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Thylacoleo
Thylacoleo
Steam 255.0
Feb 26, 2017
Xbox One 751.0
Mar 17, 2017
PS 505.0
Mar 17, 2017
Nintendo Switch 599.0
Nov 30, 2018
Epic Games 311.74
Jun 11, 2020
Stadia 678.15
Sep 1, 2021
Variants
Spawn Command
cheat summon Thylacoleo_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Thylacoleo/Thylacoleo_Character_BP.Thylacoleo_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Taming Method
Preferred Food
Equipment
Thylacoleo Saddle Thylacoleo Saddle (Level ?)
Gestation Time
4h 10m 37.593s
Baby Time
4h 52m 23.859s
Juvenile Time
19h 29m 35.438s
Adolescent Time
1d 21m 59.297s
Total Maturation Time
2d 43m 58.594s
Breeding Interval
18h - 2d
Habitat

Common             Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Thylacoleo (thy-lah-ko-lee-oh) is one of the Creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Basic Info

The Thylacoleo lives in the Redwoods on The Island, Ragnarok, and on The Center. In Scorched Earth the Thylacoleo spawns at the edges of the dunes and on low lying cliffs. On Ragnarok, it can also be found on the Rashaka Savannah islands alongside many Scorched Earth creatures.

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.

NoteHelena
Wild

Thylacoleo furtimorsus is a large, powerful marsupial that can often be found hunting around trees among the Island's redwoods. Its long claws and semi-opposable digits make it an apt climber, a quality that Thylacoleo uses to its advantage while hunting. It clambers up large trees and waits to ambush passing prey by pouncing upon them. When something that large jumps onto a target, the victim becomes stunned and doesn't stand much of a chance. Thylacoleo's most notable fighting quality is its powerful jaws. Once it bites its prey, it locks its jaw in an iron grip that can hold most smaller creatures in place. Thylacoleo then goes on to savage its prey with its sharp claws. If it needs to escape from a fight, Thylacoleo uses its muscular hind legs to jump back to safety among the trees.

Domesticated

Thylacoleo is a moderately strong mount, and its ability to climb trees and jump long distances makes it useful for traversal. As such, developing tribes often tame it. Small raiding parties particularly favor Thylacoleo, as it is well suited to ambushes and unfair fights!

Behavior

Thylacoleo often hides high in the redwood trees, faced down towards its prey. Upon entering aggro range, the Thylacoleo will leap from above, pinning any prey beneath its weight, even knocking players off of any mount.

Appearance

Also known as the "marsupial lion", Thylacoleo is a powerful pouched predator native to the island's towering redwood forests, pursuing a semi-arboreal lifestyle as it chambers and leaps between the trees. A strong bite - the strongest of any land mammal - and bolt cutter-like teeth make this creature a formidable ambush predator, leaping from above to crush the necks of its prey.


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

Thylacoleo PaintRegion0
Region 0:
Body
8
9
10
13
14
20
22
33
34
41
42
43
X mark

Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.

X mark

Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.

X mark

Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.

Thylacoleo PaintRegion4
Region 4:
Stripes
13
20
21
22
33
34
35
41
42
43
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56
Thylacoleo PaintRegion5
Region 5:
Stomach
8
14
21
32
33
38
40

Drops

Harvest
Guaranteed Special Loot

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute Base Value Level Increase Taming Bonus
Wild Tamed Additive Multiplicative
Health Health 700 +140 +3.78% 0.07
Stamina Stamina 400 +40 +10%
Oxygen Oxygen 200 +20 +10%
Food Food 1500 +150 +10% 15%
Weight Weight 400 +8 +4%
Melee Damage Melee Damage 40 +2 +1.7% 5.6% 15.4%
Movement Speed Movement Speed 100% N/A +1% 30%
Torpidity Torpidity 700 +42 N/A 0.5
Movement
[u/s]
Base Speed Sprinting Speed Stamina
Wild Tamed1 Tamed2 Wild Tamed1 Tamed2
Walking 230 ? ? 1150 1150 1495 7
Swimming 600 ? ? ? ? ? ?
  • 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.
Attack Values
Claw Stamina Cost Attack Range Description
Base Minimum Activation
0 350 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 40
Release Stamina Cost Attack Range Description
Base Minimum Activation
0 0 0 0
Roar Stamina Cost Attack Range Description
Base Minimum Activation
0 0 0 0
Pounce Stamina Cost Attack Range Description
Base Minimum Activation
0 0 0 0
Maul 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]

Thylacoleo

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

Thylacoleo seems to always be aggressive . If on the ground it will pursue the player only when really close. Its aggro range seems to be similar to the therizino's.

