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Spawn Command
cheat summon Tapejara_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Tapejara/Tapejara_Character_BP.Tapejara_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant X-Tapejara

cheat summon Bog_Tapejara_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/BiomeVariants/Bog_Tapejara/Bog_Tapejara_Character_BP.Bog_Tapejara_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant X-Tapejara (Gauntlet)

cheat summon Bog_Tapejara_Character_BP_Gauntlet_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Gauntlet/Bog/Bog_Tapejara_Character_BP_Gauntlet.Bog_Tapejara_Character_BP_Gauntlet'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Tapejara (Gauntlet2)

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

Variant VR Tapejara (Mashup)

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

Variant Tapejara (Mashup)

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

Variant VR Tapejara (Maze)

cheat summon Tapejara_Character_BP_CorrMaze_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Maze/CorruptedZone/Dinos/Tapejara_Character_BP_CorrMaze.Tapejara_Character_BP_CorrMaze'" 500 0 0 35
Taming Method
Preferred Kibble
Preferred Food
Preferred Food ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile
Equipment
29 - 32 °C / 84 - 90 °F
 Egg Incubator: 31 °C / 88 °F
Incubation Time
1h 39m 59.521s
Baby Time
5h 26m 47.842s
Juvenile Time
21h 47m 11.369s
Adolescent Time
1d 3h 13m 59.211s
Total Maturation Time
2d 6h 27m 58.422s
Breeding Interval
18h - 2d
Habitat
The Island Topographic Map.jpg
Spawning Tapejara The Island.svg
The Center Topographic Map.jpg
Spawning Tapejara The Center.svg
Scorched Earth Topographic Map.jpg
Spawning Tapejara Scorched Earth.svg
Ragnarok Ocean Topographic Map.jpg
Spawning Tapejara Ragnarok.svg
Extinction Topographic Map.jpg
Spawning Tapejara Extinction.svg
Valguero Topographic Map.jpg
Spawning Tapejara Valguero.svg
Crystal Isles Topographic Map.jpg
Spawning Tapejara Crystal Isles.svg
Genesis Part 2 Map.jpg
Spawning Tapejara Genesis Part 2.svg
Lost Island map.jpg
Spawning Tapejara Lost Island.svg
Fjordur Map.jpg
Spawning Tapejara Fjordur Midgard.svg
Genesis Part 1 Topographic Map.jpg
Spawning X-Tapejara Genesis Part 1.svg
Fjordur Vanaheim Topographic Map.jpg
Spawning X-Tapejara Fjordur Vanaheim.svg
Common        Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Tapejara (Tap-a-jar-uh) 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

Tapejara imperator

Time

Cretaceous

Diet

Carnivore

Temperament

Skittish

Wild

Tapejara imperator is a marvel to watch in the wild. It has astonishing agility compared to the Island's other flyers thanks in large part to the rudder-like fin that extends from its snout to the back of its skull. Initially, I'd thought the fin was simply composed of keratin, but closer inspection has led me to believe that it is actually some kind of sensory organ. Not only does it decrease Tapejara's turning radius even at high speeds, but it apparently provides Tapejara with extra information to help it fly through the air with unparalleled grace. I've even seen Tapejara hover and strafe side-to-side in the air without moving forward at all. It's quite remarkable. The creature also makes effective use of razor-sharp claws to latch onto surfaces such as the trunks of tall trees, holding its position indefinitely.

Domesticated

Warlike tribes appear to consider Tapejara the equivalent of a versatile rotor aircraft, capable of rapid positional changes and aggressive agility. When domesticated the Tapejara is typically outfitted with a unique triple-rider saddle, enabling two passengers to wield handheld weaponry while the pilot takes the reins. When the Tapejara is latched onto a surface, both the passengers and pilot are able to make full use of their weapons together! Evidently what this skittering creature lacks in distance-stamina, constitution, and weight carrying capacity, it makes up for in maneuverability and combat versatility.

