Dododex: ARK Survival Evolved

Dododex: ARK Survival Evolved


Companion & Taming Calculator


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2.5.3for iPhone, iPad and more
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Dec 31, 2023
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About Dododex: ARK Survival Evolved

Elevate your ARK: Survival Evolved game with the Dododex taming calculator and companion app used by over 10 million ARK players.

Dododex provides a comprehensive and frequently-updated guide for every creature in ARK: Survival Evolved, including taming calculations, kibble and saddle recipes, stats, timers, knock-out information for any weapon, as well as original tips and crowdsourced data from thousands of ARK players.

FEATURES
- Taming calculator and guide for every dinosaur in ARK: Survival Evolved
- Player tips on taming, battling, and utilizing every ARK creature
- Kibble recipes and flow chart
- Saddle recipes
- Breeding timers
- Knock-out details for each creature and weapon, including custom weapons
- Stat calculator
- List of dropped items and gathering efficiency ratings for every creature from 300,000+ Dododex users.
- Breeding times and egg incubation temperatures
- Starve timer for starve taming
- Torpor timer
- Recipes & dyes
- Find out which creatures are carryable by flyers
- Base creature stats and rankings
- Taming multipliers for unofficial ARK: Survival Evolved servers
- Admin commands and cheats
- Maps
- Access the official ARK: Survival Evolved Wiki directly from the app
- Details on Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis, Fjordur and all DLCs!
- PLUS: Dino stickers for iMessage!

Details on new creatures are added as soon as information becomes available in ARK: Survival Evolved.

"A must-have app for any ARK: Survival Evolved player — new or veteran." —Proof187, App Store Review
"Best taming calculator out there" —Troy Richards, App Store Review

Have a feature request? Share it here: dododex.com/feedback

Dododex is an unofficial ARK: Survival Evolved app.
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.5.3

Last updated on Dec 31, 2023
Old Versions
- Fixed issue where some flyers were repeated twice on the "more" menu
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Version History
2.5.3
Dec 31, 2023
- Fixed issue where some flyers were repeated twice on the "more" menu
2.5.2
Dec 29, 2023
- NEW: Custom Recipe calculator
- Added item weights
- Added ASA toggle to stat calculator since ASA does not have wasted stats
- Mods + Tek Variant categories added (ARK Additions mod coming soon!)
- Fixed bug where dino categories could not be combined
- Tapejara and Griffin were missing from the carryable "More" tab
- Fixed bug where taming foods were cut off on small screens
- Fixed issue where Traditional Chinese devices would crash on some creatures
2.5.1
Nov 14, 2023
- ARK: Survival Ascended dye picker and single player presets
- Main search now includes items and recipes for easier access
- Favorite recipes now show in main search dropdown
- Sort tips by newest and top rated
- New tips now have a hidden score to prevent early voting bias
- Sanguine Elixir
- Tap on any taming food to see the % taming increase per feeding
- Deselected food are now more slightly faded out to make it clear which are selected
- Fixed issue where tips would say "read more" without... more to read
- Fixed crashing issue when changing levels
- "Night Mode" (available on Dododex Pro) renamed to "Dark Mode"
2.5
Jul 12, 2023
- Spawn Maps are back!
- Improved passive tame calculations
- Rhyniognatha and Desmodus added to "Carryable By"
- New "Everything Else" tips category
- Check ARK's current official server rates
- View your tips
- New languages: Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese, Latvian, and improvements to existing languages
- Adjusted "max level after taming" to +88 levels.
- Added Net Projectile
- Fixed issue where +/- buttons on recipes were invisible
- ARK 2 news
- A ton of other small updates :)
2.4.1
Aug 28, 2020
- Fixed issue when upgrading to Dododex Pro
- Updates to Spanish, Chinese, and Portuguese translations
2.4
Aug 25, 2020
- Dododex now includes 2x taming, matching ARK’s new update on PC and console. Visit Settings for details.
- Tips for recipes! Share tips on any recipe: consumable strategies, saddle ideas...
- Tips for resources! Best ways to gather, farm, obtain, and use each resource.
- Tools in gathering efficiency
- Offline mode
- Carryable by: Crystal Wyvern
- New setting presets
- “Read more” button now displays on longer tips and text
- Opening Dododex from ARK Mobile for the first time would show an blank confirmation pop-up
- Fixed crash when selecting a level
- "Consumption Speed" is now labeled "Dino Character Food Drain" (as it is in-game)
- Delete button on the Edit Weapons screen showed HTML code
- When you have more than 5 timers, switching pages would sometimes not work properly
- Fixed issue where "Pause All" timers button would not work
- Minor design updates
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
2.3
Aug 2, 2020
- Breeding timers are now here!
- Primitive Plus support
- New tips category: Stories! Share memorable moments, wild encounters, or even fan fiction about your favorite dinos
- Spawn maps directly linked on each creature profile
- Categories now indicate if a creature spawns on each map or not
- Carryable by: Tropeognathus
- Crystal Isles Maps
- Trophy requirements for bosses
- Translation updates (Spanish, Chinese, Arabic)
- Absolute weapon damage (for ARK Mobile)
- Major performance improvements across the app
- Kibble recipes have a larger scroll area to see more dinos at once

