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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a ichthyornis? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a ichthyornis.
The taming time on raw fish meat is less then 6 hours.
These things are weak so use darts since it does less damage, easiest way to knock it out is to watch it until it comes down to steal your stuff then bola it head on. Worked every time for me. Also force feeding it a little meat will keep it from dying, that's what happened with me. Hope this was helpful.
Tamed a level 100 and it took 2 hours with regular fish meat. It also took 3 tran arrows to the body with primitive crossbow. Make sure to have a berry picker with you for narcoberries because I used over 1000 narcos to keep it knocked out in the process. But if any of you are wondering if you still get prime from these fellas...yes you do :)
All you do is:kill megalodon then harvest fish meat, bola your seagul, punch it then give it the needed fish and a few narcos and your good!
Me and my friend have an ark world and I wanted a shoulder riding so we tried taming a hespi but we failed then a dimorphodon landed we tamed him and called him Dave but now my friend wanted an ichthy so we tried taming one it was hard but in the end we bolad one. It was low lvl so I was gonna punch it but before I could my friend shot it with tranq arrows from a CROSSBOW and killed it so now we need to find a new ichthy to tame. R.I.P the ichthy who didn't have a name and wasn't even tamed
DO NOT USE ARROWS, the tool tip is wrong, it kills them. Use tranq darts.
DONT USE REGULAR FISH FOR ANY LEVEL. Find a Leeds (even baited via raft) scrape the fish, and tame your gull.
They are hard to bola and even harder to shoot while in the air, so wait for them to land before trying anything. Once it’s on the ground you can bola it, and tranq it. If you don’t want to tame them and they are being annoying little buggers, you can just bola and kill ^^
When taming, do NOT use a crossbow and tranq arrows, as it will die in one shot if under lv 30.
Ironic that their favorite kibble is pegomastax. Both little shoulder-pets like to steal stuff.
Just use a crossbow and 2 tranq arrows after it finishes fishing.
Split all your stacks of food while trying to bola it. That way if you miss, you only lose one good item at a time.
It took 1 tranq arrow with crossbow for lvl 5, but I wasted about 25-30 tranqs in the process. So have about 40 tranqs and a crossbow.
Don't let it take your stuff it took my journeyman crossbow and I killed it but it didn't give it back like a pegomastax
Annoying little b*ggers but can have their uses. If you have them on your shoulder and you enable hunt, they will gather fish, but they fish they gather will turn into lovely gorgeous prime fish. Fabulous ;)
Don't bring ascendant pike.....freaking tore my pike to shreds
Never tame with a tranq arrow, despite the bow, you’re probably going to kill it no matter what. I found a really nice high level and two shots of the arrow killed it. AVOID HEAD SHOTS ESPECIALLY. Also wait longer than usual between each hit. They’re feisty but squishy.
When they’re sitting on the ground quickly sneak up and bola it and take it from there.
If it sees you, goodluck. Prepare to get robbed and killed.
A pain in the ass to tame but when tamed early game can help tame spinos, Baryonyx, basilosourus, and more.
These very annoying seagulls are kinda hard because to bola them is hard because they are fast when they go down to steal something from you. If you can boal this bird knock it out with a club and also tranq arrows. And for its food give it raw fish or cooked fish to tame it.
Bola it from the sky over land and shoot ONCE with a crossbow (no headshots) then wait... if its really bloody then there’s a good chance it’s going to die but if you feel like it needs one more shot than go ahead