Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a reaper? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a reaper.
you can not reroll stats with the same reaper they will pop the same every time
you can not find colored reapers until one pops, the color of the reaper will repeat from the same reaper but you will not know it pops colors til one pops, queen will look normal.
you can transfer with babies in you
shotgun spinos or reapers on drakes back for extra 75lvls
blackbox self with cooked meat for baby to harvest you when popping in a closed room(this way it cant run anymore and will feed itself almost to full grown on x4 if not full)
to get pregnant build the oldskool larger trap its more efficient on gaining reaper aggro and animations run smoother) and preferably build outside of rads, rads will instakill your baby if you get even a glimpse of rad sickness
use magnifying glass to check reaper hp.
all the tips you really need
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
Since Dododex hasn't added the raising times I will.
12 hour pregnancy
7 hour 30 minute baby stage
Total maturation time 3 days 3 hours
Total time with pregnancy 3 days 15 hours
Baby reapers eat 6 stacks of cooked meal per hour.
45 stacks should be enough to account for spoilage until it's out of baby stage.
To feed baby reapers easier make an airlocked pen and get a though full of cooked meat in your inventory 5 minutes before it hatches. Use a pheromone gland 3 minutes before birth and then claim it and stay in it's inventory. Force feed it cooked meat as it bites you since biting you makes it lose food. Then once it kills you it should collect all 60 stacks into it's inventory. Use a gland to make sure and if not feed it until gland wears off and stand on your body so the reaper eats the body.
Good luck!
Easiest way to raise a Reaper:
Create a pen big enough for a Maewing.
Stock the maewing with cooked meat.
Birth the reaper (easier if you have pheromones so it doesn't attack) and go to your Maewing and use "pickup nearby babies".
This will put the baby in the Maewing saddle and now it cannot roam around OR attack you.
Remember after you have been impregnated by the reaper queen (by lowing it’s health it not sure the spike in its back will grow red) taking any radiation poison will kill the reaper king inside of you
You can tame them really easily on gen 2. Just find the reaper u want and lead it under Rockwell’s heart into the acid. The acid drain it’s health really fast and you can get them day 1 easily.
The reaper king can be obtained in baby form by weakening the Reaper Queen and letting her impregnate you. I prefer to trap her to weaken her, she will almost kill you when impregnated so make sure you are well equipped with Medical Brews and good armor and a good shield. Any creatures you kill during the players pregnancy will boost the level of the Reaper King baby. Good luck guys.
You can now transfer servers while being pregnant, you can also die witch is good I guess.
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
If reaper queens spawn on crystal isles, get impregnated asap! The devs will fix that and you won’t be able to get reapers on crystal isles!!
If your plan is to build a huge army of Reaper Kings, build an outpost with a high to max level Queen inside of it with foundations at the bottom, so it cannot bury to escape.
Once the baby is born, you can use either a creature that can carry other creatures or a Maewing so that Pheremone Glands aren’t a problem.
Imprint and continue making your army!
Same person who did the easy carcha no trap tame tip
If you dont have a sheild or ur scared to dismount I recommend using a crab. you can easily dismount and hop back on quickly to get her attention and you can also hit her with a tool on the crabs back to get her attention(I had problems getting her to focus on me)
Can you force tame the queen reaper?
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
Use a LVL 200+ megalosaurus or spino with a light pet to kill low levels and trap a high level.
Was able to transfer to exctinction while pregnant and nothing happened to offspring. It was still on the same timer/xp.
I’ve found that if you catch your baby reaper in the jaws of a mega it’s easy to cryopod him. When you throw him he will no longer be hostile however you won’t be able to fill his inventory with meat from killing you
So if u spawn a r-reaper and a regular reaper queen u can get Impregnated by both and when the timer is done u will have both a r and regular reaper king
Players ARE able to give birth to reapers on Genesis.6-19-20 build a closed pen, buy max amt of meat and let it eat you.
Caution: YOUR OWN LIGHT PETS WILL WEAKEN YOUR OWN REAPER. I was riding my reaper toast, while I had my bulldog Soup on my shoulder and soup was lit up. I didn’t think anything much of the yellow stuff toast was emitting, but long story short fall damage from the reaper jump ability almost killed my reaper. So do not pair light pets with them. Even if they are your own.