BUG FIXES:
- Finally(!) fixed issue where app would reset every ~30 seconds or so
- Increasing a recipe’s quantity would multiply the ingredients exponentially
- Minor updates and bug fixes
2.2.1
Apr 29, 2020
- Fixed bug where annoying ads on the ARK Wiki would repetitively pop-up full screen. (Note: These were not Dododex ads.)
- App would sometimes reset every 30 seconds for a small amount of users.
- Kibbles are now in proper order rather than alphabetical.
- Tranq Darts would display as impossible or too high for some creatures.
- Base stats would not update when switching between creatures.
- Removed the total % progress on breeding timer. Having the % progress in two areas caused a lot of confusion.
- Fixed issue where chance of death would display “NaN” for dinos on Lvl 1.
- Added ability for other languages to filter out English tips.
2.2
Mar 12, 2020
- Genesis X-Creatures toggle on KO calculator
- Improved dino search. You can now search for common names like “beaver” or “frog”
- Favorite creatures
- New Resources feature includes Gathering Efficiency, Drops, and Weight Reduction
- Improved stat calculator design making it easier to input stats. Now defaults to a creature’s average stats.
- Improved Capabilities feature includes all capabilities and sorting
- Redesigned Knock Out calculator now includes torpor depletion between hits for improved accuracy.
- Number of hits before a dino flees
- Chance of death added for headshots
- Improved speed of image loading
- New tips are marked as “NEW” and now have emojis on categories
- Increased text size of name ideas
- Tip algorithm prioritizes newer tips
- Quick links to Wiki Spawn Maps and Resource Maps
- Karkinos KO calculator
- New Recipes
- Mobile Kibble moved to separate recipe category
- Gathering screen now shows meter for easy comparison
- Fits through: Double Doors
- When Single Player Settings is enabled, it now shows your your new multipliers
- You can now combine up to 5 dino categories instead of 3
- Performance improvements across the app
- Some third party tools may voluntarily hide ads for Dododex Pro users
- New translations added

Bug Fixes:
- Favorite recipes would sometimes duplicate, or be unable to remove.
- Bug caused the app to randomly redirect you back to the main screen
- Torpor timer would not sync properly if narcs were being consumed
- Adjusted some fonts that were too thin to read
- App turns music off
2.1
Mar 31, 2019
- Added increment setting on level picker to allow for intervals of 4, 5, etc.
- Resource Calculator! Third party tool by Tristian Gregory.
- Upon opening level picker, the level is now automatically highlighted so you don't have to tap backspace
- Fixed issue where pressing +/- on the level picker would sometimes skip a level
- Implemented Dododex URLs (dododex://creature/raptor/30) to allow other apps/sites to deep link to Dododex
- Recipes of new Kibble now show color of Kibble
- Fixed issue where top navigation (info / stats / etc) would not scroll when menu is too large (more noticeable on Spanish, Russian, and some languages)
- Abbreviated many translations for those menu items to require less scrolling
- Breeding input would not support decimals
- Fixed issue where Restore Purchases button would cause app to crash (users needed to use upgrade button instead)
- Pre-Rework Kibbles now include a “Mobile / Switch” indicator
- Open (or install) Ark Mobile from Dododex
- On gathering, fixed rare issue where a dino will show another dino's image after switching between items
- Minor design improvements to the creature tabs
2.0.1
Mar 17, 2019
- Dododex Pro is now available. Fixed bug that displayed it as unavailable.
- New ARK Buddy by Tristian Gregory includes forge calculator, tek calculators, and more
- Improved display of long item names

Note: I'm looking into performance issues with loading creature images. Hoping to have it fixed soon!
2
Mar 16, 2019
Dododex Version 2 is finally here!