Behavior

Found living around cliffs, tall redwood forests, and other largely vertical environments, Tapejara passively flies across the landscape, rarely venturing too far from the ground. Much like Pteranodon, Tapejara will occasionally land on the ground for short periods of time before taking off again. Tapejara will flee at any sign of danger, even if one is simply approached by a player without attacking it.

Appearance

As a mid-sized pterosaur, Tapejara looks somewhat similar to a Pteranodon, and as a result is sometimes mistaken as one from a distance. However, there are several differences between the two, most notably that Tapejara is much larger than Pteranodon, with skin flaps directly connecting the wings to the feet, giving the wings an odd, stubby appearance even though they are in fact very large. Another notable feature of Tapejara is a large, somewhat crest-like sensory organ on top of its head, which allows Tapejara to finely maintain balance and literally fly circles around other, more cumbersome flyers.

Color Scheme and Regions

Region 0:Body
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Region 4:Back, Beak and Sail Spines
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This section displays the Tapejara's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Tapejara. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Tapejara 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 Tapejara's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Tapejara's "body" magenta.

Tapejara PaintRegion0.jpg
Region 0:
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Region 1:
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Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.

Tapejara PaintRegion3.jpg
Region 3:
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Region 4:
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Region 5:
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This section displays the Tapejara's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Tapejara. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Tapejara 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 Tapejara's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Tapejara's "main body" magenta.

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Region 2:
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Region 3:
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Region 4:
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Variants

X-Tapejara

 X-Tapejara is a tameable X variant of the Tapejara found in the Bog Biome on Genesis: Part 1. It is identical to the normal Tapejara except for a patterned appearance. It has 5% ×  Melee Damage increase at the exchange of 3% ×  Health reduction. On official servers its level cap is 500.

Like all X-Creatures on Genesis: Part 1, wild X-Tapejara additionally have a 250% damage increase and a 60% damage reduction from players and tamed creatures.

VR Tapejara

 VR Tapejara is the VR variant of Tapejara found during some missions in Genesis: Part 2. It is identical to the normal variant in every way except for its digitized appearance. It is not tameable.

Drops

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute Base Value Level Increase Taming Bonus
Wild Tamed Additive Multiplicative
 Health 325 +55.25 +5.4% 0.07
 Stamina 250 +12.5 +6%
 Oxygen 150 +15 +10%
 Food 1600 +160 +10% 15%
 Weight 280 +5.6 +4%
 Melee Damage 18 +0.9 +1.7% 7% 17.6%
 Movement Speed 100% N/A +1% 36.5%
 Torpidity 450 +27 N/A 0.5
Movement
[u/s]
Base Speed Sprinting Speed Stamina
Wild Tamed1 Tamed2 Wild Tamed1 Tamed2
Walking 245 245 334.425 862.4 392 535.08 6
Swimming 300 300 409.5 N/A N/A N/A 0.325
Flying 700 700 955.5 2464 1120 1528.8 0.325
  • 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]

Tapejara

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
LeftRTR2ZR
  • The Tapejara bites the target for 18 damage.
  • Can be used every 0.67s by both a rider and the AI.

Grab
RightLTL2ZL
  • The Tapejara grabs a player or creature with its claws.
  • The Tapejara can grab creatures with a max drag weight of 40.
  • To drop the creature press the same button.

Fly
  • The Tapejara starts flying.
  • To land press the same button near the ground or a vertical surface.

Passive

Passener Seats

Both  Tapejara Saddle and  Tapejara Tek Saddle has 1 rider seat and 2 passengers seats.

Taming

For general info about domesticating a wild creature see Taming.

KO Strategy

  • Ice wyvern strategy: This is mostly for those pesky tapejara that tend to fly so high they never come down. Get an  Ice Wyvern, have it set to follow and a  Longneck Rifle with some shocking tranq darts. Use the ice wyvern's ice breath to slow it down mid-air then hop off your  Wyvern really quick. You can stand on it without worrying about falling off. (remember to have it set to follow or else it may try to land) and unload a dart into the tapejara. Rinse and repeat. Be wary of the possibility that the ice breath might kill it.


