Lymantria

This article is about Lymantria, not to be confused with  Mantis

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Lymantria

Creature

Group

Invertebrates

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Evasive

Release Versions

246.0
Sep 1, 2016

739.3
Sep 1, 2016

501.0
Dec 6, 2016

601.0
Nov 1, 2022

311.74
Jun 11, 2020

DLCs

Scorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Genesis: Part 1, Crystal Isles, Genesis: Part 2, Lost Island

Variants

 VR Lymantria

Spawn Command

cheat summon Moth_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/ScorchedEarth/Dinos/Moth/Moth_Character_BP.Moth_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Lymantria (Gauntlet)
cheat summon Moth_Character_BP_Gauntlet_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Gauntlet/Bog/Moth_Character_BP_Gauntlet.Moth_Character_BP_Gauntlet'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Lymantria (Gauntlet2)
cheat summon Moth_Character_BP_STA_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Dinos/Moth_Character_BP_STA.Moth_Character_BP_STA'" 500 0 0 35
Variant VR Lymantria (Gauntlet2)
cheat summon Moth_Character_BP_TameSTA_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Endless/Tames/Moth_Character_BP_TameSTA.Moth_Character_BP_TameSTA'" 500 0 0 35
Variant VR Lymantria (Mashup)
cheat summon Moth_Character_BP_ExpG_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Mashup/ExperimentG/DinosAndStructures/Moth_Character_BP_ExpG.Moth_Character_BP_ExpG'" 500 0 0 35
Variant VR Lymantria (Maze)
cheat summon Moth_Character_BP_CorrMaze_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Maze/CorruptedZone/Dinos/Moth_Character_BP_CorrMaze.Moth_Character_BP_CorrMaze'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Torpor Immune

No

Taming Method

 Knockout

Preferred Kibble

 Regular Kibble

Preferred Food

 Crops

Equipment

 Lymantria Saddle (Level 36)

Rider Weaponry

No

Data

XP for kill

12 XP

Feces Size

 Small

Drag Weight

149

Radiation Immune

No

Carryable By

•  Aberrant Megalosaurus
•  Megalosaurus

Immobilized By

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

Can Damage

 Thatch
 Greenhouse
 Wood

Reproduction

Egg

 Moth Egg

Incubation Range

35 - 38 °C / 95 - 100 °F
 Egg Incubator: 37 °C / 99 °F

Incubation Time

1h 30m 54.109s

Baby Time

3h 5m 11.111s

Juvenile Time

12h 20m 44.444s

Adolescent Time

15h 25m 55.555s

Total Maturation Time

1d 6h 51m 51.111s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

Common        Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Lymantria, also known as the Desert Moth, 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.

“

Species

Lymantria sporarmis

Time

Holocene

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Evasive

Wild

Like its smaller relatives, Lymantria sporarmis survives by draining plants and vegetables of their nutrients. Given the desolate nature of the region, that makes its options rather limited, but fortunately its relationship with the desert's plants is symbiotic. In addition to pollinating them, the spores it releases help nourish the harsh desert plants. When attacked, the slow-moving Lymantria immediately takes to the air and flies almost straight up while releasing spores. While the spores are nutritious to most plants, they are highly poisonous to most other organisms.

Domesticated

Lymantria is occasionally used as a one man flying mount, but its ability to produce silk and spores is often considered more valuable due to its slow flight speed. Its silk can be weaved into heat-dispersing cloth, and its spores gathered for fertilizer or poison. Its saving grace as a mount is its ability to release spores mid flight, allowing it to act as a primitive bomber during sieges.

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~ Helena

Behavior

Passive. Upon combat with a player or dino it will deploy a green mist of spores, that slows players and dinos by 90% and drains stamina. While its attacker is distracted, it will flee.

Appearance

It seems to resemble a giant moth, with bright colored wings.

In-game appearance

Color Scheme and Regions

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

Region 0:
Body

8

21

28

32

33

40

Region 1:
Wings

10

11

13

19

25

28

30

53

Region 2:
Legs

8

21

28

32

33

40

Region 3:
Wings

4

8

14

16

17

27

29

31

54

Region 4:
Face and Antennae

8

21

28

32

33

40

Region 5:
Proboscis and Underside

8

21

28

32

33

40

Variants

VR Lymantria

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

Drops

•  Chitin
•  Raw Meat
•  Silk

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	260	+52	+5.4%	0.07
Stamina	150	+7.5	+6%
Oxygen	150	+15	+10%
Food	2000	+200	+10%
Weight	175	+3.5	+3%
Melee Damage	18	+0.9	+1.7%	7%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A	+0%
Torpidity	550	+33	N/A	0.5

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed			Sprinting Speed			Stamina
	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2
Walking	110	?	?	N/A	N/A	N/A	6
Swimming	300	?	?	?	?	?	?
Flying	600	?	?	1200	1056	1056	0.225

• 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 creature at 100% Movement Speed.
• ²These are the speeds of the creature tamed and non-imprinted.
• 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.