- Brand new look! (Updates with each creature!)
- Creature search!
- Creature categories allow you to slice and dice the creature list
- (Pro tip: Switch to “List” view and select the “All” category for an alphabetical list of all creatures)
- Night mode (Dododex Pro feature)
- New “More” tab, including a brand new redesigned capabilities list
- Updated stats tab design with new sharing ability
- Last food selection is remembered when switching dinos
- Find the minimum wall gap size to fit each Dino
- See which dinos fit through Hatchframes and Giant Hatchframes
- See which dinos can be carried in a Procoptodon pouch
- Reorder your weapons
- Torpor and Starve Timer designs updated
- Bio Toxin and Ascerbic Mushroom added to Torpor Timer
- Share button on player tips
- Share button to show off (or save) your new tame's stats
- Saved settings redesign makes it easier to switch between saved settings
- GFI Commands now available in Admin Commands
- New ARK Buddy by Tristian Gregory includes forge calculator, tek calculators, and more
- Cloning chamber calculator (Ark Wiki)
- List of related dinos
- Merch now available!
- 6 New Languages: Arabic, Croatian, Dutch, Finish, Greek, Hebrew, and Norwegian
- Translate player tips (when app language is not set to English)

PLUS:
- "Help" button on Settings to access common multiplier configurations
- Increased training level cap to +73
- Bad tips are now permanently removed
- Older tips now display year posted
- Basilisk added as KO weapon
- Carriers are now clickable
- App now remembers last selected tab upon reopening

BUG FIXES:
- On Kibble recipes, dino list would not scroll
- Restore purchases was not working on some devices
- Fixed Rock Elemental Boulder data
- Double recipes were showing for some creatures
- Fixed issue where shortcuts would crash
- Fixed bug that made it look like you could upvote a tip many times
- Fixed Titanosaur stat calculator
- Better error handling when offline
1.14.2
Sep 26, 2018
- Updated Maps interface to support future maps
- Forge Calculator fixed (Note: The forge calculator is a third party tool developed by Tristan Gregory)
- Added dinosaur name translations for Russian, partial Danish and Russian. (Translators needed! dododex.com/translate)
- More translations added for French, Italian, Japanese, and Russian
- Fixed crashing issue related to upgrading to Dododex Pro

With iOS 12, you can add dino stickers to your selfies! In iMessage, tap the camera feature and you'll be able to add Dododex stickers on your face as you take a photo or video, even with your Memoji!
1.14.1
Mar 28, 2018
- Fixed issue where keyboard would not always have a close button
- Fixed a [rare] crashing issue when entering certain values into the stat calculator
- Keyboard close button was accidentally in Vietnamese for all users. Oops!

Want to help translate Dododex? Visit dododex.com/translate
1.14
Mar 21, 2018
- iPhone X support
- New Stats tab shows all dino stats in one consolidated tab
- Updated taming table. Tap on a food item to easily increment quantity, view intervals, and food value for each item.
- Added Aberration map (Thanks, 3xhumed!)
- Updated Ragnarok map
- Find out which land dinos can carry other dinos
- Stat comparisons highlight really low or high stats
- Added Ascerbic Mushrooms to list of Narcotics
- Creatures with large amounts of food are collapsed
- Removed rocket launcher from Rock Elemental
- More admin commands added
- Various minor design updates

TRANSLATIONS:
- New languages: Czech, Thai, Turkish, Swedish, Danish
- Updates: Russian, German, Portuguese
- Support for translated Dino names (contribute translations at dododex.com/translate!)

