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Megapithecus

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confused with Mesopithecus,
Gigantopithecus, or Megapithecus Pestis

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Megapithecus

Erreur

Creature

Groups Bosses, Fantasy

Creatures, Mammals

Temperament Aggressive

Release Versions
240.2 734.0 501.0
May 4, 2016 May 17, 2016 December 6,
2016
599.0 311.74
Not Yet November 30, June 11, 2020
Released 2018

Variants Megapithecus
(Alpha)

Megapithecus (Beta)

Megapithecus
(Gamma)

Spawn Command [Expand]

Domestication
Tameable Rideable Breedable
No No No

Torpor Immune Yes

Data

XP For Kill Level 1 : 12000.00

XP

Drops Element

Megapithecus
Trophy

Gorilla Flag

Special Loot 100%

Chance
Feces Size None

Drag Weight 1200

Can Damage Thatch

Greenhouse
Wood
Adobe
Stone
Metal
Tek

Habitat

Megapithecus Arena, The Center Arena, and

Forsaken Oasis, accessible via the Obelisks and
Supply Crates on The Island, The Center, and
Valguero.

Megapithecus is a Boss in ARK: Survival Evolved

with its lair in the freezing north. It can only be
reached by generating a portal to it at a Supply
Crate or Obelisk.

In Survival of the Fittest, it can be tamed and ridden,

along with the Broodmother and the Dragon.
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.

Color Scheme and Regions

The Megapithecus always spawns with the same

color scheme and has no color regions.

This means it is currently impossible to make

alterations to the Megapithecus's colors.

Colors

The Megapithecus has different types of color due

to its difficulty level:

Difficulty Level Color

Gamma Default Coloring

Beta Yellow

Alpha Red

Basic Information

Location

The Megapithecus can only be found in the

Megapithecus Arena the The Center Arena or the
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 Generate Megapithecus Portal or the
Center Portal and Forsaken Oasis items. At this
point a portal will be opened to teleport nearby
players and dinos into the arena.

If playing in Single Player mode, the portal can only

be generated from the blue obelisk when on The
Island.

A weaker variant of Megapithecus spawns at the last

wave in the Gauntlet Mission "Built Fjord Tough".

Tribute Requirements

The following items are needed to summon the

Megapithecus:

Quantity
Item
Gamma Beta Alpha

Player Level 45 65 85

Artifact of the Brute 1 1 1

Artifact of the Devourer 1 1 1

Artifact of the Pack 1 1 1

Megalania Toxin - 5 10

Megalodon Tooth - 5 10

Spinosaurus Sail - 5 10

Therizino Claws - 5 10

Thylacoleo Hook-Claw - 5 10

Tribute Spawn Commands

Uses these commands to give yourself all the items

needed for tribute:

Gamma[Expand]

Beta[Expand]

Alpha[Expand]

Drops
Megapithecus Trophy

Gorilla Flag

Element

Long schlong

Und die Yu gi oh larte pispens der geisterpirat

Inventory
Difficulty
Item
Gamma Beta Alpha

Element 40 110 220

Unlocks
Tekgrams

Gamma Beta Alpha

Tek Gauntlets

Tek Hatchframe

Tek Replicator

Tek Trapdoor

Tek Window

Tek Windowframe

Completing the harder difficulties will unlock all of

the lower difficulty Tekgrams as well.

Achievements

Expert Survivor
You defeated ARK's second Ultimate
Life Form!

Survivor of the Center

You defeated the guardians of The
Center!

Base Stats and Growth

Gamma Beta Alpha The Center Gamma

The Center Beta The Center Alpha

Note that creatures will have different stats in

Survival of the Fittest

Level
Base
Attribute Increase
Value
Wild

Health 180000 +0

Stamina 650 +0

Oxygen N/A N/A

Food 2600 +0

Weight 4000 +80

Melee Damage 400 +0

Movement
100% N/A
Speed

Torpidity 350 +21

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 Base Speed Sprinting Speed

Walking 960 ?

Swimming 360 ?

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
Stamina Attack Range Description
Melee Cost Base Minimum Activation
The Megapithecus swings at the target for
30 1500 0 2400 considerable damage and knock-back.

Torpor Status Effect: Status Effect:

Attack Projectile Values
Damage Values Stamina Torpidity
Type Damage Damage
Life Impulse Radius Base Mult Duration Amount Duration Amount
Mult Mult

Melee 400
Stamina Attack Range Description
Throw Rock Cost Base Minimum Activation
The Megapithecus throws a boulder at the target
100 5600 0 0 for considerable impact damage.

