Phiomia

Creature

Group

Mammals

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Skittish

Release Versions

1.551
Jun 2, 2015

729.0
Dec 16, 2015

501.0
Dec 6, 2016

521.0
Nov 30, 2018

311.74
Jun 11, 2020

1.0
May 24, 2018

Variants

Eerie Phiomia

Spawn Command

cheat summon Phiomia_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Phiomia/Phiomia_Character_BP.Phiomia_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Phiomia (Gauntlet2)

cheat summon Phiomia_Character_BP_STA_C
or

cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Dinos/Phiomia_Character_BP_STA.Phiomia_Character_BP_STA'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Torpor Immune

No

Taming Method

Knockout

Preferred Kibble

Basic Kibble

Preferred Food

Crops

Equipment

Phiomia Saddle (Level 5)

Rider Weaponry

Yes

Reproduction

Gestation Time

9h 55m 14.285s

Baby Time

4h 52m 23.86s

Juvenile Time

19h 29m 35.438s

Adolescent Time

1d 21m 59.298s

Total Maturation Time

2d 43m 58.596s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

Common Rare
Untameable Cave

The Phiomia (Fee-o-me-ah) is one of the creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Basic Info

Dossier

This section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena Walker, the author of the dossiers, has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creature.

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Species

Phiomia ignavus

Time

Late Eocene - Early Oligocene

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Skittish

Wild

Phiomia ignavus is another of the Island's generally docile herd animals. They are small enough that almost any predator can bring them down but large enough to provide plenty of meat. Were it not for the protection of the herd and their instinct to run from any predator, these would almost certainly be hunted to extinction. Phiomia's tusks and trunk make it especially suited to scavenging plantlife from the ground. It uses its tusks to dig up loose plantlife, then uses its stubby trunk to scoop the foliage into its mouth. Adult Phiomia often dig up food for their young, and watching a baby Phiomia attempt to use its trunk can be quite amusing.

Domesticated

While it is completely possible to ride a Phiomia around, they are a meager choice. They work very well, however, as pack-mules. If you feed the Phiomia a stimberry, it serves as a laxative in the creature's digestive system. Knowing this, tribal communities often keep a herd of these as livestock to produce mass quantities of fertilizer.

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~ Helena

Behavior

Phiomia will run away from the player when attacked. Without any increases in the player's movement speed stat, he/she will be easily outpaced until the creature thinks it's safe and stops running. When chasing a Phiomia, it is best to be near rocks or below cliffs, as Phiomia will run into these barriers and be cornered.

These creature have an extremely fast metabolism; any food in their inventory will disappear very quickly, and combined with their inability to gather berries, feeding them can pose a challenge to low level players who ordinarily collect food by hand. It is recommended not to tame a Phiomia until a player has first tamed a berry gathering animal such as a Moschops.

Appearance

A pig-like elephant relative. It mainly comes in black, greys, and muddy brown or red colors with spots along parts of its upper body, and it has tusks with a trunk that looks stunted. It can be best described as a very bulky tapir with tusks.

Color Scheme and Regions

Region 0:Body

Natural colors:

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Region 1:Unused

This region does not show on the body.

Region 2:Unused

This region does not show on the body.

Region 3:Unused

This region does not show on the body.

Region 4:Spots

Natural colors:

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Region 5:Smudges

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This section displays the Phiomia's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Phiomia. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Phiomia will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.

This information can be used to alter the Phiomia's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Phiomia's "body" magenta.

Region 0:
Body

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Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 4:
Spots 1

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Region 5:
Spots 2

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Drops

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
Attribute	Base Value	Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	300	+60	+5.4%	0.07
Stamina	300	+30	+10%
Oxygen	150	+15	+10%
Food	3000	+300	+10%		15%
Weight	200	+4	+4%
Melee Damage	10	+0.5	+1.7%	14%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A	+1%	35%
Torpidity	240	+14.4	N/A	0.5

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed			Sprinting Speed			Stamina
Movement [u/s]	Wild	Tamed¹	Tamed²	Wild	Tamed¹	Tamed²	Stamina
Walking	150	?	?	915.75	555	749.25	20
Swimming	300	?	?	?	?	?	?

For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, see Base Creature Statistics.
For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, see Creature Stats Calculation.
¹These are the base speeds of the tamed creature at 100% Movement Speed, i.e. without a possible taming bonus.
²These are the speeds of the creature once tamed including a possible taming bonus and no imprinting bonus.
For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.

