Deinotherium

Creature

Group

Mammals

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Territorial

Spawn Command

cheat summon DeinotheriumASA_Character_BP_C
or

cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/ASA/Dinos/Deinotherium/Dinos/DeinotheriumASA_Character_BP.DeinotheriumASA_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Torpor Immune

No

Taming Method

Passive

Preferred Food

Beer Jar

Equipment

Deinotherium Saddle (Level 85)

Rider Weaponry

No

Data

Feces Size

Large

Drag Weight

550

Radiation Immune

No

The Deinotherium is a mammal in ARK: Survival Ascended and the fifth creature from the mod ARK Additions to be added to the game.

Overview

Dossier

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Species

Deinotherium colossus

Time

Late Miocene

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Territorial

Wild

Colossus seemed like an appropriate name for such an already large elephant. The Deinotherium crush their mammoth cousins and show terrifying strength and speed. You don't want to disturb any of them. When enraged, Deinotherium instead adopts an aggressive stance which results in a charge if the enemy lingers longer than intended. In their hierarchical herds, annoyed Deinotherium will rally with mighty roars. If you want to fight with a herd, you have to be ready.

Domesticated

Deinotheriums are not easy to tame. During the aggressive stance they adopt, the Deinotherium will show various signals to indicate if they are bluffing into their attack or just want that tasty beer they smell! Once tamed, these terrible beasts will easily obliterate structure and opposing forces while providing a powerful moral call!.

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Behavior

The Deinotherium will position itself looking at you if you are nearby. To tame it, wait for the right moment (look at bottom left-hand corner). The Deinotherium will defend its territory, if you get too close, often in herds of 5 to 7.

Appearance

The Deinotherium is a kind of huge elephant with tusks under its mouth. It's also one of the only creatures with sexual dimorphism, as males have beards and longer tusks, while females have shorter tusks and are less hairy.

Color Scheme and Regions

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Region 1:Fur main

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Region 2:Unused

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Region 4:Fur edges

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Region 5:Leg stripes

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Drops

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
Attribute	Base Value	Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	1750	+350	+4.045%
Stamina	450	+45	+10%
Oxygen	150	+15	+10%
Food	8000	+800	+10%
Weight	800	+16	+4%
Melee Damage	35	+1.75	+1.7%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A	+1%
Torpidity	2500	+150	N/A	0.5

Abilities

Active

Stomp 5	The Deinotherium stomps two times with its frontal legs, each hit applies 33 damage standing on place and 66 damage while moving. If the player is looking sideways, Deinotherium will stand on its hind legs and delivers a powerful stomp for 82 damage, additionally turning in place by around 90 degrees. Can be used every 0.45s by both a rider and the AI.

Trunk Swipe 150	The Deinotherium swipes its trunk for 77 damage. This attack harvest corpses, and high quantities of Wood from trees. This attack ignores large amount of enemy's armor, similarly to Therizinosaurus. Can be used every 5s by both a rider and the AI.

Rally Call `C` 5	The Deinotherium does a rallying call, which is followed by a stunning one-leg stomp that hits for 49 damage. The rally call gives every allied Deinotherium in close distance a buff, the male version will give Attack Rally: Increases the damage by 15%, males cannot do the Rally Call if there is another male nearby. Lasts for 35 seconds. In addition to the Attack Rally effect, the male also receives Taunting debuff, which works similar to the Rare Flower effect. Lasts for 20 seconds. Can be used every 50s by both a rider and the AI.

Roar `Ctrl` 5	The Deinotherium roars without any effect.

Active

Stomp 5	The Deinotherium stomps two times with its frontal legs, each hit applies 30 damage standing on place and 60 damage while moving. If the player is looking sideways, Deinotherium will stand on its hind legs and delivers a powerful stomp for 75 damage, additionally turning in place by around 90 degrees. Can be used every 0.45s by both a rider and the AI.

Trunk Swipe 150	The Deinotherium swipes its trunk for 70 damage. This attack harvest corpses, and high quantities of Wood from trees. This attack ignores large amount of enemy's armor, similarly to Therizinosaurus. Can be used every 5s by both a rider and the AI.

Rally Call `C` 5	The Deinotherium does a rallying call, which is followed by a stunning one-leg stomp that hits for 45 damage. The rally call gives every allied Deinotherium in close distance a buff, the female version will give Defense Rally: Increases the damage resistance by 5%, it can be stacked up to 3 times from different females. Lasts for 35 seconds. Can be used every 50s by both a rider and the AI.

Roar `Ctrl` 5	The Deinotherium roars without any effect.

Passive

Pack Boost

The Deinotherium receives the Pack Boost whenever it is near to another allied Deinotherium. A "pack" of two Deinotheriums will receive a +1 Bonus, which will go up to +4 in a Group of 5 or more Deinotheriums, they receive +5% extra Melee Damage and +5% damage resistance per extra pack member up to 4 members.

Carnivore Damage Boost

The Deinotherium does 15% extra damage against carnivores.

Feces Producer

The Deinotherium can defecate high amounts of Large Animal Feces if it force consume Stimberry, however it consumes a lot of Food whenever this action takes place.

Weight Reduction

The Deinotherium reduces the weight of the following resources by the listed amount while they are in its inventory:

Resource	Reduction
Wood	75%

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Deinotherium.

