Megatherium

See also:  Chalicotherium

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Megatherium

Creature

Group

Mammals

Diet

Omnivore

Temperament

Neutral

Release Versions

258.0
May 30, 2017

755.0
Jun 19, 2017

509.0
Jun 15, 2017

521.0
Nov 30, 2018

311.74
Jun 11, 2020

2.0.06
Jul 8, 2019

Variants

•  Eerie Megatherium
•  R-Megatherium
•  VR Megatherium

Spawn Command

cheat summon Megatherium_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Megatherium/Megatherium_Character_BP.Megatherium_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Megatherium (Gauntlet)

cheat summon Megatherium_Character_BP_Gauntlet_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Gauntlet/Arctic/Megatherium_Character_BP_Gauntlet.Megatherium_Character_BP_Gauntlet'" 500 0 0 35

Variant R-Megatherium

cheat summon Megatherium_Character_BP_Eden_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Dinos/BiomeVariants/Megatherium_Character_BP_Eden.Megatherium_Character_BP_Eden'" 500 0 0 35

Variant R-Megatherium (Summoned)

cheat summon Megatherium_Character_BP_Eden_Summoned_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Dinos/Summoner/SummonedDinos/Megatherium_Character_BP_Eden_Summoned.Megatherium_Character_BP_Eden_Summoned'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Megatherium (Gauntlet2)

cheat summon Megatherium_Character_BP_STA_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Dinos/Megatherium_Character_BP_STA.Megatherium_Character_BP_STA'" 500 0 0 35

Variant VR Megatherium (Mashup)

cheat summon Megatherium_Character_BP_ExpG_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Mashup/ExperimentG/DinosAndStructures/Megatherium_Character_BP_ExpG.Megatherium_Character_BP_ExpG'" 500 0 0 35

Variant R-Megatherium (Mashup)

cheat summon Megatherium_Character_BP_ExpG_Pod_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Mashup/ExperimentG/DinosAndStructures/Megatherium_Character_BP_ExpG_Pod.Megatherium_Character_BP_ExpG_Pod'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Torpor Immune

No

Taming Method

 Knockout

Preferred Kibble

 Superior Kibble

Preferred Kibble

 Kibble (Baryonyx Egg)

Preferred Food

 Giant Bee Honey

Equipment

 Megatherium Saddle (Level 52)

Rider Weaponry

Yes

Data

XP for kill

16 XP

Feces Size

 Medium

Drag Weight

295

Radiation Immune

No

Carryable By

•  Fire Wyvern
•  Forest Wyvern
•  Ice Wyvern
•  Lightning Wyvern
•  Poison Wyvern
•  Quetzal
•  Tek Quetzal
•  Tusoteuthis

Immobilized By

•  Chain Bola
•  Large Bear Trap
•  Net Projectile

Can Damage

 Thatch
 Greenhouse
 Wood

Reproduction

Gestation Time

7h 56m 11.428s

Baby Time

9h 15m 33.331s

Juvenile Time

1d 13h 2m 13.325s

Adolescent Time

1d 22h 17m 46.656s

Total Maturation Time

3d 20h 35m 33.313s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

Common        Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Megatherium (meg-ah-theer-ee-um), or Giant Sloth, is one of the creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved. It is a large, omnivorous mammal known for its Chitin-harvesting capabilities as well as its unique Insect Killer buff that greatly boosts its combat prowess and aggression upon killing a chitinous creature.

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

Megatherium formipavor

Time

Late Pliocene - Early Holocene

Diet

Omnivore (primarily Herbivore)

Temperament

Passive, but aggressive to insects

Wild

Megatherium formipavor is one of the larger mammals on the Island. This is most shocking because it is essentially a giant sloth...if you crossbred it with an elephant and a bear! Because of its size and girth, the Megatherium is uncommonly resistant to being knocked unconscious. Despite primarily being an herbivore, a typical Megatherium is very intent on consuming the Island's many insects. It is particularly adept at removing their insides without damaging much of the shell, maximizing extraction of chitin. The otherwise slow and peaceful Megatherium becomes faster and aggressive in the presence of these creatures.

Domesticated

Megatherium is an incredibly useful creature to tame, so long as you don't intend to fight other tribes. It's enormity, high resistance to torpor, and voracious attitude toward insects (and arachnids) makes it ideal for farming large quantities of chitin from the bugs of the Island, or simply defending against them.

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~ Helena

Behavior

Megatherium is a slow, gentle creature that will not attack a player unprovoked. However their temperament changes to apex aggression when they are around invertebrates. They will receive an attack boost upon encountering any insect and will attack any tame, human, or wild herbivore for a few minutes. Wild Megatheriums are capable of dealing and taking damage from herbivores and medium sized carnivores, but go ignored by all of them including apex predators unless attacked first.