BUG FIXES:
- Some creatures listed recipes twice
- Fixed incubation temperature display issue for Rock Drake
- Fixed broken Xbox patch notes link
- Fixed crashing issues when not connected to the internet
1.13.1
Aug 15, 2017
- The original breeding timeline has returned! So many people have said they prefer the old timeline view, so it's back!
- Ragnorak map (by 3xhumed) updated!
- Find out which dinos can be carried by the Kaprosuchus, Megalosaurus, Tusoteuthis, and humans (suggested by Cameron D. and many other users!)
- Breeding tab now shows the chance of twins and triplets
- Fixed bug where KO estimates would not update when you switched dinos or levels
- Stat calculator now shows a notice for flyers, who no longer have wasted stats
- Larger favorite star button on recipe cards (suggested by KensonPlays)
- Increased amount of tips loaded when you click "load more”
- Maturation is now entered as a percent instead of by weight
- Editing your weapon's damage wouldn't always work (thanks for spotting, u/nlappe!)
- New “Use Single Player Settings” now matches Ark's settings
- French patch notes (thanks, ark-france.fr!)
- Minor translation updates
1.13
Jul 29, 2017
- New breeding calculator lets you calculate when your new baby will reach every stage of maturation! (Timer coming soon!)
- New tabbed design!
- Fixed major crashing issues! Sorry about that!
- Name Ideas! Browse through hundreds of original names for every dino! Submit your own and see how much other Ark players love it!
- By popular demand, funny tips now have their own category, and are filtered out of the default "all" mode.
- New Map: Ragnorak (Plus: Updates to The Island and Scorched Earth)
- Dododex's original torpor ranking system classifies each dino by how fast their torpor drops.
- Stat calculator now classifies stats into five categories: very low, low, average, high, very high.
- Recipes needed to tame or battle a dino now show on dino profiles (Bug Repellent, Broth of Enlightenment, etc.).
- New Forge Calculator built by Tristan Gregory!
- New Weapons for KO calculations: Harpoon Gun, Thorny Dragon, Equus
- Find out which dinos can be Lassoed, damage Tek Structures.
- Find out which creatures can be carried by the Griffin!
- Torpor Buffer — Torpor timer now shows you how many Narcotics you'll need to max out your dino.
- Tips with a rating below 0 now show their score.
- New Languages: Japanese, Romanian, and Dutch! (Plus: Updates to German, Portuguese, and French)

Minor updates:
- New contact form
- Increased max level after taming from 61 to 71.
- Button to access the Dododex Discord
- Fixed “chance of death” calculation error for custom weapons.
- Fixed bug where quantity of foods could not be changed.
- Fixed bug where stats would sometimes “round” to numbers like .9999
- Ability to copy/paste tips
- Various design uplifts
1.12.3
Jan 23, 2017
• NEW: Troodon taming calculator! Find out how many dinos you need to sacrifice! (Thanks to everyone who requested this!)
• Major caching and performance improvements of the Player Tips feature.
• Sulfur added to Gathering Efficiency list. (More Scorched Earth items will be added once they receive enough votes. Please use the "Rate This Creature" button to contribute ratings!)
• Some times would be incorrectly labeled as "Today" or "Tomorrow". (Thanks for spotting, Ampspinz!)
• The "Report Data Error" button under “About/Feedback” would crash faster than a doedicurus rolling indoors.
• Report Data Error form would sometimes behave wonkier than a pteranodon set on follow.
1.12.2
Jan 10, 2017
• Shocking Tranquilizer Dart and Compound Bow added to available weapons. Tap “Edit Weapons” to add them!
• Bio Toxins added as narcotic method! (Coming soon to Torpor Timer as well!)
• By request, the volume of Narcotic eating sound effect on Starve Timer has been decreased. Sorry to the users who said it has startled them countless times or woke up their significant others. :P
• Fixed bug where Dododex Pro would cause app to crash. (Thanks for pointing out, Jesse and @Suma_134!)
• More Korean, German, and Polish Translations!

Dododex is working on new breeding features and your input is needed! Take the 5-minute survey: bit.ly/dodobreed
1.12.1
Jan 5, 2017
• Fixed bug where level would reset to 1 when navigating between screens, but still appear as if it were the correct level. (Some users mistook this as multipliers not being applied correctly.)
• Fixed bug where starve timer push notification would be sent twice.
• Redesigned text inputs in settings.

What would you like to see added next to Dododex? Share and vote on your favorite ideas: dododex.com/feedback
1.12
Jan 3, 2017
Thank you for half a million downloads!

