Baby Archelon in ARK: Survival Ascended must be raised in water to survive and primarily eat Biotoxin to thrive. While they can consume Mejoberries once they reach the juvenile stage, Bio-Toxin is highly recommended for babies to avoid starvation. They must be submerged in water immediately after hatching to prevent suffocating on land.

When breeding Archelon, make sure the babies are fully submerged in water or they will die. In addition, they can be fed with cheaply produced kibble (such as Basic Kibble) if you are running low on biotoxin

Raising Archelon needs to be done in water. Also they're bugged similarly to when snow owls came out. They eatt berries and eat more and faster then a baby giga. If you thought you could walk away, you were wrong.

DONT let their babies out of water

The archelon can also eat berries when tamed it really helps for stopping it from eating all your biotoxin

They spawn at herbivore island for my first sighting was there.

When tamed, these guys are amazing at getting biotoxin as they can’t be stunned much like basilosaurus. They also are super useful as the algae that generates in their inventory (more effectively while in water) can be used as taming food for herbivores at similar effictiveness as mutton. Archelon is also good at gaming tusos or ceratosaurus due to their super high health and abundance of higher quality saddles in drops

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.

Works great as an underwater transport unit, as it has a high base weight, decent movement speed and immunity to Cnidaria and Eels

Tamed Archelon in water produce Algae, which can be used as mutton for herbivores or to make Algae Sushi, a consumable item that can be remotely used on creatures to restore lost taming effectiveness

Chomp a Cnidaria for an attack buff, similar to the Megatherium bug buff.

Once buffed clearing the water caves and/ or Alphas is a breeze on these.

Maybe someone has already said this, but get biotoxin with this thing and put in ice wyvern inventory. Spoil time is 5 days, so a full stack spoils in 100 days. Major W.

Best bio toxin gatherer and really good against some harder creatures

If you are a solo on a vanilla server and plan to build in a perl cave this tame is a must. It is really tanky, has a suprisingly high damage for a herbivore and most importantly for a solo in a cave - it has massive weight allowing for transporting tons of loot underwater.

if you stand in front of its back left fin? it stops moving only for about 15 seconds but hey anything helps

Really good at collecting biotoxin and gets a lot of algae depending on it's food stat. Up it's food to get more

The first one I saw was on Lava Island on the Center, it was a 140 and I used it to perfectly tame a high level Pyromane because it's so slow and has a high health pool.

On rag they spawn east, right next to the desert between some rocks in the ocean. Hope this helps!

(Travelled the ocean for two hours to find the spot)

Don’t attack at lvl one please please please I’m begging and saving ur time

Passive tame. They like to spawn around jellyfish, so take a bary or basilo (your best bet). On center they are in the open water near skull island/redwoods. Superior kibble is really easy to make so just use that --AK

I’m not seeing anyone saying this, but they do eat berries and babies can be raised on berries biotoxin isn’t the only option