Appearance

Among the largest mammals yet found on the island, the Megatherium is a slow-moving and formidable omnivore, roughly similar to a bear in appearance, but with a small head and heavy limbs that betray its sloth ancestry. While normally content to browse from tall trees or dig for roots and tubers, giant sloths are avid insectivores and will prey upon the island's giant arthropods when they can, cracking open exoskeletons with their hooked claws and extracting the meat with a long, muscular tongue. Smaller insects like the Titanomyrma are eaten whole.

Color Scheme and Regions

Region 0:Main Body

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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:Unused

This region does not show on the body.

Region 5:Hands and Feet

Natural colors:

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This section displays the Megatherium's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Megatherium. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Megatherium 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 Megatherium's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Megatherium's "main body" magenta.

Region 0:
Main Body

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Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 2 is not used
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Region 3 is not used
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Region 4 is not used
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Region 5:
Hands and Feet

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This section displays the Megatherium's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Megatherium. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Megatherium 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 Megatherium's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Megatherium's "main" magenta.

Region 0:
Main

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Region 2:
Stripes

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Region 3:
Accent

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Region 4:
Back

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Variants

R-Megatherium

 R-Megatherium is a tameable R variant of Megatherium found in certain biomes of Genesis: Part 2. It is identical to the normal specie except for its colorful robe. Like X variant, it has 5% ×  Melee Damage increase at the exchange of 3% ×  Health reduction. On official servers its level cap is 500.

VR Megatherium

 VR Megatherium is the VR variant of Megatherium found during some Missions in Genesis: Part 2. It is identical to the normal specie except for its digitized robe. It is not tameable.

Drops

•  Hide
•  Pelt
•  Raw Meat
•  Raw Prime Meat

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	740	+148	+5.4%	0.07
Stamina	400	+40	+10%
Oxygen	270	+27	+10%
Food	3000	+300	+10%
Weight	725	+14.5	+4.5%
Melee Damage	32	+1.6	+1.7%	7%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A	+1%
Torpidity	1000	+60	N/A	0.5

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed			Sprinting Speed			Stamina
	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2
Walking	320	?	?	1280	960	960	14
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.

Megatherium

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

Melee 10	The Megatherium bites or slaps the target for 32 damage. Can be used every 0.67s by both a rider and the AI.

Slam 5	The Megatherium slams the target for 49 damage. This attacks cannot be used when it is moving. Can be used every 0.67s by both a rider and the AI.

Passive

Insect Killer

The Megatherium does 50% extra damage to insects and when it kills one it will have the  Insect Killer buff, incresing its  Damage dealt by 250% and reduces the damage received by 75%, those increases stacks with the extra damage to insects, dealing an insect a total damage of 375% after the Megatherium gets the buff. This buff last for 120 seconds.

Sit

The Megatherium has a Sit option on the radial menu where the Megatherium sits on its position without any effect.

Taming

For general info about domesticating a wild creature see Taming.

KO Strategy

Build a small pen with stone pillars and metal fence foundations or a stone taming pen to safely knock it out, be careful of fighting Megatheriums near cliffs as they can knock you off the edge.

Taming Food

Level 1					Time
Superior Kibble	4	0	0	0	0:07:31
Raw Mutton	7	0	0	0	0:12:20
Giant Bee Honey	5	0	0	0	0:14:05
Cooked Lamb Chop	13	24	5	3	0:22:52
Raw Prime Meat	9	0	0	0	0:15:51
Cooked Prime Meat	18	70	16	8	0:31:40
Raw Prime Fish Meat	22	5	1	1	0:19:22
Raw Meat	26	145	32	16	0:45:47
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	43	108	24	12	0:38:54
Mejoberry	43	143	31	16	0:45:25
Cooked Meat	52	145	32	16	0:45:47
Berries	65	145	32	16	0:45:47
Raw Fish Meat	65	205	45	23	0:57:13
Cooked Fish Meat	129	203	44	22	0:56:47
KO: × 100; × 41; × 12; × 7; × 5; × 3
Torpidity-depletion: 0.9 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:18:31

