prochain dégât, si il garde son immunité ou qu’il ne reçois pas de dégât après l’avoir perdu pendant 2 minutes, il regagnera 2000 hp et vivra ( ou alors 20% a voir pour que ce soit pas trop cheater) Reproducteur d’oiseau : Cryptogyps peut faire des bébés vautour, plumineux, ichthyornis et hesperornis rendant ces créatures obtenable d’une manière inédite et sur des lieux non canoniques. Elles posséderont comme des parents normaux les stats aléatoires de la mère ou du père cependant elle ne pourront pas se reproduire avec leur parent (logique c’est pas la même espèce) et agiront comme leur homologue naturel Méthode d’apprivoisements : Passive Pour commencer l’apprivoisement, je sais c’est contradictoire, mais vous devez tuer le Cryptogyps, vous devez alors vous assurer de l’enfermer dans un lieu sûr mais pas trop petit, sinon il refusera la prochaine étape, pour commencer vous devez faire un appât, pour ce faire vous devez poser une taxidermie avec un trophée correspondant équiper, plus il est gros (donc alpha et prédateur apex) mieux sera l’apprivoisement après le combat, vous pouvez mettre basilisk alpha, karkinos alpha, giga, etc, il sera attiré et vous pourrez l’enfermer pour le tuer, ensuite une fois son pouvoir trompe la mort active vous devez l’attraper, soit par une bolas en métal soit par un megalosaurus ( attention cela retire son immunité) une fois attraper vous devez attendre 2 minutes (le temps qu’il regen, ensuite vous pourrez le relâcher la attendez sans l’attaquer qu’il s’approche de vous et une fois assez prêt faite lui une caresse, ensuite selon la réaction de Cryptogyps vous devez réagir, si Cryptogyps vous attaque affaiblissez le pour montrer qui domine, si Cryptogyps se montre imposant et ouvre ses ailes donnez lui un œuf d’or d’hesperornis, ensuite refaite une caresse et rebelotte si il attaque attaquer, si il s’impose nourrissez le, attention il ne perdra pas d’efficacité si c’est vous qui l’attaquer par contre si c’est une autre créature (sauvage ou tamer) cela pourrait baiser son efficacité. Cryptogyps accepte aussi les champignons doré, œuf de basilisk, minerais d’élément et élément comme alternative si il n’y a pas d’œuf doré mais se sera moins efficace et donc plus de chance de devoir se battre. Cartes de transfer et où de spawn : Aberation, Extinction, the Center, Crystal isle, lost island, Genesis 1, genesis 2 Reproductible : Oui (80% des bébés seront des torgos arcam, plumineux, hesperornis et ichthyornis) Selle : Armure tribale de crypto déblocable au niveau 68 (argentavis je pense) ajoute 65 d’armure a besoin pour être fabriquée : œuf d’or, fibre, peau, peau de sarco, costume de casque de crâne de rex (ressemble à un assemblage d’os de stego, sauropod etc Selle tek : Armure tek de crypto déblocable par le roi Dinopithecus, Reine crystal wyvern(faisant d’eux des boss utile car souvent on fait que ceux de the island et scorched et de Rockwell ) peut changer de mode : Ajoute 120 d’armure, peut user de l’élément pour refléter les projectiles et dommage Converti l’armure en dommage ainsi les dégâts normaux sont de 120% dmg, peut user de l’élément pour faire des attaque chargée en element, lorsque crypto mors ou lacère il a 25% de chance de provoquer un saignement Converti l’armure en vie, la vie se régénère de 120 par seconde lorsqu’il use de l’élément, de la viande avarié et œuf d’or d’hesperornis, transforme avec le temps en élément momifié après 24 heures, si crypto possèdent beaucoup d’élément, viande avarié et œuf d’or (attention à la viande avarié qui devient de la viande crue ) Element momifié est du niveau du crypto qui l’a fabriqué, élément momifié peut être mis dans l’inventaire d’un corp défunt pour le ressusciter, mais fonctionne seulement sur les créatures qui sont du même niveau ou inférieur à Cryptogyps, si tenter sur un niveau supérieur cela fonctionnera mais descendra le niveau à celui du crypto, lorsque un corp mort mangera l'élément momifié cela le transforme en momie avant d’éclater et fr reprendre vie. L’élément momifié peut être user sur une créatures sauvages mais ne l’apprivoisera pas, donc ils devront être apprivoiser d’une manière normale. Immobiliser par : bolas en metal, megalosaurus (it take it on neck), thylacoleo Immuniser par : Net, saignement, radiation Sauvage : Avez-vous déjà vu un film de momie ? Eh bien je pense que Cryptogyps pourrait correspondre, il a un pouvoir sur la mort immense, capable de se protéger des dégâts encourus ou alors de tuer avant d’être tué, il peut même momifier littéralement pour se protéger. Contrairement à son homologue Torgos Arcam il est très grand, vraiment très grand, il fait aisément la taille d’un argentavis sur l’arche, au départ quand je l’ai croisée pour la première fois j’aurais cru en voir un, en somme Crypto à une allure qu’on pourrait confondre avec un aigle, disons que c’est surtout son long cou qui le trahit, d’ailleurs, je l’ai aperçu une fois l’un d’entre eux se faire prendre par un megalosaurus qu’il venait par mégarde de réveillé, et il s’est fait attraper, ce n’est pas une chose qu’on pourrait couramment voir sur d’autre spécimens de sa taille. Apprivoisé : Lorsque je vois certaines de ces capacités, y comprit celle sur l'élément, cela me fait horriblement peur, serait-il l’un des sbires de Rockwell ? Il est capable de corrompre l'élément à sa manière, donnant son pouvoir de résurrection aux créatures qui seraient en contact avec l’élément momifié. J’ai vu certain des meilleurs inventeurs de la Fédération et des URE construire une armure tek pour cette créature, lui permettant d’amplifier ses pouvoirs déjà présent ou de l’obligé à corrompre de l’élément, cette armure ne fait, je trouve qu’empirer la menace que crypto peut causer. Avoir un cryptogyps lacertosus apprivoisé peut cependant être utile pour voyager, ont peut monter sur son dos comme monture volante, mais on peut aussi voyager dans les grottes avec, si la pression de l’air d’une grotte empêche de voler, il peut s'agripper à votre échine, étant comme torgos arcam assez léger, et servir de planeur, il peut faire un vol stationnaire dans les airs, mais il peut aussi bouger et donc planer et faire trois bond dans les airs avant d’être obligé d'atterrir. Il ne vaut pas un draconis obscurum pour voyager mais il est plutôt utile pour ceux qui n’ont pas le bonheur d’avoir cette monture, de plus, peut être du fait qu’il connaît assez l’élément pour le corrompre, il n’est pas affecté par les radiations et l’eau d’élément, permettant ainsi aux survivants de voyager dans cette zone hostile bien accompagné ou d’aller dans des grottes des autres arches à la traque aux artéfacts.

