Titanosaur Platform Saddle

A mobile base on a Titanosaur

The Titanosaur Platform Saddle turns a Titanosaur into a walking base. The game describes it: "Equip a Titanosaur with this to ride it. You can build structures on the large platform to make a mobile base." The platform holds a 7 by 11 foundation layout, one of the largest of any platform saddle (only the Titans carry bigger ones), and you can still attack while driving it.

What you can build on it

Almost every structure works, including Feeding Troughs, storage boxes and beds. The exceptions are pipes, the Tek Forcefield, Auto Turrets, Crop Plots holding Plant Species X, the Behemoth Gateway, the Industrial Forge and the Vault. The platform has a hard cap of 250 structures, and every piece counts, from foundations to electrical keypads and the ladders built alongside the saddle.

Items stored in containers on the platform still count toward the Titanosaur's weight, but with a carrying capacity of 50 000 it can handle nearly anything a tribe loads onto it.

Rules of the saddle

• It cannot be removed while the Titanosaur lives; it only comes off after the creature dies.
• To dye the saddle, every structure on it has to be removed first.
• Its armor is always 1 and durability has no real effect on saddles, so a better-quality blueprint gives nothing for the extra material.

Crafting cost

The engram requires level 100 and 120 engram points, and the saddle is built in a Smithy:

• 4000 Metal Ingot (or Scrap Metal Ingot)
• 4000 Hide
• 2000 Fiber
• 1600 Cementing Paste (or Achatina Paste)

Crafting takes 15 seconds and gives 462 XP. The saddle weighs 200. On Genesis: Part 1 it is also a mission reward: 173 crate types can contain it, among them the A Captains Conquest and Allo and Goodbye missions.