Dunkleosteus

Dunkleosteus

Creature

Group

Fish

Diet

Carnivore

Temperament

Territorial

Release Versions

238.0
Apr 2, 2016

733.0
Apr 7, 2016

501.0
Dec 6, 2016

521.0
Nov 30, 2018

311.74
Jun 11, 2020

1.0
May 24, 2018

Variants

•  Eerie Dunkleosteus
•  X-Dunkleosteus

Spawn Command

cheat summon Dunkle_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Dunkleosteus/Dunkle_Character_BP.Dunkle_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant X-Dunkleosteus

cheat summon Ocean_Dunkle_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/BiomeVariants/Ocean_Dunkleosteus/Ocean_Dunkle_Character_BP.Ocean_Dunkle_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant X-Dunkleosteus (Escort)

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

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Torpor Immune

No

Taming Method

 Knockout

Preferred Kibble

 Superior Kibble

Preferred Kibble

 Kibble (Titanboa Egg)

Preferred Food

 Raw Mutton

Preferred Food

 Raw Prime Meat

Equipment

 Dunkleosteus Saddle (Level 44)

Rider Weaponry

No

Data

XP for kill

48 XP

Feces

None

Drag Weight

250

Radiation Immune

No

Carryable By

 Tusoteuthis

Can Damage

 Thatch
 Greenhouse
 Wood
 Adobe
 Stone

Reproduction

Gestation Time

7h 56m 11.428s

Baby Time

8h 13m 49.63s

Juvenile Time

1d 8h 55m 18.518s

Adolescent Time

1d 17h 9m 8.148s

Total Maturation Time

3d 10h 18m 16.296s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

Common        Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Dunkleosteus (dun-kul-Os-tee-us,) also referred to as the Dunkly, or simply the Dunk, is a large, carnivorous fish. Its body plates act as a natural armor resulting in reduced damages, and its powerful jaws allow the Dunkleosteus to gather resources from underwater nodes. It was first added in  ARK: Survival Evolved on the 2nd of April, 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

Dunkleosteus loricaruptor

Time

Late Devonian

Diet

Carnivore

Temperament

Docile

Wild

Dunkleosteus loricaruptor is a very strange creature. It is a fairly large fish, covered head to tail in armored plates, with incredibly powerful jaws. It tends to eat the Island's water-dwelling crustaceans trawling the seabed, as it is not fast enough to catch most of the smaller fish. Dunkleosteus is surprisingly combat-oriented for a fish. Its well-armored body protects it from many creatures, while its bite is strong enough to easily crush through chitinous shells.

Domesticated

Dunkleosteus is an incredibly useful fish for coastal communities. Its powerful jaws make short work of the stone and oil formations found throughout the oceanic depths. While harvesting, Dunkleosteus can defend its rider from all but the largest threats in the waters. And once it is past its prime, the Dunkleosteus itself can be harvested for a fair amount of chitin.

„

~ Helena

Behaviour

The Dunkleosteus is a slow, cumbersome fish that slowly wanders the depths of the ocean. It will not deter from its path to attack players, but if it is hurt by any creature (players included) or a player gets too close, it will attack without mercy. If the attacker can hold its position, the Dunkleosteus will flee.

Appearance

The Dunkleosteus is a large fish found in the ARK's oceans. While its body's physique is similar to that of a standard fish with an eel-like tail, its head makes the beast very distinct. The Dunkleosteus's head is totally armoured, except for the eyes. Where most animals have teeth, massive jagged plates of bone exist in its mouth to crush the shells and bones of its prey. These teeth are used by the creature to crush rocks and oil nodes. The Dunkleosteus is slightly larger than a Megalodon, another predator that cruises the same waters.

Color Scheme and Regions

Region 0:Body

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Region 1:Unused

This region does not show on the body.

Region 2:Unused

This region does not show on the body.

Region 3:Unused

This region does not show on the body.

Region 4:Spots

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Region 5:Head

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

Region 0:
Body

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Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.

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Region 3 is not used
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Region 4:
Spots

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Region 5:
Head

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

Region 0:
Main Body

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Region 1:
Glowing spots

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Region 3:
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Region 4:
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Drops

•  Chitin
•  Raw Fish Meat
•  Raw Prime Fish Meat

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	710	+142	+5.4%	0.042
Stamina	200	+20	+10%
Oxygen	150	+15	+10%
Food	2000	+200	+10%		15%
Weight	910	+18.2	+4%
Melee Damage	60	+3	+1.7%	14%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A	+1%
Torpidity	1150	+69	N/A	0.5

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed			Sprinting Speed			Stamina
	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2
Swimming	546	713.7		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.

