Tapejara

Tapejara

Dossier

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

Common Name

Tapejara

Group

Reptiles

Species

Tapejara imperator

Time Period

Cretaceous

Diet

Carnivore

Temperament

Skittish

Release Versions

247.0
September 12, 2016

741.1
September 16, 2016

501.0
December 6, 2016

1.0
May 24, 2018

Spawn Command

admincheat summon Tapejara_Character_BP_C
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Tapejara/Tapejara_Character_BP.Tapejara_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Taming Method

Knockout

Preferred Kibble

Kibble (Allosaurus Egg)

Preferred Food

Raw Mutton

Equipment

Tapejara Saddle (Level 55)
Tapejara Tek Saddle

Rider Weaponry

No

Humans Can Carry

No

Data

XP For Kill

6 XP

Drops

• Hide
• Raw Meat

Feces Size

Small

Drag Weight

149

Carryable By

Megalosaurus

Immobilized By

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

Can Damage

Thatch
Greenhouse
Wood

Reproduction

Egg

Tapejara Egg

Incubation Range

29 - 32 °C / 84 - 90 °F

Incubation Time

1h 39m

Baby Time

5h 26m

Juvenile Time

21h 47m

Adolescent Time

1d 3h 13m

Total Maturation Time

2d 6h 27m 58s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

Colorvision Prota- / Deuteranopia Tritanopia

Common             Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Tapejara (Tap-a-har-uh) 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 Tapejara imperator is a marvel to watch in the wild. It has astonishing agility compared to the Island's other flyers thanks in large part to the rudder-like fin that extends from its snout to the back of its skull. Initially, I'd thought the fin was simply composed of keratin, but closer inspection has led me to believe that it is actually some kind of sensory organ. Not only does it decrease Tapejara's turning radius even at high speeds, but it apparently provides Tapejara with extra information to help it fly through the air with unparalleled grace. I've even seen Tapejara hover and strafe side-to-side in the air without moving forward at all. It's quite remarkable. The creature also makes effective use of razor-sharp claws to latch onto surfaces such as the trunks of tall trees, holding its position indefinitely. Domesticated Warlike tribes appear to consider Tapejara the equivalent of a versatile rotor aircraft, capable of rapid positional changes and aggressive agility. When domesticated the Tapejara is typically outfitted with a unique triple-rider saddle, enabling two passengers to wield handheld weaponry while the pilot takes the reins. When the Tapejara is latched onto a surface, both the passengers and pilot are able to make full use of their weapons together! Evidently what this skittering creature lacks in distance-stamina, constitution, and weight carrying capacity, it makes up for in maneuverability and combat versatility.	„
		~ Helena

Behavior

Passively found over the island, Tapejara flees when either attacked or approached.

Appearance

A mid-sized pterosaur with a large and distinctive head crest, the Tapejara is one of the island's most adept fliers. Normally found living around cliffs, tall redwood forests, and other largely vertical environments, its maneuverability in the air and sharp, climbing-suitable claws allow it to seek out its diet of fruit, nuts, and small animals, which it pries from the various small cavities often found in rock and tree bark. A Tapejara crest is a highly developed sensory organ, allowing the animal to finely maintain balance and literally fly circles around other, more cumbersome flyers.

Color Scheme and Regions

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

Region 0: Body	Region 1: Wing and Sail Markings	Region 2 is not used for this Creature.
Region 3: Wings and Sail	Region 4: Back, Beak and Sail Spines	Region 5: Sail and Throat

Region 0: BodyRegion 1: Wing and Sail MarkingsRegion 3: Wings and SailRegion 4: Back, Beak and Sail SpinesRegion 5: Sail and Throat

Drops

• Raw Meat
• Hide

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	325	+65	+5.4%	0.07
Stamina	250	+12.5	+6%
Oxygen	150	+15	+10%
Food	1600	+160	+10%		15%
Weight	280	+5.6	+4%
Melee Damage	182	+0.9	+1.7%	7%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A3	+0%	36.5%
Torpidity	450	+27	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	245	N/A	N/A	6
Swimming	300	N/A	N/A	N/A
Flying	700	2464	1120	0.325

• 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

Bite		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
			Base	Minimum	Activation	Using the (PC), (PS4), (Xbox One), the Tapejara bites the target.
		0	1000	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		18

Grab		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
			Base	Minimum	Activation	Using the (PC), (PS4), (Xbox One) while in the air, the Tapejara can pick up another creature. Despite a coded melee damage value, this attack does no damage.
		40	500	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		18

Taunt		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
			Base	Minimum	Activation	Using C (PC), (PS4), (Xbox One) while on the ground, the Tapejara flaps its wings and taunts the target.
		0	1000	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		18

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.

