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cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Extinction/Dinos/Gacha/Gacha_Character_BP.Gacha_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
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Common
Rare
Untameable
Cave
The Gacha is one of the Creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved's Extinction expansion.
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.
- Wild
A gentle giant, Macrodryadis crystallinus spends its days foraging for food in the dense forest it calls home, though it rarely has to look very far. Thanks to its extraordinary digestive system, not only can Macrodryadis eat just about anything, but it can also turn a diet of scraps into a mountain of precious resources.
Instead of producing excrement, Macrodryadis grows glittering crystals upon its back, which fall off when they reach their full size. Shattering these crystals can yield precious resources, as Macrodryadis is somehow able to transmute the materials it eats into something entirely different.
One of our pilots likened the process to the gachapon machines from his memories of growing up in Japan, and I guess the name stuck.
- Domesticated
Though its crystals prevent Macrodryadis from wearing a traditional saddle, if its rider is willing to sit in a basket that hangs from Macrodryadis' neck, then they'll find its long claws are well suited for mining resources. Personally though, I'd keep one around just for the crystals. The free presents, the way they glow at night...totally worth the potential nausea from the basket saddle.
Behavior
The Gacha wanders around in The UnderForest, the deepest area of the Crater Forest, swiping occasionally at rocks, trees and bushes; afterwards they sit back and eat, looking around as they do so. They're big and bulky, with what seems to be great stamina, but they are fairly slow both walking, or "running."
Appearance
The Gacha appears to be a large sloth with crystals and rocks on its back.
Color Scheme and Regions
This section displays the Gacha's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Gacha. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Gacha 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 Gacha's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Gacha's "skin" magenta.
Skin
Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.
Light Stripe
Dark Stripe
Algae
Fur Main
Drops
In the wild, the Gacha will occasionally drop Gacha Crystals which contain various items when consumed in the Inventory. These items include many basic resources such as 
Thatch, 
Stone, and 
Wood to more advanced materials such as 
Silica Pearls, 
Silk and 
Congealed Gas Balls. In addition to the basic crafting materials that can be obtained from the Crystals, occasionally the Gacha will produce a different colored, glowing crystal of a certain quality that when opened, produces fully crafted items such as 
Wooden Tree Platforms or even something with quality such as an 
Assault Rifle.
Base Stats and Growth
| Attribute | Base Value | Level Increase | Taming Bonus | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild | Tamed | Additive | Multiplicative | ||
 Health |
750 | +150 | +5.4% | 0.07 | |
 Stamina |
325 | +32.5 | +10% | ||
 Oxygen |
150 | +15 | +10% | ||
 Food |
3000 | +300 | +10% | ||
 Weight |
550 | +22 | +4% | ||
 Melee Damage |
32 | +1.6 | +1.7% | 7% | 17.6% |
 Movement Speed |
100% | N/A | +1% | ||
 Torpidity |
600 | +36 | N/A | 0.5 | |
- 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 [u/s] |
Base Speed | Sprinting Speed | Stamina | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild | Tamed1 | Tamed2 | Wild | Tamed1 | Tamed2 | ||
| Walking | 300 | ? | ? | 750 | 750 | 750 | 10 |
| Swimming | 200 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
- 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.
| Melee | Stamina Cost | Attack Range | Description | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base | Minimum | Activation | |||||||||||
| 0 | 600 | 200 | 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 | 32 | 16 | 0.5 | ||||||||||
| MeleeSmash | Stamina Cost | Attack Range | Description | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base | Minimum | Activation | |||||||||||
| 0 | 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 | 30 | 15 | 0.5 | ||||||||||
| Gather | Stamina Cost | Attack Range | Description | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base | Minimum | Activation | |||||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
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.[1]
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
This section describes how to fight against the Gacha.
General
The Gacha are neutral creatures and will only attack if attacked first.
Strategy
As the Gacha is usually a passive animal, they really do not become hostile. If you must kill one, they are extremely slow and do low damage. It would be simple to keep out of its range and take one down with a myriad of weapons. The resources they drop when killed are generally very inferior to the contents of the crystals they produce while wild or tamed, so there is very little reason to kill them.