Gigatitan In real life gigatitan is an extinct titanopteran insect from triassic kyrgystan. It had a wingspan of up to 40 centimeters and was unable to fly, but it could glide. In ark It will be found hanging on the sides of high cliffs waiting for unsuspecting flyers to pass. When it spots one it will lift off and glide towards it grabbing it and attempting to crush its wings. This depends on the weight stat of both creatures if the weight stat is very low gigatitan will instantly crush the wings and the flyer will have to glide to the ground and will not be able to lift off where gigatitan will come to claim its prize. After it is done it will simply climb back up a cliff and wait for its next meal. However if the weight stat is similar there will be a struggle where both parties involved are able to pull each other into different directions. If the weight stat is way highter than gigatitans it will eventually have to let go. It will look like a giant locust with spikes on its legs for grabbing. Abilities wing crushing gigatitan will lock onto the wings of a flying creature glider or onto a managarmer and attempt to crush its wings. If this succeeds the target will be forced to make an emergency landing and wont be able to get back into the air for several minutes. Wing flap every 10 seconds gigatitan can flap its wings to gain a little speed and altitude. Wing flash it will reflect the sun with its wings and this works like a flashbang to anything looking into that direction. Taming gigatitan probably burrowed its eggs into plants so to get one you will have to cut down trees until you find a gigatitan larvae you will then have to feed the larvae living animals until it is big. But similarly to a reaper baby they will attack you. Also don’t forget about their protective mothers that hang on the nearby buildings. You can pick these larvae up but they will attempt to struggle by throwing spit in your face to blind you and will also knock you off direction.

General Abilities in the hot weather this creature is more agile however in cold weather it is less agile. this creature also has a super jump ability then once airborne is capable of gliding similarly to the meawing. this creature can climb on almost any surface. this creature is also immune to debuffs. Variant Abilities the females are generally larger as well as being able to shoot a poisonous gas that can knock out survivors and creatures they can also produce egg sacks that can infect enemy troughs rotting all food inside said troughs. The males are capable to shoot a gas like dieses that can infect both players and tames giving them a advanced form of swamp fever that also drains oxygen for a short amount of time as well as blur vision Eating habits this creature eats almost anything it will especially hunt any element infused creature weather robotic, Tek, or even corrupted. it will attack anything element and do 3 times damage. Locations These terrible creatures can be found scattered in the outskirts of the waste land. Taming you must first hunt down a female then kill it the baby will then bolt so be ready to catch it once caught and imprinted it will be a very useful tame for travel and sieging so good luck fellow survivors Special thanks to Lamp Meow Bee Car and the rest on the ark discord for helping me with this creature idea. 😃 Creature by PlanetEarth208

--Name Update-- I've been made aware that the Thoracopteridae is actually the name of the family and not a genus itself so a more proper name for it would be the Thoracopterus! hope this change doesn't confuse many people, Thank you Beelzebufo522 for the correction^ Something Ark has needed for a long time is some new creatures to make the ocean more diverse and exciting so i'm here to present the Thoracopterus, Known Commonly as the Flying Fish it is the new fastest Swimmer/Gliding Tame. Able to use its powerful tail to launch out of the water and glide long distances, even challenging the maewing with its gliding/swimming capabilities!! ---Abilities--- Launch and Glide: Gain speed to launch out of the water, the more speed you have the higher into the air you will go. Similar to a maewing you will then hold a button to glide and control the angle and speed at which you fly at. To descend there's a couple of options: a speedy dive that when done into deep water it will be a quick way to reach the ocean's depths or a parachute-like ability for a more slow and controlled descent. Or simply glide until you reach the water again. Speed boost/Charge attack: Whilst in water it is able to do a charged up attack which will propel itself forward at great speeds, you can use this a simple speed boost to move faster whilst in water or if you hit an enemy its wings will slice whatever it goes through dealing bleed damage to the target. Spin attack: If ever cornered it can do a spin attack with its fins that deals knockback and a slight bleed. Just enough to give it the time to zoom away from danger. Invisibility!: Its iridescent scales are great at reflecting the ocean around them, so whilst in water they are able to turn themselves and their rider ‘invisible’ similar to how a Desmodus can vanish into the night. Making it easier to avoid those annoying Stuns and scary alphas! This of course drains stamina quicker just like any over camo/invis abilities. On Land: What happens if you land it on land? No threat, tho it is a fish if you do happen to get it stuck on land you do have time to get it back into the water with either using cryo pod or its slither/flopping movement similar to ARK Additions Xiphactinus to shuffle its way back into the water (this idea could be expanded upon 1 idea being it lasts longer on land if you keep water in its inventory to prevent it from drying up, this meter will be shown its Oxygen bar. However I feel it's also important to keep this as a water mount so for nothing to drastic that it becomes an all terrain creature) Boats arn't safe: They are very skittish creatures, rarely allowing you to get close before speeding off and are especially afraid of boats! If you do manage to get too close to one with a raft or canoe they may feel threatened enough to damage the vessel before speeding off making them a new threat to those that wish to travel the seas without getting their feet wet. another way they may damage boats if they mistake them for pieces of drift wood or debris of which a mate pair may want to lay its eggs on, to do so they might want to cut the vessel up into smaller less noticeable pieces. ---Unsure of abilities--- Mate pair or pack boost options: pack boost was an idea had very early on as these creatures are found in groups, however I don't think it would work well with the bleeding ambush creature it could be. Mate pair tho could see additional abilities being added maybe a aoe heal ability or something else! Climbing waterfalls: These creatures have been spotted using their strong back fin to launch themselves up waterfalls to make it to migrate to other oceans, it's almost like it's defying the laws of gravity. (this idea is a big stretch as I'm unsure if it would even be possible, but I feel like it would be a helpful idea based on the different water levels on the map) Double Jump: To keep in the air almost like a bird it is able to do a strong flap of its fins to launch it up higher, this is helpful if you ever feel like you are getting too close to land and just need that extra boost to get back into the water. This second jump would only be around half the height of its max jump. ---Taming,Breeding,Anatomy--- Taming method: Taming I originally thought would be similar to an Astrodelphis but in the end a Sino would probably be a better comparison, they will spawn in groups and as long as you have their favourite food ammonite bile in your inventory (if you want it to be extra tough could have it so you must apply the ammonite bile making over creatures nearby aggressive) they will come up to you to be fed, swimming around you and sometimes running away having to chase after them. As long as you don't hurt them or don't scare them with any big tames Breeding: In the wild they would leave their eggs onto seaweed and floating debris near the water's surface.Once tamed however they will be able to breed near the surface of the water as long as there's a structure nearby to attach its eggs to. Anatomy: They have razor sharp barbs on the front edge of its 1st pair of fins, these barbs can cause severe bleeding when used at high speeds and mainly used in the wild as a last resort to escape or when hunting for food. They are sharp enough to cut through thick shells and skin of some of the largest creatures in the depths.The fin at the end of their tail is a lot thicker and stronger than the rest of the fins that it uses to glide with. This tail fin is the entire reason it is able to propel itself into the air, climb waterfall and cause knockback and charged attacks Size: slightly smaller than a megalodon there wings make them seem a lot bigger ---Idea for a Tek Saddle--- -I could imagine the Tek saddle covering the Thoras fins like the Tek Tapagara saddle, the tek blades on the fins would then have deferent settings to deal over effects over than just its normal bleed (Green mode=torpor, Purple mode=Electric stun, Red mode=enhanced Bleed for some ideas) -The strong armour around the head could make it so it can charge mineable materials and collect them. -The saddle could possible improve its gliding ability adding a thruster to just boost itself higher into the air if needed. (but it would not be strong enough to keep the Thora in the air forever just longer than normally would without) This thruster could also be used in water for faster acceleration ---Additional info--- -Can’t be picked by a Tuso as it is speedy enough to evade its tentacles -Slight overall weight reduction to make those water resource trips that much easier WILD Swimming near the surface of deep oceans they are found swimming in schools using their numbers and ability to leaping out of the water to escape larger predators. They are very skittish creatures, rarely allowing you to get close before speeding off and are especially afraid of boats! If you do manage to get too close to one with a raft or canoe they may feel threatened enough to use their ‘spin attack’ to dmg/push away the vessel before speeding off making them a new threat to those that wish to travel the seas without getting their feet wet. ONCE TAMED: Once Tamed they can become your fastest way of travel, being able to manoeuvre quickly around obstacles in the ocean and skip over pieces of land with its glide. Also a great way to bleed and dodge any attacks whilst in the water with its charges it could be the best way to deal with larger predators if you wish to engage in a fight. They are able to be saddled carrying up to 1 player, when not sprinting can hold a weapon such as harpoon or crossbow. Due to hunting Ammonite and being exposed to its bile for such a long time they have evolved to be immune to the aggressive effects of it, they will also protect the rider also making them immune to its effects. This is my 1st time submitting a creature! All art is done by myself and I really hope you like the Thoracopterus!

