Parakeet Fish School

Parakeet Fish School

Creature

Groups

Fantasy Creatures, Fish

Diet

Carnivore

Temperament

Aggressive

Release Versions

306.41
Feb 25, 2020

795.17
Feb 25, 2020

544.15
Feb 25, 2020

612.0
Jun 12, 2023

311.74
Jun 11, 2020

DLCs

Genesis: Part 1, Genesis: Part 2, Lost Island, Fjordur

Spawn Command

cheat summon MicrobeSwarmChar_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/Swarms/MicrobeSwarmChar_BP.MicrobeSwarmChar_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Parakeet Fish School (Escort)

cheat summon MicrobeSwarmChar_BP_Escort_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Escort/Ocean/MicrobeSwarmChar_BP_Escort.MicrobeSwarmChar_BP_Escort'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

No

No

No

Torpor Immune

No

Data

Feces

None

Drag Weight

70

Habitat

Common        Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Parakeet Fish School is a creature in  ARK: Survival Evolved's Expansion Pack Genesis: Part 1 that can be found in the ocean biome.

Basic Info

Behavior

Normally Parakeet Fish Schools will wander slowly around the deeper areas of the Ocean biome.

However when approached they will target the player and attack. The player will receive a message at the top of their screen that they have been 'Targeted by a Microbe Swarm'.

They will often target nearby wooden structure (but deals no damage), and several wild creatures if approached, such as  Carbonemys

Appearance

Despite being a single entity, Parakeet Fish Schools appear as a school of small fish swimming around each other, blue in color with glowing fins.

Color Scheme and Regions

The Parakeet Fish School always spawns with the same color scheme and has no color regions.

This means it is currently impossible to make alterations to the Parakeet Fish School's colors.

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase
		Wild
Health	1800	+360
Stamina	100	+10
Oxygen	150	+15
Food	100	+10
Weight	100	+2
Melee Damage	23	+1.15
Movement Speed	100%	N/A
Torpidity	100	+6

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed	Sprinting Speed
	Wild	Wild
Swimming	1000	N/A
Flying	1000	1800

• 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.

Parakeet Fish School

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.

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Parakeet Fish School.

General

The swarm is similar to the one in bog, but does about ten times more damage. Basic swim speed is just enough to outrun it and will lose interest if you swim far enough.

Strategy

The Parakeet Fish School does a respectable amount of damage at 20 damage per attack, regardless of armor. Try to burst them down or do hit and run tactics by swimming through them with bites until they're dead.

Weaponry

Anything melee, but it's not recommended to fight it without a mount.

Dangers

They deal a high amount of fixed damage, killing players with relative haste. They can also kill unattended tames if they're on passive. Lastly, they have a respectable health pool which makes them hard to kill.

Weakness

The Parakeet Fish School travels rather slowly and can only easily damage stationary players and tames. Swimming through them with tames or a pike can normally keep them away from targeting you much. They also don't target boats anymore though the presence of Leedsichthys dissuades the use of those in the ocean biome.

Utility

Roles

While they cannot be tamed Parakeet Fish can be lured to Passive Tame Megachelon.

Swarmers

Damage

Collectibles

Resource	Efficiency
Raw Meat	?

Notes/Trivia

• Parakeet Fish Schools may be named after real-world Parrotfish.
• Despite being named Parakeet Fish, when the player is targeted by them they are referred to as Microbes.
• They make sounds of  Dimorphodon.
•  Dermis cannot be collected from killed Parakeet Fish School

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
306.41 Genesis: Part 1 Expansion Release	Parakeet Fish School is added to the game
307.2	Parakeet Fish Schools no longer damage  Wooden Rafts or  Motorboats