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Yet again a creature vote crept up on me so no dossier this time! Shaihuludia is a gigantic worm that lives out in the wastelands on earth. to protect itself from harmful solar radiation wild Shaihuludia often cover themselves with various plants and minerals they find. occasionally they may get into an element node covering themselves in it protecting themselves from the corrupted but making them a target for daring survivors looking for element! When tamed Shaihuludia can be equipped with various heavy saddles due to its affinity with covering itself. Lightweight primitive saddle 1 rider 3 passenger seating with low defense can fully burrow Advanced saddle 1 rider 3 flak turrets offers great protection but turrets can only be controlled by passengers can partially burrow Tek saddle 1 rider 6 tek turrets great defense requires element to operate turrets can be controlled by rider and passengers grants flight it high element cost cannot burrow Controls Lmb - bite Shaihuludia everts it's pharynx using its jaws to snap in front of it dealing significant damage. Can be used to turn in place but has a longer wind up. Ctrl - burrow Shaihuludia burrows into the ground only exposing it's back and head. While underground Shaihuludia can move more quickly but uses more stamina. If Shaihulida uses a lightweight primitive saddle they will burrow underground completely. Shaihuludia cannot burrow with a tek saddle equipped. Space bar (underground, prim saddle) - lunge After a short delay Shaihuludia bursts from the ground into the air into a controlled fall. Deals extreme knockback and high damage to enemies as well as stunning fliers. If this attack kills an enemy Shaihuludia gains a health regen buff. Spacebar (tek saddle) - take off Enables Shaihuludias tek saddle thrusters allowing slow flight at a high element cost. Rmb (tek saddle) - fire Fires Shaihuludias tek turrets. Uses a hitscan laser projectile like Astrodelphis. Additional info Fossil and life reconstruction https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Reconstruction-of-Shaihuludia-shurikeni-gen-et-sp-nov-from-the-Spence-Shale-of-Utah_fig3_369899057

(Wildcard is censoring all mention of it’s name with sausage, keep in mind it’s real name is on the dossier, the L is to avoid censorship) When I was a young child, first getting into prehistory, I loved looking for the superlatives, the biggest dinosaur, the last mammoth, etc. But there was one that eluded me, the oldest. The dinosaurs lived a long time ago, yes, but reptiles are older, and fish older still. Eventually I was lead to the Cambrian and the explosion in life that many of our modern lifeforms can f trace there ansestors back to. But I still wanted older. Then I found it. A small group of organisms, called the Ediacaran biota, strange animals from many millions of years before the Cambrian. They were unusual, quilt-patterned animals that resemble ferns more than you or I, the tri-laterally symmetrical disks, and the largest of them all, the one-and-a-half metre Dlckinsonia. When I first read of these, little was know, were they even animals? Fungi? Some unknown experimentation of life? Nowerdays, they are nearly universally believed to be animals, but the much mystery remains. Many years later, I first booted up and played ark, I loved the game, and it would rapidly exceed all other of my games in playtime. I loved the game, as I adored prehistoric life. Only last year, I begun a playthrough on Aberration, while the last two votes ment less to me as I wasn’t on either Scorched Earth or Ragnarok during the vote. But because I was playing on Aberration, I have an idea of what creature I’d want on the map. Have you ever wanted to build a base where you shouldn’t? Perhaps near the fertile lake or in the more rural regions of the blue zone? Have you feared that nameless or reapers May spawn if your light pets ever run out of charge? Or been inconvinved by having to travel far to reach a charge node? Well I have a solution, the beast from long before all others aboard the ark, Dlckinosonia! Here’s a transcript of what was written on the soldier above: -Wild. I had long believed the trilobite was the oldest animal to be found, but while journeying beside through the lower parts of this broken ark, I found something much older. Dlckinsonia luxavora congregates around the bioluminescent -Domesictaed. I doubt Dlckinsonia has the brain power to be domesticated, but by taking advantage of it’s hunger, one can be lead to a more useful location. So, what use would this pose to you, as a survivor? Well I have two main ideas. First off, if you wanna make a base in the blue zone, you often need to fill it with glowtails and featherlights to prevent nameless from killing all your tames, I prepose Dlckinsonia would resolve this by acting as a standing charge source, giving off charge light permanently in a certain radius, with no need to recharge. Along with this, my concept includes the ability to function as a charge node, allowing you to fill up your batteries or craft element from your base. Finally, it would be able to accumulate oil in it’s inventory, helping ease the resource’ rarity on aberration, How would you tame such a beast? Well for this I prepose something similar to the beloved method of the troodon, you have to feed it your tames. But not just any tames, your light pets. This will cause it to rear up like shown on the dossier, giving it effectiveness when it kills them. Rinse and repete and you got yourself a anti-reaper carpet. As I know from the Dinopithecus wildcard loves to give creature submissions some usability for PvP, so I suggest possibly giving it bear trap/plant species R functionality, where a player walking near will be trapped and have to button mash to escape, giving the, use outside of aberration. To adresss some possible questions: Do you mean this to be an upgrade to/replace light pets? No, unlike lights pets, it is not pickupable by hand, and I intend it to be more of a base deafense/utility tame. Where would it spawn? I’m thinking it would spawn rarely around the blue lake, and more common around the crystalline lake deeper in the blue zone. Why should I pick this over the Reaper Emperor? It’s all up to, I am proposeing this to help take some of the lategame grind away from aberration, maybe not adding to much, but making it a more enjoyably experience.

