Stegosaurus

Stegosaurus

Creature

Group

Dinosaurs

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Docile

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

•  Aberrant Stegosaurus
•  Corrupted Stegosaurus
•  Eerie Stego
•  Malfunctioned Tek Stegosaurus
•  Skeletal Stego
•  Tek Stegosaurus
•  VR Stegosaurus

Spawn Command

cheat summon Stego_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Stego/Stego_Character_BP.Stego_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Tek Stegosaurus

cheat summon BionicStego_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Stego/BionicStego_Character_BP.BionicStego_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Aberrant Stegosaurus

cheat summon Stego_Character_BP_Aberrant_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Stego/Stego_Character_BP_Aberrant.Stego_Character_BP_Aberrant'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Corrupted Stegosaurus

cheat summon Stego_Character_BP_Corrupt_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Extinction/Dinos/Corrupt/Stego/Stego_Character_BP_Corrupt.Stego_Character_BP_Corrupt'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Malfunctioned Tek Stegosaurus

cheat summon BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Stego/BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned.BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Malfunctioned Tek Stegosaurus (Gauntlet)

cheat summon BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_Gauntlet_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Gauntlet/Lunar/BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_Gauntlet.BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_Gauntlet'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Malfunctioned Tek Stegosaurus (Retrieve)

cheat summon BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_Retrieve_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Retrieve/Lunar/BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_Retrieve.BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_Retrieve'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Stegosaurus (Summoned)

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

Variant Stegosaurus (Gauntlet2)

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

Variant VR Stegosaurus (Gauntlet2)

cheat summon Stego_Character_BP_TameSTA_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Endless/Tames/Stego_Character_BP_TameSTA.Stego_Character_BP_TameSTA'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Malfunctioned Tek Stegosaurus (LifeSupport)

cheat summon BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_LifeSupport_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/LifeSupport/Dinos/BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_LifeSupport.BionicStego_Character_BP_Malfunctioned_LifeSupport'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Torpor Immune

No

Taming Method

 Knockout

Preferred Kibble

 Regular Kibble

Preferred Kibble

 Kibble (Sarco Egg)

Preferred Food

 Crops

Preferred Food

 Fresh Wheat 

Equipment

 Stego Saddle (Level 26)

Unique Skins

•  Stegosaurus Bionic Costume
•  Stego Bone Costume

Rider Weaponry

Yes

Data

XP for kill

20 XP

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

Immobilized By

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

Can Damage

 Thatch
 Greenhouse
 Wood

Reproduction

Egg

•  Stego Egg
•  Tek Stego Egg

Incubation Range

22 - 28 °C / 72 - 82 °F
 Egg Incubator: 25 °C / 77 °F

Incubation Time

2h 46m 39.2s

Baby Time

5h 8m 38.517s

Juvenile Time

20h 34m 34.069s

Adolescent Time

1d 1h 43m 12.586s

Total Maturation Time

2d 3h 26m 25.172s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

This variant spawns only during an Event

Common        Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Stegosaurus (STEG-uh-SAWR-us) or Stego is one of the dinosaurs 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.

“

Species

Stegosaurus regium

Time

Late Jurassic

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Docile

Wild

Stegosaurus regium has approximately 16 paired rows of plates along its back, flanked by another, smaller pair of 6 plates. This is contrary to the alternating rows on Stegosaurus fossils I've seen in museums. Not surprisingly, Stegosaurus uses the spines on its tail to defend itself. While not aggressive, Stegosaurus will come to the aid of another nearby Stegosaurus. This implies it to be a herd animal.

Domesticated

Stegosaurus is commonly used as a safe way to transport large quantities of goods. And once you saddle one up, not even an Argentavis could knock you off that perch. A stegosaurus can be trained to flex its back plates for different purposes: hardened to shield it from attack, in a heavier alignment that deals crippling blows, or oriented more sharply to pierce armor. These various plate configurations also come in handy for stripping wood from trees, gathering thatch, or foraging for wild berries, respectively. Stegosaurus can knock back or impale with a whip of its spiky tail, keeping predators at bay or pinning them in place. Its spiked appendage also helps for gathering berries—go figure.

„

~ Helena

Behavior

While not aggressive by default, Stegosaurus will attack by swinging their spiked tails when provoked. Caution is advised when hunting them. They are also herding animals, coming to the aid of others when attacked.