Lymantria

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

General

Will fly away when attacked.

Strategy

Avoid green mist/spores.

Weaponry

Ranged weapons are recommended in order to avoid the spores.

Dangers

When you hit the Lymantria, it deploys a cloud of spores which will deplete stamina as well as slowing dinos and players by 90%. watch out for wild dinosaurs while fighting, if you get hit by the spores any medium sized carnivore will make short work of you.

Weakness

Use a bola to stop it from flying away.

Taming

For general info about domesticating a wild creature see Taming.

KO Strategy

Use a Bola so it can't fly away, then knock it out. While it doesn't have very high torpor, it also has rather low health, so using a Boomerang is discouraged unless it's a higher level. Shoot its wing and abdomen with a standard Bow and Tranq Arrows; be quick or it will either die or fly away.

Taming Food

Level 1					Time
Regular Kibble	2	0	0	0	0:04:48
Fresh Barley	12	0	0	0	0:21:37
Fresh Wheat	12	0	0	0	0:21:37
Soybean	12	0	0	0	0:21:37
Dried Wheat	12	28	6	3	0:43:13
Mejoberry	16	0	0	0	0:21:37
Berries	24	0	0	0	0:21:37
KO: × 55; × 23; × 7; × 4; × 3; × 2
Torpidity-depletion: 0.3 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:30:33

Level 30					Time
Regular Kibble	3	0	0	0	0:07:12
Fresh Barley	30	13	3	2	0:54:01
Fresh Wheat	30	13	3	2	0:54:01
Soybean	30	13	3	2	0:54:01
Dried Wheat	30	192	40	20	1:48:01
Mejoberry	40	13	3	2	0:54:01
Berries	60	13	3	2	0:54:01
KO: × 151; × 62; × 17; × 10; × 7; × 4
Torpidity-depletion: 0.5 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:50:23

Level 60					Time
Regular Kibble	5	0	0	0	0:12:00
Fresh Barley	49	100	21	11	1:28:13
Fresh Wheat	49	100	21	11	1:28:13
Soybean	49	100	21	11	1:28:13
Dried Wheat	49	465	98	49	2:56:25
Mejoberry	65	99	21	11	1:27:46
Berries	98	100	21	11	1:28:13
KO: × 250; × 102; × 28; × 16; × 12; × 6
Torpidity-depletion: 0.66 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:04:00

Level 90					Time
Regular Kibble	7	0	0	0	0:16:47
Fresh Barley	68	233	50	25	2:02:25
Fresh Wheat	68	233	50	25	2:02:25
Soybean	68	233	50	25	2:02:25
Dried Wheat	68	819	175	88	4:04:49
Mejoberry	90	229	49	25	2:01:31
Berries	135	229	49	25	2:01:31
KO: × 349; × 143; × 39; × 23; × 16; × 8
Torpidity-depletion: 0.79 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:13:52

Level 120					Time
Regular Kibble	9	0	0	0	0:21:35
Fresh Barley	87	402	87	44	2:36:37
Fresh Wheat	87	402	87	44	2:36:37
Soybean	87	402	87	44	2:36:37
Dried Wheat	87	1241	269	135	5:13:13
Mejoberry	115	395	86	43	2:35:16
Berries	173	397	86	43	2:35:43
KO: × 448; × 183; × 50; × 29; × 21; × 11
Torpidity-depletion: 0.92 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:21:37

Level 150					Time
Regular Kibble	11	0	0	0	0:26:23
Fresh Barley	105	592	130	65	3:09:01
Fresh Wheat	105	592	130	65	3:09:01
Soybean	105	592	130	65	3:09:01
Dried Wheat	105	1699	374	187	6:18:01
Mejoberry	140	592	130	65	3:09:01
Berries	210	592	130	65	3:09:01
KO: × 547; × 224; × 61; × 35; × 25; × 13
Torpidity-depletion: 1.04 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:28:01