Tapejara

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

• Tapejara are skittish, and run away when you approach them or attack them. Using a bola to keep them down while you shoot tranquilizers into them is a very effective method. To effectively hit it with the bola without the risk of it fleeing, equip yourself with Ghillie Armor, so you can sneak up on them to around 5 meters.
• It may be impossible to knock out a high-level tapejara within the time of a single bola. If it breaks out of the first bola and a second bola isn't in place, it'll flee and be very hard to catch. Another approach is to have pillars, ceilings, and walls in your shortcut hotbar; once the tapejara is hit with a bola, instead of tranquilizing it, use the bola time to quickly build a "trap" around it by placing a pillar on one side, ceilings above it, another pillar down from the other ceiling, then walls hanging from the ceilings all around. This may take some practice to position the trap parts correctly so the tapejara doesn't glitch out of it, but if it works, you can tranquilize the tapejara at your leisure, and already have some minimal protection around it once it's unconscious to protect it during taming. Demolish the trap when you're done.
• Be careful not to scare it in the air because once they get to a certain height they take a considerable amount of time to land again.
• Another, much easier alternative is to use the above method however on a pteradon while consuming rare flowers. This applies the same effect as the pachyrhinosaurus strategy, however is much easier and less clunky. You should then be easily able to lure it into a suitable cage and knock it out without the trouble of it running away or getting eaten by wild predators, assuming you have enough flowers that is.
• Another method is to obtain a Mantis and equip it with a club. The Mantis' lunge attack can make quick work of the Tapejara's torpor without having to get close enough to scare it initially. However, if the Mantis' melee damage is too high, then you may run the risk of killing the Tapejara, so use caution.
• Using a small, fast mount that allows you to hold weapons, such as raptors, direwolves and terror birds, you can sprint up to it with bola in hand and trap it before it can fly away, just be sure to have the bola already swinging before sprinting at it.

Taming Food

Level 1					Time
Kibble (Allosaurus Egg)	3	0	0	0	0:12:00
Raw Mutton	7	0	0	0	0:17:31
Cooked Lamb Chop	12	11	3	2	0:29:59
Raw Prime Meat	8	0	0	0	0:20:01
Cooked Prime Meat	16	33	7	4	0:39:58
Raw Prime Fish Meat	20	1	1	1	0:25:01
Raw Meat	23	70	14	7	0:57:31
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	39	54	11	6	0:50:06
Cooked Meat	46	70	14	7	0:57:31
Raw Fish Meat	58	102	21	11	1:12:31
Cooked Fish Meat	115	101	20	10	1:11:53
KO: × 45; × 19; × 5; × 3; × 3; × 2
Torpidity-depletion: 0.3 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:25:00

Level 30					Time
Kibble (Allosaurus Egg)	7	0	0	0	0:27:59
Raw Mutton	14	0	0	0	0:35:01
Cooked Lamb Chop	26	79	17	9	1:04:56
Raw Prime Meat	18	13	3	2	0:45:01
Cooked Prime Meat	35	154	32	16	1:27:25
Raw Prime Fish Meat	44	46	10	5	0:55:01
Raw Meat	52	296	61	31	2:10:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	87	235	48	24	1:51:45
Cooked Meat	104	296	61	31	2:10:01
Raw Fish Meat	130	404	83	42	2:42:31
Cooked Fish Meat	260	404	83	42	2:42:31
KO: × 124; × 51; × 14; × 8; × 6; × 3
Torpidity-depletion: 0.5 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:41:14