General

The Thylacoleo spawns on the sides of trees ready to pounce on any unlucky creature should it come into this predator's pouncing range. Should a player be flying near it, the Thylacoleo will leap off the tree pulling you from your mount to the ground and holding onto you till death. If it's on the ground, it can be easily avoided. If the confrontation is inevitable, bait it out the tree and then kill it. It has the base health of a Spinosaurus and the damage of a Carno, so melee fights are best avoided unless the Thyla is low level.

Thylacoleos will pounce on wild creatures and will likely be found on the ground if this happens. They do not appear to ever climb trees in the wild, only spawn on them, so once dismounted they remain terrestrial. Thylacoleo will maliciously attack any player so be wary in the redwood forests

Thylacoleos have distinct aggression types depending on whether or not they are within trees. While within a tree, they are capable of targeting the rider regardless of their mount. The pounce treats the rider and mount separately, and effects against one will not directly affect the other:

  • Similar to the Kaprosuchus, it is possible for the Thylacoleo to dismount the rider and pin them to the ground.
  • Similar to the Megalosaurus, it is also possible for the Thylacoleo to pin the mount itself - taking the survivor for a ride, but not preventing them from dismounting.

Pinned creatures are stunned and cannot retaliate, but pinned players are not. Creatures too large to be pinned will not be affected by the attack and, if the attack hits the creature, no ill effects are passed to the player (unlike the purlovia, which dismounts the player in all cases but only stuns the player if the player specifically is hit).

It is a saving grace that Wild Thylacoleos are not particularly good at predicting movement, and thus fast targets are relatively safe.

Strategy

The Thylacoleo is strong and tough to confront. Shoot with tranquilizer darts from a high up rock.

While flying, the Thylacoleo is very easy to spot if you are looking for it and is best avoided.

Weaponry

It's best to use ranged weapons or combat mounts, as it has both high damage and health.

Dangers

Don't let it pin you into a corner as the high damage output can quickly destroy your armor and kill you.

If the Thylacoleo latches onto a player from a tree, the player is rendered completely immobile and it is certain death without assistance. (Note: Players have successfully survived being pulled off of their flying mounts from trees by using a parachute and a shotgun. )

Weakness

You can use a Quetzal or an Argentavis to grab a Thylacoleo right off the tree and render it harmless.

Taming

For general info about domesticating a wild creature see Taming.

KO Strategy

Do not approach a Thylacoleo that is perched in a tree. It will knock you down if you are on a smaller flying mount including a pteranodon, argentavis, pelagornis or tapejara. Take advantage of their stationary position to get a free shot with a tranquilizer arrow or dart. Once on the ground, they are still rather fast and have relatively high torpor for their size. Ideally, use a Griffin, which allows you to use weapons while mounted and flying. Using a move-and-fire strategy, attack the Thylacoleo with ranged tranquilizing weapons from the air. Be careful not to drift under the Thylacoleo if shooting it while it is up a tree, and be aware of the possibility that more Thylacoleos may be lurking in nearby trees once you knock it to the ground.

Use a Rex or another tank to soak up damage and then tranquilize it. If you are not high level or have strong tames and you meet one on flat ground, run, on flat ground they are very fast and will decimate you swiftly.

As with other medium-sized creatures, using an Argentavis, Quetzal or Wyvern to carry it, or using a fast mount to kite it, into a pen made out of materials it can't damage and then firing tranquilizers at it from windows or a high platform is also viable. If a Griffin is not available, this is the second-best option.

Note that their torpor depletion rate is very high, about half that of a Quetzal. As such, it is important to keep them under the effects of the increase over time effect of ranged torpor weapons as you will quickly lose progress if you are unable to keep up the fire. This also gives arrows an advantage over darts as a single player will have to fire the rifle as fast as possible to prevent the torpor from depleting.

