Diplodocus

This article is about Diplodocus, not to be confused with  Dilophosaur or  Diplocaulus

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Diplodocus

Dossier Diplodocus.png

Creature

Group

Dinosaurs

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Naive

Release Versions

242.0
Jun 2, 2016

737.0
Jun 15, 2016

501.0
Dec 6, 2016

1.0
May 24, 2018

599.0
Nov 30, 2018

311.74
Jun 11, 2020

678.15
Sep 1, 2021

Variants

• Aberrant Diplodocus
• Eerie Diplodocus

Spawn Command

cheat summon Diplodocus_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Diplodocus/Diplodocus_Character_BP.Diplodocus_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Aberrant Diplodocus
cheat summon Diplodocus_Character_BP_Aberrant_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Diplodocus/Diplodocus_Character_BP_Aberrant.Diplodocus_Character_BP_Aberrant'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Diplodocus (Gauntlet2)
cheat summon Diplodocus_Character_BP_STA_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Dinos/Diplodocus_Character_BP_STA.Diplodocus_Character_BP_STA'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Torpor Immune

No

Taming Method

 Knockout or  Passive

Preferred Kibble

 Regular Kibble

Preferred Kibble

 Kibble (Lystrosaurus Egg)

Preferred Food

 Crops

Preferred Food

 Grapes 

Equipment

 Diplodocus Saddle (Level 32)

Rider Weaponry

No

Data

XP for kill

24 XP

Loot

• Sauropod Vertebra

Special Loot Chance

100%

Feces Size

 Large

Drag Weight

575

Radiation Immune

No

Carryable By

 Tusoteuthis

Immobilized By

• Chain Bola
• Large Bear Trap

Reproduction

Egg

 Diplodocus Egg

Incubation Range

26 - 29 °C / 79 - 84 °F
 Egg Incubator: 28 °C / 82 °F

Incubation Time

4h 59m 58.561s

Baby Time

9h 15m 33.331s

Juvenile Time

1d 13h 2m 13.325s

Adolescent Time

1d 22h 17m 46.656s

Total Maturation Time

3d 20h 35m 33.313s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

• Diplodocus
• Aberrant Diplodocus

• The Island
• The Center
• Ragnarok
• Extinction
• Valguero
• Crystal Isles
• Genesis: Part 2
• Lost Island

• Aberration
• Valguero

Common             Rare
  Untameable   Cave

	“	It's not aggressive, it's trying to cuddle you. Feed it and it will be your friend.	„
		~ Jen

The Diplodocus (dih-PLOD-uh-kus) is one of the Creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved. They are a large, remarkably long tailed sauropod from the Jurassic's North America and lived in grasslands and deserts. In the game, they are common in those biomes as well as the Redwoods and are incapable of dealing any damage.

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.

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Species

Diplodocus insulaprincep

Time

Late Jurassic

Diet

Herbivore

Temperament

Naive

Wild

Despite being one of the Island's largest creatures, Diplodocus insulaprincep is among the Island's smaller sauropods. Instead of size and intelligence, Diplodocus developed faster maximum speed and greater endurance. When fully matured, it generally only reaches about half the size of the rather enormous Brontosaurus. Diplodocus is another creature whose continued survival on the Island confuses me. It's a very thick-headed and trusting animal, often to its fatal detriment. It never flees from predators until after they've attacked it repeatedly, preferring instead to make numerous fruitless attempts at friendship. For some strange reason, Diplodocus trusts humans so much that it doesn't seem to fight back against them…ever!

Domesticated

Due to Diplodocus' smaller frame, it cannot support the type of "platform" saddle that other large creatures can. To make up for this, many tribes instead use an eleven-seater passenger saddle which enables Diplodocus to safely transport ten additional riders. These passengers often use ranged weapons to protect the creature, or to attack nearby enemies while on the move!

„

~ Helena

Behavior

These animals wander the warmer areas of the island, keeping more in the trees as opposed to the beach loving Brontos. A friendly and playful animal, Diplodocus will often nuzzle animals in friendly manner. While this nuzzle does no damage, it does have knockback, and could potentially knock you off a cliff. They are surprisingly fast and very persistent with their games, refusing to stop even when their “toys” try to flee, stab, shoot, or start eating them.

