Pachyrhinosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus

Dossier

These values may differ with what you see in-game or written elsewhere. But that is what the dossier says.

Common Name

Pachyrhinosaurus

Group

Dinosaurs

Species

Pachyrhinosaurus mitisaura

Time Period

Late Cretaceous

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Evasive

Release Versions

252.0
November 24, 2016

748.2
December 16, 2016

502.0
December 19, 2016

1.0
May 24, 2018

1.0
November 30, 2018

Spawn Command

admincheat summon Pachyrhino_Character_BP_C
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Pachyrhinosaurus/Pachyrhino_Character_BP.Pachyrhino_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Taming Method

Knockout

Preferred Food

Bug Repellant

Equipment

Pachyrhinosaurus Saddle (Level 27)

Rider Weaponry

Yes

Humans Can Carry

No

Data

XP For Kill

8 XP

Drops

• Hide
• Keratin
• Raw Meat

Feces Size

Medium

Drag Weight

200

Carryable By

• Quetzal
• Wyvern
• Tusoteuthis
• Karkinos

Immobilized By

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

Can Damage

Thatch
Greenhouse
Wood

Reproduction

Egg

Pachyrhino Egg

Incubation Range

22 - 28 °C / 72 - 82 °F

Incubation Time

2h 29m 59s

Baby Time

4h 37m 46s

Juvenile Time

18h 31m 6s

Adolescent Time

23h 8m 53s

Total Maturation Time

1d 22h 17m 45s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

Colorvision Prota- / Deuteranopia Tritanopia

Common             Rare
  Untameable   Cave

This article is about Pachyrhinosaurus, not to be confused with Pachy

The Pachyrhinosaurus (PAK-ee-rye-no-SAWR-us) is one of the Creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Basic Info

Dossier

This dossier section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena, the author of the dossiers has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creatures.

	“	Wild Pachyrhinosaurus Mitisaura is a medium-sized herbivore, found almost everywhere but the Island's mountains. It is generally calm and ignores all other nearby creatures unless it is attacked. Pachyrhinosaurus possesses a particularly unique survival skill. When threatened, its massive nasal-boss releases a chemical into the air that calms other nearby creatures, making them less likely to attack it. Affected creatures are sometimes hungry enough to ignore the effect, and humans seem immune to it. Conversely, it can seemingly invert this phenomenon at will and coerce creatures into attacking it! Domesticated Pachyrhinosaurus is an excellent starting mount for anyone new to taming. It is fairly easy to train, can carry enough to be a simple pack-animal, and is not as deadly as some of the larger herbivores. Additionally, Pachyrhinosaurus can release its unique chemical on command to protect itself and its rider from nearby predators, or draw attention if desired, making it a potential life saver in a pinch.	„
		~ Helena

Behavior

Pachyrhinosaurus is a non-aggressive herbivorous species that spends its time grazing across the Arks. Ignoring peaceful survivors and other passive creatures, many players tend to underestimate this creatures capabilities. If attacked, the Pachyrhinosaurus will often charge its attacker, much like the Triceratops. However, different from the Trike, it can also release chemical pheromones which affect surrounding wildlife, including normally passive creatures. Upon being attacked, it will release a red chemical from its nostrils, sending nearby creatures into a rage and making them target the creature's attacker. Even creatures like the Dodo or Parasaur may enter the fray, though some herbivores like Carbonemys and Triceratops seem unaffected. However, if the battle seems fruitless for the Pachyrhinosaurus, it will flee and release a different, calming chemical to try and pacify its attackers, allowing the dinosaur to escape and recover. This chemical will not work on humans and some huge predators such as Tyrannosaurus Rex and Giganotosaurus.

Appearance

Like its larger relative the Triceratops, the Pachyrhinosaurus is a burly quadrupedal herbivore with an impressive frill. Unlike the Triceratops, Pachyrhinosaurus has a bony growth called a boss where the trike has its nasal horn. The animal still displays a multitude of horns and spikes on its frill, though none as large or as fearsome-looking as those on a Triceratops.

Color Scheme and Regions

This section displays the Pachyrhinosaurus's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Pachyrhinosaurus. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Pachyrhinosaurus 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.

Server admins can use this region information in the Console Command "cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID>".
For example, "cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6" would color the Pachyrhinosaurus's "body" magenta.