General

Deinotherium is a very powerful opponent because of its robustness, strength and surprising speed. They can become extremely dangerous if found in herds, so it's better to stay away from those.

Strategy

Best method of dealing with this collosal elephant would be separating individuals from the herd (especially males, because they deal most damage as they are pack leaders). To do this, it's best to have some sort of fast mount like Procoptodon. When the creature is separated from the herd it's usually much easier to defeat.

Weaponry

If on foot, strong firearms like Pump-Action Shotgun are the best way to deal with it, however keep in mind that Deinotherium possesses additional defense against Auto Turrets. A much better option is using a powerful tame like the Rex which will make a singular Deinotherium easier to defeat.

Dangers

Fightning with whole herds can be a death wish, even if using a tamed Giganotosaurus, as Deinotherium deals additional damage to carnivores, and possesses the pack leader buff and armor piercing attacks, and can heal from corpses despite being herbivores.

Weakness

Deinotherium often can't attack because of its turning radius, and becomes an easy target (they can still trample smaller tames).

Taming

Deinotherium can ONLY be tamed at player level 95 or higher.

The Deinotherium has an aggressive temperament, so to tame one it is recommended to be alone. Kill the other pack members.

Put the Beer Jar on the last slot of your hotbar and approach the Deinotherium slowly, if it is not on aggro with anything, it will starts to sniff the air, searching for the beer smell.

Once it has detected you, it will turn towards you and begin to make facial expressions while observing you.

If the Deinotherium rolls up its trunk OR sticks its ears to its head instead of showing them it CANNOT be tamed on that opportunity, to try again get away from it until it stops looking at you and repeat the approaching process.

Trunk Rolls Up
Hidden Ears

If the Deinotherium is not doing any negative expression, it is safe to continue.

Each facial expression increases the probability that the Deinotherium accepts the beer from the player:

Head Shaking (+15%)

The Deinotherium shakes its head side to side.

Ear Flapping (+35%)

The Deinotherium flaps its ears.

Trunk Shaking (+50%)

The Deinotherium shakes its trunk side to side.

Once you reach 100% it is safe to approach, otherwise exists the risk that the Deinotherium rejects the beer and became aggresive towards the player. Regardless, when wanting to feed the Deinotherium, the player must stand under its trunk so that the creature will automatically take the beer from the player's inventory if it accepts it. Repeat this process until the Deinotherium is tamed.

Utility

Roles

Battle Mount: Deinotherium has excellent offensive and defensive stats, which combined with its rally buffs makes it an excellent battle mount. (Level up Health and Damage)
- Combat Support: Deinotherium can also be good at supporting other tames in combat by giving them both rally buffs, increasing the damage dealt and the damage resistance.
- Boss/Titan Killer: On big female packs and a single male, the Deinotheriums can easily kill most of the Bosses and Titans, its survivavility in battle can be boosted by giving them some Sweet Veggie Cakes.
- Orbital Supply Drop Defender: Because of its defense and damage buffs when in a herd, 4 Deinotheriums consisting of 3 females and 1 male can act as buffing units for your other creatures. Paired with Carcharodontosauruses, the damage from one Carcharodontosaurus stacked with its Blood Rage buff (+175%), Mate Boost (+30%), and the male Deinotherium damage buff (+15%), 4 to 6 Carcharodontosaurus can deal extremely high damage to shred even level 500 Engraged Corrupted Rexes that have on average over 100k health in seconds.
Harvester: Deinotherium is good at gathering Berries from bushes and Thatch and Wood from trees, in combination with its good Weight stats makes it a good general harvester. (Level up Weight and Damage)
Transport: Deinotherium has an excellent base Weight and a decent sprint speed, in combination with its great defense capabilities makes it a good ground transport. (Level up Stamina and Weight)

Spotlight

Notes

For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Deinotherium, see the relevant Wikipedia article.

Deinotherium and its relatives are proboscideans that branched off from the elephantid lineage roughly 40 million years ago, long before features characteristic of recent proboscideans, such as large size, tusks, and a prehensile trunk or even a proboscis. They began growing in size through the Miocene epoch, evolving recurved, tusk-like incisors on the lower lip, in contrast to the derived upper incisor tusks of elephants. They also had unusually long and flexible necks, flat skulls, slenderer limbs, and a trunk that was noticeably different from that of elephants.
The Deinotherium is the third official proboscidean to be added to ARK, after the Phiomia and the Mammoth.
Deinotherium colossus roughly translates to "colossal terrible beast".
Alongside the Megaloceros, Ovis and Shadowmane, and, by technicality, the Reaper King/ Reaper Queen and Iceworm Male/ Iceworm Queen, the Deinotherium is one of the few dinos in ARK to exhibit sexual dimorphism, with males having "beards" while females do not, and where males and females have significant stat differences from one another.
The Deinotherium is the largest land mammal on the ARK, outsizing the Paraceratherium by a wide margin. Indeed, its perhaps the largest terrestrial non-sauropod found over the course of regular gameplay, being on the same scale as Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus.
As of patch 63.7, the Deinotherium is the largest creature allowed in boss arenas.
Deinotheriums share spawn locations with the Brontosaurus on The Island and The Center, meaning they can be found in forested jungles and river banks. The only exception to this are beaches and South Haven, where Brontos spawn but not Deinotheriums, presumably to keep the peace.