How to get bio toxin ark Fjordur

Finding resources on Fjordur in Ark Survival Evolved takes a bit of getting used to. The new region is vast, and it takes a while to familiarize yourself with where some of the important materials are, including honey, fungal wood, and oil. These three are grouped fairly close together, so you can grab up as much as you need in one farming run without taking too much time.

Where do you find oil in Fjordur?

Fjordur isn’t short of oil rocks, but the vast majority of them are underwater. If you have a tamed water creature, you can swim through the river that passes through the region and mine the black oil rocks on the riverbed. There are no new water tames in Fjord, so just bring along whichever one you have already if this is the route you want to take.

The best place to find oil in Fjordur is on land, though. Head to the region around 78 80 on your map – it’s the barren island in the region’s southeast section – and you’ll find roughly a dozen oil rocks in a loose cluster. These respawn after a few hours. One rock gives you a fair bit of oil as well, so it’s an easier and more straightforward method of oil farming than.

Where do you find honey in Fjordur?

Fjordur introduces giant beehives that give you several units of honey when you harvest them, and there are quite a few scattered around the northeastern part of the map. If you plan on taming the Andrewsarchus, among other beasties, you’ll need plenty of honey to domesticate them.

Here’s where you should look for the giant beehives.

You may find giant hives elsewhere in the region, but these three spots in particular have high concentrations of them in the surrounding areas.

Where do you find fungal wood in Fjordur?

Fungal wood grows underwater, and your best bet for finding it is near where you can harvest giant beehives. Head to:

And then slide into the water. Dive down, and you should see several pieces of fungal wood – large objects that look like massive mushroom caps. Use your hatchet to harvest it, and check back later for more. There’s quite a bit to gather here, so you should be set for a while after just one run.

If you plan on going for the Mjolnir skin, make sure to tame a Fjordhawk first. Getting Mjolnir is a difficult process, and the new hawk tame helps conserve your resources if you die along the way.

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The Cnidaria (Nye-dare-e-ah) is one of the creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Basic Info

Dossier

This section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena Walker, the author of the dossiers, has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creature.

Species

Cnidaria omnimorph

Cambrian - Holocene

Herbivore

Passive, but aggressive at close range

Cnidaria omnimorph is another example of a creature which should not exist. It has traits that seem derived from many types of jellyfish. It possesses the size and shape of large egg-yolk jellies, the powerful sting of certain box jellies, and the bioluminescence of deep-sea jellies. This all combines to make a dangerous creature that lights up the deepest reaches of the ocean. Cnidaria is not generally aggressive, because it lacks normal perceptive senses. It generally just floats along on the current until something gets close enough to sense, at which point it attacks. While its attacks are not directly powerful, its sting injects an incredibly strong and fast-acting sedative.

As Cnidaria is barely more intelligent than a plant, there's no effective method to tame one. Most tribes kill Cnidaria on sight, then collect its reserve of powerful sedative, to use in technically advanced long-distance tranquilizers.

Behavior

Although they seem to be primarily herbivores, feeding off algae, they seem to have another favorite target: humans, and the occasional tame we bring along with. The Cnidaria may be an herbivore but this makes them act very predatory, pursuing survivors at a slow pace, but a shockingly large aggressive range, especially for a creature that’s not supposed to have any sensory organs or even a brain. Its attacks include torpor inducing stings and knocking riders off of their mounts. Do not underestimate this creature, as they can cripple almost anything, including apex predators such as Giganotosaurus and Mosasaurus, leaving them helpless as they slowly feed on them. However if one can avoid the crippling effect, it has low health and can be killed easily by players of any level. This makes the Cnidaria a common, deadly aquatic pest. They can be found alone but are most often found floating around in groups of two to seven. Wild Cnidarias do not take damage from nor show aggression towards any other fully aquatic animals unless caught in the middle of a fight between other creatures. They will react defensively if attacked by terrestrial or semi-aquatic ones.

Appearance

Cnidaria Omnimorph is a relatively large jellyfish compared to a human, with long trailing tentacles packed with venom to sedate both prey and predators. They are typically easy to spot at night and in deeper waters, as they glow a bright neon cyan color, but blend in during daylight near the surface, as they’re similar in color to the water. As they are translucent, they do not cast shadows.