My Goal Is To Educate People About Aurornis, First let me tell you About Aurornis Xui In Real Life, Aurornis was roughly the size of a modern pheasant, with a length of 50 cm (20 inches). It had clawed wings and a long bony tail. Its leg bones were similar to those of Archaeopteryx, but overall its anatomy was more Primitive Aurornis lived roughly 160 million years ago, roughly 10 million years before Archaeopteryx, which often has been described as the first bird. Wild : Aurornis Xui, Although Seems Cute and Cuddly From Afar,Do not approach It As Its Powerful Beak and Talons Can Shred Even the Toughest Of Creatures! Males Have A Luminescent Tail and Head Feathers,while males have Extra Feathers under its beak. The Females Have A More dull Look While a Shorter Tail And No Head Feathers. Aurornis Are Often Seen Hunting in a Pack of 3, 2 Females and 1 Male, Rarely Even all 3 Of same Gender Or 2 Males and 1 Female. Some Packs Have Been Witnessed To Raise Other Baby Dinos In There nest With there Own Young. Killing A pack Of Aurornis Xui Will benefit you Greatly as it Will drop Feathers Another More Softer and Prettier Alternative To Make Beds and sleeping bags (Beds and Sleeping Bags Crafted from Feathers Have A shorter Respawn Timer and The Beds and sleeping bags crafted from Feathers wil have A Feather Look instead of Typical Hide look), Alternatively Can make a Aurornis GlideSuit, A More Faster and Cooler GlideSuit. Domesticated : Aurornis Xui, While Domesticated Can Benefit you Greatly, It can Jump High While Aurornis Cannot Fly it can Glide While Gliding it Opens Its Tail and Wings Wide and Can Glide Up to Hours Until It Touches the Ground,While Being a Semi-Flying Dinosaur it can Swim Very Well, While Getting Scent of Insects Aurornis will Become Raged and Go on a Killing Spree on Insects Dealing 25% More Damage To Creatures. Aurornis Can be Paired and This Creature While Being A Little Bigger Then an Iguanadon Can Kill Even The Supposed King Of Dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus Rex, With its Talons and Cause Bleeding and Can even Latch On to Creatures Bigger then a Allosaurs and up, While Pouncing Smaller Dinos Down to a Raptor, Smaller then a Raptor It Can grab with Its beak and Few to none can escape Its Grasp. it Can Also Somehow Latch onto Flying Dinosaurs (More specifically Like the Quetzal) i Saw Tribes using this to Try To Bring Down Quetzals, Even Other Tribes Used Aurornis to "Injure Flying Dinosaurs" Making them Forcefully Land or drop to the ground, For Trapping or Easily Killing them. You can Make The Aurornis Make a Nest Big Enough to Hatch The Biggest of Creatures, Enable There Mother Instinct On Female Aurornis And it will Sit on the Eggs until 5% ( Almost Ready To Hatch), It will Keep Screeching Until The baby is Hatched, The Aurornis mother will AutoClaim and If You give her The necessary Things she will Imprint and Also Raise The baby up! Extra Notes : 1. it Can Latch onto Giant Dinosaurs (More specifically Like the Quetzal) Imagine your trying To tame a Quetzal, But only Low lvls Are on map, There are Few Low to mid Tier Dinos that Can Catch up to a quetzal Therefor making it more Useful. 2. The Idea is It can "Injure Flying Dinosaurs" Making them Forcefully Land or drop to the ground, For Taming or Easily Killing them , This DeBuff Could last up to 1min (Similar to the Net from Gen 2). Vote For Aurornis For a New Boss Fighting and Terrain Crossing Birdy Friend, 🐦 (Sorry My female Aurornis Sketch Wont upload, but it was shown as Dossier Says )

English: Cryptogyps lacertosus the cheater death Common name: Crypto Species: Cryptogyps lacertosus (hidden vulture and powerful) Time : Pleistocene Diet: carrion feeder Temperament : opportunist Preferred Food: Golden hesperornis egg Inventory Power: Cryptogyps can store Golden Hesperornis Eggs for a very long time to prevent them from rotting, in addition it can turn 25 Spoiled Meat into Raw Meat and 400 Raw Meat into Prime Meat. Power cheats death: Cryptogyps if his life reaches zero will have immunity to the next damage, if he keeps his immunity or he does not receive damage after losing it for 2 minutes, he will regain 2000 hp and live (or else 20% to see so it's not too cheating) Bird breeder : Cryptogyps can make baby vulture, featherlight, ichthyornis and hesperornis making these creatures obtainable in new ways and in non-canon locations. They will have like normal parents the random stats of the mother or the father however they will not be able to reproduce with their parent (logical it is not the same species) and will act like their natural counterpart Taming Method: Passive To start the taming I know it's contradictory but you have to kill the Cryptogyps then you have to make sure you lock it in a safe place but not too small or else it will refuse the next step, to start you have to do a bait, to do this you must put a taxidermy with a corresponding trophy equip, the bigger it is (so alpha and apex predator) the better the taming will be after the fight, you can put basilisk alpha, karkinos alpha, giga, etc, he will be attracted and you can lock him up to kill him, then once his power cheats death is active you must catch him, either by a metal bolas or by a megalosaurus (be careful, this removes his immunity) once you catch him you must wait 2 minutes (the time he regens, then you can release him wait without attacking him for him to approach you and once ready enough give him a caress, then depending on Cryptogyps's reaction you must react, if Cryptogyps attacks you weaken him to show who dominates, if Cryptogyps is imposing and opens his wings give him a golden egg of hesperornis, then repeat a caress and fight back if he attacks attack, if he imposes feed him, be careful, it will not lose effectiveness if you are the one attacking it, but if it is another creature (wild or tamer) this could affect its effectiveness. Cryptogyps also accepts golden mushrooms, basilisk egg, element ores and element as an alternative if there is no golden egg but will be less effective and therefore more likely to have to fight. Maps transfer or and spawn : Aberation, Extinction,the Center, Crystal isle, lost island, Genesis 1, genesis 2 Breedable : Yes (80% of baby will be torgos arcam, featherlight, hesperornis or ichthyornis) Saddle: Tribal Crypto armor unlock at lvl 68 (argentavis I think) add 65 armor need to craft : golden egg, fiber, hide, sarco skin, Rex Helmet Skin (look like assembly of stego plate, sauropod bone, etc) Saddle tek : Tek Crypto armor unlock at Dinopithecus king, crystal wyvern queen (make these boss cool to make because many only make island scorched boss and Rockwell) or the best a special boss for him because the center not have special boss)can swap mode : Add 120 armor, can use element for reflect projectile and dmg, Swap armor to dmg so normal make 120% dmg, can use element to make element charged attack, when crypto bite or lacerated make more dmg and have 25% chance to make bleed Swap armor to life, heal regen to 120 per second when use