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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

Anglerfish will damage wood. With that said, build a cage on your plesiosaur platform and trap it like a quetz. So much easier.
More Angler Encountering Tips
On mobile if you ride an itchyosaur anglers don't agro on you even if you attack them
Fun fact, Arks anglers are only half correct, you see only the females are big and powerful, the males are tiny and puny and all they do is attach to the female and then get absorbed by her, she steals his privates and then uses it to reproduce. She can do this as many times as she wants, with multiple males fused to her sides as she so pleases. This may sound disturbing, but there's a reason for this, angler live in the deep sea where it's dark and death can loom around the corner, and food can be quite scarce an elusive, so by having the males fuse to a female shortly after birth, allows them to co exist without competing with each other. This is also seen in spiders, but the spiders are less extreme, with the males just being smaller and eating something else, or hunting on the ground in opposition to the female on the web. Of course just like how the titaboa doesn't constrict its prey in ark, things like this are hard to program and difficult to balance. This would no doubt make angler breeding in ark absolutely OP, with allowing the female to select between differnt males to breed with on the same creature.
Adventure log- Angler aka goofy fish is one of the many creatures that lurk in the deep oceans of various maps. The have a light source that holds angler gel, which is bright and can craft light sources, like the attachable flashlight for tools an weapons. They are the only way too get it so far. On the Island, (Map) You can find them in the deepest layers of the surrounding ocean, specificly at the Twilight layer (there are layers in the ocean that differ from how much sunlight each layer gets) when observing them, make sure that you have SCUBA gear, acuatic tame, and that there are no dangerous creatures around. I belive that we need to know more of creatures that lurk amoung us in Ark!
SCUBA GEAR OR YOU WILL DIE BECAUSE IT IS TOO DEEP
(Mobile not sure about pc)
If these angler going after your tame just bite them they are like “why this thing so strong” “this is not good i must swim away” and just like that you can chase them k i l l them and harvest with an axe
Angler fish have the bright antenna, so look out for that whe. Trying to locate one.
It seems there is a strange circular underwater hill near herbivore island that is apsolutely crawling with anglers, how many does that mran? Well I've seen about the entire rest of the ocean's population of anglers all at that hill
In Mobile, these things spawn in the water section of the lower south cave the one you get the hunter artifact from.
There tend to be quite a lot of angler spawns in North zone near Carno Island
I don’t understand how people eat this thing, I just wet my pants looking at it’s face