  • Tapejara are skittish, and run away when you approach them or attack them. Using a  Bola to keep them down while you shoot tranquilizers into them is a very effective method. To effectively hit it with the bola without the risk of it fleeing, equip yourself with  Ghillie Armor, so you can sneak up on them to around 5 meters.


  • It may be impossible to knock out a high-level tapejara within the time of a single  Bola. If it breaks out of the first  Bola and a second  Bola isn't in place, it'll flee and be very hard to catch. Another approach is to have pillars, ceilings, and walls in your shortcut hotbar; once the tapejara is hit with a  Bola, instead of tranquilizing it, use the  Bola time to quickly build a "trap" around it by placing a pillar on one side, ceilings above it, another pillar down from the other ceiling, then walls hanging from the ceilings all around. This may take some practice to position the trap parts correctly so the tapejara doesn't glitch out of it, but if it works, you can tranquilize the tapejara at your leisure, and already have some minimal protection around it once it's unconscious to protect it during taming. Demolish the trap when you're done.
  • Be careful not to scare it in the air because once they get to a certain height they take a considerable amount of time to land again.
  • Another, much easier alternative is to use the above method however on a pteranodon while consuming  Rare Flower. This applies the same effect as the  Pachyrhinosaurus strategy, however is much easier and less clunky. You should then be easily able to lure it into a suitable cage and knock it out without the trouble of it running away or getting eaten by wild predators, assuming you have enough flowers that is.
  • To add to the above method, using a  Pteranodon while consuming a couple rare flowers, you can kite the tapejara. Once there's a bit of distance between you, you can hop off the  Pteranodon and throw a  Bola at it. This is an easy method as the  Bola is very easy to hit with the tapejara coming directly at you. Once  Bola'd, tranq until out. A high level tapejara can take more than one round of  Bola + tranq shots, so just rinse and repeat.
  • Another method is to obtain a  Mantis and equip it with a  club. The  Mantis' lunge attack can make quick work of the Tapejara's  Torpor without having to get close enough to scare it initially. However, if the  Mantis' melee damage is too high, then you may run the risk of killing the Tapejara, so use caution.
  • Using a small, fast mount that allows you to hold weapons, such as  Raptors,  direwolves and  Terror Birds, you can sprint up to it with  Bola in hand and trap it before it can fly away, just be sure to have the  Bola already swinging before sprinting at it.

