Therizinosaur

Therizinosaur

Creature

Group

Dinosaurs

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Territorial

Release Versions

253.0
Dec 23, 2016

749.0
Jan 17, 2017

503.0
Jan 18, 2017

521.0
Nov 30, 2018

311.74
Jun 11, 2020

1.0
May 24, 2018

Variants

 Eerie Therizinosaur

Spawn Command

cheat summon Therizino_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Therizinosaurus/Therizino_Character_BP.Therizino_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Therizinosaur (Gauntlet)

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

Variant Therizinosaur (Summoned)

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

Variant Therizinosaur (Gauntlet2)

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

Variant Therizinosaur (Mashup)

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

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Torpor Immune

No

Taming Method

 Knockout

Preferred Kibble

 Exceptional Kibble

Preferred Kibble

 Kibble (Megalosaurus Egg)

Preferred Food

 Crops

Equipment

 Therizinosaurus Saddle (Level 69)

Rider Weaponry

No

Data

XP for kill

72 XP

Loot

•  Therizino Claws

Special Loot Chance

100%

Feces Size

 Medium

Drag Weight

250

Radiation Immune

No

Carryable By

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

Immobilized By

•  Chain Bola
•  Large Bear Trap
•  Plant Species Y Trap
•  Net Projectile

Can Damage

 Thatch
 Greenhouse
 Wood
 Adobe
 Stone

Reproduction

Egg

 Therizino Egg

Incubation Range

26 - 32 °C / 79 - 90 °F
 Egg Incubator: 29 °C / 84 °F

Incubation Time

1h 39m 59.521s

Baby Time

11h 34m 26.666s

Juvenile Time

1d 22h 17m 46.662s

Adolescent Time

2d 9h 52m 13.328s

Total Maturation Time

4d 19h 44m 26.656s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

The IslandThe CenterRagnarokExtinctionValgueroGenesis: Part 1Crystal IslesGenesis: Part 2Lost IslandFjordur

MidgardJotunheim

Common        Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Therizinosaur (thair-uh-ZEEN-uh-SAWR), also known as the Therizino, Theri, or Tickle Chicken, is a large, herbivorous dinosaur known for its aggressive nature and ability to harvest a wide variety of resources with its multitude of attacks.

It was first added in  ARK: Survival Evolved on the 23rd of December, 2016.

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.

“

Species

Therizinosaurus multiensis

Time

Late Cretaceous

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Aggressive

Wild

I'm not entirely sure how Therizinosaurus multiensis stays populated on the Island. It is surprisingly slow for its size, and is a solitary predator (so no pack to back it up). I suppose the fact that its sheer power rivals Tyrannosaurus is the only thing that allows this very aggressive medium-sized predator to thrive. The claws of Therizinosaurus are some of the most versatile biological tools I've encountered, as adept at removing trees and foliage from Therizinosaurus' path as they are at piercing the thick shells and hide of the Island's most defensive creatures if backed into a fight.

Domesticated

A tamed Therizinosaurus is one of the most versatile mounts a survivor can have. It can be trained to use its claws brutally or delicately, allowing the rider to primarily harvest with enhanced efficiency the specific kinds of resources that he or she needs. And in combat, these same claws can pierce straight through the toughest armor. This flexibility more than makes up for its inability to carry the large loads of the Island's many herbivorous beasts of burden.

„

~ Helena

Behaviour

The first sentences of the Dossier and its relatively non-threatening appearance may mislead new players to believe they’re harmless if they haven’t yet had a bad encounter with one. Unlike pure carnivores, Therizino will typically wander around peacefully and rarely attack unprovoked, only becoming aggressive when they’re attacked, or a player/ tame comes almost within touching distance. However, when upset it transforms into one of the deadliest killers in the game. They almost never give up pursuing a target once triggered, and can take down even advanced players, tames and bases. Stone walls will not protect you!

Therizinosaurus can be found wandering around alone, though it is not uncommon to see them in small groups of 2 or 3. Whilst they tend to ignore other creatures in the area, any predators, players or tamed creatures that venture too close will invoke an aggressive response. Caution is strongly advised!

