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🪨 Doedicurus – The Stone-Harvesting Juggernaut

The Doedicurus is a compact but incredibly durable utility mount renowned for its role as the go-to stone harvester. In PvE, this tanky, spiked mammal is essential for base building, especially when you’re moving into stone-tier structures or crafting advanced items like Industrial Forges, grinding past saddles, or even producing cementing paste.

🪓 1. Top-Tier Stone Gatherer

• Gathers stone more efficiently than any other creature, often collecting hundreds per swing with its tail attack.

• Can be set to wandering to harvest stone passively when surrounded by rocks.

• Perfect for crafting stone structures, grinders, foundations, and cementing paste indirectly.

🛡️ 2. Highly Durable with Auto-Defense

• Extremely tanky, and curls into a ball when heavily damaged, reducing incoming damage significantly.

• Useful in hostile environments or zones with wild threats.

• Can act as a buffer during resource trips to absorb damage.

🌀 3. Rolling Mobility

• Can roll quickly across open ground, offering decent land mobility.

• Best used on relatively flat terrain; consumes stamina while rolling.

• Makes solo farming and return trips much faster.

🛠️ 4. Indirect Crafting Support

• Stone harvested by Doedicurus is used for:

  • Sparkpowder, cementing paste, and grinding into XP or materials.

  • Supporting large-scale structure building efforts.

• Complements farming teams focused on wood (Castoroides) and metal (Ankylo).

✈️ 5. Easy to Transport and Stone Weight Reduction

• Reduces the weight of stone by 75%, enabling it to carry much more than its base weight would suggest.

• Can be picked up by Argentavis, Quetzal, or Karkinos for mobile farming.

• Excellent for mobile farming on-the-go with cryopods or airlift strategies.

🤝 6. Synergy with Karkinos – The Ultimate Mobile Harvester Duo

• On maps like Aberration, the Karkinos (giant crab) can grab a Doedicurus (in one claw) and an Ankylo (in the other).

• This allows for simultaneous transport and harvesting, enabling players to:

  • Carry both tames directly into resource-rich zones.

  • Use the crab’s jumping and climbing mobility to reach otherwise inaccessible spots.

  • Swing the Doedicurus into stone nodes while airborne or perched on cliffs.

• This setup allows for efficient, fast, and safe stone + metal farming even in hostile terrain, especially with a crab that has good weight stats.