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.

Dunkleosteus

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 5	The Dunkleosteus bites the target for 60 damage. Can be used every 0.67s by both a rider and the AI.

Passive

Damage Reduction

The Dunkleosteus' body reduces the incoming damage that it receives by 60% its normal damage from melee attacks and by 40% from projectiles.

Weight Reduction

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

Resource	Reduction
Black Pearl	50%
Crystal	50%
Metal	50%
Obsidian	75%
Oil	50%
Stone	50%

Taming

For general info about domesticating a wild creature see Taming.

KO Strategy

Lure into a cave where you can use a rifle to tranq the Dunkleosteus, requires a creature that can go on land, frogs work well with this method. Kiting the Dunkleosteus in a circle will prevent it from hitting you, allowing a simple solo tame as it has a slow turn and is fairly slow moving. This is made much easier with some points in Oxygen.

Contrary to popular belief it does not matter where you shoot the Dunkleosteus; it will take vastly reduced damage (and consequently much less torpor) than expected whether it's shot in the body or head. If you plan to tranq a very high level Dunkleosteus it is advised to bring at least 250 arrows if you're using a primitive crossbow. As such higher-quality crossbows are recommended to reduce the endurance test that knocking out a Dunkleosteus can be.

A more efficient and less expensive way to knock one down is to just grab them with a Tusoteuthis as the Tuso will inflict torpor over time and arrows won’t need to be expended. Note: This is more time consuming method, so prepare to sit for a bit.

In the Ocean biome on Genesis: Part 1, It is possible to build a trap up against the holographic barrier of the Terrariums and use the open room inside to either tranq the Dunkleosteus with a Longneck Rifle, Electric Prods, or even a Mantis wielding a high damage Wooden Club, the latter of which may be the most effective method of applying torpor.

Taming Food

Level 1					Time
Superior Kibble	1	0	0	0	0:03:36
Raw Mutton	2	0	0	0	0:04:31
Cooked Lamb Chop	4	0	0	0	0:09:00
Raw Prime Meat	3	0	0	0	0:06:46
Cooked Prime Meat	5	0	0	0	0:11:15
Raw Prime Fish Meat	6	0	0	0	0:06:46
Raw Meat	7	0	0	0	0:15:46
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	12	0	0	0	0:13:53
Cooked Meat	14	0	0	0	0:15:46
Raw Fish Meat	17	0	0	0	0:19:08
Cooked Fish Meat	34	0	0	0	0:19:08
KO: × 115; × 47; × 13; × 8; × 6; × 3
Torpidity-depletion: 1 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:19:10

Level 30					Time
Superior Kibble	2	0	0	0	0:07:11
Raw Mutton	5	0	0	0	0:11:16
Cooked Lamb Chop	8	0	0	0	0:17:59
Raw Prime Meat	6	0	0	0	0:13:31
Cooked Prime Meat	11	0	0	0	0:24:44
Raw Prime Fish Meat	13	0	0	0	0:14:38
Raw Meat	16	36	9	5	0:36:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	26	0	0	0	0:30:04
Cooked Meat	31	27	7	4	0:34:53
Raw Fish Meat	39	98	23	12	0:43:53
Cooked Fish Meat	78	98	23	12	0:43:53
KO: × 316; × 129; × 36; × 21; × 15; × 8
Torpidity-depletion: 1.67 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:31:36

Level 60					Time
Superior Kibble	4	0	0	0	0:14:22
Raw Mutton	7	0	0	0	0:15:46
Cooked Lamb Chop	13	0	0	0	0:29:14
Raw Prime Meat	9	0	0	0	0:20:16
Cooked Prime Meat	17	0	0	0	0:38:13
Raw Prime Fish Meat	21	0	0	0	0:23:38
Raw Meat	25	150	37	19	0:56:16
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	41	68	17	9	0:47:24
Cooked Meat	49	140	34	17	0:55:08
Raw Fish Meat	62	276	68	34	1:09:46
Cooked Fish Meat	123	270	66	33	1:09:12
KO: × 523; × 214; × 59; × 34; × 24; × 12
Torpidity-depletion: 2.17 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:40:08