Taming Food

Thylacoleo Level 1 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Extraordinary Kibble Extraordinary Kibble 2 1 1 1 0:06:24
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 13 154 37 19 0:24:21
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 24 330 79 40 0:45:00
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 17 218 52 26 0:31:51
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 29 178 43 22 0:27:12
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 29 409 98 49 0:54:23
Raw Meat Raw Meat 58 872 208 104 1:48:45
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 81 611 146 73 1:18:02
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 145 525 125 63 1:07:59
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 145 1103 263 132 2:15:57
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 289 2252 537 269 4:30:57
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 70; Slingshot Hits × 29; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 8; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 5; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 4; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 2
Torpidity-depletion: 1.85 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:06:18
Thylacoleo Level 30 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Extraordinary Kibble Extraordinary Kibble 3 0 0 0 0:09:36
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 22 340 88 44 0:41:13
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 41 734 190 95 1:16:53
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 29 485 126 63 0:54:19
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 51 413 107 54 0:47:49
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 51 940 244 122 1:35:38
Raw Meat Raw Meat 102 1995 517 259 3:11:15
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 141 1384 359 180 2:15:49
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 254 1199 311 156 1:59:04
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 254 2512 651 326 3:58:08
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 507 5128 1328 664 7:55:19
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 192; Slingshot Hits × 79; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 22; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 13; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 9; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 5
Torpidity-depletion: 3.08 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:10:24
Thylacoleo Level 60 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Extraordinary Kibble Extraordinary Kibble 4 0 0 0 0:12:48
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 31 553 150 75 0:58:04
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 59 1201 326 163 1:50:38
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 42 807 219 110 1:18:40
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 74 693 188 94 1:09:23
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 74 1547 420 210 2:18:45
Raw Meat Raw Meat 147 3233 876 438 4:35:38
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 204 2258 612 306 3:16:30
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 366 1951 529 265 2:51:34
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 366 4065 1102 551 5:43:08
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 732 8292 2247 1124 11:26:15
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 318; Slingshot Hits × 130; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 36; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 21; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 15; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 8
Torpidity-depletion: 4.01 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:13:12
Thylacoleo Level 90 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Extraordinary Kibble Extraordinary Kibble 5 10 3 2 0:16:00
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 41 813 228 114 1:16:48
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 77 1705 477 239 2:24:23
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 55 1159 325 163 1:43:01
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 96 987 277 139 1:30:00
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 96 2175 609 305 3:00:00
Raw Meat Raw Meat 192 4551 1274 637 6:00:00
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 266 3181 891 446 4:16:14
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 479 2763 773 387 3:44:32
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 479 5726 1603 802 7:29:04
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 957 11641 3258 1629 14:57:12
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 444; Slingshot Hits × 182; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 50; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 29; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 21; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 11
Torpidity-depletion: 4.86 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:15:14
Thylacoleo Level 120 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Extraordinary Kibble Extraordinary Kibble 6 33 10 5 0:19:11
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 50 1065 306 153 1:33:39
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 95 2235 642 321 2:58:08
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 68 1532 440 220 2:07:22
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 119 1313 377 189 1:51:34
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 119 2859 820 410 3:43:08
Raw Meat Raw Meat 237 5924 1700 850 7:24:23
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 329 4158 1193 597 5:16:55
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 591 3605 1035 518 4:37:02
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 591 7444 2136 1068 9:14:04
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 1182 15120 4338 2169 18:28:08
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 570; Slingshot Hits × 233; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 64; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 37; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 26; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 13
Torpidity-depletion: 5.64 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:16:50
Thylacoleo Level 150 Narcoberry Narcotic Bio Toxin Time
Extraordinary Kibble Extraordinary Kibble 8 107 32 16 0:25:35
Cooked Lamb Chop Cooked Lamb Chop 60 1355 397 199 1:52:23
Raw Mutton Raw Mutton 113 2784 815 408 3:31:53
Cooked Prime Meat Cooked Prime Meat 81 1920 562 281 2:31:43
Cooked Meat Cooked Meat 141 1639 480 240 2:12:12
Raw Prime Meat Raw Prime Meat 141 3539 1036 518 4:24:23
Raw Meat Raw Meat 282 7338 2148 1074 8:48:45
Cooked Prime Fish Meat Cooked Prime Fish Meat 391 5152 1508 754 6:16:38
Cooked Fish Meat Cooked Fish Meat 704 4482 1312 656 5:30:00
Raw Prime Fish Meat Raw Prime Fish Meat 704 9225 2700 1350 11:00:00
Raw Fish Meat Raw Fish Meat 1407 18696 5472 2736 21:59:04
KO: Wooden Club Hits × 696; Slingshot Hits × 284; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Bow × 78; Tranquilizer Arrows with a Crossbow × 45; Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 32; Shocking Tranquilizer Dart Shots × 16
Torpidity-depletion: 6.39 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:18:10

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.

