Ark: Survival Evolved Dossiers: Pulmonoscorpius

The Pulmonoscorpius (Pul-mon-oh-skor-pee-us), or simply Scorpion, is one of the creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved.


Common Name - Scorpion

Group - Invertebrates

Species - Pulmonoscorpius gigantus

Time Period - Late Silurian

Diet - Carnivore

Temperament - Aggressive


Tameable - Yes

Rideable - Yes

Breedable - No

Taming Method - Knockout

Preferred Food - Spoiled Meat

Equipment - Pulmonoscorpius Saddle(Lv 25)

Rider Weaponry - Yes

Humans Can Carry - No


Drops - Chitin , Raw Meat

Special Loot Chance - 30%

Feces Size - Small

Drag Weight - 110

Carryable By - Megalosaurus , Argentavis , Quetzal , Wyvern , Tusoteuthis

Immobilized By - Bola , Bear Trap , Plant Species Y Trap

Can Damage - Thatch , Wood


Egg - Pulmonoscorpius Egg


Wild: I'm not sure why, but the giant scorpions I've seen on the island are far more disturbing than most of the Dinosaurs. Rather than simply kill its prey, Pulmonoscorpius gigantus injects its victims with a tranquilizing poison, then eats its unconscious prey alive.

Domesticated: Trying to tame a monster like Pulmonoscorpius gigantus sounds like a crazy idea, but I suppose the ability to knock out a foe could come in handy. It could certainly make incapacitating some of the island's other creatures much easier.

Known Information: This subspecies has a large pair of pincers that seem connected to the same toxin sacs as the tail. I've never seen another scorpion that has this adaptation, but I've never seen another scorpion that is larger than I am, either.

Behavior

Pulmonoscorpius will approach anything out of curiosity, but it doesn't like to be touched... This combination causes dinos (wild and tamed) and players to bump into it causing it to attack virtually everything at any time. Large hitbox(es) doesn't help the easily aggravated nature. An openly hostile or a touched bug, will have its claws raised in melee range. A single scorpion can be ignored, or waited off. Two scorpions will most likely have second one attack due to getting too close. A group will target same spot on a given thing, causing extras to home into the now blocked off spot and touching the rest of dino/player in question, proc'ing agro of any and all scorpions.

Appearance

Pulmonoscorpius is an enormous land scorpion that haunts the island's warmer interior. It has a glossy chitinous exoskeleton and, uniquely, a pair of venom sacs stored within its pincers; between these and the one that makes up its fearsome stinger, the creature can inject other animals with a potent paralytic neurotoxin. It feeds only on decomposed meat, preferably that which its venom has rendered from its tranquilized victims. Unlike that of most other creatures, its blood is green. It lurks in caves around the island, as well as the rocky terrain around the bottom of mountains, though the latter is much less common.

Color Scheme and Regions

This section displays the Pulmonoscorpius's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Pulmonoscorpius. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Pulmonoscorpius 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.


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