Appearance

A Therizinosaurus is one of the strongest creatures a survivor will encounter on the island. It is just as powerful and dangerous as the  Rex and  Spino. Although it is built like a  Tyrannosaurus or an  Allosaurus, and despite the dossier calling it a predator, the creature is a herbivore, using its scythe-like claws to pull down leafy vegetation for consumption. The massive claws are just as efficient for slashing foes in combat though, intimidating all but the hungriest of predators. The beast is also covered in a thick covering of feathers much like its real life counterpart: Therizinosaurus cheloniformis.

Color Scheme and Regions

ARK: Survival AscendedARK: Survival Evolved

Region 0:Feathers

Natural colors:

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Region 1:Unused

This region does not show on the body.

Region 2:Body Highlights

Natural colors:

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Region 3:Unused

This region does not show on the body.

Region 4:Feather Highlights

Natural colors:

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Region 5:Main Body

Natural colors:

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

Region 0:
Feathers

13

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56

Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 2:
Body Highlights

8

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50

Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 4:
Feather Highlights

13

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Region 5:
Main Body

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Drops

Harvest

•  Hide
•  Keratin
•  Raw Meat
•  Raw Prime Meat

Guaranteed Special Loot

•  Therizino Claws

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	870	+174	+5.4%	0.07
Stamina	300	+30	+10%
Oxygen	150	+15	+10%
Food	3000	+300	+10%
Weight	365	+7.3	+4%
Melee Damage	52 / 5	+2.6 / +0.25	+1.7%	7%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A	+1%
Torpidity	925	+55.5	N/A	0.5

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed			Sprinting Speed			Stamina
	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2
Walking	466	?	?	978.6	1304.7999	1304.7999	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.

Therizinosaur

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

Claw Strikes 5	The Therizinosaurus attacks with its claws for 52 damage. This attack has an armor coefficient of 0.4 (See Armor and Saddles articles for more info). This attack is good to harvest  Wood,  Hide,  Rare Mushroom and any type of meat. Can be used every 0.67s by both a rider and the AI.

Cut 5	The Therizinosaurus uses its claws to harvest resources and does 5 damage. This attack is good to harvest  Fiber,  Rare Flower,  Silk,  Plant Species X Seed and  Plant Species Y Seed. Can be used every 1.16s by both a rider and the AI.

Bite C 5

The Therizinosaurus bites the target for 42 damage. This attack applies  Torpor x3 of the damage dealt instantly. Can damage riders. This attack is good to harvest  Berries and can also harvest an excellent amount of a specific resource such as:  Hide or  Chitin from organic corpses.  Bio Toxin from  Cnidaria corpses.  Angler Gel from  Anglerfish corpses.  Raw Meat or  Raw Fish Meat from corpses of creatures that don't drop skin-like resources, mainly ocean creatures.  Scrap Metal from bionic corpses or barrels from the beach areas on Fjordur.  Spoiled Meat from static corpses of Ragnarok, Valguero and Fjordur.  Wood or  Fungal Wood from trees or giant mushrooms.  Cactus Sap from cactus. Can be used every 0.67s by both a rider and the AI.

Passive

Harvesting Levels

The Therizinosaur can be use applied level up points to increase their delicate or power harvesting affinity.

• Delicate increases the amount of resources that it can harvest with the secondary and bite attacks.
• Power increases the amount of resources that it can harvest with the primary attack.

Auto-Harvest Resources

The Therizinosaur auto-harvest the bushes and trees that it has in front of it whenever it has no rider and its  Weight capacity is below 50%.

Taming

Since v290.1, the Therizinosaur prefers Exceptional Kibble. Note the kibble fills up 80 food per bite.

ARK: Survival Evolved

Level 1					Time
Exceptional Kibble	5	56	15	8	0:10:40
Fresh Barley	44	691	177	89	1:10:24
Fresh Wheat	44	691	177	89	1:10:24
Soybean	44	691	177	89	1:10:24
Dried Wheat	44	1439	368	184	2:20:48
Mejoberry	58	682	175	88	1:09:36
Berries	87	682	175	88	1:09:36
KO: × 93; × 38; × 11; × 6; × 5; × 3
Torpidity-depletion: 2.84 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:05:26