Appearance

The Stegosaurus appears as a large quadrupedal herbivore with distinctive plates on its back, which are often vibrantly colored. The dinosaur also possesses 3 pairs of spikes on the end of its long tail, and has a small head tipped with a beak as well as a few grinding teeth.

Color Scheme and Regions

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

Region 0:
Body

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Region 1:
Spine

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Region 2:
Plate/Spike Base

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Region 3:
Back

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Region 4:
Plate Edge and Spike Tips

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Region 5:
Belly

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

Region 0:
Dark Muted

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Region 1:
Dark All

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Region 2:
Dark All

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Region 3:
Dark Muted

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Region 4:
Light All

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Region 5:
Light Muted -b

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

Region 0:
Inner Body

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Region 1:
Spine

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Region 2:
Body

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Region 3:
Legs and Head

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Region 4:
Leg Tops and Spike Plate

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Region 5:
Emissive and Spike Tops

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Variants

Aberrant Stegosaurus

 Aberrant Stegosaurus is the Aberrant variant of Stegosaurus found in Aberration. It is identical to the normal Stegosaurus except for its glowing robe. It is tameable and is  Radiation immune.

Tek Stegosaurus

 Tek Stegosaurus is a creature that was permanently added to the game in the Extinction Chronicles II event. It is a unique alternate of the original Stegosaurus, and is purely made of Tek. Unlike the original, they spawn at a 5% rate at a 20% higher level than usual. it is tameable.

Malfunctioned Tek Stegosaurus

 Malfunctioned Tek Stegosaurus is the Malfunctioned Tek variant of the Stegosaurus, found during Missions of Genesis: Part 1. It is not tameable.

Corrupted Stegosaurus

 Corrupted Stegosaurus is the Corrupted variant of Stegosaurus found in Extinction. It is identical to the normal Stegosaurus except for its corrupted robe. It is not tameable and is guided by hive spirit.

Skeletal Stegosaurus

 Skeletal Stegosaurus is the Skeletal variant of Stegosaurus found during Fear Evolved events. It is stronger to the normal Stegosaurus and is looking like a skeleton. It is not tameable.

Drops

•  Hide
•  Keratin
•  Raw Meat
•  Raw Prime Meat

•  Electronics
•  Element Dust
•  Oil
•  Scrap Metal

•  Corrupted Nodule
•  Hide
•  Keratin
•  Raw Meat

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	650	+130	+5.4%	0.07
Stamina	300	+30	+10%
Oxygen	150	+15	+10%
Food	6000	+600	+10%
Weight	500	+10	+4%
Melee Damage	42	+2.1	+1.7%	7%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A	+2%	96.4%
Torpidity	500	+30	N/A	0.5

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed			Sprinting Speed			Stamina
	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2
Walking	170	76.5	150.246	607.7	210.4	413.2256	20
Swimming	300	135	265.14	N/A	N/A	N/A	3

• 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.

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	650	+130	+5.4%	0.07
Stamina	300	+30	+10%
Oxygen	150	+15	+10%
Food	6000	+600	+10%
Weight	500	+10	+4%
Melee Damage	42	+2.1	+1.7%	7%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A	+2%	96.4%
Torpidity	500	+30	N/A	0.5

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed			Sprinting Speed			Stamina
	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2
Walking	170	76.5	150.246	607.7	210.4	413.2256	20
Swimming	300	135	265.14	N/A	N/A	N/A	3

• 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.

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase
		Wild
Health	650	+130
Stamina	300	+30
Oxygen	150	+15
Food	6000	+600
Weight	500	+10
Melee Damage	42	+2.1
Movement Speed	100%	N/A
Torpidity	500	+30

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed	Sprinting Speed
	Wild	Wild
Walking	170	607.75
Swimming	?	?

• 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.

Stegosaurus

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

Tail Swing 5	The Stegosaurus swings its tail for 42 damage. This attacks farming affinity depends of the plates mode of the Stego. Can be used every 0.87s by both a rider and the AI.

Impale 15/s	The Stegosaurus uses its tail to impale a hurt target. The damage done to the target per second depends of both its max  Health and the Stegosaurus  Melee Damage stat. The target gets  Impaled while the Stegosaurus hold it there, reducing its  Stamina to 0 and negating its regeneration. After releasing the target it will still have the  Impaled effect for 15 seconds.