element and spoiled meat, transform with time into Mummy element after 24 hours if crypto possess in inventory many element, spoiled meat and golden egg (beware of spoil meat become meat) Mommy element is lvl of Cryptogyps who craft it, mommy element can be put in inventory of death bodies to resurrect it, but function only for tame was below or same lvl of Cryptogyps, if try on more lvl dino it resurrect but lost lvl to correspond to crypto lvl, when death body eat mommy element it transform into mommy before become alive. Mommy element can be use on wild but don’t tame them, so you do tame them by normal way. Immobilized by: Chain bolas, megalosaurus (it take it on neck), thylacoleo Immune by : Net, blood, radiation Wild : Have you ever seen a mummy movie? Well I think Cryptogyps could correspond, he has an immense power over death, able to protect himself from damage incurred or to kill before being killed, he can even literally mummify to protect himself. Unlike its counterpart Torgos Arcam, it is very tall, really very tall, it is easily the size of a argentavis on the arch, at the start when I crossed it for the first time I would have thought to see one, in sum Crypto at a pace that could be mistaken for an eagle, let's say that it is especially his long neck that betrays him, moreover, I saw him once one of them being taken by a megalosaurus that he had inadvertently just woken up, and he got caught, not something you would commonly see on other specimens of his size. Tamed: When I see some of these abilities, including the one on the element, it scares me horribly, could he be one of Rockwell's minions? He is able to corrupt the element in his own way, giving his resurrection power to creatures that come into contact with the mummified element. I've seen some of the best inventors in the Federation and URE build tek armor for this creature, allowing it to amplify its already existing powers or force it to corrupt the element, this armor doesn't do I find only worsen the threat that crypto can cause. Having a tamed Cryptogyps lacertosus can however be useful for travel, you can ride on its back as a flying mount, but you can also travel in caves with it, if the air pressure of a cave prevents it from flying, it can be clinging to your spine, being like Torgos Arcam quite light, and serving as a glider, it can hover in the air, but it can also move and therefore hover and make three leaps in the air before being forced to to land. He is not worth a draconis obscurum for traveling but he is rather useful for those who are not fortunate enough to have this mount, moreover, perhaps because he knows the element well enough to corrupt it, he does not is unaffected by radiation and elemental water, allowing survivors to travel through this hostile area well accompanied or to caves in other arks to hunt for artifacts. Feel free to give idea about crypto capacities and design ^^ Français Cryptogyps lacertosus, le tricheur de la mort Common name: Crypto Espèce : Cryptogyps lacertosus (Vautour caché et puissant) Époque : Pléistocène Régime: Charognard Tempérament : opportuniste Nourriture préférée: Golden hesperornis egg Pouvoir d’inventaire : Cryptogyps peut stocker les œufs d’or d’hesperornis pendant très très longtemps les empêchant de pourrir, de plus il peut transformer 25 viande avarié en viande cru et 400 viande crue en viande supérieur. Pouvoir trompe la mort : Cryptogyps si sa vie atteint zéro aura une immunité au prochain dégât, si il garde son immunité ou qu’il ne reçois pas de dégât après l’avoir perdu pendant 2 minutes, il regagnera 2000 hp et vivra ( ou alors 20% a voir pour que ce soit pas trop cheater) Reproducteur d’oiseau : Cryptogyps peut faire des bébés vautour, plumineux, ichthyornis et hesperornis rendant ces créatures obtenable d’une manière inédite et sur des lieux non canoniques. Elles posséderont comme des parents normaux les stats aléatoires de la mère ou du père cependant elle ne pourront pas se reproduire avec leur parent (logique c’est pas la même espèce) et agiront comme leur homologue naturel Méthode d’apprivoisements : Passive Pour commencer l’apprivoisement, je sais c’est contradictoire, mais vous devez tuer le Cryptogyps, vous devez alors vous assurer de l’enfermer dans un lieu sûr mais pas trop petit, sinon il refusera la prochaine étape, pour commencer vous devez faire un appât, pour ce faire vous devez poser une taxidermie avec un trophée correspondant équiper, plus il est gros (donc alpha et prédateur apex) mieux sera l’apprivoisement après le combat, vous pouvez mettre basilisk alpha, karkinos alpha, giga, etc, il sera attiré et vous pourrez l’enfermer pour le tuer, ensuite une fois son pouvoir trompe la mort active vous devez l’attraper, soit par une bolas en métal soit par un megalosaurus ( attention cela retire son immunité) une fois attraper vous devez attendre 2 minutes (le temps qu’il regen, ensuite vous pourrez le relâcher la attendez sans l’attaquer qu’il s’approche de vous et une fois assez prêt faite lui une caresse, ensuite selon la réaction de Cryptogyps vous devez réagir, si Cryptogyps vous attaque affaiblissez le pour montrer qui domine, si Cryptogyps se montre imposant et ouvre ses ailes donnez lui un œuf d’or d’hesperornis, ensuite refaite une caresse et rebelotte si il attaque attaquer, si il s’impose nourrissez le, attention il ne perdra pas d’efficacité si c’est vous qui l’attaquer par contre si c’est une autre créature (sauvage ou tamer) cela pourrait baiser son efficacité. Cryptogyps accepte aussi les champignons doré, œuf de basilisk, minerais d’élément et élément comme alternative si il n’y a pas d’œuf doré mais se sera moins efficace et donc plus de chance de devoir se battre. Cartes de transfer et où de spawn : Aberation, Extinction, the Center, Crystal isle, lost island, Genesis 1, genesis 2 Reproductible : Oui (80% des bébés seront des torgos arcam, plumineux, hesperornis et ichthyornis) Selle : Armure tribale de crypto déblocable au niveau 68 (argentavis je pense) ajoute 65 d’armure a besoin pour être fabriquée : œuf d’or, fibre, peau, peau de sarco, costume de casque de crâne de rex (ressemble à un assemblage d’os de stego, sauropod etc Selle tek : Armure tek de crypto déblocable par le roi Dinopithecus, Reine crystal wyvern(faisant d’eux des boss utile car souvent on fait que ceux de the island et scorched et de Rockwell ) peut changer de mode : Ajoute 120 d’armure, peut user de l’élément pour refléter les projectiles et dommage Converti l’armure en dommage ainsi les dégâts normaux sont de 120% dmg, peut user de l’élément pour faire des attaque chargée en element, lorsque crypto mors ou lacère il a 25% de chance de provoquer un saignement Converti l’armure en vie, la vie se régénère de 120 par seconde lorsqu’il use de l’élément, de la viande avarié et œuf d’or d’hesperornis, transforme avec le temps en élément momifié après 24 heures, si crypto possèdent beaucoup d’élément, viande avarié et œuf d’or (attention à la viande avarié qui devient de la viande crue ) Element momifié est du