Weaponry
Really any weapon will do so long as you can stay out of their range.
Dangers
They are slow, passive creatures that pose little threat to your player, thus making them not dangerous.
Weakness
They are slow, have a short attack range and deal minimal damage.
Taming
Taming Food
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
Gachas prefer 
Snow Owl Pellet 
, crafted item like walls and foundations (with metal having higher taming effectiveness than stone), metal ore, Stone, 
Berries, then 
Meat. You will have to time the drop of the item to get it into the path of the gacha and you can drop a stack as the gacha will pick up the whole stack and eat them continuously until tamed or out of the item. watch their food meter when traveling long distances and supply it manually.
KO Strategy
The Gacha is not tamed by traditional means, but rather food and items must be dropped in front of it, he eats everything you drop! When tamed, Resource Harvesting is set to disabled by default, though Gacha babies have resource harvesting enabled from birth.
Breeding
When a male and female Gacha mate (they can be set to Wandering inside the minimum range of a 
Dino Leash ), the mother produces a Gacha baby after gestation. When the baby reaches juvenile stage, it starts collecting 
Feces. The food meter of Gacha babies goes down faster than Berries feed them, so it is recommended to use Meat or 
Cooked Meat. Stone also feeds them, but at a much slower rate than Meat.
The Production wheel of the new Gacha is visible from birth.
The baby Gacha is able to feed from the an adult Gacha that is eating from a trough nearby. Testing with four adult gachas allowed up to the tested (71) [possibly more] gacha babies to be fed without starving to death. Further research is needed to determine how many babies a single adult can support and other mechanisms.
Note: It appears the Gacha does not receive an imprint bonus to its 
Crafting Skill.
Utility
NOTE: Gachas are solitary creatures, except when they have one (and only one) mate with them. If there is a same gender gacha within 12+ foundation range, they will become 'sad'; other than their facial expression, they will refuse to look directly at the survivor if "Ally-Looking" is on, they will not pick up resources dropped near them (they will make an expression with their head turned away in front rather than grabbing it), and they will very rarely produce crystal (with severe resource rate drop) or eat anything in their inventory even if Stone or other resource/item are placed inside. Moreover, if they had eaten Snow Owl Pellet , dreary flecks of light will appear behind where the lights would be.
Also, even if the Gacha of the same gender leaves the sadness range, the previous Gacha with the said gender will remain sad for a time unless reintroduced to the opposite gender Gacha.
Note that baby/juvenile/adolescent Gacha ignores these effect until they are adult, and adults ignores this state towards babies, even if they came from different parents.
Roles
An example of the production choices for a Gacha.
- Resource Spawner
The Gacha retains its ability to create resources by consuming items and transmuting them into crystals. Each Gacha, tamed or bred, will only be able to produce 6 random resources from a large pool of potential resources, including many DLC-exclusive ones, making it a renewable source of materials that would otherwise be impossible to acquire naturally in some maps. Their production is always structured so that it can produce 3 'common' resources, 2 'uncommon' resources and 1 'rare' or 'very rare' resource as shown below, with each tier producing different quantities per crystal. Bred Gachas are not influenced by the possible resources of the parents. Via the selection wheel, survivors can select which of the available resources that their Gacha will produce (or to produce them randomly like wild Gachas). Cloning a Gacha will make an exact copy of the resources from the original. In addition, Gachas will sometimes produce 'loot' of varying qualities, which will be denoted by quality-colored crystals (white, green, deep blue, purple, etc).
- Place resources within the Gacha's inventory and the Gacha will slowly consume them to produce
Gacha Crystal on their back. - Gachas have a 'Crafting Skill' stat that can be improved to increase the crafting speed and quality of loot.
- Wander Enabled is NOT required for this feature.
- After a time, these crystals will fall off and can be collected. A crystal sound effect can be heard over a fair distance when this happens.
- Feeding the Gacha a Snow Owl Pellet will provide a temporary buff that increases crafting speed, increases the quality of loot produced, and increases the quantity of resources gained by double on average. A Snow Owl can be landed or walked to face a Gacha and the gacha will pick up the Snow Owl Pellet when the Snow Owl spits it out. This will save you from having to manually collect and distribute them. NOTE: a Gacha will not produce resources while feed Snow Owl Pellet .