Change Plates Mode C 5

The Stegosaurus change its plate's mode between:  Hardened Plates reduces the incoming damage by 50% and gives high affinity at farming  Wood.  Heavy Plates enables the primary attack to  Slows the targets for 10 seconds and gives high affinity at farming  Thatch.  Sharpened Plates increases its armor penetration by 30% and gives high affinity at farming  Berries. All the plates mode Protects the rider from being dismounted by any way (Except by  Net Projectile or if the Stegosaurus goes unconscious). Can be used every 1.07s by both a rider and the AI.

Passive

Plates Damage Reduction

The Stego's plates reduces the incoming damage that it receives from projectiles by x0.7 its normal damage, however it receives x1.67 extra damage from projectiles that impact on the head. All its damage multipliers stacks with the  Hardened Plates damage reduction. On  ARK: Survival Ascended the body damage multipliers also apply for melee attacks.

Taming

For general info about domesticating a wild creature see Taming.

KO Strategy

Stegosaurus are slow but powerful, kite them from a considerable distance. A slingshot's limited range and low damage may be insufficient for low level players to succeed unless the beast is trapped. Tranq arrows or darts will allow you to stay further away from the beast and achieve a faster KO with much less risk.

Taming Food

Level 1					Time
Regular Kibble	4	0	0	0	0:03:12
Fresh Barley	40	0	0	0	0:24:00
Fresh Wheat	40	0	0	0	0:24:00
Soybean	40	0	0	0	0:24:00
Dried Wheat	40	44	9	5	0:48:00
Mejoberry	53	0	0	0	0:23:51
Berries	79	0	0	0	0:23:42
KO: × 50; × 21; × 6; × 4; × 3; × 2
Torpidity-depletion: 0.3 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:27:46

Level 30					Time
Regular Kibble	10	0	0	0	0:08:00
Fresh Barley	94	36	8	4	0:56:24
Fresh Wheat	94	36	8	4	0:56:24
Soybean	94	36	8	4	0:56:24
Dried Wheat	94	223	46	23	1:52:48
Mejoberry	125	35	8	4	0:56:15
Berries	188	36	8	4	0:56:24
KO: × 137; × 56; × 16; × 9; × 7; × 4
Torpidity-depletion: 0.5 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:45:49

Level 60					Time
Regular Kibble	15	0	0	0	0:12:00
Fresh Barley	150	132	28	14	1:30:00
Fresh Wheat	150	132	28	14	1:30:00
Soybean	150	132	28	14	1:30:00
Dried Wheat	150	503	106	53	3:00:00
Mejoberry	200	132	28	14	1:30:00
Berries	300	132	28	14	1:30:00
KO: × 227; × 93; × 26; × 15; × 11; × 6
Torpidity-depletion: 0.66 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:58:11

Level 90					Time
Regular Kibble	21	0	0	0	0:16:47
Fresh Barley	207	274	59	30	2:04:12
Fresh Wheat	207	274	59	30	2:04:12
Soybean	207	274	59	30	2:04:12
Dried Wheat	207	868	185	93	4:08:24
Mejoberry	275	271	58	29	2:03:45
Berries	413	272	58	29	2:03:54
KO: × 317; × 130; × 36; × 21; × 15; × 8
Torpidity-depletion: 0.79 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:07:09

Level 120					Time
Regular Kibble	27	0	0	0	0:21:35
Fresh Barley	263	448	97	49	2:37:48
Fresh Wheat	263	448	97	49	2:37:48
Soybean	263	448	97	49	2:37:48
Dried Wheat	263	1293	280	140	5:15:36
Mejoberry	350	446	97	49	2:37:30
Berries	525	446	97	49	2:37:30
KO: × 407; × 167; × 46; × 26; × 19; × 10
Torpidity-depletion: 0.92 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:14:12

Level 150					Time
Regular Kibble	32	0	0	0	0:25:35
Fresh Barley	319	653	144	72	3:11:24
Fresh Wheat	319	653	144	72	3:11:24
Soybean	319	653	144	72	3:11:24
Dried Wheat	319	1774	390	195	6:22:48
Mejoberry	425	652	144	72	3:11:15
Berries	638	653	144	72	3:11:24
KO: × 497; × 203; × 56; × 32; × 23; × 12
Torpidity-depletion: 1.04 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:20:01

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  Regular Kibble: 1 ×  Cooked Meat Jerky, 1 ×  Medium Egg, 5 ×  Fiber, 2 ×  Longrass, 2 ×  Savoroot, 1 ×  Water

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Stegosaurus.