Fortunately for the Diplodocus, they’re large enough and have tough enough skin that only the larger and more determined predators even bother with them. Even many humans don’t bother them much in comparison to other creatures, posing no direct threat and being just enough of an annoyance to take down where many won’t bother to do so on a whim. Some survivors will even come to their aid, their size and tough hide providing a convenient distraction for those tribes seeking a top predator. Without these bits of luck however, the Diplodocus simply wouldn’t stand much of a chance.

Appearance

Despite being enormous animals, they are by far the smallest of the three sauropods that roam the Island. At first glance, the Diplodocus resembles its close relative the Brontosaurus, but further observation reveals differences. The Diplodocus is very long with a whip-like tail and a low-slung body in contrast to the raised head and larger body of the Brontosaurus. It also has a smaller head with large pointy teeth sticking out for tearing vegetation to swallow as well as many small spikes along its back, shoulders, and hips.

Color Scheme and Regions

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

Region 0:
Sides, Legs and Accents

13

14

20

22

24

26

27

33

34

35

Region 1:
Spines

13

14

20

22

24

26

27

33

34

35

Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 4:
Back

13

14

20

22

24

26

27

33

34

35

Region 5:
Underside

8

14

21

23

25

26

32

33

Drops

Harvest

• Hide
• Raw Meat
• Raw Prime Meat

Guaranteed Special Loot

• Sauropod Vertebra

Base Stats and Growth

Although the Diplodocus does no damage the following table lists a value under  Melee Damage. This value is greater than zero because it is also - or in this case only - used for the knock back impulse.

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	1700	+340	+5.4%	0.07
Stamina	550	+55	+10%
Oxygen	300	+30	+10%
Food	10000	+1000	+10%
Weight	800	+16	+4%
Melee Damage	0	+0	+0%	7%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A	+1%
Torpidity	3000	+180	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	?	?	1350	1350	1350	20
Swimming	400	?	?	?	?	?	?

• 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

Melee		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
			Base	Minimum	Activation	Using the (PC), (PS), (Xbox One), the Diplodocus swings its massive tail at the target. This attack deals no damage whatsoever, but it does deliver consider knock-back.
		10	1600	0	1800

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.

Diplodocus

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

Taming Food

Knock-Out Tame Method

Level 1					Time
Regular Kibble	8	0	0	0	0:05:07
Fresh Barley	50	0	0	0	0:24:01
Fresh Wheat	50	0	0	0	0:24:01
Soybean	50	0	0	0	0:24:01
Dried Wheat	50	0	0	0	0:48:01
Mejoberry	66	0	0	0	0:23:46
Berries	99	0	0	0	0:23:46
KO: × 300; × 123; × 34; × 20; × 14; × 7
Torpidity-depletion: 0.75 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:06:40

Level 30					Time
Regular Kibble	18	0	0	0	0:11:31
Fresh Barley	118	0	0	0	0:56:39
Fresh Wheat	118	0	0	0	0:56:39
Soybean	118	0	0	0	0:56:39
Dried Wheat	118	23	5	3	1:53:17
Mejoberry	157	0	0	0	0:56:32
Berries	235	0	0	0	0:56:25
KO: × 822; × 336; × 92; × 53; × 38; × 19
Torpidity-depletion: 1.25 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:49:57

Level 60					Time
Regular Kibble	28	0	0	0	0:17:55
Fresh Barley	188	0	0	0	1:30:15
Fresh Wheat	188	0	0	0	1:30:15
Soybean	188	0	0	0	1:30:15
Dried Wheat	188	322	76	38	3:00:29
Mejoberry	250	0	0	0	1:30:01
Berries	375	0	0	0	1:30:01
KO: × 1362; × 556; × 152; × 87; × 62; × 31
Torpidity-depletion: 1.63 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 02:19:38

Level 90					Time
Regular Kibble	38	0	0	0	0:24:18
Fresh Barley	258	0	0	0	2:03:51
Fresh Wheat	258	0	0	0	2:03:51
Soybean	258	0	0	0	2:03:51
Dried Wheat	258	762	184	92	4:07:41
Mejoberry	344	0	0	0	2:03:51
Berries	516	0	0	0	2:03:51
KO: × 1902; × 777; × 212; × 121; × 87; × 44
Torpidity-depletion: 1.97 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 02:41:11