Taming Food

Tapejara.png Level 1 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Superior Kibble.png Superior Kibble 2 0 0 0 0:05:20
Raw Mutton.png Raw Mutton 4 0 0 0 0:10:01
Cooked Lamb Chop.png Cooked Lamb Chop 6 0 0 0 0:15:00
Raw Prime Meat.png Raw Prime Meat 4 0 0 0 0:10:01
Cooked Prime Meat.png Cooked Prime Meat 8 0 0 0 0:19:59
Raw Prime Fish Meat.png Raw Prime Fish Meat 10 0 0 0 0:12:31
Raw Meat.png Raw Meat 12 11 3 2 0:30:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat.png Cooked Prime Fish Meat 20 2 1 1 0:25:42
Cooked Meat.png Cooked Meat 23 9 2 1 0:28:46
Raw Fish Meat.png Raw Fish Meat 29 25 5 3 0:36:16
Cooked Fish Meat.png Cooked Fish Meat 58 25 5 3 0:36:16
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 45; Slingshot Hits × 19; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 5; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 3; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 3; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 2
Torpidity-depletion: 0.3 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:25:00
Tapejara.png Level 30 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Superior Kibble.png Superior Kibble 4 0 0 0 0:10:40
Raw Mutton.png Raw Mutton 7 0 0 0 0:17:31
Cooked Lamb Chop.png Cooked Lamb Chop 13 0 0 0 0:32:28
Raw Prime Meat.png Raw Prime Meat 9 0 0 0 0:22:31
Cooked Prime Meat.png Cooked Prime Meat 18 13 3 2 0:44:58
Raw Prime Fish Meat.png Raw Prime Fish Meat 22 0 0 0 0:27:31
Raw Meat.png Raw Meat 26 80 17 9 1:05:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat.png Cooked Prime Fish Meat 44 51 11 6 0:56:31
Cooked Meat.png Cooked Meat 52 80 17 9 1:05:01
Raw Fish Meat.png Raw Fish Meat 65 134 28 14 1:21:16
Cooked Fish Meat.png Cooked Fish Meat 130 134 28 14 1:21:16
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 124; Slingshot Hits × 51; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 14; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 8; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 6; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 3
Torpidity-depletion: 0.5 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:41:14
Tapejara.png Level 60 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Superior Kibble.png Superior Kibble 6 0 0 0 0:16:00
Raw Mutton.png Raw Mutton 11 0 0 0 0:27:31
Cooked Lamb Chop.png Cooked Lamb Chop 21 1 1 1 0:52:27
Raw Prime Meat.png Raw Prime Meat 14 0 0 0 0:35:01
Cooked Prime Meat.png Cooked Prime Meat 28 73 16 8 1:09:56
Raw Prime Fish Meat.png Raw Prime Fish Meat 35 0 0 0 0:43:46
Raw Meat.png Raw Meat 41 208 44 22 1:42:31
Cooked Prime Fish Meat.png Cooked Prime Fish Meat 69 150 32 16 1:28:38
Cooked Meat.png Cooked Meat 82 208 44 22 1:42:31
Raw Fish Meat.png Raw Fish Meat 103 316 66 33 2:08:46
Cooked Fish Meat.png Cooked Fish Meat 205 313 66 33 2:08:08
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 205; Slingshot Hits × 84; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 23; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 13; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 10; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 5
Torpidity-depletion: 0.66 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:52:22
Tapejara.png Level 90 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Superior Kibble.png Superior Kibble 7 0 0 0 0:18:39
Raw Mutton.png Raw Mutton 15 0 0 0 0:37:31
Cooked Lamb Chop.png Cooked Lamb Chop 28 46 10 5 1:09:56
Raw Prime Meat.png Raw Prime Meat 19 0 0 0 0:47:31
Cooked Prime Meat.png Cooked Prime Meat 38 166 36 18 1:34:54
Raw Prime Fish Meat.png Raw Prime Fish Meat 47 0 0 0 0:58:46
Raw Meat.png Raw Meat 56 381 82 41 2:20:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat.png Cooked Prime Fish Meat 94 289 62 31 2:00:44
Cooked Meat.png Cooked Meat 112 381 82 41 2:20:01
Raw Fish Meat.png Raw Fish Meat 140 549 117 59 2:55:01
Cooked Fish Meat.png Cooked Fish Meat 280 549 117 59 2:55:01
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 286; Slingshot Hits × 117; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 32; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 19; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 13; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 7
Torpidity-depletion: 0.79 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:00:26
Tapejara.png Level 120 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Superior Kibble.png Superior Kibble 9 0 0 0 0:23:59
Raw Mutton.png Raw Mutton 19 0 0 0 0:47:31
Cooked Lamb Chop.png Cooked Lamb Chop 36 124 27 14 1:29:55
Raw Prime Meat.png Raw Prime Meat 24 0 0 0 1:00:01
Cooked Prime Meat.png Cooked Prime Meat 48 285 62 31 1:59:53
Raw Prime Fish Meat.png Raw Prime Fish Meat 60 45 10 5 1:15:01
Raw Meat.png Raw Meat 71 593 129 65 2:57:31
Cooked Prime Fish Meat.png Cooked Prime Fish Meat 119 461 100 50 2:32:50
Cooked Meat.png Cooked Meat 142 593 129 65 2:57:31
Raw Fish Meat.png Raw Fish Meat 178 834 181 91 3:42:31
Cooked Fish Meat.png Cooked Fish Meat 355 831 180 90 3:41:53
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 367; Slingshot Hits × 150; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 41; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 24; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 17; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 9
Torpidity-depletion: 0.92 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:06:47
Tapejara.png Level 150 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Superior Kibble.png Superior Kibble 11 0 0 0 0:29:19
Raw Mutton.png Raw Mutton 23 0 0 0 0:57:31
Cooked Lamb Chop.png Cooked Lamb Chop 43 208 46 23 1:47:23
Raw Prime Meat.png Raw Prime Meat 29 3 1 1 1:12:31
Cooked Prime Meat.png Cooked Prime Meat 58 427 94 47 2:24:51
Raw Prime Fish Meat.png Raw Prime Fish Meat 72 106 24 12 1:30:01
Raw Meat.png Raw Meat 86 838 184 92 3:35:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat.png Cooked Prime Fish Meat 144 662 146 73 3:04:57
Cooked Meat.png Cooked Meat 172 838 184 92 3:35:01
Raw Fish Meat.png Raw Fish Meat 215 1153 254 127 4:28:46
Cooked Fish Meat.png Cooked Fish Meat 430 1153 254 127 4:28:46
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 448; Slingshot Hits × 183; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 50; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 29; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 21; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 11
Torpidity-depletion: 1.04 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:12:01