General

Stegos are herd animals that are incredibly slow but hit quite hard and have hefty knock-back. Watch yourself around cliffs or just near slopes as a single hit can send you flying to your grave.

Strategy

Stegos are very slow and can be peppered with most ranged weapons to death with little issue. Keep your distance and hammer away but watch your position and don't get cornered or surrounded as that can quickly lead to an early grave. If your movement speed is high enough you should be able to dart forward with a pike or spear and dart back before the stego can react properly however this is very risky and should only really be used on low level or lone dinos. Stegos stop when they attack with their tail, giving you time to step back. Use this to your advantage, and the battle is already half won.

Weaponry

Ranged weapons are greatly preferred, a bow should prove sufficient. Keep away and only engage in melee to finish it if the dino is very low on health and can be finished off swiftly.

Dangers

The most dangerous aspect of the Stegosaurus is its ability to dismount riders from mounts with its swings.

Stegosauruses additionally have respectable knock-back. Their damage is nothing to sneer at but their knock-back can quickly turn an easy fight into a foolish death. It should be noted non-mounted dinos are immune to fall damage and thus have little to fear other than getting mobbed by a herd. Play carefully and the Stego will fall easily. Also take care not to engage in fights you cannot win, either through lack of ammo or sheer number of enemies.

All wild stegosaurus, even corrupted stegosaurus are set on hardened plate mode, so think twice before taking one down.

Weakness

The slow movement speed of the Stego is its ultimate weakness. Engage from range or with a meat-shield in the form of a Dilo, Raptor, or other dino. If slowed by any means, the Stego's movement speed is laughable.

Tamed

A tamed stego will be hard to fight against as it will have one of the 3 modes if it has a rider and the armor that the saddle provides.

Danger

The most common scenario will be defending your base in a raid, where the enemy tribe will use an Imprinted stego with Hardened plate and a good saddle to soak the turrets until they can get close enough to blow them up using a Rocket Launcher. If the tribe is clever enough they might bring another stego to apply Mate Boost and even a Yutyrannus to apply courage boost to deny even more damage. In this case if you don't have Tek Turret to be able to damage the rider it will be difficult to inflict any damage to the stego.

Strategy

A Yutyrannus fear debuff will cause the stegosaurus to agro the Yutyrannus and will cause it to receive more damage. any weapons or creatures that can penetrate armor are advised. The Net Projectile can dismount the player canceling the Hardened plate buff. Spear Bolt shoot from a Ballista Turret can do a decent amount of damage too and using the Chain Bola you can prevent the stego to getting closer.

Another good strategy is simply taking the stegosaurus away from the battle, using a Quetzal or more effectively a Karkinos since this can throw the stego away, since the stego is slow and Cryopod have cooldown this will make the attacking tribe to lose a lot of time. Ideally you can create a deathpit near your base and throw them in there.

Utility

Stegosaurus has three back-plate modes that are cycled through using the C key by default. Each time the C is pressed, the mode name will display at the top of the screen and the icon for the mode will be displayed in the upper right corner of the screen. All of these grant immunity to being dismounted (except when shot with a  Net Projectile).

• Hardened Plate: Supplies a damage reduction buff (reduce damage by half or doubling the stegosaurus' health) ;  Wood harvesting benefit
• Heavy Plate: Applies a slow effect when attacking with the basic tail whip;  Thatch harvesting benefit
• Sharpened Plate: Applies an armor penetration effect when attacking with the tail whip. Also useful for harvesting  Berries

Every time the survivor mounting the dino switches its backplate mode, it will always wriggle and shrug off before the mode changes.

Aiming directly at the small creature or survivor at any mode and right clicking on them will cause Stego to temporarily immobilize and impale them with its tail swing as well as drain all its stamina in the process. This attack can work on creatures with drag weights as high as 550. Anything higher than that will not allow a stegosaurus to use its impale ability. Multiple Stegosaurus can impale a single creature to stack the impale effect and damage, but they have to be on separate ticks to maximize damage. Base points, melee mutations, and level up points factor the effectiveness of the impale ability in having a greater damage output.