Common Name: Giant redknee Species: Brachypelma Gigas Time: Unknown Diet: Carnivore Temperament: Defensive Wild Brachypelma Gigas closely resembles modern day tarantulas of the Brachypelma genus. More specifically B. hamorii or B. smithi, save for the fact that it's enormous, being around the size of the islands Carnotaurus. As long as you don't get too close though it isn't overly dangerous, since like modern day tarantulas the Brachypelma Gigas prefers to sit on a bed of silk and wait for suitable prey to come within striking range. As which point the tarantula will pounce on it and pin it down. So as long as you don't get too close you shouldn't have a problem. Brachypelma gigas can most commonly be found within caves but can occasionaly be seen above ground as well. It generally makes it's home in dry, desert type environments. Domesticated In order to tame Brachypelma gigas one must gather up some sacrificial tames, preferably giant insects as tarantulas are generally insectivores, and throw or whistle them into the tarantulas striking range. Once it's pinned down the prey you can simply walk up and pet it while it's distracted with it's food, slowly getting it used to you. Once tamed Brachypelma gigas makes for a fantastic helper when it comes to taming other animals. It's able to lay down silk mats on the ground which function like bear traps, stopping small to medium sized animals in their tracks. Unlike metal bear traps though it's silk is biodegradable and will dissolve after a few minutes even if nothing steps on it. It also injects torpor inducing venom with every bite and can flick urticating hairs from it's abdomen which slow and temporarily blind smaller creatures. It does take a while for the hair to grow back though so it can't be relied on constantly. Brachypelma gigas is also capable of climbing walls and cliffs. Although being a heavy bodied, terrestrial species it's not very good at it. Making it a somewhat slow climber and it certainly can't cling on to ceilings or the roof of caves. Tameable: Yes Rideable: Yes Breedable: Yes Extra notes (Not part of dossier) I know this isn't an extinct animal so maybe it doesn't qualify for this but since Ark has mythical creatures I figured I'd submit it anyway. I always thought a giant tarantula would be really cool ever since scorched earth came out and I'd really love to see this in Ark. And having a creature dedicated to helping tame other animals as well as being a decent all-around mount would be nice. I imagine this to be on the higher end of mid level as far as the saddle goes. And I think it's be cool if instead of a normal saddle your character just sat on top of the carapace and held onto reins that were affixed around the base of the pedipalps where they connect to the cephalothorax. I also think it'd be really neat if the abdomen changed size depending on how well fed it is. When it's hunger is full the abdomen would be somewhat bigger compared to the cephalothorax. When it's food is almost or completely empty the abdomen would be noticeably small compared to the cephalothorax. I have no idea how hard that'd be to do though so it's just kinda a spitball idea. If it's unrealistic I'd totally understand. So yeah, this is my idea for an animal to add. I've played and loved Ark for over 7,600 hours, which I'm pretty sure is longer than every other game I've played in my life combined. So to see one of my favorite animals added to the game would just be absolutely amazing. But I also understand most people don't like spiders/tarantulas so I can't imagine my suggestion will be very popular. But one can always dream. And although I think a tarantula in the Brachypelma genus would be best I'd be happy to see any species of tarantula in the game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachypelma_hamorii

This insect is very small in real life but Ark isn't always biologically accurate and takes creative liberties like with the scorpion, mantis and dung beetle so with that being said hears the idea... This beetle would be the size of a trike fully grown. Would be able to walk, fly (slowly) and swim. Taming: Taming wild you would need guillie suit, bug spray, and a new craftable taming item called a rotten pouch (spoiled meat, honey and rare mushrooms) to passive tame. Combat: These beetles will be very tanky with lots of health and average melee output as medium sized carnivores. They'll have a very versatile movement as they can fly walk and swill. They'll have a special ability to release narcotic fumes by shaking its body side to side similar to the magmasaur pink fume ability. Utilities: High carry weight.. land sea and air travel.. high health for dangerous explorations New item: Potent Stomach acid: craft this new item in this creatures inventory using spoiled meat (like a lot 200 to 500) and force feed to any knocked out creature to increase starvation by 2 or 3 times. (Only 1 use allowed per unconscious creature) Breeding: Only can breed in water. Have a larvea for that can't leave water till adult. Eats spoiled meat Let me know what you think and vote if you like the idea.