niveau du crypto qui l’a fabriqué, élément momifié peut être mis dans l’inventaire d’un corp défunt pour le ressusciter, mais fonctionne seulement sur les créatures qui sont du même niveau ou inférieur à Cryptogyps, si tenter sur un niveau supérieur cela fonctionnera mais descendra le niveau à celui du crypto, lorsque un corp mort mangera l'élément momifié cela le transforme en momie avant d’éclater et fr reprendre vie. L’élément momifié peut être user sur une créatures sauvages mais ne l’apprivoisera pas, donc ils devront être apprivoiser d’une manière normale. Immobiliser par : bolas en metal, megalosaurus (it take it on neck), thylacoleo Immuniser par : Net, saignement, radiation Sauvage : Avez-vous déjà vu un film de momie ? Eh bien je pense que Cryptogyps pourrait correspondre, il a un pouvoir sur la mort immense, capable de se protéger des dégâts encourus ou alors de tuer avant d’être tué, il peut même momifier littéralement pour se protéger. Contrairement à son homologue Torgos Arcam il est très grand, vraiment très grand, il fait aisément la taille d’un argentavis sur l’arche, au départ quand je l’ai croisée pour la première fois j’aurais cru en voir un, en somme Crypto à une allure qu’on pourrait confondre avec un aigle, disons que c’est surtout son long cou qui le trahit, d’ailleurs, je l’ai aperçu une fois l’un d’entre eux se faire prendre par un megalosaurus qu’il venait par mégarde de réveillé, et il s’est fait attraper, ce n’est pas une chose qu’on pourrait couramment voir sur d’autre spécimens de sa taille. Apprivoisé : Lorsque je vois certaines de ces capacités, y comprit celle sur l'élément, cela me fait horriblement peur, serait-il l’un des sbires de Rockwell ? Il est capable de corrompre l'élément à sa manière, donnant son pouvoir de résurrection aux créatures qui seraient en contact avec l’élément momifié. J’ai vu certain des meilleurs inventeurs de la Fédération et des URE construire une armure tek pour cette créature, lui permettant d’amplifier ses pouvoirs déjà présent ou de l’obligé à corrompre de l’élément, cette armure ne fait, je trouve qu’empirer la menace que crypto peut causer. Avoir un cryptogyps lacertosus apprivoisé peut cependant être utile pour voyager, ont peut monter sur son dos comme monture volante, mais on peut aussi voyager dans les grottes avec, si la pression de l’air d’une grotte empêche de voler, il peut s'agripper à votre échine, étant comme torgos arcam assez léger, et servir de planeur, il peut faire un vol stationnaire dans les airs, mais il peut aussi bouger et donc planer et faire trois bond dans les airs avant d’être obligé d'atterrir. Il ne vaut pas un draconis obscurum pour voyager mais il est plutôt utile pour ceux qui n’ont pas le bonheur d’avoir cette monture, de plus, peut être du fait qu’il connaît assez l’élément pour le corrompre, il n’est pas affecté par les radiations et l’eau d’élément, permettant ainsi aux survivants de voyager dans cette zone hostile bien accompagné ou d’aller dans des grottes des autres arches à la traque aux artéfacts. Sentez vous libre d’ajouter des idées à crypto sur ces capacités et design ^^

Name:Basiliscus Maximus Common name:Basiliscus Temperament Female:Neutral Temperament Male:Aggressiv Size:ca.10 Meters Wild: Theese big lizards live in groupes off about 10 individuums, wich are guarded by one Alpha Male,wich kills everything it sees (you can see wich one it is because the Males have bigger crests and sails than the females). The females are less aggressive and do only attack if you attack them or their nests,wich are always attacked by various predators. Taming: The only way to tame a Basiliscus is to jump on a female, take a range weapon and get her trust, with helping her defending the nest(killing attackers).Ones she trusts you, she will offer you one egg wich you have to raise and then feed the hatchling. Tamed: This creature CAN be ridden without a saddle butt its defenetly worth it crafting the saddle because it adds three abbilities: night vision helmet minigun (one on each side) Foldable glider, with wich it can glide like a maewing Normal abbilities: Running on water diving very fast without an oxygen stat swimming exelent using its‘s tale as a whip and for picking up creatures up to the size of a stego or allo copy buffs and special abbilities Immitating Buffs/ Special abbilities:, for copying buffs and abbilities you have to immitade the creature until the immitation bar is on 100%.Then youre Basiliscus will get the buff/abbility.Example: when you copy the Sino‘s buff you will get the buff every time your Basiliscus touches water.You can only copy 10 buffs max

Say hello to the Hypuronector! My friend and I have worked hard on this the last couple of days, so please vote for us! Wild: These creatures, about the size of raptors. are usually seen leaping from tree to tree. They eat insects like Meganeura and titanomyrma by waiting in treetops and then ambushing them. They live solitary lives with little to no social interaction between the species. As it is an insectivore, it generally acts docile towards survivors and other smaller dinosaurs. If provoked, they will attack back with a vicious maw and a huge tail whip. They are usually found in dense forests with many trees they can climb and glide. Domesticated: To tame these creatures, one must first give it some chitin to eat. After, lure in bugs and help the Hypuronector kill them. When fully domesticated, they can glide between trees and climb up them. In addition, they also have two special poisons that they can switch between. The first poison slowly drains the health of the creature they bite. The more bugs they eat, the deadlier the poison becomes. The second type of poison is made automatically, and can be used as narcotic. Their tails can be used for steering when gliding and to push other dinosaurs away. Its saddle can hold up to two survivors, and a lot of chitin. The saddle can also be a base for a shield of chitin surrounding the Hypuronector. If the Hypuronector is in an area with a lot of green, they can camouflage and turn invisible. Attacks/Abilities: Tail whip: The Hypuronector uses its tail to hit a creature, dealing some damage and knockback. Poison bite: When the Hypuronector bites a creature, a poison is brought along with it, and it slowly drains the health of the creature for a while. The damage of the poison increases the more bugs he eats. Narcotic poison: A poison that spawns in its inventory. It can be used as a narcotic to make anything normal narcotic makes, such as tranq arrows and tranq darts. Saddle shield: The saddle is surrounded by chitin. This lowers damage and prevents status conditions like bleeding and poison from affecting the Hypuronector. Glide: The Hypuronector can glide, similar to a Maewing, except slower. Climb: The Hypuronector can climb up vertical surfaces that have to be very flat, like trees or walls. Chitin reduction: Chitin weight gets reduced by 75% Camouflage: The Hypuronector can turn invisible with areas with a lot of green, like dense forests.