Level 30					Time
Superior Kibble	6	0	0	0	0:11:16
Raw Mutton	12	0	0	0	0:21:08
Giant Bee Honey	8	0	0	0	0:22:32
Cooked Lamb Chop	22	62	15	8	0:38:42
Raw Prime Meat	15	0	0	0	0:26:25
Cooked Prime Meat	30	167	39	20	0:52:46
Raw Prime Fish Meat	38	22	6	3	0:33:27
Raw Meat	45	365	85	43	1:19:13
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	75	280	65	33	1:07:50
Mejoberry	75	365	85	43	1:19:13
Cooked Meat	89	358	83	42	1:18:21
Berries	112	362	84	42	1:18:52
Raw Fish Meat	112	510	118	59	1:38:35
Cooked Fish Meat	223	507	117	59	1:38:09
KO: × 274; × 112; × 31; × 18; × 13; × 7
Torpidity-depletion: 1.5 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:30:32

Level 60					Time
Superior Kibble	8	0	0	0	0:15:01
Raw Mutton	18	0	0	0	0:31:42
Giant Bee Honey	11	0	0	0	0:30:59
Cooked Lamb Chop	32	154	37	19	0:56:17
Raw Prime Meat	22	0	0	0	0:38:44
Cooked Prime Meat	43	323	78	39	1:15:37
Raw Prime Fish Meat	54	77	19	10	0:47:32
Raw Meat	64	648	156	78	1:52:40
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	107	509	123	62	1:36:46
Mejoberry	107	651	157	79	1:53:01
Cooked Meat	128	648	156	78	1:52:40
Berries	160	648	156	78	1:52:40
Raw Fish Meat	160	895	215	108	2:20:50
Cooked Fish Meat	320	895	215	108	2:20:50
KO: × 454; × 186; × 51; × 29; × 21; × 11
Torpidity-depletion: 1.96 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:38:47

Level 90					Time
Superior Kibble	11	0	0	0	0:20:39
Raw Mutton	23	0	0	0	0:40:30
Giant Bee Honey	14	0	0	0	0:39:26
Cooked Lamb Chop	42	283	70	35	1:13:52
Raw Prime Meat	28	44	11	6	0:49:18
Cooked Prime Meat	56	522	130	65	1:38:29
Raw Prime Fish Meat	70	164	41	21	1:01:37
Raw Meat	84	1002	248	124	2:27:52
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	140	795	197	99	2:06:37
Mejoberry	140	1002	248	124	2:27:52
Cooked Meat	167	993	246	123	2:27:00
Berries	209	995	247	124	2:27:10
Raw Fish Meat	209	1352	335	168	3:03:58
Cooked Fish Meat	418	1352	335	168	3:03:58
KO: × 634; × 259; × 71; × 41; × 29; × 15
Torpidity-depletion: 2.37 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:44:46

Level 120					Time
Superior Kibble	13	0	0	0	0:24:24
Raw Mutton	28	0	0	0	0:49:18
Giant Bee Honey	18	13	4	2	0:50:42
Cooked Lamb Chop	51	421	107	54	1:29:41
Raw Prime Meat	35	128	33	17	1:01:37
Cooked Prime Meat	69	752	191	96	2:01:20
Raw Prime Fish Meat	86	275	70	35	1:15:42
Raw Meat	103	1380	351	176	3:01:19
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	172	1110	282	141	2:35:33
Mejoberry	172	1384	352	176	3:01:40
Cooked Meat	206	1380	351	176	3:01:19
Berries	258	1384	352	176	3:01:40
Raw Fish Meat	258	1859	472	236	3:47:05
Cooked Fish Meat	515	1854	471	236	3:46:39
KO: × 814; × 333; × 91; × 52; × 37; × 19
Torpidity-depletion: 2.75 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:49:28

Level 150					Time
Superior Kibble	16	0	0	0	0:30:01
Raw Mutton	33	53	14	7	0:58:06
Giant Bee Honey	21	65	17	9	0:59:09
Cooked Lamb Chop	61	598	155	78	1:47:16
Raw Prime Meat	41	209	55	28	1:12:11
Cooked Prime Meat	82	1007	262	131	2:24:12
Raw Prime Fish Meat	103	414	108	54	1:30:40
Raw Meat	123	1809	469	235	3:36:32
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	205	1464	380	190	3:05:24
Mejoberry	205	1809	469	235	3:36:32
Cooked Meat	245	1799	467	234	3:35:39
Berries	307	1805	468	234	3:36:11
Raw Fish Meat	307	2403	624	312	4:30:13
Cooked Fish Meat	613	2399	622	311	4:29:47
KO: × 994; × 406; × 111; × 64; × 45; × 23
Torpidity-depletion: 3.11 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:53:20

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  Superior Kibble: 2 ×  Citronal, 1 ×  Prime Meat Jerky, 1 ×  Large Egg, 5 ×  Fiber, 2 ×  Rare Mushroom, 1 ×  Sap, 1 ×  Water

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Megatherium.