Wild Stats Level-up

Type in values of a wild creature to see on which stats it's emphasized. Green values on a high-level creature are very good for breeding. If you have already tamed your creature you can try to recover the breeding stats with an external tool.^[1]

Phiomia

The stat-calculator does not work in the mobile-view, see here for alternatives: Apps

Note that after the creature is tamed it gets bonuses on some stats depending on the taming effectiveness. This makes it hard to retrieve the levels on a tamed creature, so this tool is only for wild ones, but gives a first impression, how well the stats are distributed.

Abilities

Active

Bite 5	The Phiomia bites the target for 10 damage. Can be used every 0.87s by both a rider and the AI.

Passive

Feces Producer

The Phiomia can defecate in large quantities if it force consume Stimberry, however it consumes a lot of Food whenever this action takes place.

Taming

For general info about domesticating a wild creature see Taming.

KO Strategy

Once a Phiomia is attacked, it'll flee with haste, but it will often run into rocks, cornering itself for you. Phiomia are relatively easy to tame, you can easily knock them out with your fists or by using a slingshot to the head. However, they are easily killed so be wary of how fast you are hitting it.

Taming Food

Level 1					Time
Basic Kibble	2	0	0	0	0:00:22
Fresh Barley	20	0	0	0	0:02:40
Fresh Wheat	20	0	0	0	0:02:40
Soybean	20	0	0	0	0:02:40
Dried Wheat	20	0	0	0	0:05:20
Mejoberry	27	0	0	0	0:02:42
Berries	40	0	0	0	0:02:40
KO: × 24; × 10; × 3; × 2; × 2; × 1
Torpidity-depletion: 0.3 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:13:20

Level 30					Time
Basic Kibble	5	0	0	0	0:00:54
Fresh Barley	47	0	0	0	0:06:16
Fresh Wheat	47	0	0	0	0:06:16
Soybean	47	0	0	0	0:06:16
Dried Wheat	47	0	0	0	0:12:32
Mejoberry	63	0	0	0	0:06:18
Berries	94	0	0	0	0:06:16
KO: × 66; × 27; × 8; × 5; × 3; × 2
Torpidity-depletion: 0.5 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:21:59

Level 60					Time
Basic Kibble	8	0	0	0	0:01:26
Fresh Barley	75	0	0	0	0:10:00
Fresh Wheat	75	0	0	0	0:10:00
Soybean	75	0	0	0	0:10:00
Dried Wheat	75	0	0	0	0:20:00
Mejoberry	100	0	0	0	0:10:00
Berries	150	0	0	0	0:10:00
KO: × 109; × 45; × 13; × 7; × 5; × 3
Torpidity-depletion: 0.66 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:27:55

Level 90					Time
Basic Kibble	11	0	0	0	0:01:58
Fresh Barley	104	0	0	0	0:13:52
Fresh Wheat	104	0	0	0	0:13:52
Soybean	104	0	0	0	0:13:52
Dried Wheat	104	0	0	0	0:27:44
Mejoberry	138	0	0	0	0:13:48
Berries	207	0	0	0	0:13:48
KO: × 153; × 63; × 17; × 10; × 7; × 4
Torpidity-depletion: 0.79 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:32:14

Level 120					Time
Basic Kibble	14	0	0	0	0:02:30
Fresh Barley	132	0	0	0	0:17:36
Fresh Wheat	132	0	0	0	0:17:36
Soybean	132	0	0	0	0:17:36
Dried Wheat	132	0	0	0	0:35:12
Mejoberry	175	0	0	0	0:17:30
Berries	263	0	0	0	0:17:32
KO: × 196; × 80; × 22; × 13; × 9; × 5
Torpidity-depletion: 0.92 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:35:37

Level 150					Time
Basic Kibble	16	0	0	0	0:02:51
Fresh Barley	160	0	0	0	0:21:20
Fresh Wheat	160	0	0	0	0:21:20
Soybean	160	0	0	0	0:21:20
Dried Wheat	160	25	6	3	0:42:40
Mejoberry	213	0	0	0	0:21:18
Berries	319	0	0	0	0:21:16
KO: × 239; × 98; × 27; × 16; × 11; × 6
Torpidity-depletion: 1.04 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:38:24

Note that the values are for optimal cases, always bring extra supplies!
For a level-dependent count of resources needed, try an external taming calculator.

Ingredients for Basic Kibble: 10 × Amarberry, 1 × Cooked Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, or Cooked Meat Jerky, 1 × Extra Small Egg, 5 × Fiber, 5 × Mejoberry, 10 × Tintoberry, 1 × Water

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Phiomia.