Dossier: Name: Metoposaurus Species: Amphibious Guardian Intro: In the primeval landscapes of ARK, the Metoposaurus emerges as a remarkable survivor, boasting a balance of both ancient strength and adaptable finesse. This amphibious guardian thrives in a variety of environments, using its well-protected form to defend against predators and its agile limbs to navigate both land and water. https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Metoposaurus Appearance: The Metoposaurus is a robust amphibian with a heavily armored body, designed to withstand the challenges of its era. Its distinctive feature is its bony frill-like plate on its head, serving as both a defensive adaptation and a means of display. Its stout legs and webbed feet enable it to move efficiently both on land and in aquatic environments. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/metoposaurus-algarvensis-by-adrin-blzquez-riola--831477149951006905/ Habitat and Behavior: Metoposaurus is known for its ability to inhabit a range of ecosystems, from calm freshwater lakes to marshy wetlands. It is often found near water bodies where it can access both land and aquatic resources. The amphibious guardian is known for its versatility, seamlessly transitioning between land and water to meet its needs. Abilities: 1. Defensive Prowess: The Metoposaurus can curl its body into a protective ball, utilizing its sturdy armor plating to reduce the effectiveness of incoming attacks. This ability makes it an imposing adversary in confrontations, allowing it to withstand assaults from predators. 2. Aquatic Vision: Exceptional underwater vision empowers the Metoposaurus to detect movement and prey from a distance. This keen sense aids its hunting endeavors, making it a formidable aquatic predator. 3. Adaptable Limbs: The creature’s agile limbs grant it the capability to traverse both land and water with ease. It can deftly navigate varying terrains, making it an efficient survivor companion in the challenging environments of ARK. 4. Aquatic Mastery: Equipped with strong, webbed limbs, the Metoposaurus is an adept swimmer. It glides through water with remarkable speed and agility, allowing it to chase down prey or evade danger beneath the waves. 5. Elevated Agility: On land, the Metoposaurus’s powerful limbs enable agile movement, allowing it to traverse uneven terrain with ease. It can even use its strong limbs to launch itself onto higher ledges or escape threats, showcasing its exceptional mobility. 6. Balanced Gliding: The Metoposaurus possesses a unique gliding ability, leveraging its evolutionary adaptations to leap from elevated positions and glide smoothly to the ground or water below. Its frill-like headplate, once unfurled, aids in controlling its descent and direction during the glide. This skillful maneuver makes it an efficient traveler, swiftly covering distances and accessing otherwise challenging locations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capetus_(amphibian) Taming: Taming the Metoposaurus requires a calm and non-threatening approach. Survivors should locate an individual creature near water and offer a variety of aquatic plants and small live prey. Patience is key, as survivors must gain the creature’s trust over time. Gradually reducing the distance between themselves and the Metoposaurus, survivors can create a bond that allows them to interact with the creature without causing distress. Riding and Gliding: Survivors can easily mount the Metoposaurus from its back, forming a direct bond with this agile guardian. When leaping from elevated positions, the Metoposaurus can activate its gliding ability by spreading its limbs and unfurling its headplate. This allows it to glide smoothly through the air, showcasing its exceptional gliding skills. Upon descent, the creature lands gracefully, ready to continue its journey. Diet: The Metoposaurus is an omnivore, feeding on a variety of aquatic plants, small aquatic animals, and insects. Its keen vision aids in spotting potential prey both above and beneath the water’s surface. This dietary adaptability contributes to its successful survival in a range of environments. The Metoposaurus, with its well-rounded abilities, is a prized survivor companion. Its protective armor, agility, and capacity to thrive in various environments make it a valuable asset in the diverse and challenging landscapes of the ARK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temnospondyli

Dossier: Name: AmphivoRex Species: Amphibious Glider Intro: In the enigmatic realm of The Center, an extraordinary adaptation has given rise to the AmphivoRex, a captivating creature inspired by the real-world Sharovipteryx. Evolving to thrive in both land and water, the AmphivoRex combines the gliding prowess of its prehistoric relative with newfound amphibious capabilities, making it a unique and versatile companion. Appearance: The AmphivoRex bears a striking resemblance to its prehistoric counterpart, the Sharovipteryx. Its body boasts an elongated form designed for streamlined gliding. With a length of approximately 2 meters (6.5 feet), the creature's remarkable adaptation includes webbed feet and specialized wing structures, allowing it to seamlessly transition between terrestrial and aquatic environments. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/603060206327918004/ https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Sharovipteryx_BW.jpg diet: The Amphivorex sustains itself on a diet of various aquatic and terrestrial food items. Its adaptable nature allows it to consume both plant-based and meat-based resources. Survivors can provide the creature with a mix of aquatic vegetation, such as aquatic mushrooms and aquatic berries, along with standard berries and meat. This diverse diet reflects the creature’s versatile lifestyle, encompassing its abilities to swim, glide, and traverse both land and water environments. behaviour: The Amphivorex exhibits a cautious yet curious behavior. It tends to avoid direct confrontations, preferring to rely on its agility and ability to swiftly escape danger. When left undisturbed, it explores its surroundings with a sense of wonder, often using its gliding abilities to move between different areas. In the wild, the Amphivorex can be observed gracefully gliding over bodies of water and scaling rocky cliffs with ease. Its amphibious nature allows it to move seamlessly between land and water, making it a versatile survivor in various environments. While not inherently aggressive, the creature will defend itself if provoked or cornered, utilizing its sharp claws and beak to fend off threats. Domesticated Amphivorex show loyalty to their handlers, forming strong bonds through consistent interaction. These creatures thrive in open spaces that allow them to demonstrate their climbing, gliding, and swimming abilities. With proper care and training, an Amphivorex can become an invaluable companion, serving as a trusty mount and a reliable mode of transportation across diverse landscapes. Habitat and Adaptations: The Center's diverse landscapes have nurtured the AmphivoRex's unique capabilities. Its wing adaptation facilitates both efficient gliding through the air and graceful swimming beneath the water's surface. This dual adaptation has elevated the AmphivoRex as a true amphibious explorer, making it a valuable companion for navigating the land, skies, and aquatic depths. https://www.reptileevolution.com/sharovipteryx.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharovipteryx Abilities: 1. **Amphibious Glide:** The AmphivoRex's wings and webbed feet enable it to glide through both the air and water with remarkable agility. This amphibious gliding ability allows it to traverse land and aquatic environments effortlessly, expanding survivors' exploration horizons. 2. **Aquatic Forager:** In its amphibious habitat, the AmphivoRex excels as a forager, utilizing its webbed feet and gliding motion to skim the water's surface and capture aquatic prey. This natural foraging ability benefits both the creature and its survivor allies. 3. **Dual Defense Mechanism:** The AmphivoRex exhibits a unique defense strategy that capitalizes on its dual abilities. When threatened in the water, it can swiftly dive underwater, employing its streamlined form to evade danger. On land, it utilizes its wings to create a threatening display, deterring potential predators. 4. Wall Climbing: The amphivorex strong limbs and specialized toe pads enable it to cling to and climb vertical surfaces, including rock walls and trees. This ability grants it access to hard-to-reach areas and serves as a unique means of both defense and escape. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharovipteryx Saddle and Taming: The AmphivoRex does not require a saddle to be ridden. Its streamlined body and natural gliding capabilities allow survivors to seamlessly mount and ride it without additional equipment. Taming the Amphivorex requires a hands-on and physically engaging approach, as survivors must ride the creature and accompany it through its natural activities of climbing, swimming, and gliding. To initiate the taming process, survivors need to locate a wild Amphivorex in the forested areas near water bodies within the Center map. Once found, the survivor should approach the creature cautiously and gain its attention. Once the Amphivorex acknowledges the survivor’s presence, they can carefully mount the creature’s back. The challenge begins as the survivor must maintain their balance while the Amphivorex showcases its agility. The Amphivorex will embark on a journey that includes climbing up steep terrain, swimming through water bodies, and gliding gracefully between trees. Survivors must skillfully adjust their position to stay on the creature’s back and keep their balance during these diverse activities. To keep the Amphivorex tamed and cooperative, survivors must feed it a mix of aquatic and terrestrial food items during the journey. This not only sustains the creature’s energy but also reinforces the survivor’s role as a provider and partner. The Amphivorex will occasionally pause during its journey, providing the survivor with the opportunity to dismount briefly to gather more food resources. However, they must remain vigilant, as the creature’s trust can waver if left unattended for too long. Successfully navigating through the taming journey while maintaining balance and nourishing the Amphivorex will establish a strong bond between the survivor and the creature. Once the journey is complete, the Amphivorex will acknowledge the survivor as its trusted rider. As a tamed companion, the Amphivorex can be ridden across various terrains, demonstrating its remarkable ability to transition seamlessly between land, water, and gliding. The survivor’s attentive care during the taming process will ensure a loyal and capable partner for their adventures on the ARK. https://www.reptileevolution.com/sharovipteryx.htm this is weirdly how they run (Note: The AmphivoRex is a fictional creature inspired by the real-world extinct animal Sharovipteryx. The description provided seeks to capture the creature's essence and adaptations within the context of the game.)