Level 30					Time
Exceptional Kibble	8	106	30	15	0:17:03
Fresh Barley	73	1409	393	197	1:56:48
Fresh Wheat	73	1409	393	197	1:56:48
Soybean	73	1409	393	197	1:56:48
Dried Wheat	73	2935	817	409	3:53:36
Mejoberry	97	1404	391	196	1:56:24
Berries	145	1399	390	195	1:56:00
KO: × 254; × 104; × 29; × 17; × 12; × 6
Torpidity-depletion: 4.71 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:08:58

Level 60					Time
Exceptional Kibble	11	172	50	25	0:23:27
Fresh Barley	103	2181	635	318	2:44:48
Fresh Wheat	103	2181	635	318	2:44:48
Soybean	103	2181	635	318	2:44:48
Dried Wheat	103	4523	1316	658	5:29:36
Mejoberry	137	2175	633	317	2:44:24
Berries	205	2170	631	316	2:44:00
KO: × 420; × 172; × 47; × 27; × 20; × 10
Torpidity-depletion: 6.15 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:11:23

Level 90					Time
Exceptional Kibble	14	250	75	38	0:29:51
Fresh Barley	133	2988	896	448	3:32:48
Fresh Wheat	133	2988	896	448	3:32:48
Soybean	133	2988	896	448	3:32:48
Dried Wheat	133	6173	1850	925	7:05:36
Mejoberry	177	2982	894	447	3:32:24
Berries	265	2976	892	446	3:32:00
KO: × 587; × 240; × 66; × 38; × 27; × 14
Torpidity-depletion: 7.43 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:13:09

Level 120					Time
Exceptional Kibble	17	337	104	52	0:36:14
Fresh Barley	163	3820	1170	585	4:20:48
Fresh Wheat	163	3820	1170	585	4:20:48
Soybean	163	3820	1170	585	4:20:48
Dried Wheat	163	7864	2409	1205	8:41:36
Mejoberry	217	3814	1168	584	4:20:24
Berries	325	3807	1166	583	4:20:00
KO: × 753; × 308; × 84; × 48; × 35; × 18
Torpidity-depletion: 8.64 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:14:32

Level 150					Time
Exceptional Kibble	20	430	134	67	0:42:38
Fresh Barley	193	4669	1455	728	5:08:48
Fresh Wheat	193	4669	1455	728	5:08:48
Soybean	193	4669	1455	728	5:08:48
Dried Wheat	193	9587	2987	1494	10:17:36
Mejoberry	257	4663	1453	727	5:08:24
Berries	385	4656	1451	726	5:08:00
KO: × 920; × 376; × 103; × 59; × 42; × 21
Torpidity-depletion: 9.78 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:15:40

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  Exceptional Kibble: 1 ×  Extra Large Egg, 5 ×  Fiber, 1 ×  Focal Chili, 10 ×  Mejoberry, 1 ×  Rare Flower, 1 ×  Water

• As Stimberries do not recover Food, the AI will detect that it is still hungry after eating and trigger a continuous cycle of consumption. Stimulants do not work nor will using Remote Use speed up the process. The Taming Effectiveness gained using Stimberries is exceptionally poor, due to the thousands required to tame. However, Stimberries that are consumed autonomously do not seem to affect Torpor, meaning it will not wake up any faster.
• The -15 Food occurs over a digestion period, but does net an increase the rate that the Therizinosaurus starves. This can be used in conjunction with normal berries or advanced crops to substantially improve the taming time. However, it is worth stressing how little Taming Effectiveness will remain if Stimberries are used. (Taming speed is increased, and effectiveness is effectively 0 when using stimberries, but food no longer drops faster as of 253.5)
  • (As of 253.5 this no longer works) This loss can be counteracted by allowing the creature to wake up when it's close to 0 Food and then knock it out again, resetting its current Taming Affinity and Taming Effectiveness, but preserving its current Food. At this point, do not use Stimberries.

The rate that Taming Effectiveness decays is significantly lower than other herbivores, with a level 145 retaining 90% (+65 levels) when tamed using Advanced Crops). (Tested on Official PVP.)