Roles

• Gatherer: Stegosaurus are very good at gathering berries with Sharpened Plate, thatch with Heavy Plate, and wood with Hardened Plate (similar to  Castoroides) (Level up Melee Damage and Weight).
  • Lunar biome plant harvester: Stegosaurus are exceptional at harvesting wood, thatch, stone, and crystal from the lunar biome exclusive plant nodes with their sharpened plate mode. They can gather these lunar biome resource nodes far better than an ankylosaurus. However, they can get quickly encumbered due to the heavy weight of the stone and crystal.
    • Heavy Plate Mode
      • Resource nodes that look like Sea Urchins which give thatch, stone, and wood.
    • Sharpened Plate Mode
      • Resource Nodes with cubic crystals and long strings that give fiber, stone, and crystal.
• Transport: Able to carry a great deal of weight and with high health, Stegosaurus make for great pack animals. Also traversing at places where wild dinos can dismount you makes them unable to do so as long as you are at the stegosaurus (Level up Weight, Speed, and Stamina).
• Genesis Bog Travel: Bloodstalkers cannot dismount the survivor from Stegos, making them perfect, albeit slow, bog biome mounts.
• Travel: Stegosaurus makes for a strong, albeit slow, mount (Level up Speed and Stamina).
• Tank: Stegosaurus has a pretty high base damage and knockback which makes it good for fighting multiple enemies smaller than itself (Level up Health, Melee Damage, and some Speed, and utilize Hardened Plate). With only a primitive saddle with a 25.0 armor rating, a yutyrannus' courage roar, a Mek's M.D.S.M, their mate boost, and their hardened plate mode will only make stegosaurus receive 14.2% of damage, making a large group of them difficult to kill and will be challenging for even players on giganotosaurus. Overall, a stegosaurus' hardened plate mode can be magnified with other creature's buffs or debuffs on the enemy to a point even the strongest creatures are only chipping away at its health.
  • With only hardened plate mode and a primitive saddle alone, a stegosaurus will already have a 75.0 saddle armor rating and taking only receiving 1/4 damage from creatures.
• Experience Gain: Stegosaurs have high  Melee Damage and extremely high  Health making it an absolute killing machine and an amazing dino that can take care of a lot of experience giving dinos such as  Hyenas,  Spinosaurs or even a  Giga
• Boss Killer: The stegosaurus, if well-bred, is a useful tool against the many bosses in the game. It is favored by many tribes since no Rex are on Aberration, it can dish out a decent amount of damage and can be healed easily through vegetable cakes. This is even more useful with either Hardened Plate for additional survivability. Overall, they can act like a shield for your tames. You can also equip weapons while you are mounted on it, turning the stegosaurus into a literal tank.
  • Stegosaurus can be a great diversion to get the boss' attention with its hardened plate mode to allow your damage tames to surround it.
  • It can be useful as a diversion in the Overseer fight to distract most of the defense units.
  • In Genesis: Part 2, they are useful in stalling Corrupted Survivors that attack it if you pumped alot of health into it. With faster mounts, the Corrupted Survivors are stuck in dealing with the stegosaurus.
  • Stegosaurus can withstand a prolonged fight against the full might of the Experimental Giga if it is fully imprinted, has a 100+ saddle, high health above 40k health, has high melee damage, and has Veggie cakes in its inventory.
  • Mobile Armory: Stegosaurus can carry plenty of armor sets to a boss battle for each player that joins the fight since it has one of the highest carry weights amongst creatures that can be brought to boss fights. Have the stegosaurus far away from the chaotic parts of the fighting. When a player's armor set is broken, they can run to it and replace their armor safely since the plate modes prevent dismounting. Create folders within its inventory so players can easily see through the armor sets that they brought to the battle so it can be quickly and correctly taken out.
• Damage: Great  Melee Damage Compared to an easy early game tame
• War Mount: A mounted Stegosaurus with full stamina is basically invincible, as they can deliver damage without touching their opponent, allowing you to take on powerful creatures like Spinosaurus and Paraceratherium and come out unharmed. The only disadvantage is their attack range may strike unintended targets, destroying your tame efforts and starting unnecessary fights with other animals. When fighting with a stegosaurus, make sure to have its tail side facing the enemy, further increasing its attack range while potentially negating the enemy's attacks. The heavy plate mode works in this role where players who are riding stegosaurus' can leisurely defeat creatures that need to close in the distance to get their attacks in. The hardened plate can make stegosaurus take far more damage. The sharpened plate mode is PVP oriented as it can pierce saddle armor. (Utilize between 3 backplate types for combat efficiency)
• PvP Turret Soaker: Utilizing Hardened Plate, Stegos can protect the rider and also reduce the damage of projectiles such as arrows and bullets by a significant amount. If angled correctly against opposing Auto Turrets the Stego can soak more bullets than even a Bronto. This tactic will require a lot of practice and can't be used in every situation but the rewards are plentiful to any tribe that can utilize this niche to its maximum effectiveness. (Level up Health and stick to Hardened Plate.)
• PVP Armor Destroyer: With the Stegosaur's Impale Ability, it can impale Humans until their armor breaks ( Level Up  Stamina and optionally  Health) Humans would not be able to escape although they can still use weapons such as the  Crossbow and  Pike (note that the Stegosaur impale Ability can be finicky to aim so it requires some practice)
• Impaler: The Stegosaur can  Impale certain Creatures draining their  Stamina and  Health as well as rendering them immobile during the impale:
• Forest Titan Killer: Even though the Forest Titan doesn't look like it can be impaled, a stegosaurus can actually impale it because its drag weight is 35. With the Forest Titan having a health pool of 400k, a stegosaurus' impale ability damage would scale to high numbers. Level up health and have a high quality saddle to make sure the stegosaurus can tank all the Titan's heavy attacks.
• Corrupted Master Controller Killer: Like the Forest Titan as mentioned above, Rockwell's digital avatar has a drag weight of 35 as well, making it vulnerable to a stegosaurus impale and will result in high damage in a quick burst. On gamma difficulty, damage can spike up to around 560 damage per tick. The Impale attack can deal an average of 1324 damage per tick on beta difficulty. For Alpha difficulty, the impale attack deals an average of 3320 damage per tick.
• Orbital Supply Drop Tame: Although its average damage is dwarfed many times over by other raw damage creatures such as Giganotosaurus and Carcharadontosaurus, stegosaurus is strongest in tactics and strategy to control the flow of corrupted creatures coming in. It cannot be walked over, making it an invisible wall to corrupted creatures when formatted with other tamed stegosaurus head to hip to form an air-tight barrier around an OSD. This requires setting all stegos to passive and heavy plate mode. If optional, designate players who will ride the stegos in the barrier. For this barrier to be effective, you first need to set up high-damage creatures like Giganotosauruses and Carcharodontosauruses with high drag weight values on dino leashes at each route to close off to the OSD. The barrier can further block creatures that get past the Gigas and Carchas.