Irl laophis is an extinct genus of large viper, it existed in Greece during the pliocene period. They got to roughly 3-4m in length and 26kg in weight. For in game purposes the snake would defenetly have to be made much larger (perhaps slightly larger then the current titanoboa) and instead of being spesifically a viper, i imagane it as more of a hybrid between many diffrent species of venomous snakes. This would include things like cobras, rattle snakes, other vipers and most importantly flying snakes. This is more or less the idea behind the creature, taking unique traits from many diffrent modern snake species and combinging them into a single highly mobile, high dmg, all round tame Dossier: "Wild Boasting many features found in all kinds of snakes, laophis is problably one of the most desirable creatures in the ark. It spends most of it's time hiding at the base of large rocks, mountains and such. Waiting for it's preffered prey to walk by. Once it does laophis will launch it's head towards it and deliver a bite full of venom, which takes effect almost immediately. Laophis is capable of delivering leathal doses of venom in a single bite, but it takes time for it to produce such ammounts which makes them almost skittish when confronted by another predator. Suprisingly, instead of using the rattle at the end of it's tail as a warning, it actualy seems to lure certain creatures closer. Presumably due to the fleshy structure on it resembeling food. Still a laophis rearing up and showing off it's cobra like frill is more then enough to deter most smaller threats. Domesticated Perhaps the snake's most suprising feature is it's ability to climb, leap and most shocking of all, glide. A behavior rarley observed in wild laophis, but utilised to it's full potential by survivors. Once on a high perch laophis can launch itself in a certain direction and almost identical to modern flying snakes, it can propel itself a great distance, all whilst carrying a survivor on it's back." The ability to climb and jump would tie in extremly well with gliding. I can imagane laophis climbing up redwood trees and vertical surfaces perhaps similar to a megalania or thyla, while also having a regular and a charged (mainly vertical) jump (for a refrence imagane it jumping as sort of a goofy snake spring coil). The gliding ability is based on flying snakes, in game imagane the snake almost like a thyla pouncing of a tree and then massivly extending the distance travelled by slithering in the air, with the ability to turn mid air to some extent. The lure ability is based on the spider-tailed horned viper, which has an arachnid mimicking structure at the end of it's tail. Since laophis is suposed to lure herbivores and carnivores alike, perhaps a structure resembling a leaf or even a chunk of meat would be more appropriate for it. Abilities: Venom: similar to an amargasaur's spikes, venom is almost like an additional stat that the snake produces on it's own. Venom inducing attacks will use up diffrent ammounts of the avalible venom stat (depending on the attack) which is displayed next to the hotbar (once again like an amarga's spikes). Venom deals damage over time depending on the snake's own melee dmg % (which scales up to a certain %). -(LBM) Primary bite attack: basic bite with no additional effects -(Hold LBM) venom bite: laophis launches at a select target delivering a great ammount of venom. Deals both heavy base and venom dmg, but uses most of the venom stat -(RBM) Stance change: laophis rears up, from this stance it can perform it's ranged abilities: -(LBM in stance) Venom spit, laophis delivers a lesser ammount of venom in a long range cobra-like spit. Uses significatly less venom then venom bite, but deals less damage as well -(C in stance) intimidation: laophis uses it's frill and roars to intimidate smaller threats -(C) rattle lure: laophis uses it's rattle to get any creature not curently hostile closer to it. -Heat vision: identical to the snow owl, can be turned on in a menu similar to desmodus -(Space) jump: a vertical jump that takes laophis high above the ground, can be held down to increase distance. -(Hold space) gliding/climbing: when in the air laophis can intitate a glide, imagane it as a slithering slow fall, exept laophis can travel forward at incredible speeds loosing minimal height, though not being able to gain it either. While also being able to turn mid air. Laophis can climb vertical surfaces similar to a thyla gameplay wise, but in a simialr fashion to how many modern

First of all, welcome to my submission, and let me explain a thing before we proceed. If you came to see the images, scroll down to the bottom, the gallery is there lol. Also another disclaimer, this is NOT a flyer. It's a glider, despite its appearance. The real yi qi couldn't hold sustained flight and neither can this one. Yi qi is the name of this very real creature that existed during the late jurassic period in what today is China, it means "Strange wing" in chinese. However, Yi is the name of the genus and qi is the name of the species, like Tyrannosaurus and rex. So calling it "Yi qi something else" wouldn't make much sense lol. Hence why this arkified version is named Yi xue, meaning "Bloody wing" in chinese. That being said, let's proceed. Sorry if it's a bit messy, I've not had time to put it up too well before the vote, but here's all this bad boy's got running for. The quality of some images is a bit pixelated because of the submission's 400kb max size, which is pretty difficult to adjust to with several images lmao Yi Xue: A large bird-like dinosaur that has bat-like wings and can glide through the caverns with ease, similar to rock drake. A creature that rewards skill, patience and calculation over facetanking, albeit with a bunch of drawbacks to make it a true glass cannon. Its moveset and movement abilities are inspired by the Dark Souls saga and its immersive combat system. It features razor feathers and quills that it shoots at its victims, causing a special kind of bleed. While the bleed does no damage, it’s a mark, signaling how many feathers have carved the flesh of the victim. Then, Yi Xue can trigger the mark, dealing devastating damage. Here's how the Eviscerate attack works portrayed in an image. Don't worry, the Spino will live... probably. This is what happens when you let Yi xue stack too many feathers on you. The creature can maneuver quite well through the caverns and has quite decent gliding, being able to flap its wings to gain momentum. Also, the more melee stat, the more quills it can shoot, and the more stamina, the faster it will create additional feathers, enticing towards levelling your Yi xue for a full-damage oneshot build. Alternatively it can use rock drake feathers if it runs out of feathers to shoot. Be wary when exploring the element chamber though, as Yi Xue is not immune to the effects of radiation. When the bleed mark is triggered, if the target loses more than half its health with the attack, it is feared for 20 seconds and receives full damage from any source for a minute, no matter the armor or natural resistance a creature has. It is also slowed by 30% for that minute, making Yi an absolutely devastating assassination mount, good for small and large targets alike. Additionally, it can perform several mobility abilities, like backward dodges or sidesteps, giving it a brief time of invulnerability, at the cost of its momentum and a great amount of stamina. If the Yi is hit by any sort of melee or creature damage while gliding or soaring, it will fall to the ground and be unable to glide for 10 seconds after it was hit. It can still sidestep and leap backwards, though, so keep in mind it still is very mobile. You can also cause an enemy Yi xue to fall to the ground by using bullets, but it will take quite a few shots to do so. Yi xue is quite fast when gliding, so repeatedly landing shots isn't an easy task. That way, if you're the one using a Yi xue, you're punished for getting too close to danger and not minding your spacing, but you aren't absolutely clowned on if your enemy has a sniper rifle, you still have a chance. Do keep in mind that you can only be knocked out of the air if you're gliding, so taking damage while on the ground doesn't punish you as hard. Think of what fighting position benefits you the most depending on the scenario! Yi can also coat its quills with different substances and poisons, giving it alternative uses. For example, it can coat them with narcotics or biotoxin to use its feathers as an alternative method to using tranquilizers with a crossbow or a rifle. Furthermore, the amount of torpor scales with melee damage, so