Shantungosaurus

The Shantungosaurus is An herbivore createed by Dinogamer13 for The Forsaken ARKs

## (Canon) Habitats

#### Dossier:

wild

*”Shantungosaurus Fundamenta Is the largest herbivore found on the ARKS, rivaling even the diplodocus in size. Usually, Shants travel in duos and will very much fight back when threatened.”*

Known Info

*“Shant Populations are centered in the grasslands of the ARKepelago”*

Domesticated

*“After taming, Shants provide a pivotal tame for smaller tribes. Shants have the easiest platform saddle to make, as it uses wood instead of metal. This makes them excellent for smaller raids or cargo transport.”*

## Basic Information

### Behavior

The Shantungosaurus is normally a very peaceful herbivore. They are most often found in pairs, yet very rarely can be found in groups of four. They can and will use their immense weight to fight predators.

### Appearance

Shants are very large herbivorous Hadrosaurs. They are just taller than a diplo and just as long as a stego. They are found in the wild on all four legs, but can stand up, very similar to an iguanodon. Their backs are lined with small osteoderms that provide some protection.

### color scheme

Shants have 4 color regions, being, osteoderms, main body, undertones and belly. The main body and undertones are often in varying shades of green, while the osteoderms and underbelly can vary from red to yellow to orange.

### Breeding info

Shants are rather easy to breed, yet are somewhat fussy as babies and adolescents. They entirely refuse to eat any berries or crops and seem to only be willing to eat honey.

### LVL 1 wild creature stats

heath—1750

stamina—357

oxygen—150

food—2000

weight—1550

melee—53

speed—100%

torpor—350

### Attacks and abilities

left click/trigger: Headbutt

The shant will headbutt anything in front of it for medium damage and some knockback.

right click/trigger: Body slam

The shant will raise up and slam down on an opponent. this attack will stun for 3 seconds, and does 2x extra damage for every 300 weight filled. EX: a shant with 670 weight will do 4x extra damage. This attack will return the shant to the all fours position if it was used on in hind legs position.

C/right joystick: Call to action

The call to action will rally any Pachys, parasaurs, trikes, stegos, and homalocephale to the Shantungosaurus‘ side. This also provides them with an additional 0.5 damage reduction. these herbivores will remain “tamed” for 5 min.

space bar/A: swap stances

The Shant will either raise up onto its hind legs or decend onto all fours. Hind legs provide a wider range for the call to action, much quicker turning, and less startup time on the Body slam. Quadruped position gives faster movement, a headbutt damage boost, more platform saddle stability and the ability for the headbutt to gather berries.

## Combat

### Weapons

Remain ranged when fighting a Shant. they will demolish you with their call to action and body slam when close enough. Armor piercing rounds are the quickest way of dispatching a shant, as they pierce their back osteoderms.

### strategy

Either shoot it with armor piercing rounds, or fight it with stronger tames, such as carnos, allos, or yutys.

### Tames

Always bring a Yutyrannus to a Shantungosaurus fight. The fear roar, while ineffective on the shants themselves, scares away their support dinos, leaving the shant alone to defend itself, allowing smaller tames such as carnos or raptors to shred it.

### Weaknesses

The shant isn’t very fast, as well as the fact that they are locked in quadruped mode when wild. Also, without support from other dinos, they lack the offensive options to do some real damage to creatures.

## Taming

The Shant is a a normal KO tame, and it doesn’t have the highest of torpors. The issue is that the Shant’s rallied allies will tank Tranq darts and require killing, witch runs the risk of killing the target Shant. A Yutyrannus is advised. They tame from the new Otherworldly Kibble.

## Utility

The Shantungosaurus is Most commonly used as an early game mount for either PvP or PvE uses.

### Cargo Transport

The Shant is used very commonly as an early to mid game cargo transport. Their weight is rather good, as well as their easier to make platform saddle providing storage space. Their only downside here is that shants are far outclassed by Argents, Paracers and Allosaurs in speed and defensive capabilities.

### Raider

Shants, thanks to their platform saddles, are exellent for early game raiding. The saddles can be built to provide protection as for Soaking turrets, to provide a sniper tower, or with ballistae and other armaments to attack the enemy.

### Mobile Base

The shants make excellent mobile homes, especially for early game tribes. their weight and call to action allow them to protect their masters houses quite well.

## Notes/Trivia

* The Shantungosaurus is DinoGamer13’s first creature addition to the wiki.
* The Shantugosaurus was originally planned to have an Abberant variant, but that was scrapped during development.
* The Shantungosaurus, in it’s base variant, Is exclusive to the ARKepelago Map. It’s X and Gen-X variants can be found on either genesis respectively.