How to Tame Your Bug | The Cage & Process 

I don't play official, but from what I've gathered, that's a pretty tall order. Best of luck with that one, afraid you'll need it.

Then build it yourself and make it public

This is what I did for our server. As I've been working on the build video, I realize it is a lot of structures to invest in though.

@@sandrasaab825 it won't matter, we have 2 public traps and people still make their own. One of the main reasons for this.. is because most official servers encounter griefers and with a public trap you can't lock the doors and people will kill the bugs. thus making the process stupid hard

I don't at this time, but since it seems I will likely do a build video for it, I can make a count then and add that info to that video.

There seems to be quite a bit of interest in the trap itself. I will see about putting together a build video for it. I gave someone the foundation and wall count measurements, but I'm sure a visual version would be helpful. As for getting the bug in, standard bait it to follow and hope it doesn't find a ptera more interesting. I can add that to the build video though in case others are curious.

Nice! I'm still working on getting the build guide edited and ready. It's not a complex build, just needs a certain amount of space.

@@lohkrim I had that issue. I put in a subfloor lol. Hope it doesn’t affect it. 🙈

The main area I would think it might have any effect is the center where the tame sits. So long as the Rhynio doesn't touch structures during it's process, should be reliable.

@@lohkrim I made sure to add extra height as you said 12 ceilings I went 14 from the floor. I’ll update you if I can find a rhynio. Lol 😆

Got my first tame yesterday. Definitely works. Cheers 🤙

I personally haven't. When I was first learning to bug tame, it was something that was mentioned could happen if the server tick landed in a weird spot. With the amount of investment that goes into each bug attempt, I don't like to tempt fate lol. Good to know the logging out can also reset it. I assume it works like flying away to derender it.

@@lohkrim Correct that there is a bug that can cause it to die right at the end before doing it on its own, we had it happen once in about 30 bugs done. But from my understanding force feeding berries to a herbivore doesnt effect the health. From the video the food went up but the health continued to drop per normal. I believe using a veggie cake would give you the peace of mind you want that it will not die before hand.

@@Psychofaith I've not tested with a veggie cake increasing it's health. My understanding is that the incubation timer is basically a timer to when the dino will die from the incubation process draining it's health, hatching when the tame dies. When a dino is starving, it periodically takes a tick of damage from starvation, hence how tames die without food. The goal with force feeding at the very end is to ensure that the tick of damage that kills the tame and hatches the rhynio is from the incubation process itself, not a random tick of damage from starving. If you've tested the veggie cakes way and it works, that'd be good to know as another way to handle it. I'm curious if the incubation timer extends if you feed it something that increases it's health or if it just takes bigger chunks of damage to reach the same timer.

@@lohkrim Yeah not something ive tested but would defo be interesting. From my understanding the health loss is all percent based in line with the incubation time so not sure if healing would even do anything or if the force feeding is even making a difference to reduce the chance of have the bug where it dies before hand. Not sure how that would accurately be tested.. something to ponder!

Not offhand, but I can go take some measurements and let you know.

Without a video to show (which I might do if there's enough interest), the overall is 34 triangle ceilings/foundations from the center 6 hexagon. The open area in the center floor where the tame stands is 3 rings of foundation total empty. The shortest side to the ground depending on where you place it is 12 walls (or 3 large walls) from the foundation. I personally used one large wall worth to wall the entire bottom of the cage from the foundations because ours is in the swamp and it keeps everything but dimorphs out. From there up, the walls have a 1 wall gap, and the ceiling has a 1 row gap between each row of ceilings, with the center filled. Hope that is clear enough. Let me know if not.

This was my question but it looks relatively simple

Hi, my name is Anthony Stephenson. I hate to give you more work, but theres about 30 people on our official server debating if this will work fully enclosed so that nobody can eat the bug out of spite. Could you possibly fully enclose this and test for us? A detailed video of the dimensions would help also. If you do, I would link your video into my official ark facebook group with over 14,000 members who would all be thrilled to see an enclosed trap that they can build on their official servers. This would be a huge help for the official community if your willing. We only allow videos in the group that we approve, so a video linked by me would help bring many people here for your content as well. Please let me know :)@@lohkrim

@@lohkrim I'd love to see a build video as well.

Height wise, this is the lowest ceiling I found I had 100% success rate with. Width wise, there may or may not be room to bring it in a little. I based it off of the distance the rhynio goes from the tame when doing it's inject animation. That way it never touches a structure during it's process. As mentioned in the video, contact with a structure was the only thing I found in all my testing that would cause the process to be inconsistent. I tried many many versions of traps. I'm certainly not saying there is no other way to do it. Just not one that I found in my testing to be 100% reliable, which is what my goal was.

Not enough info to try and help troubleshoot. What dino, when/under what circumstances?

Any Dino i ride

My Dino won't move at all not left right backwards or forwards

@@lilbrohawk7 Other than overburden from having way more carry weight on yourself and having too much in your inventory when you go to mount up, I'm not sure what else could be the cause sorry.

@@lohkrim u good