Coelacanth
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Coelacanth/Coel_Character_BP.Coel_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Coelacanth (Underwater)
admincheat summon Coel_Character_BP_Ocean_C
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Coelacanth/Coel_Character_BP_Ocean.Coel_Character_BP_Ocean'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Aberrant Coelacanth
admincheat summon Coel_Character_BP_Aberrant_C
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Coelacanth/Coel_Character_BP_Aberrant.Coel_Character_BP_Aberrant'" 500 0 0 35
The Coelacanth (see-luh-kanth) is one of the creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Contents
Basic Info[edit | edit source]
Dossier[edit | edit source]
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.
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Coelacanth nutritia is one of the few creatures on the Island with a relative which can be found back home. The Coelacanth thrive in the waters around the Island, as well as within rivers and lakes. Unlike most Coelacanths, Coelacanth nutritia meat contains less oil and urea. In fact, it is one of the healthier sources of meat I've yet found. Most Coelacanths are opportunistic feeders that eat anything smaller than itself, likely including baby water snakes, insect and plant life, and perhaps each other?
While their limited intelligence makes them unsuitable for taming, Coelacanths provide a viable source of meat for coastal or water-dwelling tribes. Many a day has been spent fishing by the water's edge, often with surprising results, as Coelacanths often have consumed discarded garbage that is sometimes of great value. Due to their small size, though, a larger tribe would require a significant number of Coelacanths to feed itself. |
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~ Helena |
Behavior[edit | edit source]
The Coelacanth will lazily swim around until provoked. At that point, they will swim away from the player.
Appearance[edit | edit source]
Coelacanths are lobe-finned fish, with rounded heads and eight fins. Unlike their dark blue and black real life counterparts, the coelacanths of ARK come in a variety of colours.
Color Scheme and Regions[edit | edit source]
This section displays the Coelacanth's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Coelacanth. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Coelacanth will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.
- Before Scorched Earth, the Coelacanth was the only creature to naturally spawn with any of the primary and secondary colors: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, or Purple.
This information can be used to alter the Coelacanth's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID>
in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6
would color the Coelacanth's "body" magenta.
Drops[edit | edit source]
Base Stats and Growth[edit | edit source]
Note that creatures will have different stats in Survival of the Fittest
Attribute | Base Value | Level Increase |
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Wild | ||
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30 | +6 |
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100 | +10 |
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N/A | N/A |
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100 | +10 |
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8 | +0.16 |
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5 | +0.25 |
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100% | N/A |
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15 | +0.9 |
- For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, see Base Creature Statistics.
- For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, see Creature Stats Calculation.
Movement | Base Speed | Sprinting Speed |
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Walking | 120 | ? |
Swimming | 150 | 315 |
- These are the base speeds of the creature at 100% Movement Speed.
- For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.
Bite | Stamina Cost | Attack Range | Description | ||||||||||
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Base | Minimum | Activation | The Coelacanth bites the target. | ||||||||||
0 | 150 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Attack Type | Damage | Projectile Values | Torpor Values | Status Effect: Stamina | Status Effect: Torpidity | ||||||||
Life | Impulse | Radius | Base | Mult | Duration | Damage Mult | Amount | Duration | Damage Mult | Amount | |||
Melee | 5 |
Combat[edit | edit source]
This section describes how to fight against the Coelacanth.
General[edit | edit source]
Coelacanth are frail and fairly slow. Hunting them is easy. If you have a Brontosaurus, going near a water source and simply swinging that way once or twice is a good way to farm these, considering the huge range of its attack.
Strategy[edit | edit source]
Coelacanth are extremely docile and passive, meaning they will not attack the player. Simply going into the water with spear at the ready is strategy enough. When you begin to attack them, they start to swim away, so if you have no level ups in Movement Speed or Oxygen chasing them may be a challenge. However, they still swim slowly enough while fleeing, that they can be caught up to easily.