Torpor Status Effect: Status Effect:

Projectile Values
Attack Type Damage Values Stamina Torpidity
Damage Damage
Life Impulse Radius Base Mult Duration Amount Duration Amount
Mult Mult

Projectile Impact 2000 4 500000

Stamina Attack Range Description

Summon
Cost Base Minimum Activation
Minions
0 10000 0 10000

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

Megapithecus.

General

The Megapithecus is an ideal start to taking out the

Guardians on The Island due to it being weaker than
the Broodmother and Dragon, 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 Broodmother Lysrix, 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
Mesopithecus and Gigantopithecus. 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 instakill 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. Its 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 Yutyrannus 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 Rex 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 Daeodon can
also be valuable due to their healing ability.

A pack of Allosaurus with mate boosts and

alpha boosts can be used to take it down.

Deinonychus 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, just be certain
to level the pack in health because otherwise they
will be killed very fast. Imprinting is recommended

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,
ontop of that if not properly prepared for, players will
likely freeze to death due to the temperature.

If dismounted then 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.

As well as that it also has a very small variety of

attacks that dont have any special effects like how
the broodmothers web attacks slow players down or
how the dragons fire breath attack lights players on
fire, they 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.

Notes

Its name was originally ??? but was then renamed

by the user BlackFish to Megapithecus. (The
creator of the Survivors Wildlife Appendix on the
steam forums.) Later Wildcard Studios adopted
the name and made it official. [citation needed]

Dossier revealed on 07/24/15

Its name is similar to that of the Gigantopithecus,

this may indicate a relation to this territorial ape.

The rings surrounding the Megapithecus in its

dossier are written in Daedric from The Elder
Scrolls series.

if Megapithecus is tamed using the forcetame

command, it cannot sprint, jump, or use its chest-
pound animation.

Although the Megapithecus on both Alpha and

Beta difficulty (but not Gamma) on The Center can
damage all building materials all other
Megapithecus variants can only damage Thatch,
Wood, and Greenhouse.

Megapithecus has the lowest health out of any

boss on the island only having a very meager
180,000 on Gamma difficulty. On Alpha, it has
540,000 health, which is even surpassed by some
bosses on Beta difficulty.

In the past, the Megapithecus's rock throw was

capable of damaging players on mounts and
commonly killing weaker players in one hit. This
capability was removed (probably due to
community frustration) but it received no buff to
counterbalance this. Therefore, the Megapithecus
is now regarded as one of the easiest bosses in
the game due to its fragility compared to other
bosses.

The Megapithecus is the easiest boss to kill, but

rewards the player with more Element than the
Broodmother Lysrix.

The Megapithecus was the only Boss Creature to

appear in the base game of Ark Park.
However the Dragon was later added into the
Pterosaur Hill DLC.

In the Story Line for Ark Mei Yin used a

Giganotosaurus to fight and kill the Megapithecus
however in game the Giga can't be brought into
the Megapithecus arena or any other boss arena.
The Megapithecus fighting the
Giganotosaurus might also be a slight nod to
King Kong films as in quite afew of the films
Kong is shown fighting dinosaurs similar to
Rex or Giganotosaurus (ex. The V-rex is a
evolved T-rex, the Gorosaurus resembles a
Giga, and Kong fought actual T-rexs).

Changelog

Patch Changes

Megapithecus is added to the game

240.0
alongside the Megapithecus Arena

Reduced the ground shaking caused by the

240.2
Megapithecus

Fixed issue with Megapithecus boss

240.3
teleporters potentially getting overlapped

254.5 Improved attack hit detection

258.2 Fixed Megapithecus boss arena boundary

Colorized boss health to indicate boss

259.0
difficulty

With exception to the Center boss fight,

all boss Health and Melee Damage
261.0
have been rebalanced for singleplayer,
1x(Gamma) to 3x(Alpha)

Center boss damage reduced by 33%

compared the The Island
262.0 Fixed boss levels so that they are no
longer random, but now scale correctly
on game mode and server difficulty

Fixed a case where the Megapithecus

263.0 would float and walk backwards, unable to
attack anything

Adjusted the Megapithecus boss on The

278.2 Center so that it now matches the one on
The Island

Element reward from The Island bosses &

316.18
The Center has been increased by 100%

Spotlight

Megapithecus Boss Arena, an…

Gallery

Official promo image from the Survival of the Fittest:

The Last Stand

Official promo image from the Survival of the Fittest:

The Last Stand

References

1. ↑ ARK Smart Breeding

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