General

The Megatherium is a large omnivore, eating both plants and animals. It is slightly larger than the Woolly Rhino, but smaller than the Mammoth. They are similar to a Chalicotherium, walking on their knuckles and they can even sit.

Strategy

The Megatherium can easily get stuck on rocks and trees. By then taming or killing is very simple.

Weaponry

Any gun or a crossbow can make short work of a Megatherium, but it is advised to have a mount nearby, as Megatherium can be quite fast.

Dangers

Becomes more powerful when it kills insects. It will get a glowing aura around it which means, like it says below, the Insect Killer buff is active. Because of this, they should be avoided at all costs when riding an insect mount. Especially if they are high level, even a melee damage oriented mantis with a good quality sword is in extreme danger in the vicinity of these creatures. If chased while riding a Mantis, use their leap attack to get away!

It is worth noting that when the Insect Killer buff is active, Megatherium appears to enter an enraged state. During this period, any creature (or player) close enough to them are at risk of being attacked.

Weakness

The Megatherium loses a lot of power when not buffed. If it is buffed then attack it with ranged weapons or wyverns. Don't come too close if it's buffed! For example, a level 12 buffed wild Megatherium is capable of doing around 150 damage per hit.

Utility

Roles

Tank: The Megatherium's moderately high base HP can make it a great tank. (Level Health)

Chitin Farmer: Once a tamed Megatherium kills an insect ( Meganeura,  Giant Bee,  Titanomyrma, or  Mantis) or arthropod ( Araneo,  Arthropleura,  Pulmonoscorpius, or  Trilobite), it will get a buff called Insect Killer. Insect Killer causes the Megatherium's damage to multiply by 250% to any target for 120 seconds (which is multiplicative with the passive 150% multiplier against bugs.). When Insect Killer is active while fighting bugs, the Megatherium's damage will be multiplied by 375%. In addition, this buff reduces all damage by about 75% (35 damage from a tranq arrow fired from a primitive crossbow is reduced to 8 damage on a wild Megatherium.) This makes the Megatherium incredibly potent against bugs. Harvesting the bug's corpses will yield a massive amount of Chitin. At 200% Melee Damage, you can easily get 200+ chitin from a single scorpion. They are, however, too large to fit into many caves unless you take them in  Cryopod.

DeathWorm Killer: A Megatherium under its Insect Killer buff can make killing Deathworms a much easier process.

Gatherer: The Megatherium is able to collect berries and fiber from bushes, thatch and wood from trees and meat, chitin and hide from corpses. (Level Melee Damage, Stamina, Weight, and Speed (optional))

Broodmother Killer: A Megatherium makes killing the Broodmother Lysrix much easier due to its Insect Killer buff and is also able to easily fend off the many Araneo spawned by the boss. (Level Health and Melee Damage)

Damage: The Megatherium can be used for dealing large amounts of damage in short amounts of time due to their unique ability to gain a huge stat boost that can be activated by killing bugs. (Level Health and Melee Damage)

Collectibles

Resource	Efficiency
Chitin	★★★★★
Thatch	★★★★★
Cactus Sap	★★★★★
Fiber	★★★★☆
Berries	★★★★☆
Hide	★★★☆☆
Wood	★★☆☆☆

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Notes/Trivia

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

• The dossier was revealed on July 29, 2015
• The full-name of the Megatherium Formipavor means "Ant Feared Great beast ", a reference to its size and its increased damage against insects.
• Although described as omnivorous, the real animal, sometimes called the giant ground sloth, was likely just a herbivore. This change in diet is based on the dietary habits of anteaters (which are related to sloths) and a controversial theory that Megatherium may have supplemented its diet with meat.
• The Megatherium in-game is one of the most accurate models of any genera present. The only noticeable inaccuracy is that the ARK creature walks on its whole foot like most animals. It is known from trackways of other ground sloths, the design of the animal's feet, and modern relatives such as the giant anteater; that ground sloths actually walked on the sides of their feet.
• The Megatherium will get the Insect Killer buff, if used to kill an  Ammonite.
• Despite its docile nature, wild Megatherium is treated as Large Carnivore, as wild  Yutyrannus and  Rex will leave it alone, and it will attack almost anything in sight once it gains Insect Killer buff.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
258.0	Megatherium is added to the game
287.100	Fixed harvest component so that Megtherium can harvest  Thatch and  Berries from bushes on Extinction
313.10	Fixed a level-up animation glitch with the Megatherium
329.3 Genesis: Part 2 Expansion Release	R-Megatherium is added to the game

Patch	ARK: Survival Ascended Changes
55.19	Fixed Megatherium not getting insect buff from killing  Scorpions.

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