Utility

Roles

Travel: Thylacoleo has a decent speed and stamina and can climb vertical surfaces, both natural and player made. Care needs to be taken at the top of these climbs as the Thylacoleo tends to have a small jump as it reaches the top of a climb which could lead to a large fall off the far side. Thylacoleo also has a decent jump (not, however, in the same league as the Beelzebufo or Procoptodon) and is a solid, if not spectacular swimmer. This, combined with very good combat attributes to keep the rider safe, makes it one of the best mounts for ground-level travel. Level speed, stamina and health (taking fall damage at some point is likely if attempting to climb frequently; leveling speed will reduce it, and leveling health will help survive it.)

War Mount: Its natural high health and good damage makes the Thylacoleo one of the (if not the) best medium-sized war mounts. Its climbing skill can be useful during raids to avoid outer walls and the pounce can make short work of smaller animals used as defense.

Base Defense: Thylacoleo can be "parked" on base walls, where raiders won't usually expect a large predator. This makes it a very useful ambush animal.

*Note, Thylacoleo will slowly lose stamina while clinging to the wall. When it doesn't have stamina, it will fall and take fall damage.

All-Around Mount: good combat capabilities, ability to jump, good speed, very low stamina drain, vertical climbing and very high swimming speed make the Thyla a very useful mount for survivors who needs a "jack of all trades" mount.

Climbing and Pouncing

The Thylacoleo can climb vertical surfaces such as wall or Redwood trees by jumping at the surface and keeping the jump key held in the air. It will climb straight up the surface until it either encounters an obstacle, such as an overhang, successfully reaches the top and jumps over it, or the jump key is released. If the jump key is released while it is climbing, it will cling to the wall.

While clinging to the wall, the player can not use mounted weaponry. The Thylacoleo can cling to the wall indefinitely, and will stay attached even if the player dismounts (although it can be brought back down with a whistle command). While mounted and attached to the wall, if the player rotates the camera down, the Thylacoleo will flip over and a targeting reticle will appear, indicating that the Thylacoleo is ready to pounce with the attack key (default Lmb). If the pounce hits a valid target (listed below), it will immobilize them and the Thylacoleo will chew on them until the target dies or the player releases it with the secondary attack key (default Rmb). The pounced target is unable to fight back, although the pounce itself may incur some fall damage.

The following creatures are capable of being pounced:

This list may be incomplete

Collectibles

Resource Efficiency
Hide Hide ★★★★★
Organic Polymer Organic Polymer ★★★★★
Raw Meat Raw Meat ★★★★☆
Keratin Keratin ★★★★☆
Chitin Chitin ★★★★☆

Spotlight

Notes/Trivia

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

  • The Thylacoleo was first revealed on September 30, 2015 [2]
  • Dossier revealed on December 14, 2015 [3]
  • Thylacoleo has the ability to roar (press C).
  • Despite looking like a lion or a very large rodent, Thylacoleo is a marsupial and more closely related to Australian kangaroos and koalas.
  • Cannot be used in boss fights, because it is a climber.
  • Thylacoleo means "Pouch Lion" in Latin, referring to its nickname as the marsupial (pouch-bearing) lion.
  • Relative to its body weight, Thylacoleo may have had one of the strongest biting forces of any land mammal to ever live.
  • Thylacoleo has the ability to climb trees with some maneuverability, a unique new feature to ARK.
  • Thylacoleos are often called "murder cats" or things best left unsaid due to their extreme lethality.
  • The Thylacoleo can climb just about anything. Whilst in the climb position you are able to turn the camera around and gain a target reticle. With this you can pounce on an enemy and pin it much like the wild ones do. Leaving your Thylacoleo on a wall and on aggressive will make it pounce anything that comes by thus executing its maul attack.
    • This feature is used well in their home in the redwood forests, but can also be used on mountains, buildings, and steep ledges.
  • Ingame and according to the dossier, Thylacoleo is large enough to ride. This is inaccurate, as real Thylacoleos were only slightly larger than a jaguar. This is especially evident in its dossier and ingame model dwarfing the Sabertooth, whereas in real life Thylacoleo was only roughly half the size of. The size depicted in the dossier is closer to proborhyaena gigantea, a distant ancestral cousin to Thylacoleo. Thylacoleo, however, was much more agile, and sports a bite force that was, pound for pound, one of the strongest in the animal kingdom, so it's likely not a mistake on the developer's part.
  • In fact the Thylacoleo is the only creature that prefers cooked meat over raw meat.
  • The implementation of Thylacoleo as a fearsome giant marsupial that pounces on prey from the treetops may be inspired by the Australian stories of drop bears, a made-up marsupial designed to scare tourists.
    • In fact, many news publications and some scientists have compared these extinct creatures to the Mythical 'drop bears'.[4][5][6]

Gallery

References

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