- Production is disabled when 'Sad', which occurs when they are nearby to another Gacha unless it is only nearby one other Gacha of the opposite gender. The multi-colored 'disco lights' that are usually present are, instead, dreary flecks of light and the Gacha's face is unhappy.
- Sometimes the Gacha Crystals keep floating in mid-air. A Megatherium is ideal to still reach it; they are common in the Sanctuary, have a similar height to the Gacha, and the survivor can stand on its back to pick up the crystal.
- Occasionally the Gacha Crystal contains a structure, armor piece or a weapon. For a complete list of possible items see Gacha Crystal .
- Possible Resources
| Common | Uncommon | Rare | Very Rare |
|---|---|---|---|
- Resource Farmer
Gachas can gather:
- Blue Crystalized Sap
- Corrupted Nodule
- Fiber
- Flint
- Fungal Wood
- Raw Meat
- Raw Prime Meat
- Red Crystalized Sap
- Stone
- Thatch
- Wood
Despite being able to interact with their nodes, Gachas will not harvest the following:
- Transport
While slow, the Gacha has a high stamina and a high carry weight to move items from place to place. As they can be carried by 
Quetzal, they can also be used for long distance transport as an alternative for 
Delivery Crate .
Note: Gachas will eat anything, (save poop excluding snow owl pellets and several other items listed) and as such, should not be used as a transport creature lest it eat the items in transport.
- Poop Collector
The Gacha will automatically pick-up parcels that are dropped nearby, which can be enhanced with Enable Wandering to make them a roaming vacuum cleaner. This can be used to collect poop, which is one of the few resources that the Gacha will not eat. Be aware that Gachas can eat virtually everything, including weapons, blueprints and filled cryopods.
A Snow Owl can be landed or walked to face a Gacha and the gacha will pick up the Snow Owl Pellet when the Snow Owl spits it out. This will save you from having to manually collect and distribute them.
Weight Reduction
The Gacha reduces the weight of the following resources by the listed amount while they are in its inventory:
| Resource | Reduction |
|---|---|
 Metal
|
50% |
 Stone
|
50% |
 Wood
|
50% |
 Fungal Wood 
|
50% |
Collectibles
| Resource | Efficiency |
|---|---|
| Stone
|
★★★★★ |
 Flint
|
★★★★★ |
 Corrupted Nodule
|
★★★★★ |
 Thatch
|
★★★★★ |
 Raw Meat
|
★★★★★ |
 Red Crystalized Sap
|
★★★★★ |
 Raw Prime Meat
|
★★★★★ |
| Fungal Wood
|
★★★★★ |
 Fiber
|
★★★★★ |
 Blue Crystalized Sap
|
★★★★★ |
| Wood
|
? |
Spotlight
Notes/Trivia
- This mechanic and the name Gacha are a reference to "gachapon", the Japanese toy machine in which after putting in money, a plastic egg pops out with a random collectible toy. The name is onomatopoeia of the sounds the machine makes ("Gacha " from turning the knob, "pon" from the capsule dropping down).
- The Gacha's species name, "Macrodryadis crystallinus", means "Great dryad which crystallizes" in Latin.
- The Gacha's diet is so varied, that it would probably be faster to compose a list of things they don't eat.
- One of the most common misconception of keeping their hunger up was they eat Snow Owl Pellet when their food is low. That is not the case regardless of their mood. They will only eat it when they are eating other items and that they are not under the buff effect.
- One of the most common misconception of keeping their hunger up was they eat
- Prior to Patch 288.113, Gacha can also potentially spew out Journeyman, Mastercraft and Ascendant Crystals.
- The Gacha has a happiness level that can be influenced by being near a mate. The Gacha experiences sadness when exposed to another of its kind that is of the same gender. Happiness level can be determined by the Gacha's facial expression.
- At low graphic setting, the facial expression is difficult to determine.
Gallery
The Gacha as seen in the teaser video
The Gacha with its saddle on.
The promo image for the Gacha.
Gacha Icon