Region 0: Body	Region 1 is not used for this Creature.	Region 2: Spikes and Horns
Region 3 is not used for this Creature.	Region 4: Back	Region 5: Face, Legs, and Underside

Region 0: BodyRegion 2: Spikes and HornsRegion 4: BackRegion 5: Face, Legs, and Underside

Drops

• Raw Meat
• Hide
• Keratin

Base Stats and Growth

Note that creatures will have different stats in Survival of the Fittest

Basic Stats

Attribute	Amount at Level 1	Increase per point		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Domesticated1	Add	Mult
Health	375	+75	+5.4%	0.07
Stamina	150	+15	+10%
Oxygen	150	+15	+10%
Food	3000	+300	+10%
Weight	365	+7.3	+4%
Melee Damage	28 / 102	+1.4 / +0.5	+1.7%	7%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A3	+1%
Torpidity	250	+15	N/A4	0.5

¹Percentages are based on the value of the stat the moment the creature was tamed (after taming effectiveness)
²The absolute Base Damage is shown here instead of the percentage.
³Wild creatures do not level up movement speed
⁴Torpidity increases every level on wild creatures, but can not be increased once they are tamed.

• 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.

Movement Speed

Movement Type	Base Speed	Sprinting		Stamina Used
		Wild	Domesticated
Walking	230	563.5	632.5	14
Swimming	300	N/A	N/A	N/A

• These are the base speeds of the creature at 100% Movement Speed
• For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds

Attack Values

Head Attack		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
			Base	Minimum	Activation	Using the (PC), (PS4), (Xbox One), the Pachyrhinosaurus headbutts the target.
		0	350	100	0
Attack Type		Damage	Projectile Values			Torpor Values		Status Effect: Stamina			Status Effect: Torpidity
			Life	Impulse	Radius	Base	Mult	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount
Melee		28

Camo Cloud		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
			Base	Minimum	Activation
		75	490	0	0
Attack Type		Damage	Projectile Values			Torpor Values		Status Effect: Stamina			Status Effect: Torpidity
			Life	Impulse	Radius	Base	Mult	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount
Melee		10

Rage Cloud		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
			Base	Minimum	Activation
		75	490	0	0
Attack Type		Damage	Projectile Values			Torpor Values		Status Effect: Stamina			Status Effect: Torpidity
			Life	Impulse	Radius	Base	Mult	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount
Melee		10

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.

Pachyrhinosaurus

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.

Taming

For general infos about domesticating a wild creature see Taming.

KO Strategy

The Pachyrhinosaurus has a hardened head which decreases the amount of damage and torpor it receives. Players should shoot the body to knock the Pachyrhinosaurus out faster. The Pachyrhinosaurus also has an extremely fast torpor drop, which can make it quite difficult to knock out at lower levels. The Pachyrhinosaurus' extremely fast torpor drop also make the Crossbow and Tranquilizer Arrows superior to the Longneck Rifle and Tranquilizer Darts for knock out due to the faster reload and shorter firing interval, as well as having nearly no chance of killing the Pachyrhinosaurus.

If a Griffin is available, it is one of the easiest ways to knock out the Pachyrhinosaurus without using any kind of trap.

• After regenerating all stamina, fly off the ground to a height out of range of the Pachyrhinosaurus' melee and gas-clouds.
• Engage the Pachyrhinosaurus with a Tranquilizer Arrow from high above it and as it approaches, it will stop and wait directly underneath the Griffin but not be able to attack it.
• Angle the Griffin straight down toward the ground, and shoot Tranquilizer Arrows through the Griffin's head (this does no damage or torpor to the Griffin). If lined up (watch for hit-markers to verify), the arrows will land directly in the body of the waiting Pachyrhinosaurus. The position above the Pachyrhinosaurus makes the body a much more reliable target!
• Count your shots, and soon the Pachyrhinosaurus will begin fleeing due to high torpor. Land the Griffin and chase/shoot the Pachyrhinosaurus from the back of the Griffin as it runs away to finish the knock out.