Color Scheme and Regions

The Cnidaria always spawns with the same color scheme and has no color regions.

This means it is currently impossible to make alterations to the Cnidaria's colors.

Drops

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   Bio Toxin

Base Stats and Growth

Wild Stats Level-up

Type in values of a wild creature to see on which stats it's emphasized. Green values on a high-level creature are very good for breeding. If you have already tamed your creature you can try to recover the breeding stats with an external tool.[1]

The stat-calculator does not work in the mobile-view, see here for alternatives: Apps

Note that after the creature is tamed it gets bonuses on some stats depending on the taming effectiveness. This makes it hard to retrieve the levels on a tamed creature, so this tool is only for wild ones, but gives a first impression, how well the stats are distributed.

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Cnidaria.

General

Cnidaria are aggressive but have a smaller aggro radius than other aquatic predators and are very slow. The easiest way to deal with them is to just swim around them or kill them with ranged weaponry.

Do not engage the Cnidaria in a melee fight. It only takes a single Cnidaria to stunlock your mount and force you off of it, and the stunned creature effectively can't do anything while the Cnidaria slowly chips it down. Their stun attack makes it nearly impossible to defeat one with a melee weapon, as you are effectively stuck in their attack while they either chip away at your health or drown you..

Be wary of Cnidaria camouflaged into the walls of underwater caves.

Strategy

It’s best to stay out of their deadly attack, and fire at them with a bow or gun. Use their low speed to your advantage, and make sure to swim away before they get too close. SCUBA Flippers are fantastic for this purpose.

Alternatively, you can use a

Weaponry

Using a Crossbow from a raft or mount will work. If you don't have either of those, or don't want to use them, you can lure them to the shore and safely attack them from land.

Weakness

They are very slow and have low health and attack range. Even a

Utility

Roles

• Swarming Tactics/Troll: Despite being untameable and usually useless beyond harvesting their Bio Toxin, they can be utilized for the cheeky purpose of congregation. All one has to do is to take a sea creature that is immune to the electric shocks of the Cnidaria, like a
  
   Basilosaurus or
  
   Tusoteuthis, and aggro a group of them, allowing them to follow you wherever is desired. Knowing this, one can attract sizable swarms of these jelly-fish, which can be led to another survivor's underwater base (if insufficiently protected) to harass, knock-out, and/or kill tames and survivors. This trick can also be applied in underwater combat (though only reliable in specific circumstances) when used as a small buffer to protect oneself or deter an enemy as well as stun-locking and eventually killing survivors and tames if given the chance.

Notes/Trivia

For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Cnidaria, see the relevant Wikipedia article.

• Dino Dossier was revealed on 09/30/15 on Steam.[2]
• Cnidaria is actually the name of the phylum containing all jellyfish - plus corals, anemones, and other related animals.
• Cnidaria's genus name comes from the Greek word knide, meaning 'nettle'. Its species name Omnimorph roughly translates to "all forms". This refers to the fact that it resembles many different species of jellyfish rather than just one, as Helena points out in the dossier.
• Despite its similarities to real-world jellies, the Ark's Cnidaria can produce electricity, along with the explosive harpoon-like stinging cells called Nematocysts or Cnidocytes shared by all animals within the phylum Cnidaria, to tranquilize prey into submision.
• Basilosaurus, Liopleurodon and Tusoteuthis are the only creatures that won't be paralyzed by Cnidaria, however Tusoteuthis's movement speed will be decreased if it's being zapped by them.
• The dossier states that Cnidaria could be harvested and used for "technically advanced long-distance tranquilizers", referring to the Shocking Tranquilizer Dart you are able to craft from the Bio Toxin dropped by Cnidaria.
• v253.9 brought the Cnidaria to The Center map.
• Interestingly, the dossier calls it a herbivore but if forcetamed it will eat meat. This is most likely an oversight of the developers.
• The Cnidaria being a carnivore ingame is actually accurate to real life, as jellyfish (or all Cnidarians for that matter) are in fact carnivorous.
• Despite not recieving buffs and debuffs, it can be one-shot with a tropical wyvern's breath attack

Changelog

Gallery

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  Survivors fighting Cnidaria

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References

1. ↑ ARK Smart Breeding
2. ↑ Introducing the Cnidaria and ARK Digest 17!