Level 90					Time
Superior Kibble	5	0	0	0	0:17:58
Raw Mutton	9	0	0	0	0:20:16
Cooked Lamb Chop	17	0	0	0	0:38:13
Raw Prime Meat	12	0	0	0	0:27:01
Cooked Prime Meat	23	55	14	7	0:51:42
Raw Prime Fish Meat	28	0	0	0	0:31:31
Raw Meat	34	309	78	39	1:16:31
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	56	189	48	24	1:04:44
Cooked Meat	67	298	75	38	1:15:23
Raw Fish Meat	84	494	125	63	1:34:31
Cooked Fish Meat	168	494	125	63	1:34:31
KO: × 730; × 298; × 82; × 47; × 33; × 17
Torpidity-depletion: 2.63 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:46:20

Level 120					Time
Superior Kibble	6	0	0	0	0:21:33
Raw Mutton	12	0	0	0	0:27:01
Cooked Lamb Chop	21	0	0	0	0:47:12
Raw Prime Meat	15	0	0	0	0:33:46
Cooked Prime Meat	29	154	40	20	1:05:11
Raw Prime Fish Meat	36	0	0	0	0:40:31
Raw Meat	43	501	130	65	1:36:46
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	71	340	88	44	1:22:05
Cooked Meat	85	489	127	64	1:35:38
Raw Fish Meat	107	761	197	99	2:00:23
Cooked Fish Meat	213	754	195	98	1:59:49
KO: × 937; × 383; × 105; × 60; × 43; × 22
Torpidity-depletion: 3.05 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:51:12

Level 150					Time
Superior Kibble	7	0	0	0	0:25:09
Raw Mutton	14	0	0	0	0:31:31
Cooked Lamb Chop	26	38	10	5	0:58:27
Raw Prime Meat	18	0	0	0	0:40:31
Cooked Prime Meat	35	272	72	36	1:18:40
Raw Prime Fish Meat	43	0	0	0	0:48:23
Raw Meat	52	717	190	95	1:57:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	86	513	136	68	1:39:25
Cooked Meat	103	704	186	93	1:55:53
Raw Fish Meat	129	1043	276	138	2:25:08
Cooked Fish Meat	258	1043	276	138	2:25:08
KO: × 1144; × 467; × 128; × 73; × 52; × 26
Torpidity-depletion: 3.46 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:55:12

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

Preferred Food

1.  Superior Kibble
2.  Raw Prime Meat
3.  Cooked Prime Meat
4.  Raw Meat

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Dunkleosteus.

General

The Dunkleosteus is a large, tank-like fish that dwells in the deeper parts of the ocean. It is slightly larger than a Megalodon, which ends up hindering it in certain situations. A poor turning radius allows any player to easily kite it around in a circle, giving time for the player to attack.

Strategy

By utilizing the large turning radius of the Dunkleosteus, the player can stay in a safe area while launching arrows with a crossbow, either to tranquilize or kill it. A large sea mount (Megalodon, Plesiosaur, Mosasaur) can be used to kill one quickly, as they have a relatively slow attack rate. It is not recommended to fight the Dunkleosteus with melee weapons, as it does great damage in a single hit.

Weaponry

Use powerful sea mounts or crossbow weaponry to kill one, or tranquilizer arrows from a crossbow to knock one out for taming. Do not attempt to punch one or whack at one, as a silly act of innocence can elevate into unfortunate loss of the player's inventory, which may or may not be obtainable after death.

Dangers

The Dunkleosteus has a lot of health and powerful bites. They sometimes emerge from nowhere, so surprising ambushes can lead to a quick death for players whose minds are focused on other topics.The Giganotosaurus is not the only one that can break stone, the Dunkleosteus can be used to besiege an under water base.

Weakness

They can be easily dodged due to their horrible turning radius and slow speed. Take the battle to them and out-maneuver the Dunkleosteus so that it cannot harm you.

Utility

Roles

• Damage/War: Being the only tameable water animal that can break stone structures, the Dunkleosteus gains a valuable place in water raids. Use them as a cheap method to get into stone bases underwater. (Level up Health, Stamina, Damage and Speed)
• Tank: The Dunkleosteus has 40% damage reduction from projectiles damage, this in combination with its good base  Health makes it a good option to tank turrets on moderate quantities. (Level up Health)
  • Taming Tank: Thanks to its damage reduction, the Dunkleosteus could be used for taming creatures like  Tusoteuthis because it can easily resist its attacks while the taming is in progress. Also it can just tank other creatures damage while the player is shooting tranqs to them. (Level up Health)
• Gatherer: Excellent at collecting large amounts of  Oil and  Stone from underwater nodes, and  Metal,  Obsidian and  Crystal whenever those nodes are available for marine enviroments. It will also harvest  Black Pearls from dead  Eurypterids. (Level up Weight, Damage and Speed)
  • Ultimate Marine Collector: On maps like Genesis: Part 1, Lost Island or Fjordur the ocean biome has a lot of different map elements that allows the gathering of resources like  Stone,  Flint,  Metal,  Fungal Wood or  Rare Mushroom underwater, and most of those resources are obtainable by the Dunkleosteus, allowing the sustainable life under the sea with hardly the need to go out for basic resources. (Level up Stamina, Weight, Damage and Speed)
    • NOTE: On  ARK: Survival Ascended the maps that have ocean got a lot of updates on that biome with more resources in them, allowing the Dunkleosteus to be a more than decent option to harvest on the new oceans.
• Transport: With with an outstanding base  Weight, the Dunkelosteus makes for a decent pack animal in the water, as they are a lot easier to tame than the  Mosasaurus, though they don't have a platform saddle nor the Mosa's damage/health, however, the Dunkleosteus inventory reduces the weight for some resources (See below), making it an excellent option to transport those materials underwater. (Level up Stamina, Weight and Speed)
• Chitin Source: Currently the Dunkleosteus is one of the creatures that drops the most  Chitin when it dies, this makes it an interesting option to kill in case that the tribe needs massive amounts of chitin.

Collectibles

Resource	Efficiency
Oil	★★★★★
Crystal	★★★★★
Wood	★★★★★
Stone	★★★★☆
Metal	★★★★☆
Black Pearl	★★★☆☆

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Notes/Trivia

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

• Dossier revealed on 10. July 2015.
• Even though the Dossier reports it being docile, the creature actually acts as territorial, though it's range is quite limited.
• Dunkleosteus had one of the strongest bite forces of any living creature. Its bite was stronger than a crocodile or a modern great white shark.
  • Its base damage of 60 per bite could be a reference to this fact, being just 2 points lower than the damage of a  Rex.
• Unlike the bottom shark in game version of Dunkleosteus, the real life counterpart was an apex predator that hunted most other under water creatures during it's time in the late Devonian period, around 358–382 million years ago.
• Despite appearances, Dunkleosteus has no true 'teeth' to speak of. The blades seen within its mouth are actually extensions of the jawbone that are sharpened by grinding against one another.
• Its name means, approximately: "Dunkle's Bone armor breaker" (in honor of David Dunkle; osteus, Greek for bone; lorica, Latin for (chest-)armor, ruptor, Latin for breaker).
• Since 264.3, the Dunkleosteus now harvest  Metal, before that change the Dunkleosteus can only harvest  Stone from the metal nodes.
• Dunkleosteus don't produce  Feces, much like other sea creatures.
• Dunkleosteus is the only water creature that can break stone (Both resource and structures).
• It is common to hear that the Dunkleosteus is the equivalent of the  Ankylosaurus on the ocean, this is because both creatures play a similar role in their respective environments when it comes to collecting resources.
  • He is also referred to as marine  Argentavis due to its weight reduction in many heavy materials. So technically the Dunkleosteus can make the roles of both creatures underwater.
• Although Dunkleosteus has a 75% weight reduction in  Obsidian in its inventory, it is rare to find obsidian underwater, so this reduction in practice only serves for underwater transport.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
238.0	Dunkleosteus is added to the game.
238.2	Reduced Dunkleosteus maximum  Torpor.
240.0	Dunkleosteus now drops  Fish Meat instead of regular  Meat.
264.3	Can now harvest  Metal.
278.0	Reduced resistance to bullets to 40%. Reduced other resistances to 60%.
293.100	Dunkleosteus now prefers  Superior Kibble.
306.41	X-Dunkleosteus is added to the game.
312.65	Reduced  Weight of  Obsidian in inventory by 75%. Reduced  Weight of  Metal,  Stone,  Crystal, and  Black Pearls by 50%. Increased swimming  Movement Speed by 20%. Reduced Dunkleosteus maturation time.

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