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Basilosaurus
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An amazing badass dinosaur. When I was bringing this dude back to my base, I kept getting swarmed by mega’s. My bailo kept pulling me out of tough situations and easily could take on four megas at once. Just make sure to buff up its health as it takes awhile to even damage this dude. Literally, my favorite dinosaur. I’d pick bailo’s over mega’s any day.

When taming, make sure you kill all the mantas as they are a pain in the ass when your trying to tame the bailo. I got lucky and found my bailo stuck on a rock in shallow water, allowing me to kill all the mantas. I’d recommend a sarco or itchy for keeping up with the bailo as you try and tame it. Make sure to get the mantas to follow you out of the water and where the water is shallow enough for you to stand. Pikes are could for killing these mantas, just hold the attack bar down as they circle you, don’t let up or your dead. Stay near the shore when taming. Be patient and wait for the bailo to come to you when trying to find. :)

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Even if you don’t have the saddle Engram for it you can use it as a way to get free oil 😱😱😱😱. Like so low level ppl can see

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A great beginner tame, once you have an icthyosaurus, you can swim up to it and passive tame it. I just tamed one, and less than 5 minutes after I tamed a level 4, it’s killed 2 megalodons and 4 mantas. Like so noobs and beach bobs can see.

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Good for farming bio toxin, as it can attack Cnidaria without being stunned or knocking off the rider. Takes damage when it goes too deep, though surfacing rapidly heals it.

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Good fighter, immune to jellies, supernatural healing boost at the surface, produces oil in its inventory, impervious to squid grabs, looks kinda cute too, only one bad thing about it: it gets squashed in the deep! Only slowly but the damage is there!

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Can kill squid like their kin in real life. Tame a 150 and you can take on alphas like they are regular ones. Just up health and memes. They recover steam so quick boosting it is pointless. An all around amazing creature, 10/10.

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King of the sea. A tuso or mosa will do more damage but you can not be knocked off a basil making them essential for underwater caves which are full of jellies, Eels and even tuso's. They are also the perfect size to navigate through them without getting stuck or having to dismount. If you have a Baryonyx they are very easy tames, just use the AoE spin attack to kill all the Manta's and you can passively tame it at your leisure. Combine their oil with organic poly and water in a cooker to make soap which doesn't expire and can be ground back into oil and organic poly when you need it.

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Oh my god it does not get effected my jellyfish this is one of the best creatures ever.

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Mine just ate an alpha mosasaur.

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Reasons to tame a basilo:

1. Water tanks. They can take damage and dish it back out. I killed a moss with mine.

2. Fast health regeneration near surface. Fight any surface predator and barely lose any health

3. Makes oil.

4. Keeps you warm in cold places and cool in warm ones

If you don’t have a basilo, tame a basilo.

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Generally surrounded by what appears to be some sort of coral fern. Coral fern is in fact a swarm of feral majestic sea flap-flaps. Swarm is protective of their oily host.

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