It’s a fricking giant wale. It’s a must tame

Best way to tame is to use a hover skiff with a cannon on it to get nice and close. No traps needed. But this might not work for all people

Use a skiff with a cannon on the back

When this first introduced I thought it should be huuuge and that you would have to remove like large ticks and other stuff to tame it almost like the pods that you have to do waves to get but to tame it

I’ve heard a lot of questions ab the play saddle so imma explain the best way to use it: make the two foundations on it. Then make a ceiling connected to one, in any direction. You can now place another foundation below the ceiling, then destroy the ceiling and you have a foundation attached to one of the other base foundations. Repeat as necessary

Astrocetus taming is currently a little buggy on xbox official version. They appear to lose 5-10% effectiveness for each piece of kibble they consume. I'm sure this next part is intended, but for every non-torpor inflicting cannon shot the whale loses a chunk of taming effectiveness. My reference is while taming a 100 astrocetus, it came down with 75% effectiveness, and as it ate kibble it eventually dropped to less than 20% effectivenes.

If you have a Mek with a cannon attachment it will only take 1 or 2 shells with that

Imagine a baby astrocetus! A cub! So adorable!

A possible way to tame the Astrocetus is by•••

If you have a quetzal with platform saddle put a cannon on its back then go to space biome knock it out with cannon and slap some mutton in it. BOOM you’ve got a space whale

Use stryder chest cannon it will be an easy knockout

Ok these things as I said in a resent tip are the ark equivalent of a B-52 bomber and if you pair these with rock elementals but more profferably bear sloths you can drop down even more bundles of destruction on your target and if you have enough room you could maybe fit a velonasaur or 2 on to take care of the aerial targets the bear sloths can do it as well I guess but velonasaurs are more officiant at the job so pair these creatures together and you have a great base bomber. Hope this tip helps and see you in the next tip ;) - A.L.N.A

The ark equivalent of a B-52 bomber.

If I can’t use the Tek sciff what is the easiest way to tame one

Best strategy is gliding with a rock drake, aggro the whale and get to an asteroid, leave the whale hit the drake, use mek hit on face and let it starve, be sure to hit the whale while gliding or it won't aggro enough to follow you up to the asteroid

Wile the Astro is quite slow it can tp a bit ferther to get around a bit faster,and eats a LOT of meat so make sure it’s well fed.-DJ Fox7222

On 5x Taming it takes 2 Hits to knock out a 150

bruh you dont need any narcotics if using any other technuiqes

Use pillar trap like wyvern trap 2 cannons on a bronto plat or in ceilings of pillars and shoot they are awesome even better when u dont have saddle they dont sie

Primitive Mek and Cannon attachment will one hit KO any level, but the taming effectiveness will be destroyed. Not sure if this is because of splash damage or if it’s intentional

Can you breed this thing or are they just like rock golems ??