Stegosaurus can impale the following dino and survivors into its tail spikes (except flying creatures):

•  Achatina
•  Araneo
•  Archaeopteryx
•  Baryonyx
•  Beelzebufo
•  Bulbdog
•  Castoroides
•  Compy
•  Corrupted Master Controller
•  Daeodon
•  Desert Titan
•  Dilo
•  Diplocaulus
•  Direwolf
•  Dodo
•  Dung Beetle
•  Equus
•  Forest Titan
•  Gallimimus
•  Gigantopithecus
•  Glowtail
•  Hesperornis
•  Human
•  Hyaenodon
•  Iguanodon
•  Jerboa
•  Kairuku
•  Kaprosuchus
•  King Titan
•  Lystrosaurus
•  Megalania
•  Megaloceros
•  Mesopithecus
•  Moschops
•  Otter
•  Oviraptor
•  Ovis
•  Pachy
•  Parasaur
•  Pegomastax
•  Phiomia
•  Procoptodon
•  Pulmonoscorpius
•  Purlovia
•  Raptor
•  Ravager
•  Sabertooth
•  Shinehorn
•  Tek Parasaur
•  Tek Raptor
•  Terror Bird
•  Trilobite
•  Troodon

Weight Reduction

The Stegosaurus reduces the weight of the following resources by the listed amount while they are in its inventory:

Resource	Reduction
Berries	75%
Cactus Sap	75%

Collectibles

(Note that the Efficiency drops to 1 if the Stegosaurus is not under the specific backplate mode to gather the corresponding materials.)