Level 120					Time
Regular Kibble	48	0	0	0	0:30:42
Fresh Barley	329	0	0	0	2:37:56
Fresh Wheat	329	0	0	0	2:37:56
Soybean	329	0	0	0	2:37:56
Dried Wheat	329	1316	325	163	5:15:51
Mejoberry	438	0	0	0	2:37:41
Berries	657	0	0	0	2:37:41
KO: × 2442; × 997; × 272; × 156; × 111; × 56
Torpidity-depletion: 2.29 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 02:58:06

Level 150					Time
Regular Kibble	58	0	0	0	0:37:05
Fresh Barley	399	0	0	0	3:11:32
Fresh Wheat	399	0	0	0	3:11:32
Soybean	399	0	0	0	3:11:32
Dried Wheat	399	1943	489	245	6:23:03
Mejoberry	532	0	0	0	3:11:32
Berries	797	0	0	0	3:11:17
KO: × 2982; × 1218; × 332; × 190; × 135; × 68
Torpidity-depletion: 2.59 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 03:12:03

Passive Tame

Note: Although the DevKit has data for taming with Vegetables, the Diplodocus doesn't accept these as food for passive taming.

Level 1		Feeding Interval	Time
Regular Kibble	3	01:55	0:03:51
Fresh Barley	17	01:01	0:16:20
Fresh Wheat	17	01:01	0:16:20
Soybean	17	01:01	0:16:20
Dried Wheat	17	02:02	0:32:39
Mejoberry	22	00:45	0:15:51
Berries	33	00:29	0:15:51

Level 30		Feeding Interval	Time
Regular Kibble	6	01:32	0:07:41
Fresh Barley	40	00:59	0:38:25
Fresh Wheat	40	00:59	0:38:25
Soybean	40	00:59	0:38:25
Dried Wheat	40	01:58	1:16:49
Mejoberry	53	00:44	0:38:10
Berries	79	00:29	0:37:56

Level 60		Feeding Interval	Time
Regular Kibble	10	01:25	0:12:48
Fresh Barley	63	00:58	1:00:29
Fresh Wheat	63	00:58	1:00:29
Soybean	63	00:58	1:00:29
Dried Wheat	63	01:57	2:00:58
Mejoberry	84	00:43	1:00:29
Berries	125	00:29	1:00:01

Level 90		Feeding Interval	Time
Regular Kibble	13	01:23	0:16:38
Fresh Barley	86	00:58	1:22:34
Fresh Wheat	86	00:58	1:22:34
Soybean	86	00:58	1:22:34
Dried Wheat	86	01:56	2:45:08
Mejoberry	115	00:43	1:22:49
Berries	172	00:28	1:22:34

Level 120		Feeding Interval	Time
Regular Kibble	16	01:21	0:20:28
Fresh Barley	110	00:58	1:45:37
Fresh Wheat	110	00:58	1:45:37
Soybean	110	00:58	1:45:37
Dried Wheat	110	01:56	3:31:13
Mejoberry	146	00:43	1:45:08
Berries	219	00:28	1:45:08

Level 150		Feeding Interval	Time
Regular Kibble	20	01:20	0:25:35
Fresh Barley	133	00:58	2:07:41
Fresh Wheat	133	00:58	2:07:41
Soybean	133	00:58	2:07:41
Dried Wheat	133	01:56	4:15:22
Mejoberry	178	00:43	2:08:10
Berries	266	00:28	2:07:41

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

• Berries
• Crops
• Mejoberry
• Regular Kibble

KO Strategy

Diplodocus is able to be both traditionally knockout tamed or passive tamed. If you attract its attention, it will try to push you away, which deals no direct damage (indirectly: fall damage or being pushed into hostile creatures).

