Dreadnoughtus Platform Saddle

Building a mobile base

With the Dreadnoughtus Platform Saddle, survivors in ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved can ride a Dreadnoughtus and place structures on the saddle. The game's description: "Equip a Dreadnoughtus with this to ride it. You can build structures on the large platform to make a mobile base." The ARK Wiki describes it as the unique saddle of the Dreadnoughtus and adds that the creature can still attack and harvest while the platform is being driven.

Beds, troughs and ladders on the platform

• Bed: with a Bed built on the saddle, a player can teleport to the Dreadnoughtus after dying or travel between several Dreadnoughtus bases; this does not work while the Dreadnoughtus is near an enemy structure.
• Feeding Trough: a trough on the saddle feeds allied creatures that are nearby.
• Rope ladders: with a foundation on the platform, 7 rope ladders reach down safely; with 8, the last section sinks into the ground and the player has to press E to jump off.

If the Dreadnoughtus dies

Killing the Dreadnoughtus destroys every structure on the saddle, and vaults may not survive the fall either. The saddle itself can be recovered from the corpse.

Engram, recipe and stats

The engram unlocks at level 100 for 100 engram points, and each craft gives 462 XP. The ARK Wiki lists the Smithy and the Argentavis Saddle among the crafting places. The amounts are the same in both games:

• 1200 Hide
• 800 Fiber
• 650 Metal Ingot
• 300 Cementing Paste
• 250 Silica Pearls

In the ASE recipe, Scrap Metal Ingot, Achatina Paste and Silicate can stand in for Metal Ingot, Cementing Paste and Silica Pearls. A craft takes 15 seconds in ASA and 10 in ASE. The saddle weighs 25 and has an armor rating of 25. Our records name the Dreadnoughtus as a creature that drops it and count 14 loot crates that can contain it, such as the Astraeos Orbital crates, the Dragon Hoard and Extinction Cave Blue; they list it on 9 maps.