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 Tapejara.

General

Tapejara is completely passive and will often flee before a player has an opportunity to get close.

But with one or more riders the tapejara is a serious threat. they can latch on to walls and shoot you down, have a saddle to reduce damage, can pick you up, and can have a tek saddle to shoot plasma bullets. With a rider, the danger is similar to that of a tropeognathus but with a ability to hit harder as the tek saddle can shoot at a faster rate. A tapejara can fly at almost the same speed as a raptor and has no turn radius so overall while wild ones can be fought head on, its best to avoid a tamed tapejara with a rider.

Strategy

For a Wild Tapejara, either chase it down on a pteranodon, or bola it to the ground below. Use of rare flower to avoid escaping is recommended.

Weaponry

Generally a bola to bring it down and some tranquilizer rounds will do the trick if you're trying to tame one. In combat, simply immobilize it, or keep pace and inflict enough damage.

Dangers

Wild Tapejara pose no real threat. However, when tamed the creature becomes a large, mobile, powerful adversary. With a fairly large AoE with its attack, a tamed one doesn't have to get too close to kill you.

Weakness

No specific weakness other than the fact it can be ensnared using a Bola. However, in a PVP setting, Tapejara cannot attack when mounted on a cliff, and its stamina regenerates fairly slowly. Tire out an enemy tapejara and you'll easily be able to kill it, minding the riders on its back, of course.

Utility

Flying

  • To rise and lower the Tapejara when airborne in an elevator-styled fashion use X and C or Right Stick. Useful for quickly maneuvering around enemies.
  • Roar or taunt while on the ground by pressing C or Right Stick.
  • Xbox has no way to do a proper elevator-climb; the closest one you can do is to look straight up or down and press the left-stick back or forward, respectively. PS4 Can descend with the R directional button but also must look at the ground while pressing the L Directional button towards your body to ascend.
  • Simply fly next to any vertical surface and press Spacebar to latch on.
  • One can latch onto a vertical surface 'upside-down' (with the Tapejara's face facing the ground) by backing up into the surface while pressing the land-button (Space, A, Cross). This is useful for shooting at ground targets near shear cliffs while lacking passengers, as the default mounted/landed view for the rider of a clinging Tapejara is only in one direction; towards the Tapejara's face. This feature was revealed by Jeremy Stieglitz via twitter on September 19, 2016.[2]