There is no need to take any exact caution with the Diplodocus in terms of passive taming. Even if "aggro'd", granted its vocalization when it notices the player and the voices it makes when "attacking", it is simply trying to be friendly, by nudging the player. The only concern to this is that the knockback might deal fall damage. If taming near uneven terrain, you might want to use a more careful approach, such as traditional passive taming, to avoid it noticing you. By standing near its front legs at the base of its neck or under its belly, you can actually stay out of the range of its nudging. However, it is perfectly fine to have some fun and play with the Diplodocus by letting it bounce you around, as it will not affect taming effectiveness so long as you don't hit it, and make sure as you "play" to get close enough at times to make sure you can feed the Diplodocus again. It is most likely the easiest of all passive tames, and in this unique "playing with a dinosaur to tame it and bond with it" aspect, the most fun tame. This "playing with the Diplodocus" taming method is also useful for moving it away from predators which could attack it, and leading it to a safer spot where the tame can be easier.

Standing under it, just behind its front legs will cause it to try and hit you continually, without actually managing it, making it completely stationary and unable to move you. Easy for non-violent tame. However, it should be noted that the time interval between the first and second feeding is very long while every other time is much shorter.

Should you wish to avoid being bounced around you can use a Ghillie Suit to decrease the chance of it noticing you. You can also stay within the area where it can't hit you, behind and underneath it.

Additionally, you can use a grappling hook to stop the knockback at a certain distance. (Or just pull yourself so close you don't get knocked back at all.)

Combat

The Diplodocus is NOT a good battle mount for solo/small tribes, its attack does 0 damage but can do a large amount of knock back. The target is not even aggroed from this attack. If a large tribe is using this Dino it needs an escort or multiple well armed players on the many seats in the saddle. If you can get a whole row of people on one side of the seats, all equipped with pump action shotguns this Dino becomes a deadly mount. It is great for large tribes to use as effectively an Anti Air mount. With several players with guns on this Dino it will destroy flyers, and it is too big to be picked up by even a quetzal. If you are riding this Dino and are being attacked try to face the attacker and use the attack's knock back to launch the attacker away and quickly do a U turn and sprint away. Overall this Dino without an escort or armed players riding it, could compete as the worst battle mount in the game, but if it is armed with players it is a formidable battle mount.

General

Killing it, if that's actually what you want to do, poses no difficulty; Diplodocus can "attack" the player but its attacks are, uniquely, purely defensive and it does no damage, and the knockback is barely an inconvenience unless the player has been careless and approached the Diplo with his or her back to a cliff or to other, more dangerous enemies.

Strategy

Try to hurt it, without getting pushed back from Diplodocus. It does no damage, but you could fall to your doom if pushed off the wrong spot. Try to stay under its belly, as it cannot push you back.

Weaponry

Every ranged weapon made for fighting and most dinosaurs are usable for killing them. if you used the aforementioned strategy of staying under its belly, weapons as basic as a Stone Pick can work.

Dangers

Being pushed off of a cliff or mountainside, or thrown into an area with hostile, stronger creatures.

Weakness

It cannot do any damage to other dinos or players, so the only way it can damage anything is if it manages to throw it off of a cliff. It may also throw players and tames into hostile dinos.

Utility

Roles

• Transport: The Diplodocus saddle can carry up to ten passengers and one driver. This alongside of its decent movement speed and reduced stamina usage enables the Diplodocus to be an efficient transportation mount (level up in speed, weight, and a bit of stamina).
• Battle Mount: While Diplodocus is not able to deal any damage it has a higher throwback than other tames. It may take effort but it's more than capable of fighting at mountains and cliff sides where enemies can be tossed far off. Another effective method of fighting predators with Diplodocus is simply to walk into other herbivores and aggro them into fighting for you.
• Land Battle Ship: With the saddle capable of carrying armed passengers, having people fire weapons while riding the Diplodocus could be a good way of pvp combat. Although,  Brontosaurus is also capable of doing this with a platform saddle (Level up Health, Speed, and Stamina).
• Base Clearer: Useful for peacefully clearing bases of potentially destructive dinos that fall in, such as  Brontos (Level Health).
• Egg Layer: Eggs are used to make  Regular Kibble or alternatively the eggs can be fed to unconscious  Oviraptor to tame them or simply used as food.
  • However this can be replaced with smaller and more compact Egg Layers such as  Ichthyornis and  Troodons later on.
• Knockback Tank: Players can hide underneath a tamed Diplodocus and fire ranged weapons at melee enemies without having to worry about being hit. This is especially useful for taming because the Diplodocus can protect players without causing damage to the potential tame.
• Cargo Hauler: A Diplodocus trades off combat capability for extra speed compared to other cargo tames such as the  Stegosaurus or  Brontosaurus. It is a cheap and expendable early game cargo transport, or a fast cargo runner later on once properly defended with tames that can keep up. Like its bigger cousin, the Diplodocus knocks over trees that would trap smaller tames such as the  Trike or  Stego, making boulders and cliffs the only significant hazard to navigation (level up Weight and Speed). Only the largest predators are known to attack Diplodocus, making them surprisingly safe for land travel, particularly across swamps.
• Gatherer: The Diplodocus' attack area, weight capacity, and ease of taming make it an excellent early game alternative to a bronto for gathering large amounts of thatch and berries, with the added benefit of not aggravating nearby wildlife.
• Scout: Diplodocus' high speed for it's size and health pool make for a decent scout, especially towards cliffs and mountains.
• Turret soaker: a max-leveled, max-mutated and max-imprinted into health diplodocus has around 250000 health which is what the golem's health against turrets is. While the Golem is as effective as Diplo, Golem takes full damage from Meks, Deinos and Phoenixes making Diplo more useful to raid bases with these dinos

