Therizinosaurus Saddle

Saddling a tamed Therizinosaurus

Survivors in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended use the Therizinosaurus Saddle to ride a tamed Therizinosaurus. Its in-game description is a single line: "A saddle for your Therizinosaurus." The ARK Wiki gives patch 253.0 as the one that added it.

Level 69 and the recipe

Both learning the engram and crafting the saddle require level 69, and the engram costs 40 engram points. A Smithy finishes one in 10 seconds for 22.2 XP; the wiki also names the Exo-Mek and Tek Replicator, plus the Argentavis Saddle, Castoroides Saddle and Thorny Dragon Saddle, as places to craft it. Materials:

• 285 Hide
• 55 Metal Ingot (or Scrap Metal Ingot)
• 120 Wood (or Fungal Wood)
• 160 Fiber

The finished saddle weighs 20, provides 25 armor and has 50 durability, with a stack size of 1.

Hunting for one in crates

For finding the saddle, the wiki points to high tier cave drops and to yellow or higher Orbital Supply Drops. On The Island it rates the underwater cave loot crates as the best spot, with each cave spawning 3 crates every 45 minutes. Working from an assumed blueprint share, it estimates that about 37 runs of the easy underwater cave give a 50% chance at a blueprint, and 122 runs raise that to 90%.

Our records count 264 crate types that can contain the saddle, for example the Astraeos Lime and Astraeos Purple crates and the Astraeos Orbital Medium, Hard and Legendary crates. They list the item on 14 maps.