Roles

  • Multi-passenger Transport: The Tapejara is capable of carrying a rider and two passengers on its saddle (not including the ability for other flyers to carry people in their talons).
  • Warbird: The front and rear passengers are able to fire their weapons at enemies. Its extreme maneuverability and ability to cling to walls makes it especially versatile in combat. Works well in combat itself, as the Tapejara's attack has a downwards, and fairly large AoE. This allows you to circle enemies while attacking them at a safe range.
  • Taming Mount: The Tapejara's ability to strafe, fly backwards, and have tribemates shooting from the saddle is useful in taming a variety of airborne creatures. Can be used both on fleeing creatures such as other Tapejaras and Quetzals, as well as aggressive creatures like Argentavis and possibly even Wyverns.
  • Construction Tool: The Tapejara's ability to hover or move in any direction by small increments (use C to descend and X to ascend) makes it very useful when constructing buildings, especially tall ones. Place building parts in your hotbar, fly into position, place a piece, then move to place the next. For instance, dropping many pillars or ladders from a high point can be done by placing one, pressing C to drop a bit, placing the next, and so on. If the tapejara's movements are too big, weighing it down can make it even easier to position yourself precisely.
  • Wyvern Egg Stealer: While its carry weight starts off relatively low, the supreme maneuverability and ability to latch vertical and ceiling surfaces to regain stamina allows it to be highly effective in raiding Wyvern nests. Given the Wyverns large turn radius, a skilled Tapejara flyer can dodge attacks with fair ease. Leveling Weight, Health, and Stamina can make it a star player in egg theft, if not as a carrier then as a decoy when with other Tribe members.
  • Taxi: By enabling the public seating option of the Tapejara, even survivors outside of a tribe can mount the passenger seats, allowing for public transportation without needing a platform saddle.
  • Travel: The Tapejara is a Fast flyer, while not being as fast as The  Pteranodon, but it's still Faster than The  Argentavis,  Griffin without gliding and  Pelagornis.
  • Transport: The Tapejara has more weight than the  Pteranodon and the  Lymantria making it probably one of the best Transport Mounts
  • Tek Beast: The Tapejara Has a  Tek Saddle which can shoot and gives a lot of Armor. It was also the first Flyer with a  Tek Saddle, the others being the  Astrocetus and Astrodelphis.

Carry-able Creatures

The Tapejara is capable of carrying the following creatures:

Note: Although it is not listed on the table, the  Ferox, when small, can be picked by the Tapejara.

Collectibles

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Notes/Trivia

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

  • The dossier was revealed on 6/8/16.[3]
  • Despite being a carnivore in the game, Tapejara and its relatives are sometimes thought to have been frugivores in real life.[4]
  • Despite being so large, Tapejara can be ensnared using a Bola, or else it will be too difficult to tame.
  • You can't hold weapons while flying the Tapejara. However, passengers in the front seat or the back seat can hold weapons, or if your Tapejara is latched onto something. Because of this, the Tapejara is very useful for early taming hard creatures such as the Quetzalcoatlus, Griffins, and possibly even a low-level Giganotosaurus (not tested yet).
  • The Tapejara , Astrodelphis,  Astrocetus are the only flyers to have a  Tek Saddle, well the Tapejara is available on other maps while the  Astrocetus is only available on Genesis: Part 1 and the Astrodelphis on Genesis: Part 2.
  • It is one of the three flying creatures currently capable of flying backwards as well as strafing left and right, the others being the Griffin and Tropeognathus
  • The dossier claims that the Tapejara can be equipped with a dual rider saddle, when ingame the saddle can hold three players. This is allegedly because the two rider saddle 'looked stupid' according to the Devs.[citation needed]
  • It might be a bug, but Tapejara on Scorched Earth won't lose stamina when hanging onto a vertical surface during a sandstorm. This allows you to ride out the storm in relative safety.
  • If you kill something while the Tapejara is latched onto a wall, the game says that the Tapejara killed it, not you.
  • The name "Tapejara Imperator" translates into "Emperor Old Being"
  • Tapejara's species name, imperator, is shared in real life with Tupandactylus, a pterosaur closely related to Tapejara that was originally classified as a species of said genus. Most reconstructions of Tapejara, including ARK's, are actually based on Tupandactylus
  • Tapejara's relative Tupandactylus is becoming well-known thanks to Primal Carnage Extinction.
  • Press X to cancel landing after pressing space to land with the Tapejara. Unlike other flyers, pointing up and pressing forward will not cancel the landing
  • When whistled to follow, entering the two additional spots of the saddle will allow Tapejara to restore energy.
  • A frustrating glitch is when you try to latch on a tree but the Tapejara does a 180* turn and falls off.
  • The tropeognathus is a reskin of a Tapejara. They both have the same sound, walk/fly/bite animation, both can fly in all directions, and both can shoot. But the abilities of the dinos are different, The tropeo is faster with the jetpack boost and can grind items and the tapejara can stick on walls and have 3 riders.

