Megapithecus

Megapithecus is a Boss in ARK: Survival Evolved with its lair in the freezing north. It can only be found in The Island's Megapithecus Arena, The Center's Arena, or Valguero's Forsaken Oasis. To reach these locations, players must go to either a Supply Crate or Obelisk and place the required tribute items inside, then click on the (or the Center Portal or Forsaken Oasis) items. A portal will be opened to teleport nearby players and dinos into the arena.

If playing in Single Player mode on The Island, the portal can only be generated from the blue obelisk.

A weaker variant of Megapithecus spawns at the last wave in the Gauntlet Mission.

In Survival of the Fittest, it can be tamed and ridden, along with the and the. One of its attacks allows the Megapithecus to pick up large rocks and throw them, easily breaking structures and damaging large groups of dinosaurs.

Appearance
The Megapithecus highly resembles an incredibly oversized modern-day gorilla with dark silver skin and very long and thick white fur. Scars that reveal flesh and straps of tissue appear on the upper-right portion of the chest-piece, the front-facing section of the right shoulder, and most of the right side of its face. The origin of those scars remain a mystery. Its left eye is red while its right eye is blind and white.

Colors
The Megapithecus has different types of color due to its difficulty level:

Tribute Requirements
The following items are needed to summon the Megapithecus:

Tribute Spawn Commands
Use these commands to give yourself all the items needed for tribute:

Drops

 * Inventory

Unlocks
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 * Tekgrams
 * -|Beta=
 * -|Alpha=

Completing the harder difficulties will unlock all of the lower difficulty Tekgrams as well.
 * Achievements

Base Stats and Growth
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Combat
This section describes how to fight against the Megapithecus.

General
The Megapithecus is an ideal start to taking out the Guardians on The Island due to it being weaker than the and, It dealing no special effects to the player and their tames unlike the other 2 Guardians, and it rewards far more than the Broodmother despite being weaker.

Like the, defeating Megapithecus can be done quickly as long as the correct tames are brought to the battle. Megapithecus has the lowest health of the three main island Guardians, so killing it isn't very hard and can be done even quicker than killing a Broodmother. It can spawn minions in the form of and. The arena the Megapithecus on The Island lives in is a snow covered mountain temple, so bringing equipment to prevent hypothermia is necessary.

Strategy
On The Island, not much strategy is required to defeat Megapithecus other than whistling and attacking. However, precautions must be made to ensure tames don't fall into the large insta-kill hole to the right of the starting area. To avoid this, most tribes do not leave the starting teleport pad and instead lure the Megapithecus over to it, which is much safer and prevents anything from being knocked into the hole. It is recommended to bring Fur Armor, Fria Curry, or high amounts of Fortitude on your character to prevent freezing to death as the arena itself is quite cold. Finally, while it most likely won't be needed, firearms should be brought just in case as a last resort.

In The Center Arena and the Forsaken Oasis, players will have to watch out for the other bosses and their minions.

Recommended Tames

 * A or 2 (preferably mate boosted) should always be brought into any arena as it's one of if not the most valuable creature for Boss fights due to its courage roar ability and good stats making them a jack of all trades mount.
 * The common strategy of Rushing is almost always a good strategy for almost any boss due to their high health and damage.
 * If players are willing to put the effort into micromanaging their food the can also be valuable due to their healing ability.
 * A rare strategy that you can do is using mutated Kentrosaurus. Since the Megapithecus has low health and deals a lot of damage, the Kentrosaurus will be very good because it can send back a percentage of the damage it takes to the creature that hit it. Although not the best strategy on its own, it can go well with other creatures present.
 * A pack of with mate boosts and alpha boosts can be used to take it down.
 * are very effective for the Megapithecus and Broodmother boss fights. They receive a pack bonus and they deal a bleed damage that stacks, meaning it does a damage over time that increases every time the boss is hit. This can drain its health very fast, so just be certain to level the pack in health because otherwise they will be killed very fast. Imprinting is recommended.
 * are also a good choice. You may need 3-4 Woolly Rhinos with 20+ veggie cakes each, and 100% imprint to the player riding it. You will kill the Megapithecus extremely fast, but may need 60+ armour saddles, which are fairly hard to get ahold of. Search purple drops on most maps(besides Aberration) and you can also get them from missions on Genesis: Part 1.

Dangers
The large hole to the right side of the starting area in the arena can instantly kill ANYTHING. Leaving the starting area is always very risky and dangerous, on top of that if not properly prepared for, players will likely freeze to death due to the temperature.

If a tame is dismounted a Mesopithecus could blind the player, giving enough time for other stronger enemies to potentially kill the player.

Weakness
It has the lowest health of The Island bosses on all difficulties; even only having 180,000 on Gamma! This leads to much quicker kill times than other bosses.

The Megapithecus has a very small variety of attacks that don't have any special effects, unlike how the's web attacks slow players down, or how the 's fire breath attack lights players on fire. Instead, its attacks consist of: a punch, a double arm slam attack (which in and of itself is just a different attack animation for the punch attack), and a rock throwing ability.