The summary of ‘Mod Spotlight: 5 Dino/Creature Mods You NEED To Try | ARK: Survival Ascended’

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The video provides an in-depth look at various modded creatures in "Ark: Survival Ascended." It begins with the vectus spinus, a member of the Spinosaur family, detailing its taming process, unique attacks, and the benefits of its two saddles. The creature excels in water exploration due to its lack of an oxygen stat and provides different buffs.

Next, the video introduces several other modded dinosaurs, such as the vector spinus, known for support buffs, and Big Owl's marxis, a large dinosaur with powerful attacks and healing abilities. The Monolophosaurus, ideal for cave exploration, features unique taming methods and multiple utilitarian saddle attachments.

The segment on the Cyrus Critters mod highlights the taming process for a jumping spider, using mashed insects and an iridescent kite shield, emphasizing the spider's versatile movements and abilities.

Continuing, the video describes a slow-moving creature with a charge leap and climbing capabilities, beneficial for maps lacking natural silk deposits. The EO Kakaria, compared to the Allosaurus, boasts pack bonuses, bleeding attacks from all pack members, and alpha variants for enhanced gameplay.

Overall, the video offers detailed taming strategies, creature abilities, and saddle unlocks, emphasizing each mod's unique features and their strategic advantages in gameplay. Viewers are encouraged to engage and suggest more mod content.

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In this part of the video, the presenter explores the “vectus spinus” creature mod for Ark Survival Ascended. This creature belongs to the Spinosaur family and requires the player to be at level 75 to unlock the rail gun necessary for taming. Found in shallow waters, inland water, or Monster Islands, it is tamed via knockout using the rail gun. Preferred kibble for taming is exceptional kibble, but raw prime meat and raw mutton can also be used.

The vectus spinus boasts two saddles: a basic one unlockable at level 55 and an artillery saddle at level 85. It features unique attacks, including a water breath attack, and excels as a swimmer. Notably, it has no oxygen stat, making it ideal for ocean exploration, though it does not receive the hydration buff like Spinosaurus. Additionally, it has a health regeneration buff when using its Sit animation. The artillery saddle provides greater armor and the ability to fire artillery shells, which can damage stone and metal structures.

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In this part of the video, the focus is on the vector spinus, a modded dinosaur introduced for unofficial PVP servers. The vector spinus acts as a support dinosaur with a buff ability that enhances attack damage, damage resistance, and movement speed for itself and allied Spinosaur family creatures for 90 seconds. This segment also details Big Owl’s marxis, another large dinosaur from the mod “Big Owl swag Bob,” highlighting its habitat, taming method involving feeding it other dino babies, and its array of attacks and abilities, including a healing buff, rage mechanic, and powerful stomp and tail swipe attacks. Additionally, the video touches on the monolophosaurus from the “mo schmitto” mod, suitable for cave exploration, and mentions its variants and common habitats.

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In this segment of the video, the focus is on the Monolophosaurus in the game, discussing its taming and crafting requirements, potential uses, and unique features. Players need specific items to craft the bile used for taming. The Monolophosaurus should be trapped during taming to avoid losing effectiveness if it gets attacked. The creature can also be passively fed once the bile is equipped in a hot bar slot. Babies can spawn in the wild, making taming easier if the parents are killed. The saddle for the Monolophosaurus, unlocked at level 30, has two attachments that provide additional functionality and protection. The shield attachment, unlockable at level 40, protects from various attacks and toxic fumes, while the blade attachment at level 50 increases attack damage. The Monolophosaurus has multiple attacks and buffs. It’s mentioned that killing alpha variants can yield extra bile and high-quality saddles. Despite its strengths, it’s noted that it won’t replace more powerful creatures like the Megatherium or Bionic. The segment concludes by encouraging players to check out the Monolophosaurus.

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In this segment, the video discusses the Cyrus Critters jumping spider from the Cyrus Creates mod, which is playable cross-platform. The mod introduces two key items: mashed insects and the iridescent kiten shield. Mashed insects, the spider’s taming food, require specific ingredients and can be crafted at level 12, while the shield, necessary for taming, is unlockable at level 56. Taming involves catching females first using the shield and mashed insects, typically found in Redwoods and specific caves. The taming process for males involves using a female’s pheromones. The guide advises building traps for easier taming and explains the spiders’ passive-feed mechanism and movement, highlighting their unique attributes.

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In this part of the video, the narrator discusses a creature that, despite its slow walking and sprinting speed, possesses a charge leap ability similar to the Procoptodon, allowing rapid traversal across the map. This creature can enter and exit climb mode to scale vertical surfaces and latch onto ceilings, akin to the Megalania. The creature offers two bite attacks: a melee bite for damage and a torpor bite for inflicting torpor. It also features a pounce attack, pinning small to medium creatures temporarily. Additionally, each defecation produces one silk, useful on maps lacking natural silk deposits. In the latter section, the video introduces the EO Kakaria, compared to the Allosaurus in size and attributes, and part of a pack. The EO Kakaria’s taming involves the mod-specific item “shrooms,” crafted from numerous resources and stacked in large quantities with a long spoil timer. The taming process is passive, recommended with ghillie armor, by placing shrooms in the hot bar slot.

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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses strategies for taming a temperamental creature, recommending killing low-level forms and trapping the desired one to manage its aggressive behavior. Upon feeding, the creature has a 50% chance to calm down or enter a rage mode for 30 seconds. Taming results in a powerful battle mount with various saddles unlocking at levels 55, 57, 59, and 69, each enhancing armor and aesthetics.

The creature features multiple attacks: a primary bite, a secondary head swipe, and a unique tail spin that causes knockback and inflicts a bleed effect. It also has a unique roar, a health regeneration buff from a sit option, and can produce five types of mushrooms used to craft stews that boost stats like melee damage, damage resistance, movement speed, and health regeneration. These stews can be combined for enhanced battle effectiveness.

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In this part of the video, the speaker highlights the strengths of the e Kakaria dinosaur mod in ‘Ark: Survival Evolved.’ The e Kakaria gets pack bonuses that go up to plus four in a pack of five, making them stronger pack dinosaurs than the Allosaurus, which only gets pack buffs up to three. Another advantage is that all pack members of e Kakaria can inflict bleed damage, not just the alpha. The mod also includes an alpha variant of the e Kakaria that spawns naturally in the wild, which can be hunted for high-quality saddles and armor attachments. These features make the e Kakaria a powerful addition to any tribe and useful in boss fights. The video concludes with a request for viewers to like, comment, share, and subscribe for more content and to suggest any other modded creatures they’d like to see showcased.

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