Weaponry[edit | edit source]
Coelacanth have low health, and are easily killed with just a spear. (If killed with a spear, the coel will be automatically picked up by the player)
Dangers[edit | edit source]
Coelacanth by themselves do not pose a threat to the player, however other creatures, such as the Piranha, and drowning are things to look out for.
Weakness[edit | edit source]
They can't do anything to defend themselves and are killed easily; lower level Coelacanth can be simply one shot with a throw of a spear or just killed with your bare hands. The only weakness it is considered to have is its instinct to swim away quickly.
Taming[edit | edit source]
Coelacanth can be 'tamed' using Fish Basket
. While they can level, they do not eat from the trough. Just put food (meat or fish) in their inventory and force feed, if necessary.
Utility[edit | edit source]
Roles[edit | edit source]
Food Source: Leveling up Coelacanth will basically fatten them up and provide the survivor with a steady source of fish meat.
Pet: Coelacanths of all colors can add life to a base with a pond or other small water source.
Pearls: Coelacanths can yield Silica Pearls if being harvested by an Otter occasionally Black Pearls.
Notes/Trivia[edit | edit source]
For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Coelacanth, see the relevant Wikipedia article.
- In real life, Coelacanth's meat is actually bad for humans, as it contains oil, wax, urea, and other compounds that are hard to be digested. This could cause diarrhea. This is pointed out in the dossier, which states meat of Coelacanth nutritia contains less oil and urea than those of other Coelocanth species making it more suitable for eating.
- Coelacanth, was believed to be extinct 65 million years ago, until it was discovered again, alive, in 1938.
- As of patch v180.0, when you kill a Coelacanth or Piranha with a spear, the fish is instantly grabbed so that you can stay out of the water.
- Depending on how much melee damage % you skilled on yourself or your Dino, gives you more
Raw Fish Meat out of Coelacanths.
- Coelacanth are often a cause of severe lag for many players because they can spawn in enormous numbers in the rivers and lakes further inland. Therefore, a way to reduce lag for many local games is to lower the Dino Count from 1.0 to about 0.5.
- As of patch v235, Coelacanths come in different sizes, giving different amounts of meat depending on its size.
- As of patch v259, deep sea Coelacanths were added that are much bigger than ones found closer to the surface.
- Coelacanths are one of the only creatures in ARK to have an extremely similar real-life counterpart.
- Coelacanth do not produce
Feces.
- Helena has written in her dossier and notes that the Coelacanth have limited intelligence and are unsuitable for taming.
- The Coelacanth along with
Leech,
Piranha,
Sabertooth Salmon and
Trilobite became tamable with the
Fish Basket
introduced in Aberration.
- The Coelacanth is one of three creatures that spawn on all maps, the other being Parasaur and Equus, as well as the only fully aquatic animal on Scorched Earth
- Coelacanths are cloned by the
Overseer to maintain their presence in the ecosystem, because they are either completely unable to breed or their population is unable to recover manually.
- Coelacanths in ARK are not assigned genders.
- The Aberrant variant of Coelacanth is misspelled as "Abberant Coelacanth", when it should be "Aberrant Coelacanth"
Changelog[edit | edit source]
Patch | Changes |
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235.0 | Coelacanths now come in various different sizes |
240.0 | Coelacanth now drops ![]() ![]() |
240.2 | Fish should no longer get knocked around as much after death |
244.2 | Fixed issue with fish endlessly spawning on land near the Redwoods biome |
245.0 | Fish can now be fished using a ![]() |
254.5 | Coelacanth can no longer receive buffs or debuffs |
259.0 | Deep sea Coelacanths added with increased bias for larger sizes |
262.0 | Fixed an issue where wandering fish would cluster into a corner |
263.0 | Added a bunch of Coelacanth spawns to the main water of The Center |
275.0 Aberration Expansion Release |
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305.12 | Fixed a bug where the ![]() |
Gallery[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
1 Can be kept and released in a
Fish Basket
. Untameable on ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile.