Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
They spawn all over astraeos, and they usually have jellyfish near them. All you need to do is shoot the jellyfish with a crossbow and harvest. Should take a couple of them but its fine. Since the oceans in Astraeos are very shallow (with the archelon) its very easy to get silica pearls by killing trilobites. I got 200 after i killed a couple herds. So tame this thing ASAP!
More Archelon Taming & KO Tips
if you stand in front of its back left fin? it stops moving only for about 15 seconds but hey anything helps
with further testing you can also get a ai bug out by sitting on both left and right rear fins only for 15 seconds so not worth much
TAMING: Have your mount hit the archelon you want to tame (you might do this by accident will trying to save it), it'll aggro for a long time. Kite it onto the land and clear out any threats while you wait for it to catch up. Hop off your mount and whistle passive. The archelon will slowly chase down your tame allowing you to casually feed it bio-toxin or kibble from behind while picturing the steam roller scene from the first Austin Powers movie.
They seem to share a spawn with Cnideria, so be aware of that. Can be useful because you can kill them for the bio toxin to feed the Archelon. I seem to see one beached everytime I go to Herbivore island.
They will eat berries after taming
Breeding tip babies either need to be in a gigaraptor saddle or in the water or their health plummits very fast by 0.1 growth. Sorry for the category as I didn't know where to put this under.
DONT let their babies out of water
Seen a few in the swallow waters around herbivore island, seems to be a common spawn point for them
To find this wonderful creature, it has a chance to spawn near the Cnidaria. So if you find the jellyfish, you just might be lucky enough to find yourself one of these bad boys. Passive tame using superior kibble or Bio Toxin. Obviously the kibble will take less time, but use what you got.
You can raise babies using their algae.
Tame four or more high level Archelons, cryo them for a few days then release them and level them up in food only. Put them in water and harvest the Algae until you have 40+ stacks in a fridge. You should be harvesting almost two stacks per hour (@x1) . Breed them for eggs and incubate the eggs using a gigantoraptor. Hatch the eggs and immediately drop the baby then cryo it and release underwater. Manually feed them the Algae unit the hit juvenile. Then feed them Mejoberries from troughs.