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

Preferred Food

1.  Regular Kibble
2.  Crops
3.  Mejoberry
4.  Berries

Utility

Roles

• Beginner Flying Mount: It can't fly very fast and its attack is rather weak, so It is mostly used for beginning players who just want a flying mount to get past particularly difficult terrain. Lymantria will kibble tame before their topor drains completely and a tent will last longer than the taming process. Lymantria can be quickly captured in a tent, tranquilized, and forgotten about with kibble in their inventory. Depending on the server event, this can generate an herbivorous flying mount in 20 minutes or less with spike walls being a formality. The lymantria does not require a dinosaur gate and will comfortably fit through a double doorframe.
• Taming Mount: Unlike other flyers, the Lymantria cannot pick up creatures. However, its slowing ability does not aggro neutral creatures such as Morellatops or Paraceratherium. This allows the rider to slow down a target while leaving other tribe members to tame the slow-moving creature.
• Bomber Squadron Mount: Due to Moth's being able to drop Spores a long distance, they could be used to drop onto enemies to slow them and allow time for others to attack, like a Pteradon Fighter Squadron. (Upgrade Health and Stamina)
• Transport: The Moth Has more weight than the  Pteranodon Making it a better mount for Transport.
• Travel: Isn't very slow and isn't very Fast can be a good choice for travelling.
• Scout: Lymantria use about 0.75 stamina/second whilst hovering, close to 1.1 stamina/second while flying, and drain a massive 6.8 stamina/second while sprinting. Their hovering mode does not produce a sound, similar to the pelagornis mid-air stall. Their wing sound is muted when flying( compared to an argentavis or pteranodon), and few players are trained to listen for it They also have a very tight turning radius while ridden and can easily navigate in tight spaces. Their stamina drain and slowing attack allows the player to cheese it when necessary, though at a heavy stamina cost to their own tame.
• Egg-stealer: Lymantria are not recommended as wyvern egg stealers, due to their flying speed being slower than a tapejara and wyvern attack AoE being large. That said, Lymantria will fit through a double doorframe and someone will be crazy enough to fry a few Lymantria trying. A squadron of Lymantria may successfully distract the aggravated wyverns and allow a faster mount to escape. For a cheap wyvern egg stealer, seek out a griffin because their bombarding attack generates excess inertia, allowing the pilot to quickly gain ludicrous speed( far outpacing a wyvern) and height through swooping maneuvers.
• In-doors “Lift Truck”: Due to Lymantria’s ability to fit through double doors land and it’s very good maneuverability without being too fast (unlike the Pteranodon), this giant moth can find a niche role as an in-doors mule. With a very upgraded weight stat, this creature can help in some tiresome tasks such as moving huge loads of metal from an Industrial Forge to a Fabricator or a smithy. This role is particularly great in unofficial servers with a modifier on Weight upgrade effectiveness.

Notes/Trivia

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

• Lymantria along with the  Diplodocus are one of the few creatures incapable of directly dealing damage.
  • VR Lymantria during Missions will use a bite attack along with their spores.
• On February 15, 2016, a fan-made dossier of a giant lepidoptera was uploaded onto the fan art section of the Ark forums.
• It is the only rideable flying herbivore in the game.
• Prior to 316.18, Lymantria couldn't be bred and would lay unfertilized eggs.
• In the real world all moths and butterflies start out as larvae or caterpillars before becoming adults. The Lymantria in Ark start out in their moth stage and not as larva when they hatch.
• Despite what is mentioned in the dossier, Moths do not produce Silk passively nor do their spores affect crops.
• In the real world there have been huge moths recorded in fossil records however none of those moths reached the size as the Lymantria found in Ark.
• Helena's dossier notes say that the Lymantria is from the Holocene period though fossil records show that difference species of moths date back much farther than that.
  • While other species of moths pre-date th Holocene period and the Lymantria in Ark because Helena's notes say that the Lymantria in Ark are from the Holocene period. This might imply that in the Ark universe fossils of a large Lymantria from the Holocene period was probably discovered.

Changelog

Patch	Changes
246.0 Scorched Earth Expansion Release	Lymantria is added to the game
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%
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
253.98	Flyers carrying C4 Charge can now fly, but at a significantly reduced  Speed Fixed a bug where flyer-carried C4's would disappear on clients after a certain distance
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 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
259.0	Fixed an issue where flyers out of stamina would not auto-land and become stuck mid-air
263.0	Increased the ride distance for flyers to help players in the water to remount
279.275	Fixed a bug which would cause flyers to flee from players when attacking water Improved flyer AI so they no longer circle each other when attacking each other so much
288.113	Improved flyer following when in water Added Whistle Flyer Land command
312.65	Mounting a flyer will no longer instantly cause it to take off
316.18	Insects are now breedable
329.5 Genesis: Part 2 Expansion Release	Lymantria is added to Genesis: Part 2

Gallery

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  Original teaser image