General

Phiomias are incapable of fighting back, so any confrontation is strictly one-sided. The Phiomia employs great speed in the battle, able to get away from most players that have a mount. If trapped, ambushed or bitten by powerful mounts, their demise is all but certain.

Strategy

If the player stands facing diagonally into their shoulder, they should move forward and keep hitting. Moving into their shoulder seems to lock them in place moving opposite you. Use a pick, axe or sword as the pike or spears knock it back, which loses the advantage. Otherwise, try to kill it before it puts distance in between you and it. Another option is using the terrain: Urge it that way so that it will run right to a wall which can`t be climbed. That will work with any skittish dino that can`t fly.

Weaponry

It is recommended to start with a violent flurry of stabs with either a sword, pike or spear. If it persists to survive, kill it from afar with ranged weaponry.

Dangers

The Phiomia itself cannot harm the players, but beware of other animals. A running Phiomia can sometimes be the only signal that a large animal is running in your direction. Take note of these occurrences especially around areas known to harbor deadly animals. Severely bloodied Phiomias likely suffered run-ins with big animals like a Rex.

Weakness

The Phiomia cannot fight back or harm the player in any way. As long as it is the only animal around, killing it is extremely easy.

Utility

Roles

ATV: While it takes a while to level up enough to be viable, during the early game it can be a method of transport. If all points are put into movement speed, it does become decently quick. As a bonus it has a decent swim speed, equal to that of a player with no points in speed. Get a high level and it'll be able to maintain this speed for a while, with decent weight as well.(Level Speed exclusively)
Cargo: While they can't carry as much as some later-game mounts, they make good pack animals for early players (Level Health and Weight).
Fertilizer: A Phiomia produces more Medium Animal Feces than other domesticated creatures. This makes them ideal animals to have when trying to maximize fertilizer production. Feed them Stimberries and they will produce a very high amount of feces ^[2] (Level up food)
Torpor Tank: Having a high torpor for something their size, they can serve as a tank in the early-game for taking on either the tranquilizing dinos of the swamp, or for distracting a scorpion or spider while the owner takes care of the threat. (Level up Health).

In Primitive Plus

Fresh bacon and fat: Killing one drops Fresh Bacon, ideal for consumption once cooked, and Fresh Fat, ideal for producing Organic Oil once cooked.

Collectibles

Resource	Efficiency
Thatch	★★★☆☆
Wood	★★☆☆☆

Notes/Trivia

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

Phiomias are unable to gather Berries.
Phiomia are an early member of the group Proboscidae, which contains modern elephants. The exact purpose of their tusk arrangement is uncertain, but they possibly used them to scoop up food or scrape bark from trees.
Although the dossier indicates the Phiomia of being used as a farm animal for meat, though this use was never really implemented (excluding Primitive Plus) other than its use of Feces. Alternatively, the Ovis actually works mechanically as a farm animal much better, giving Wool and Raw Mutton.
Despite being a type of Proboscidean (a group that includes elephants, mammoths, and relatives), the Phiomia is often refered by players as a "Pig".
Despite being an early-game weak creature, the phiomia has an incredibly long maturation time when raised from a baby, taking longer than even the majority of late-game creatures.
- As of v312.65 however, the Phiomia maturation time has been dramatically lowered.
Real Phiomia were a social animal that lived in herds, Ark's Phiomia can be found alone most of the time but on occasion they can be seen together.
The Phiomia is one of the original creatures that existed in ARK when it was first released to the public in alpha.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
180.0	Added a unique model for the Phiomia Saddle
188.1	Phiomias can now poop, as intended
252.7	Herbivores buffed to have a 55% explosion resistance and a 65% fire resistance
252.8	Herbivore explosion resistance reduced from 55% to 40%
259.0	Fixed issue where riding on a Phiomia the players size to increase by twice the normal size.
312.65	Reduced Phiomia maturation time. Now matches the Ovis

Gallery

Relative Size

References

[1] ARK Smart Breeding

[2] A Phiomia being force-fed Stimberries to create large amounts of feces

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Phiomia

Basic Info

Dossier

Behavior

Appearance

Color Scheme and Regions

Drops

Base Stats and Growth

Wild Stats Level-up

Abilities

Active

Passive

Taming

KO Strategy

Taming Food

Combat

General

Strategy

Weaponry

Dangers

Weakness

Utility

Roles

In Primitive Plus

Collectibles

Notes/Trivia

Changelog

Gallery

References