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

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Notes/Trivia

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

• Can be very effective at harvesting berries (but not Fiber) from Plants, or either Wood or Thatch from trees by swiping its tail across the ground. This however depends on what backplate the stegosaurus is at.
• Surprisingly, Wild Stego can impale other herbivores, including other Stego.
• Although Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus are often depicted as living alongside each other, a large time gap separates both species. Coexistence between humans and a T. rex would be more accurate because of the shorter time gap.
• The spiked arrangement on the end of a Stegosaurus' tail is called a thagomizer. The word, unlike many scientific terms, was coined in 1982 by cartoonist Gary Larson, in his comic The Far Side, and said to be named after the late Thag Simmons. The name was eventually picked up 11 years later by Ken Carpenter, and has gradually been adopted as an informal anatomical term, even used by the Smithsonian Institution.
• If judged by its Brain-to-body mass ratio Stegosaurus might possibly be the dumbest dinosaur in terms of intelligence.
• Can be picked up by a  Quetzal or a  Wyvern.
• Don't be fooled into expecting it to be faster than the  Bronto; it may seem that way, being smaller, but its sprint is actually barely half as fast as the larger dino.
• The name "Stegosaurus Regium" roughly translates into "Reflective Roof Lizard".
• Real Stegosaurus were social dinosaurs that lived in herds, Ark's Stegosaurus can be found in some groups but can also be found on their own, even more often so at subterranean ARK, dead Earth and reality simulation.
• Stegosaurus is a relatively easy tame that can deem you invincible against powerful single opponents. Their ability to deal damage without even touching the enemy allows them to effortlessly kill dangerous creatures like Spinosaurus and Paraceratherium, as long as their stamina is high.
• Wild Stegosaurus can pratically impale any creatures, including other wild Stegosaurus and herbivores.
• Tek Stegosaurus will change their body lights color as the mode changes as well. Hardened Plate will give the Tek Stego orange glowings, Heavy Plate will change the glowing to blue and Sharpened Plate will change to yellow.
• Stegosaurus can in fact impale  Rex,  Spino and  Allosaurus, and even  Alpha Raptor and  Alpha Carno, but only when they have sustained enough damage, than Stego will be able to impale them, however, be careful that Rex will still try to attack your Stego while it is being impaled.
• As of Genesis: Part 2, its sprinting animation resembles its pre TLC 3 movement if the stegosaurus has been moving in a straight line for a while.

Changelog

Patch	ASE Changes
174.2	Buffed Stegosaurus with 10% more  Melee Damage and 15% more  Health
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	Added damage scalers to Stego to make it more resiliant to damage
263.0	Stego socket fixed so that  Stego Eggs are no longer layed upside down
275.0 Aberration Expansion Release	Added  Aberrant Stegosaurus Reduced plate armor damage reduction from 0.4 to 0.15
278.0	Plate resistance changed to 30%
281.107	Added the  Tek Stego 5% of Stego spawns will be tek 20% higher wild level New breeding line
285.104	Added  Corrupted Stegosaurus
289.100	Mesh Memory Optimizations for the Stego
316.18 TLC 3	Receives upates in model, animation, texture, and some new abilities: New backplate modes with different utility for each  Hardened mode applies damage reduction and better  Wood gathering  Heavy mode applies slowness on tail attacks and better  Thatch gathering  Sharpened mode applies armor penetration on tail attacks and better  Berries gathering New impaling tail attack that can impale and immobolize survivors and small creatures Rider is now immune from dismounting attacks and effects Added  Weight reduction on  Berries
318.9	Fixed a bug which caused Wild Stegos to have colour plating in Single Player Fixed a bug which prevented the Stego from gaining experience when killing with  Impaled
319.14	Fixed a bug that allowed the Stego to continuously impale Adjusted the Stego's impale  Damage so that it scales with level
322.15	Can no longer ride unconscious Stegos
334.3	Fixed a bug where players were being killed when entering a mission mounted from a Stegosaurus
338.40	Fixed a bug where the player and Stegosaurus were immune to being netted by  Net Projectile

Gallery

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  Tek Stegosaurus

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  Stegosaurus TLC

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  Two Stegosaurus of a different coloring, with and without a saddle.

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  1st person view when riding

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  Aberrant variants feature glowing areas on their plates.