Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Just kidnappe it and feed them with fish ._.
If you have an Argy, fly over the otter and pick it up with the argy's beak ('C' on pc). Land the argy and let the otter hang out in its beak while you bring fish over. I found I needed to drop the fish and pick it back up to target the otter. After having done this by following around a scampering otter with a dead fish pinwheeling wildly in my hands for 10 minutes the first time, I will never ever attempt it again without my argy.
Level melee for it to keep you warmer/cooler(idk why) more melee=more insulation
Level weight for storing artifacts inside it it can carry multiple artifacts and is the only tame able to do so also hide your bps inside em when you get raided only soulless people would kill a passive otter
Don't attack! It will otterly destroy you and your tame!
Whoever wanted an X-Otter back in 2021, you got your wish.
---Bob The Survivor, God Of The ARKs--
If you are playing on mobile you don't bring it a dead fish instead you have to feed it raw fish meat. Similar to what is done with the diplo or other dinos of that type you just wait for their hungry to reset as indicated above their head and then refeed them.
Baby otters will die almost instantly after being born be sure to feed it as soon as possible.
Mobile player, I was doing dodo hunt (kill 250 dodos. Not as easy as it sounds) with my Griffin and my otter, and my otter FELL OFF MY SHOULDER and landed in water full of mega. Then I start getting messages, "your Harry otter (otter lvl 57) killed a megalodon (lvl 30)" I got at least 5 of these. Go OTTERS!
Want an otter to keep you warm in the mountains? Want an otter to hatch dinosaur eggs for you? This is how you get one! (and keep her alive).
Assuming you are on the island, Otters are mostly found around the redwoods And the main thing is along the black sands. However, they can be found in almost every river in the game.
The otter eats whole fish carcasses, not raw fish meat. You have to approach her while holding a fish corpse and press "Feed".
An extremely important points
★ After you have finished the training put it in the inventory of the otter raw fish. Many times the otter becomes tame when there is no food on it and from there the road to starvation is very short. (R.I.P miss Otter Hightower)
★Otters can run very far, so confine them before training begins. They can be picked up with any flying animal the size of a pterodon or larger.
Successfully!
I caught my otter with a argen, just pick it up then press C to pop it into the birds mouth and he can’t escape! Land the birb and feed him Sabertooth fish for a fast and easy tame!! Up so other who don’t know this can see it, the argentavis is very useful for monkeys too!!
If you really want one it takes about 4 minutes to tame one and it takes about 6 fish meat ^ for more to see please do
I hate encountering wild otters cause I always feel like I have to tame them otherwise they’ll die in nature
ATTENTION MOBILE PLAYERS!!! on mobile you tame this cutie with fish MEAT. not fish CORPSES! ok?
On mobile: You can tame it passively by feeding it, prime fish meat > cooked prime fish meat > raw fish meat > cooked raw fish meat.
You can pick them up with Argies and tame them right in your base or if you have taming food on your hot bar, you can tame them in the air while the argy is carrying them.
They can’t carry artifacts on mobile but they still insulate both you and fertilized eggs.
⚠️ WARNING: YOU WILL MELT IF U SEE ONE, IT IS TOO CUTE ⚠️ Ok.. now that is out of the way, if u do survive the cuteness, this is how to tame it. I suggest you mainly look around the redwoods on the island, I have found 4 of them there. After you found one, you wanna try to wait until it is on land because it is easier that way. Next you feed it your raw fish. Prime fish works best. After a little bit of waiting you can feed it again. After a couple of fish, they should be yours!