Taming Food

Level 1					Time
Bug Repellant	12	39	11	6	0:04:31
Vegetables	59	400	106	53	0:35:25
Mejoberry	78	396	105	53	0:35:07
Berries	117	396	105	53	0:35:07
KO: × 25; × 11; × 3; × 2; × 2; × 1
Torpidity-depletion: 3.5 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:01:11

Level 30					Time
Bug Repellant	25	104	30	15	0:09:23
Vegetables	122	997	288	144	1:13:13
Mejoberry	163	999	288	144	1:13:22
Berries	244	997	288	144	1:13:13
KO: × 69; × 28; × 8; × 5; × 4; × 2
Torpidity-depletion: 5.82 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:01:57

Level 60					Time
Bug Repellant	38	178	54	27	0:14:16
Vegetables	188	1660	499	250	1:52:49
Mejoberry	250	1656	498	249	1:52:31
Berries	375	1656	498	249	1:52:31
KO: × 114; × 47; × 13; × 8; × 6; × 3
Torpidity-depletion: 7.59 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:02:29

Level 90					Time
Bug Repellant	51	256	79	40	0:19:08
Vegetables	254	2351	727	364	2:32:25
Mejoberry	338	2346	725	363	2:32:07
Berries	507	2346	725	363	2:32:07
KO: × 159; × 65; × 18; × 11; × 8; × 4
Torpidity-depletion: 9.18 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:02:52

Level 120					Time
Bug Repellant	64	338	107	54	0:24:01
Vegetables	319	3050	962	481	3:11:25
Mejoberry	425	3048	961	481	3:11:16
Berries	638	3050	962	481	3:11:25
KO: × 204; × 84; × 23; × 13; × 10; × 5
Torpidity-depletion: 10.67 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:03:10

Level 150					Time
Bug Repellant	77	422	136	68	0:28:53
Vegetables	385	3772	1208	604	3:51:01
Mejoberry	513	3769	1207	604	3:50:52
Berries	769	3767	1206	603	3:50:43
KO: × 249; × 102; × 28; × 16; × 12; × 6
Torpidity-depletion: 12.08 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:03:25

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.

Preferred Food

• Bug Repellant

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Pachyrhinosaurus.

General

The Pachyrhinosaurus's head acts as a shield, much like the Pachy. It has a damage multiplier of 0.15 for head and jaw.

The Pachyrhinosaurus takes more narcotics than most herbivores to keep down. It also has a unique diet, preferring bug repellent to vegetables or berries.

Strategy

Don´t use small dinosaurs, because they mostly won´t even hit the Pachyrhinosaurus, because of the knockback.

Weaponry

Pachyrhinosaurus is not immediately aggressive, so use crossbows or bows as they have shorter reload speed than a longneck rifle. It can help a little if the first shot is fired with a longneck, because this inflicts more torpor (even though the difference almost unnoticeable).

Dangers

The Pachyrhinosaurus can trigger others to attack, making engagement dangerous.

Its nasal spray will also instantly drain the stamina of you or your mount, leaving you vulnerable to aggressive dinos such as raptors or carnos.

Weakness

Pachyrhinosaurus's do not have a lot of health and you can easily kill it from behind

Utility

Roles

Two Players transport

It can carry 2 players in its saddle (Level Speed and Stamina).

Support

• Calm essence: Its alternate attack () expels a calming essence that makes you invisible for most hostile dinos (Doesn`t work with bigger ones like Rex or Giganotosaurus).
• Raging essence: Pressing C will expel a raging essence that makes a variety of dinos attack you, such as Dodos or Parasaurs. Some herbivores like Carbonemys and Triceratops may still ignore you though.

Level Health, Melee Damage, Speed, and some Stamina.

Transport

The Pachyrhinosaurus has a good carry capacity and is ideal for local transport. Its calming essence can also be useful if you run into small to medium-sized carnivores such as Raptors and you don't have a convoy or simply don't want to fight (Level Weight, Speed, and Stamina).

Gatherer

Gas Ignoring Dino

The following large dinos ignore Pachyrhinosaurus' Chemical (Calm Essence):

• Basilisk
• Giganotosaurus
• Titanosaur
• Tyrannosaurus
• Nameless
• Rock Drake
• Reaper
• Wyvern

Rock Drake and Wyvern ignores survivors on Pachyrhinosaurus if the chemical is active, but will still chase after them if their eggs are taken regardless.

Collectibles

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

Notes/Trivia

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

• Dossier revealed on 09/24/15 on Steam.
• Its full name means "Thick-nosed lizard",
• Pachyrhinosaurus is from the same family as Triceratops.
• Real Pachyrhinosaurus was approximately 8 meters long and weighed around four tons, with a pattern of horns much less elaborate than the one illustrated in the dossier. There is no evidence that it released chemicals in self-defense.
• The dossier suggests that the Pachyrhinosaurus is easy to tame, but keep in mind that its torpor drains extremely quickly.
• The Pachyrhinosaurus can use its chemicals to make creatures that run attack you. Be careful!!

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