ARK Survival Evolved – Can Different Wyvern Species Breed Together? Everything You Need to Know

No, having something defecate on your character does not hurt it. Unfortunately, I found out the hard way.

Ark uses the same mechanic for all dropped items, even though eggs and feces have a different look, they function the same as regular dropped items. There are a few ways to tell nothing is happening:

• Sound; Ark is (as of writing) still in development, but the game is very detailed. The fact that you don't hear an item dropping on the floor (only the defecating itself) hints that this is not an oversight.
• Forward movement; Items and feces are dropped/thrown rather than launched, which happens with stones (slingshot), arrows and bullets.
• Combat; Would a dropped item do damage, pets in the vicinity could start a fight while there wasn't any real combat initialized and the owner is on the other end of the map.

Knowing this, it should be safe to follow any Bronto you find. Watch out for flingers though, it could get pretty messy.

I've been testing this myself, and have come to the following rough estimate.
This is based on the sizes of creatures as defined by the size of their feces.

1. Small class dinosaurs are incapable of traversing one height walls
2. Medium class dinosaurs are incapable of traversing two height walls
3. Large class dinosaurs are incapable of traversing three height walls

It would seem however that the surrounding ground is important when trying to keep your base from being walked into.
Small hills near your base might enable medium size dinosaurs such as a t-rex to step over walls of two units high.

While I've seen a wild t-rex traverse a two height wall from an adjacent hill (to feast on our philo farm), I was unable to reproduce it on a tamed t-rex, so this might not be wholly conclusive and more in the realms of glitched pathing.