K.O Strategy

The biggest difficulty in taming a Therizinosaurus is the sheer power for which survivors crave them. They're territorial and capable of dealing high damage in a few short blows, meaning certain death for any mount that isn't leveled enough. They also deal damage to humans on the mount and can effortlessly knock out the rider. Naturally the best strategy is to find a tall rock or small cliff to attack from, and it must be steep since this animal can cross a lot of difficult terrain. You'll need a fast moving mount, preferably Procoptodon, Beelzebufo, or Utahraptor to evade attacks. Alternatively, a 2x2x2 trap will allow for an easy knockout if you can defend from other players. Since Therizinosaurus is a prey animal, you'll find it best to kite it into a trap or tame one close to the beach where you can defend it from predators. A low level won't take a lot of arrows to knock out but you'll have to keep steady pace since they'll run when torpor gets too high. You may want to carry spike walls to protect the target from nearby Raptors, Dilophosaurus, or more dangerous predators depending on where you knock one out. Taming them takes a great while so kibble will speed up the process. Their torpor also depletes incredibly fast and they could wake up if you're distracted for too long, so carrying at least 100 biotoxin or a few hundred narcotics will keep them asleep. Once they're awake, you don't have to worry about the Therizinosaurus being killed, since they're one of the strongest herbivores in the game.

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Therizinosaurus.

General

The Therizino is capable of dealing a large amount of DPS, and deals some torpor for each attack and has quite an effective attack range.

Strategy

Therizinos are highly aggressive for Herbivores and will not hesitate to attack any players or tames that approach too closely. Keep in mind that although it isn't as flashy or impressive looking as a  Rex, its power rivals it. Therizinosaurs are much more powerful than an  Allosaurus and not to be taken lightly. It is not recommended to take a Therizino head on with a tame unless you are certain it can take a beating, and certainly don't attempt melee with one if unmounted as they are quite capable of shredding armour very quickly. Fast mounts, high perches and ranged weapons are recommended.

Weaponry

Shotgun works well if aimed at the head. Four rounds may down it from close range, depending on server settings, level, quality of gun, etc.

Dangers

The Therizinosaurus' attacks are capable of damaging both mounts and their riders in a single attack whenever it randomly uses its bite attack - although the rider must still be in range of the attack. Approaching a Therizinosaurus with shorter mounts is not advised as they can distribute Torpor to the rider of a mount when hit by the bite attack. Therizinosaurus can aggro on a player inside a house if they wander too close, potentially tearing down anything not made of metal, so it's best to monitor the location of any that wander nearby.

It's worth noting that due to the shared torpor effect, the Therizinosaurus can knock a player off their mount unconscious.

Weakness

It can't heal well like the Rex, unless using sweet vegetable cake. Attacking behind spikes with a pike can allow you to kill one on foot, as its head will pop over and they won't be able to hit you. Also, it seems to have a fear of deep water - even if you are shooting it it won’t enter it. Obviously a crossbow or raft is required if you can’t shoot it from the other side of a lake.

Utility

Roles

• Master of All Trades: A well-bred Therizinosaurus is arguably the most useful tame in the game. With the strength of a Rex and the ability to harvest berries, wood, fiber, meat, hide and several other materials, its versatility is unparalleled and can aid a survivor in a multitude of ways.

• Harvester: While some specialist harvesters such as the  Castoroides can collect and carry far more of their favored material, thanks to their weight reduction, not a single creature even comes close to the sheer volume and wide variety of items the Therizinosaur is capable of gathering. With the exceptions of  Stone,  Flint,  Metal,  Obsidian,  Gems,  Silica Pearls,  Element Ore, and a few others; the Therizinosaur is capable of harvesting anything, and although it does not possess any weight reduction for the materials it gathers, it is very often able to outpace its competitors through superior speed and agility, putting them to shame. Another thing that puts the Therizinosaur ahead of the competition is its ability to focus specifically on what kind of materials it wants to collect, through three different types of attacks: a power attack and a delicate attack with its claws, and a bite attack. Therizinosaur's gain access to harvesting level points each time it levels up, separate from its primary level points. These can be spent to increase the efficiency in which the Therizinosaur gathers materials with its claws, dependent on either its power attack, or delicate attack: up to 88 points and a maximum of 165.7% in one category. Through its ability to harvest nearly anything with extreme efficiency, the Therizinosaur makes an invaluable companion for anything that requires what it can gather; whether it be feeding yourself or your tames, or collecting crafting materials. (Level Weight and Melee Damage).
  • Power Harvest: With the power harvest, the Therizinosaur gathers Wood, Thatch, Rare Mushrooms, Raw Meat, Raw Prime Meat, Raw Fish Meat, Raw Prime Fish Meat, Hide, Chitin, Keratin, Leech Blood, and Organic Polymer. Additionally, while the power harvest cannot collect these materials from nodes, they can be collected from corpses: oil, Electronics, Scrap Metal, Element Dust, Silica Pearls, Black Pearls, Silk, and Sulfur. Pumping harvest levels into the Power Harvest category will increase the yield gathered from all things harvested using the power attack, however, the power attack specifically gathers these resources more efficiently than the other attacks: Wood, and Rare Mushrooms.
  • Delicate Harvest: With the delicate harvest, the Therizinosaur gathers Fiber, Silk, Rare Flowers, Plant Species X Seed, Plant Species Y Seed, Wood, Thatch, Sap (from Joshua Trees), Cactus Sap (from bush cactus nodes only), Rare Mushrooms, Raw Meat, Raw Prime Meat, Raw Fish Meat, Raw Prime Fish Meat, Hide, Chitin, Keratin, Leech Blood, and Organic Polymer. Additionally, while the Delicate Harvest cannot collect these materials from nodes, they can be collected from corpses: oil, Electronics, Scrap Metal, Element Dust, Silica Pearls, Black Pearls, and Sulfur. Pumping harvest levels into the Delicate Harvest category will increase the yield gathered from all things harvested using the delicate attack, however, the delicate attack specifically gathers these resources more efficiently than the other attacks: Thatch, and Organic Polymer.
  • Bite Harvest: With the bite attack, the Therizinosaur gathers Berries, Berry and Crop Seeds, Wood, Cactus Sap (from both tree and bush cactus nodes), Hide, Chitin, and Scrap Metal (from corpses only). While the bite attack cannot be directly upgraded like the power and delicate attacks (this attack still benefits from upgrades to the power or delicate resource gathering however), it still gathers these resources more effectively: Hide, Chitin, and Scrap Metal. (note that it also reduces the other resources received significantly, or completely). The bite attack also deals minor amounts of Torpor Damage, but the amount inflicted is too small to render it effective for taming purposes.
  • Autonomous Harvester: Much like a Moschops, the Therizinosaur will gather various materials when set to wander and left alone in resource-rich areas. Unlike the Moschops, however, one has little to fear for the safety of their Therizinosaur left to its lonesome, as few creatures will even dare to attack it, and most that do, as long as your tame has been sufficiently leveled, will get far more than they've bargained for. Likewise, with its relatively large size, a wandering Therizinosaur is much easier to track down and retrieve later. When harvesting autonomously, it will collect any and all resources available from the bush and tree nodes it wanders into that it is able to harvest from when commanded by a rider (it can also be set to collect materials from corpses, if set to aggressive mode, as it will automatically seek out, kill, and collect items from living targets). For this role, make sure Weight is properly leveled, as just like all other autonomous harvesters, the Therizinosaur will cease collecting materials when it reaches 50% of its maximum weight limit.
• Combat Specialist: The Therizinosaur can be built for more than just harvesting materials; despite being an herbivore with a seemingly docile behavior and appearance, it is still a theropod, and like its cousin the Rex: it is capable of dishing out some serious damage, and with a similarly high health pool, tank damage as well. Its base damage of 52, while not quite as powerful compared to a Rex or a Spino, is still near to their damage ouput; and is quite impressive for an herbivore: only outshined among its kind by the Mammoth's stomp attack, and the Brontosaurus and Titanosaur. Compared to the Rex and Spino, however, the rate at which it is able to attack is slightly faster; allowing it to, potentially, have a higher DPS over a prolonged engagement. Finally, it has an edge that its purely carnivorous cousins do not have access to: Sweet Vegetable Cake. The cake, which can be consumed once every 30 seconds, restores up to 10% of an herbivore tame's health during that 30 second period, and will automatically be consumed if it is in the tame's inventory while the animal is below 85% health. This ability to quickly restore health with the cake, if you have the resources to bake them, makes Therizinosaurs ideal for killing bosses, particularly the Dragon, especially if the cake is supplemented with a Daeodon's AoE healing effect and the courage roar of a Yutyrannus. For this role: level primarily Health and Melee Damage.
• Travel Mount: While not particularly fast compared to some other creatures, the Therizinosaur is considered a large-class creature, and is only bothered by a select few wild animals: e.g. anything that will leave a tamed Rex alone will also leave a Therizino alone. This makes traveling through hazardous areas, especially if you plan to harvest materials in those places, a much safer endeavor. For this role: level primarily Stamina and Movement Speed, and add Weight as required.

Collectibles

Resource	Efficiency
Wood	★★★★★
Silk	★★★★★
Hide	★★★★★
Rare Flower	★★★★★
Chitin	★★★★★
Keratin	★★★★★
Rare Mushroom	★★★★★
Plant Species Y Seed	★★★★★
Cactus Sap	★★★★★
Fiber	★★★★★
Berries	★★★★☆
Organic Polymer	★★★★☆
Sap	★★★☆☆
Thatch	★★★☆☆
Black Pearl	★★★☆☆
Raw Prime Fish Meat	★★★☆☆
Raw Prime Meat	★★★☆☆
Crystal	★★★☆☆
Raw Fish Meat	★★★☆☆
Raw Meat	★★★☆☆
Automatically harvests trees and bushes when in range

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Notes

Trivia

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

• Therizinosaurus was first revealed by Drake on 06/27/2015
• The dossier was revealed on 09/07/2015
• Be careful when having a tamed Therizinosaurus follow you around. If it hits a tree as a response to an attack and it has a lot of points in Power Harvesting it can unintentionally encumber itself from the sheer amounts of wood it can acquire. This can leave a dismounted survivor vulnerable or cause an unwary survivor leading a large pack of dinosaurs to mistakenly leave it behind. As of v254.0 this issue can be rectified by disabling resource gathering on the Therizinosaurus.
• Some carnivores that are smaller than the Therizinosaurus appear to ignore it when mounted by a player (such as  Raptors/ Carnos).
• Compared to other "Tranq and Tame" creatures that have a kibble, the Therizinosaurus is among the top of the list for taking the longest to tame. Due to their fast torpor drop and the longevity of the tame, this can make domesticating one a daunting task. However, the Therizino is very adaptable when it comes to harvesting resources. Since it's also a very powerful battle mount, these qualities mean that having just a few at your disposal can remove the need for several other dinos to be cared for.
• Therizinosaurus multiensis roughly translates into "Multiple-Sword Reaping Lizard".
• Majority of players refers the Therizinosaurus informally as "Tickle Monster", "Tickle Chicken", "Fear Turkey", "Danger Floof", "Longclaws", "Therizino", "Scissors", "Murder Chicken", or "Sid" (referencing the sloth character in the film Ice Age, despite not being the most slothlike creature in ARK).
• Despite the dossier stating the Therizinosaurus as 'Aggressive', the in-game creature is actually 'Territorial' and will only attack the player if they get too close.
• The dossier mistakenly calls it a “predator”. It is thought to be an herbivore or an insectivore instead.
• You can now get pretty close to a Therizinosaurus before it aggros on you, like with the Argentavis.
• The face of the Therizinosaurus was changed to have a beak rather than a mouth.

Bugs

• There is currently a bug related to harvesting bushes on Extinction with the Therizinosaur and many other base-game tames; often resulting in crashes. Most frequently occurs with bushes that have been clipped into player-made structures, and occasionally ones clipped into breakable rock formations. (PS4, Single Player, Crater Forest)

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
253.0	Therizinosaur is added to the game
253.1	Reduced taming times for the Therizinosaurus by 60%
253.3	Kibble (Megalosaurus Egg) is no longer preferred by Therizino
253.51	Reduced Therizino  Melee Damage by 33%, except against harvestable resources
256.3	Decreased the aggro range and Drag Weight of Wild Therizinos
259.0	Reduced Therizino gather rates
260.0	Added new apex drop,  Therizino Claws
269.0	Fixed a bug preventing players from being shot by  Turrets set to Player Only when riding a Therizino

Patch	ARK: Survival Ascended Changes
32.12	Fixed Therizino and  Raptor being unable to harvest small dinos

Gallery

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  Color Mutation on a Therizinosaurus