Changelog

Patch  ASE Changes
247.0  Tapejara is added to the game
247.21
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when someone was a passenger on the Tapejara
  • Fixed edge case of aiming weapons on a Tapejara
247.4 Added the Tapejara to Scorched Earth map. Can be found in the mountainous regions
252.83 Made all flyers, excluding the  Quetzal and  Wyvern, to become grounded and unable to fly when  C4 Charge is attached to them. To disable this, use the server command,?ForceFlyerExplosives=true
252.9 Fixed C4 on groundable flyers taking effect when they're not over-water
253.8
  • Client fixed flyers falling through the world when grabbed by the  Megalosaurus or  Kaprosuchus
  • Tamed flyers can no longer carry survivors and creatures into the mesh/terrain fix. Will now be uncarried
253.95 All flyers, excluding the  Quetzal, can no longer carry players or creatures equipped with  C4 Charge
253.98
  • Flyers carrying C4 Charge can now fly, but at a significantly reduced  Speed
  • Fixed a bug where flyer-carried C4s would disappear on clients after a certain distance
255.0 Fyers carrying creatures equipped with  C4 Charge now move at a fixed slow speed
256.0 Added the flyer nerf.
  • Flyers can no longer gain  Stamina mid-air, and must eventually land. This can be changed in the server settings with?AllowFlyingStaminaRecovery=true
  • Flyers can no longer allocate levels to  Movement Speed, nor gain Movement Speed from imprinting
  • Mounted flyer  Speed reduced for all flyers, ranging from a 10%-30% reduction depending on the flyer
  • 50% decrease to all base Stamina in flyers, excluding the  Lymantria
  • Stamina in flyers now regenerate much slower, around 10 seconds across the board
  • Passenger carry  Weight now increased to 100% from the previous 30%
  • Various other modifications to various stats
256.3 All flyers excluding  Lymantria now have a ground attack
259.0
263.0 Increased the ride distance for flyers to help players in the water remount
278.0  Tapejara Tek Saddle tek blasts can no longer inflict raid damage, or in other words knock out creatures such as the  Titanosaur,  Rock Elemental, and  Karkinos
279.275
  • Fixed a bug that would cause flyers to flee when players when attacking water
  • Improved flyer AI so they no longer circle each other when attacking each other so much
280.114 Range of tek blasts from the Tapejara Tek Saddle reduced by 75%
288.113
  • Improved flyer following when in water
  • Added Whistle Flyer Land Command
298.41 Reduced Tapejara Tek Saddle tek blast  Damage by 30%
312.65
  • Flying creatures will now prioritize picking up friendly creatures rather than dismounting friendly riders
  • Mounting a flyer will no longer instantly cause it to take off
315.2 Fixed a shooting exploit with the  Tapejara Tek Saddle
339.20 Reduced AmountMaxGainedPerLevelUpValue on Tapejara from 0.2 to 0.17. This will essentially result in a 15% reduction in overall  Health

References