Notes/Trivia

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

• The Dossier was released on 10/26/15
• Its specific name means "Island Chieftain"
• In contrast to the Dossier, the real Diplodocus was longer than the real  Brontosaurus, although it was the lighter of the two.
• Diplodocus along with the  Lymantria are one of the few creatures incapable of directly dealing damage.
  • Due to this it is virtually attacked by any predator often leading to smaller creatures being endlessly nudged in a fruitless attempt to kill it.
  • The Diplodocus can actually deal damage to smaller insects (titanomyrma, meganeura, trilobites...) If this is your only tame, it's best to be cautious around Meganeuras as they will drain your tame's stamina. No stamina means not being able to outrun danger. Meganeuras will also merge into the Diplodocus, making it difficult to kill them without draining your tame's health. Such a situation away from a decent tame will result in that tame's death.
  • Opposing Diplodocus during Missions such as Survive the ARK uses the tail swing to attack instead like the  Brontosaurus.
• The Diplodocus is a good early game source of  Prime Meat. Since its attack does no damage, it can be killed by pretty much anything.
• For the same reasons above, it's one of the easiest wild creatures to take eggs from next to the  Dodos which don't get aggressive at all.
• For unknown reasons the Diplodocus is not able to be transported by  Raft or Platform Saddle. So you should tame them close to where you need them or use a  Cryopod, at least on The Center
• It were originally planned that the saddle for the creature was going to have three seats. But the idea was later changed to the  Gallimimus Saddle.^{[citation needed]}
• Diplodocus is one of the dinosaurs that doesn't have a collar with a check mark by it in the notes.
• Diplodocus is the only dinosaur that can be tamed by both passive and knockout methods.
• Diplodocus are one of the two creature that has more than one ways of taming other than breeding (Passive Taming and Knockout Taming), others being  Crystal Wyvern (Passive Taming and Raise Taming).
• Real Diplodocus lived in large herds and coexisted in Jurassic grasslands hills alongside  Stegosaurus and  Brontosaurus, as well as carnivores like  Allosaurus. Unlike the oblivious, docile depiction in the game, real Diplodocus would have fought back mercilessly to any predator that dared hunt them. Instead of using their stiff necks they would brandish their whip like tails, strong enough to break bones. Hunting a Diplodocus would have required precision and care, cutting off one member from the rest of the herd and attacking it by the legs. Considering the danger of being stomped on or thrown back, hunting this animal was dangerous and may cost predators their lives.

Changelog

Patch	Changes
242.0	Diplodocus is added to the game
242.5	Diplodocus passive attacks no longer triggers battle music
252.7	Herbivores buffed to have a 55% explosion resistance and a 65% fire resistance
252.8	Herbivore explosion resistance reduced from 55% to 40% Tamed Diplodocus  Health gain from levels reduced by 30%
261.0	Diplodocus is now considered a large herbivore, and thus won't be targeted by medium-sized carnivores anymore
264.52	Slight decrease to saddle armor value
275.0 Aberration Expansion Release	Added  Aberrant Diplodocus

Gallery

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  Diplodocus transporting players on its 11-seater saddle

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