• Ark's new 2x multipliers are now built-in to calculations. Please set your Taming Multiplier and XP Multiplier to "1" for official servers.
• New recipes feature
• Build your own recipe book by saving your most frequently used recipes!
• New maps by Exhumed! (Includes new underwater cave locations!)
• Saved Server Settings - Now you can easily switch between a set server multipliers.
• Button to quickly access your multipliers!
• By popular demand, the starve timer now shows the "target food" value.
• By request, creatures tamed non-violently now show knock-out estimates (for players who like to KO and airlift to a taming pen).
• Will my bronto fit through this door? Find out with the new "fits through" section!
• Korean (partial translation) is Dododex's 10th language! Thanks to kohm6012 for translating! More to come!
• PS4 Patch Notes

BUG FIXES:
• Tips submitted after December 1st wouldn't display proper date.
• The delete button on timers would not work.
• Some users have reported intermittent crashing when scrolling. This is still being investigated.
1.11
Oct 28, 2016
• Push Notifications for timers! (Highly requested feature!)
• Admin commands! Copy and paste dino spawn and weapon commands! (Highly requested!)
• Edit weapon damage
• Tips now have vote counts
• New Jerboa iMessage Stickers! Thanks to Studio Wildcard for providing! (Designed by @uguubear)
• New language: Polish (Thank you for the translations, Morg!)

More minor changes:
• Timers screen design updates with creature images
• More sections of the app have been translated (for all languages!)
• XP per kill is back! (Oops, it was removed in the last version. Thanks for spotting, @PokerBoySwag!)
• Downvoted tips will now be faded out after hitting a certain threshold
• "Load more" button now loads more tips at once
• Fixed crashing issue with capabilities feature

LAST CHANCE: Dododex's tips contest to win $100 in Steam or Xbox credit ends on October 31st! See the "Tips" section of any creature's profile for details!
1.10.1
Oct 8, 2016
• Load your cannons! The Titanosaur and Rock Elemental KO calculators are finally here!
• Fixed bug where adding narcotics to the Torpor Timer would not do anything. (Thanks for spotting, montana12345!)

What features do you want to see next? Share here: dododex.com/feedback
1.10
Oct 5, 2016
• Player Tips! Learn tips from pros about taming, KO'ing, encountering and utilizing a dino.
• Player Tips Contest! Win $100 by sharing your a tip about your favorite creature! See app for details.
• New “capabilities” feature shows master chart of creatures that can be carried, can damage structures, and be affected by traps
• New Scorched Earth and The Center Map (More updates to come! Thanks, Exhumed!)
• Spanish, Russian, Chinese languages added! Help translate at dododex.com/translate
• Tapejara added to carryable creatures list
• Plant Species Y Trap added to traps list
• New Jerboa and Morellatops iMessage stickers

Also:
• More translations added
• New loading screen
• Dino profiles now load sequentially, improving performance when switching between dinos/levels

• Fixed bug where non-English devices wouldn’t preserve English setting after closing the app
• Fixed bug where torpor timer would pause when app closed while narcotics were still being consumed.
1.9
Sep 16, 2016
WHAT'S NEW:
- Dododex is now available in German, French, Portuguese and Italian! More languages are coming soon. Contribute at dododex.com/translate
- Dododex Stickers for iMessage! Express yourself using dinos! Now available in your iOS 10 iMessage keyboard!
- List of items dropped by each creature
- Scorched Earth map
- Find out which creatures can be carried by the Wyvern (Suggested by… basically everyone)
- Find out which creatures can damage adobe buildings
- New shortcuts: Xbox patch notes, item spoilage times (Suggested by OhNoTheLag and Matt T)
- Various minor design and font color uplifts (Suggested by Andrew R)
- Max melee damage increased to 9999% (Suggested by Brandon A)

OTHER MINOR UPDATES:
- Fixed issue where hamburger menu button would sometimes have to be tapped twice
- "Report data error" button now more accessible at the bottom of every creature's profile
- "Knock Out" section disabled for Titanosaur and Rock Elemental since they cannot be KO'ed by traditional methods

Dino images and more content from Scorched Earth will be coming once the Dev Kit is released!

Thank you to the translators who provided! Will Oliveira, Daniel Bertocci, Arachmeus, Aimeric99, and Fabien Morel!

Dododex: ARK Survival Evolved FAQ

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iPhone
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iPad
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Dododex: ARK Survival Evolved supports English
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