Level 60					Time
Kibble (Allosaurus Egg)	11	0	0	0	0:43:59
Raw Mutton	22	12	3	2	0:55:01
Cooked Lamb Chop	41	207	44	22	1:42:24
Raw Prime Meat	28	73	16	8	1:10:01
Cooked Prime Meat	55	351	74	37	2:17:21
Raw Prime Fish Meat	69	140	30	15	1:26:16
Raw Meat	82	631	132	66	3:25:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	137	511	107	54	2:55:57
Cooked Meat	164	631	132	66	3:25:01
Raw Fish Meat	205	842	176	88	4:16:16
Cooked Fish Meat	410	842	176	88	4:16:16
KO: × 205; × 84; × 23; × 13; × 10; × 5
Torpidity-depletion: 0.66 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:52:22

Level 90					Time
Kibble (Allosaurus Egg)	14	0	0	0	0:55:58
Raw Mutton	30	70	15	8	1:15:01
Cooked Lamb Chop	56	381	81	41	2:19:51
Raw Prime Meat	38	166	36	18	1:35:01
Cooked Prime Meat	75	608	130	65	3:07:18
Raw Prime Fish Meat	94	274	59	30	1:57:31
Raw Meat	112	1052	224	112	4:40:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	187	861	184	92	4:00:10
Cooked Meat	224	1052	224	112	4:40:01
Raw Fish Meat	280	1387	296	148	5:50:01
Cooked Fish Meat	560	1387	296	148	5:50:01
KO: × 286; × 117; × 32; × 19; × 13; × 7
Torpidity-depletion: 0.79 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:00:26

Level 120					Time
Kibble (Allosaurus Egg)	18	28	7	4	1:11:58
Raw Mutton	38	152	33	17	1:35:01
Cooked Lamb Chop	71	592	129	65	2:57:19
Raw Prime Meat	48	286	62	31	2:00:01
Cooked Prime Meat	95	913	198	99	3:57:15
Raw Prime Fish Meat	119	439	96	48	2:28:46
Raw Meat	142	1544	335	168	5:55:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	237	1273	276	138	5:04:23
Cooked Meat	284	1544	335	168	5:55:01
Raw Fish Meat	355	2019	437	219	7:23:46
Cooked Fish Meat	710	2019	437	219	7:23:46
KO: × 367; × 150; × 41; × 24; × 17; × 9
Torpidity-depletion: 0.92 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:06:47

Level 150					Time
Kibble (Allosaurus Egg)	22	94	21	11	1:27:57
Raw Mutton	46	252	56	28	1:55:01
Cooked Lamb Chop	85	822	181	91	3:32:16
Raw Prime Meat	58	428	94	47	2:25:01
Cooked Prime Meat	115	1261	277	139	4:47:12
Raw Prime Fish Meat	144	633	139	70	3:00:01
Raw Meat	172	2097	461	231	7:10:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	287	1737	382	191	6:08:36
Cooked Meat	344	2097	461	231	7:10:01
Raw Fish Meat	430	2727	599	300	8:57:31
Cooked Fish Meat	860	2727	599	300	8:57:31
KO: × 448; × 183; × 50; × 29; × 21; × 11
Torpidity-depletion: 1.04 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:12:01

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.

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Tapejara.

General

Tapejara is completely passive and will often flee before a player has an opportunity to get close.

Strategy

For a Wild Tapejara, either chase it down on a pteranodon, or bola it to the ground below.

Weaponry

Generally a bola to bring it down and some tranquilizer rounds will do the trick if you're trying to tame one. In combat, simply immobilize it, or keep pace and inflict enough damage.

Dangers

Wild Tapejara pose no real threat. However, when tamed the creature becomes a large, mobile, powerful adversary. With a fairly large AoE with its attack, a tamed one doesn't have to get too close to kill you.

Weakness

No specific weakness other than the fact it can be ensnared using a Bola. However, in a PVP setting, Tapejara cannot attack when mounted on a cliff, and its stamina regenerates fairly slowly. Tire out an enemy tapejara and you'll easily be able to kill it, minding the riders on its back, of course.

