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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a reaper? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a reaper.
12 hour gestation, if you die you won't lose a baby unless in radiation, and you won't reset xp or time. Takes 3 and half days to raise after birth.
How to get your very own Reaper King!
First, if you haven't already, you're gonna want to get a Rock Drake. You don't NEED the Rock Drake, but it's heavily recommended.
With your tame, you're going to want to head down to the Radiation zone. Make sure to bring Hazard Suits, a Magnifying glass, A shield, and your Light Pet. (Glowtail, Featherlight, Bulbdog, or Shinehorn.)
Next, you'll want to build a trap, which I heavily recommend looking up a tutorial for. The trap isn't needed, but it makes things a hell of a lot easier.
Once your trap is built (if you're making one), You're gonna wanna find a Reaper Queen. These things can be identified by the strange moving dust clouds in the ground. If you approach one, there will be a queen. Lead that momma back to your trap and turn on your Light Pet, then start dealing damage to it. Make sure to check it every once in a while after blood starts to show, because you'll have to get it below 2,000 HP. Once it's below the 2,000 HP mark, you're gonna turn off your light pet and dismount your tame. You'll know it's ready when its glowing a pink color. Walk up to it and hold up your shield, because it might attack you even if its ready to impregnate. When it kneels down and sniffs you, it will grab you with its tail and pregnate you. Once you have the baby reaper, you're HP will be depleted to 1. (It doesn't matter how much HP you have, it will always be 1.)
After getting the baby, you can either use the queen as a baby farm, or you can kill it for the glands (Which you can use for the boss terminal.)
After leaving the red zone, you're going to want to go and kill lots of dinos for EXP. The max level for a reaper baby is +75 levels on top of whatever level the queen was. Usually on official rates, the baby will take 12 hours to get birthed if theres not an event. When you log out, this timer stops.
Once the baby is ready to birth, build a small room and wait for the baby to burst from your chest. Make sure to load yourself full of meat, because when you imprint it, the baby will kill you and take everything off your corpse. Raise the baby, and boom. You have a reaper king.
THINGS TO NOT DO.
Once you have your reaper baby, DO NOT go into radiation filled areas without a hazard suit. That's free abortion right there.
Do not birth the baby in open areas! It will run away and you'll never be able to find it again.
Enjoy your reaper!
If you put foundations under the reaper it can not burry. This way you can keep farming the same reaper for the best stats because every baby reaper, even if its from the same queen, will have different stats.
A rhythnio can pick it up. Do what you will with that’s info since it makes it easier to pick up reaper queens.
1: Go to Gen 2
2: Go into rockwell innards
3. Find Terminal
4. Set down beds beside terminal
5. Aggro reaper queen
6. Lead reaper queen down in pit with acid
7. Aggro reaper queen near back of pit (safer here)
8. While acid lowers queen reapers health find a good spot and shine a lantern at it to speed up process.
9. When reaper queen health is 2000 aggro up little hill in put away from acid.
10. Hold shield up and get fingered by queen.
11. Keep shield up until queen sniffs your butt
12. Get knocked up.
13. Fly up to terminal and heal your self
14. Fly out of rockwell innards
15. Use dino and kill all dinos for xp. (Up to 75+ lvls)
16. Build small enclosure.
17. 5 sec before birth use permanent from your hotbar.
18. Give birth
19. Claim baby
20. Give meat
21. Once baby is 10% (juvenile) it will look like a miniature reaper and no longer try to kill you.
22. Raise it. All done. Enjoy.
Spend hours finding high level queen.
Get pregnant.
Give birth in base with walls as high as a behemoth gate.
Lose baby magically.
Thanks ark.
Trap the reaper queen on foundations - that way it can't burrow after it impregnates you, and can do it again. This way, you can have multiple kings.
6/18/2020. You can still transfer pregnant to genesis. You can still weigh it down with meat. Dont believe the other posts
Maewing DOES feed baby reapers,
As of October 2020, you can transfer between servers without losing the baby. If you go to Crystal isles, you'll still have the baby but the timer will stop and will go back to normal once you travel back.