it’s as effective as high tier crossbows and rifles, not a joke like scorpions or pachys. There’s more things Yi can coat its feathers with; Ascerbic mushroom spores will cause dizziness and hallucinations like the fertile mushroom spore nausea, drowning the target and confusing it. Aquatic mushrooms will slightly slow and decrease the target’s resistance to damage by a slight amount, as well as applying the freezing effect on players Plant species Z fruits will work as usual, blinding and stunning, but also healing allies by a slight amount. Propellant will cause the feathers to be on fire, but these feathers won’t count towards the total feather count of the mark Reaper pheromones will cocoon the target. And will also give them the reaper pheromone buff, because why wouldn’t it? It’s reaper pheromones. Yi Xue also has a TEK saddle. However this one doesn’t go pew pew, it’s slightly different. Yi has enough of an arsenal already, it doesn’t need lasers. What the TEK saddle does is stabilize its dashes and make them even more maneuverable, as well as having an ability that blocks incoming attacks for half a second after activation. A parry ability, to put it bluntly. Let’s say you’re facing someone with a sniper rifle and you’re soaring around. If they hit you and you parry in time, your Yi won’t be stunned and will receive no damage, at the cost of a hefty amount of element. That’ll give you an edge to seek proper terrain to fight instead of glide shooting. Or if you were hit once by a rex or giga, instead of plummeting to the ground to certain death because you missed a dodge, you get to keep gliding and avoid that damage. This ability has a rather long cooldown, 15 seconds, it’s a not-so-indulgent, expensive get out of jail card that requires precise timing and incentives to keep spacing yourself instead of being greedy for damage. Abilities Passive: - (Passive) Yi xue’s mark of blood: A debuff that is applied once you’re hit by a feather from a Yi xue. It doesn’t add or take stats, nor does it do any damage. The amount of stacks lowers over time, wearing off. If the Yi xue attacks you while you have an active mark, the mark is removed and you take damage based on the amount of feather stacks you had. The more feather stacks, the more damage, ramping up massively to extremely dangerous numbers, or being weak as a melee attack. The mark can also be applied from the air while gliding, it isn’t restricted to ground only. - Feather making: Yi xue generates one Yi xue feather every so often, that it can use as a projectile. If your mount runs out of these, you can’t shoot. Increase stamina to make this process faster. The higher the stamina stat, the faster the production! On ground: - Bite: Left click, does 40 damage. It’s got pretty big teeth and a pointy beak. Activates the bleed mark on all targets hit. - Feather shot: Right click, does 10 damage. Adds 1 feather stack to the enemy hit. The rate of fire is increased the higher the melee stat of the Yi xue is. - Ammo type change: G, opens up a wheel displaying the different feather types. Normal, rock drake, tranq feathers (narcotic coated), propellant coated, etc. - Roar/Taunt: Ctrl, aesthetic - Jump: Jump to start gliding - Double tap D or A: Side step. Use this to quickly reposition yourself and get out of harm’s way, gaining a brief moment of invulnerability. Useful for fighting large, bulky creatures like rock drakes or reapers, or to dodge projectiles. - Double tap S: Backwards leap. Use this to quickly reposition yourself and get out of harm’s way, gaining a brief moment of invulnerability, like the sidestep. Gliding works a bit like a mix between maewing and managarmr. Hold shift to glide, but you can’t glide up like a rock drake, and you lose height rather quickly unlike a maewing. Tap space while gliding to flap the yi’s wings and dash in the air towards the facing direction. This costs a huge amount of stamina, but you can gain altitude by doing this. You can cling to walls like a tapejara, quickly regaining stamina. You won’t be stunned if you’re hit while clinging, unlike gliding. You can’t move while clinging to a wall, unlike deinonychus. You also cannot use mounted weaponry while riding a Yi xue, neither on the ground nor while gliding. Yi xue is already enough of a powerhouse, it doesn’t need a rider with an ascendant shotgun on it. Abilities while gliding: - Left click: Bite, same as on the ground, though it’s hard to land this attack while moving fast. Activates the bleed mark on all targets hit. - Hold right click: You enter a shooting stance while strafing in the air, still gliding. Think of it like managarmr when you’re spitting ice, it strafes and slowly glides down, but you can aim. Hold to aim, and now press left click to shoot feathers while strafing. 10 damage like on the ground and adds a stack to the mark. The rate of fire is increased the higher the melee stat of the Yi xue is. - Ammo type change: G, opens up a wheel displaying the different feather types. Normal, rock drake, tranq feathers (narcotic coated), propellant coated, etc. - Double tap D or A: Side air dash. Use this to quickly reposition yourself and get out of harm’s way, gaining a brief moment of invulnerability. Useful for fighting large, bulky creatures like rock drakes or reapers, or to dodge projectiles. Cannot be used while aiming with right click. - Double tap S: Backwards air dash. Use this to quickly reposition yourself and get out of harm’s way, gaining a brief moment of invulnerability, like the side air dash. Cannot be used while aiming with right click. - X: Eviscerate. Yi xue becomes immune to stuns for the duration of this attack. The Yi lunges towards the desired direction, dealing 50 damage and activating the bleed mark on all targets it hits, if there is a bleed mark. While in this attack, even if they shoot you or bite you, you can’t be knocked out of the air! However you can be netted, so be careful, or be prepared for when an enemy Yi performs this attack to completely outplay it. - Ctrl: Roar/Taunt. Base Stats HP: 210, same as Pteranodon Stamina: 250 Oxygen: 150 Food: 1400 Weight: 150 Movement Speed: Faster than Raptor, slightly slower than Gallimimus Melee damage is listed in the abilities section! Taming In order to tame a Yi xue you must first let it pelt you with feathers. If you're doing this on foot, it won't take it long to plunge towards you. Once it dives towards you to activate the mark and deal massive damage to you, shoot a net with a harpoon gun to trap it. Then, passively feed it meat while it's trapped, mutton or kibble. Rinse and repeat. It prefers regular kibble. Yi xues are naturally found in the fertile chamber, as well as the bioluminescent chamber. They can't venture into the element chamber as they aren't immune to radiation damage, like ravagers. And now for the Dossier! Common Name: Yi qi Species: Yi xue Time: Late Jurassic Diet: Carnivore Temperament: Aggressive Wild Commonly mistaken for its much smaller cousin, Yi xue is a ravenous beast fitting of its unique environment. Much like Draconis obscurum, Yi xue is able to glide through the caverns with its bat-like wings, although it is incapable of flight. Despite its fame as a murderer of unwary survivors, Yi is a rather fragile creature, barely able to stand against a raptor in a duel. However, its strength comes from its unique behavior and hunting tactics. Instead of diving head on like most beasts do, Yi takes a much more tactical approach, gliding over its victims while raining down razor feathers made of a special keratin. The feathers themselves are mere annoyance, but they carve the victim’s flesh, covering it with light, barely noticeable wounds. When the Yi has covered its victims with enough feather-induced wounds, it strikes fast like a lightning, absolutely decimating its opponent as it’s turned into mincemeat from its now very much open wounds. Domesticated While many will choose a Rock drake over a Yi xue for combat, traveling and utility, those who have trained extensively along these wyvern-like dinosaurs claim they’re the ultimate tactician mount, able to outmaneuver most threats in the caverns while giving even reapers a run for their money in terms of damage. Though one must first master the drawbacks that come with the usage of Yi xue, for there’s a plethora of dangers that can easily turn a Yi and its rider into kibble, like a pack of Ravagers, a Megalosaurus or even radiation. That's it, thank you for sticking around and it'd mean the world to me if you upvoted Yi xue! Thank you for reading it all up to this point, and have fun with the contest! Funny size comparison here. It can be ridden as stated before.