Utility

Flying

• To rise and lower the Tapejara when airborne in an elevator-styled fashion use X and C or . Useful for quickly maneuvering around enemies.
• Roar or taunt while on the ground by pressing C or .
• Xbox has no way to do a proper elevator-climb; the closest one can do is to look straight up or down and press the left-stick back or forward, respectively.
• Simply fly next to any vertical surface and press spacebar to latch on.
• One can latch onto a vertical surface 'upside-down' (with the Tapejara's face facing the ground) by backing up into the surface while pressing the land-button (Space, , ). This is useful for shooting at ground targets near shear cliffs while lacking passengers, as the default mounted/landed view for the rider of a clinging Tapejara is only in one direction; towards the Tapejara's face. This feature was revealed by Jeremy Stieglitz via twitter on September 19, 2016.

Roles

• Multi-passenger Transport: The Tapejara is capable of carrying a rider and two passengers on its saddle (not including the ability for other flyers to carry people in their talons).
• Warbird: The front and rear passengers are able to fire their weapons at enemies. Its extreme maneuverability and ability to cling to walls makes it especially versatile in combat. Works well in combat itself, as the Tapejara's attack has a downwards, and fairly large AoE. This allows you to circle enemies while attacking them at a safe range.
• Taming Mount: The Tapejara's ability to strafe, fly backwards, and have tribemates shooting from the saddle is useful in taming a variety of airborne creatures. Can be used both on fleeing creatures such as other Tapejaras and Quetzals, as well as aggressive creatures like Argentavis and possibly even Wyverns.
• Construction Tool: The Tapejara's ability to hover or move in any direction by small increments (use C to descend and X to ascend) makes it very useful when constructing buildings, especially tall ones. Place building parts in your hotbar, fly into position, place a piece, then move to place the next. For instance, dropping many pillars or ladders from a high point can be done by placing one, pressing C to drop a bit, placing the next, and so on. If the tapejara's movements are too big, weighing it down can make it even easier to position yourself precisely.
• Wyvern Egg Stealer: While its carry weight starts off relatively low, the supreme maneuverability and ability to latch vertical and ceiling surfaces to regain stamina allows it to be highly effective in raiding Wyvern nests. Given the Wyverns large turn radius, a skilled Tapejara flyer can dodge attacks with fair ease. Leveling Weight, Health, and Stamina can make it a star player in egg theft, if not as a carrier then as a decoy when with other Tribe members.
• Taxi: By enabling the public seating option of the Tapejara, even survivors outside of a tribe can mount the passenger seats, allowing for public transportation without needing a platform saddle.

Carry-able Creatures

The Tapejara is capable of carrying the following creatures:

• Bulbdog
• Compy
• Dilophosaurus
• Diplocaulus
• Dodo
• Enforcer
• Glowtail
• Human
• Jerboa
• Kairuku
• Lystrosaurus
• Megalania
• Mesopithecus
• Otter
• Pegomastax
• Shinehorn
• Titanomyrma Drone
• Troodon
• Zomdodo

Notes/Trivia

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

• The dossier was revealed on 6/8/16.
• Despite being a carnivore in the game, Tapejara and its relatives are sometimes thought to have been frugivores in real life.
• Despite being so large, Tapejara can be ensnared using a Bola.
• It is one of two flying creature currently capable of flying backwards as well as strafing left and right, the other being the Griffin.
• The dossier claims that the Tapejara can be equipped with a dual rider saddle, when Ingame the saddle can hold three players. This is allegedly because the two rider saddle 'looked stupid' according to the Devs.^{[citation needed]}
• It might be a bug, but Tapejara on Scorched Earth won't lose stamina when hanging onto a vertical surface during a sandstorm. This allows you to ride out the storm in relative safety.
• If you kill something while the Tapejara is latched onto a wall, the game says that the Tapejara killed it, not you.
• The name "Tapejara Imperator" translates into "Emperor Old Being"
• Tapejara's species name, imperator, is shared in real-life with Tupandactylus, a pterosaur closely related to Tapejara. Most reconstructions of Tapejara, including ARK's, are actually based on Tupandactylus.
• A glitch in the mobile version of ARK makes it so when taking off, your Tapejara’s saddle disappears for a moment.
• Another glitch in the mobile version of ARK occurs when you land in water while riding the Tapejara. Instead of forcing you off like the other fliers, the Tapejara will constantly walk forward on top of the water WITH the rider still on the saddle. This continues until the tapejara has reached land, where the rider will be able to regain control of the Tapejara. However, it is unknown if this happens on consoles and pc.