If you trap the reaper queen on foundations it can’t burry away after it impregnates you so the rest of your tribe can all get pregnant off one queen. Plus you can kill it once your done for some free levels on the baby <3
Use a LVL 200+ megalosaurus or spino with a light pet to kill low levels and trap a high level.
Drop everything, encumber yourself with food. Let the baby kill you, and you won't need to worry about watching it for all least a day. The 8 hour baby time means NOTHING
Make sure you have some heals on you when the reaper queen impregnates you!!
To get a reaper king I recommend you go genesis two keep the reaper in the acid until it is low health then get child run away then to get one on aberration just transfer from genesis two or build a trap and use a shield also another tip for aberration taming lead the reaper out the radiation zone trust me on piece of armour breaks you might need to make another set
Take a high level rock drake to find these things. Bring the health of the reaper queen to BELOW 2000. Then hit the Queen with a pickaxe while on the drake. She will grab you right off of it and impregnate you. Took me about ten minutes of hitting her on a level 200 drake with high health and and a melee damage rate of about 2000. You can check her health level with a magnifying glass while Your drake recharges it’s stamina.
If your finding low levels and don’t want to kill them. Kite them off a cliff and leave the render distance of said cliff and poof. They despawn and instantly respawn a new reaper. Once you find a good level (120) above for me. Try trapping it on foundations. That way when it impregnates you it won’t bury underground leaving you left to kill it and get max levels on the baby reaper. REC. use magnifying glass to see how low it’s health is. Health for impregnation should be below 2500. Then your ready!
I personally recommend using a Giga or Rock Drake if you don’t have a Giga, btw getting a Giga is easier than this I know from personal experience. Firstly, I think that both Aberration and Genesis 2 are equally hard to get one, unpopular opinion, as Aberration has seekers, radiation, nameless, horrible terrain, elemental rivers, and horrible creatures, spore don’t count due to hazmat suit. Genesis 2 has tentacles, summoners, swarms, acid pools, horrible creatures, and annoying terrain/spawns, such As a lack of places to set up good traps and the fact that Reaper Queens only spawn in the farthest section of Rockwell’s Innards. Plus too many summoners. The only reason I would recommend Genesis 2 isn’t that it is easier, but because you can go down there sooner. Btw, I’ve tamed Reapers on both maps. For Genesis 2, use a Giga or Rock Drake, with good melee and health, you can easily lose 20,000 health from a decent reaper so be careful. Also don’t turn on your light pet until you are near a Reaper Queen, unless you want to be constantly attacked by seekers and swarms. And don’t bother with the Rock Drake cloak, creatures will still attack you. I would recommend the tunnel to the boss summoning platform as only tentacles really spawn there. Bring the Reaper Queen there, turn on your light pet, and start killing, be wary of the Reaper’s health. Once low enough there will be a pink aura indicating it wants to mate , either bring a shield or be careful ,also, turn off your light pet. It should grab you but, it can glitch out, just be patient, once impregnated get out of there and kill creatures until you have enough for 75 levels and give birth, make sure the baby doesn’t escape and feed it then bam. For Aberration, wear hazard, if you’re impregnated and take radiation damage, the baby will die. You will want a light pet for this tame to be on, to keep the nameless away, but be careful of seekers. No trap needed, just use a Rock Drake, Gigas arent immune to radiation, then same process as before. Remember to wear hazard armor. There ya go! Thanks. I will do a Giga tip next -TGIB
One of the hardest tames possible, you must lower a reaper queen to 2000 health or lower from 45k while it is taking reduced damage from everything but bleeding effect, when it is at 2000 health a pink aura will appear around it and then you have to sit there on foot and let it grab you to impregnate you with a reaper king, btw radiation will kill it before born so be careful
If you wanna tame a reaper u gotta get a good weapon and I say a sniper ascendant is best and get a light source and get its health below 2000 then turn off lights and go near it and it will impregnate you