I suggest making a trap for it made of stone and having it follow you that way you don’t have to worry about it running away after you pet and feed it.

You can complete starwing strike alpha, by simply leaving your controls alone and being afk.

What I do... I use Helena to scan it to see its lvl bc I have trouble with the spyglass on space biome..I will aggro it and lure it into the bridge and take it up a bit so it stays out of the space biome and not have to worry about voidwyrms... once it is where I feel is far enough I will tek speed run away and leave render...I will then pet and feed it

If u have a mount or shoulder pet with u u can store the element inside and just use 1 to feed. Best way is to lure the dolphin in one of these small air vents on the walls and trap it with 4 small gates. So it can't run away and u stand next to the dolphin and wait to pet and feed only a single ele. This method uses only 1/3 of the element in the description....

My tribe uses the skiff to pick up the dolphin and when you do that you hop off the skiff and you can freely tame the dolphin.

For those on console (don't know if it works on PC) if you are having trouble with the cross-hairs tilting to the middle right in the starfighter mode and is doing the same on GEN2 Mission StarDolfin here is how to fix it, jump in the space dolfin and go into settings, then click on HIGH DETAIL (should fix it) while in the starfighter mode or play with the UI Scale settings.

If you derender it while taming while it’s running away or if you’re distracted by an external threat, the taming effectiveness will go away and you will no longer be able to feed it.

You just have to grab element from the blue crystals in the space area. Then you make sure no voidwryms are trying to murder you. Then you just hunt it down with a stack of element in your hotbar (I have tamed at least 15 for no reason

Using a 3 Dino gate long taming trap works best, I connect the ends with 2 gates each side so the result is a hexagon, so it can’t knock u away during taming

Never bite with this creature as it will drain its stamina FAST

If in a fight use your grenades or run.

PvP players: ark outdid themselves they made an even more unbalanced Dino

That kid who’s friend let him use the space dolphin: lasers go burrrrrrr

(I’m writing this off my own experiences from taming it, hopefully it’ll be helpful to you, the reader!) For taming you need to trap it (most preferably 5 gates in length) it can be very difficult to trap but as long as you get a straight angle you should be fine. They can attack and their attacks have massive knock back (making trapping more difficult). For taming you need to pet it (sometimes more than once) and then feed it element which increases each time you feed it (1, 3, 5 and 10 then it resets back to 1) Make sure you keep petting and feeding since it can loose like 30% if you stop for a short time. Element can be found during purple drops in the blue-ish area. Hope this helps.

Tamed by petting then feeding element from hot bar

They can be found in between the biomes in the asteroid area

ima tell yall something

make 4 gateways not S+

then make 2 gates not S+

then put em in a line like this llll all in a row in the space docks

then find the one you want

equip your tek gear

dont speed boost away from it just fly slowly away

kite it while doing this

then lure it in on one side

then close gate

and then feed it element

BAM ENJOY YOUR DOLPHIN

-Toad

You tame this creature by giving it element once you have the element put it in the last slot of you hot bar pet it it can take several time so don’t get disceraged it will run away and you will have pet it again or give it element to tame after it is tamed give it MEAT don’t do the same mistake I did by giving it element after it was tamed

Ps. if other Astrodolphis see you feed their friends they will attack you

Just when killing one of these remember to use flame arrows because when they take damage they are stunned and flames will stun them every other second

I find it very easy to make a trap with any kind of behemoth gates I did (4). Then find dolphins near by then pull aggro. Hope this idea helps any other hunters. Enjoy!

It’s not as big as it appears in the pictures.

Build a trap out of 4 or 5 dino gates in a line with a door at each end, then get the dolphin to follow you in closing the door behind it. Keeping it enclosed makes it much easier to not miss a pet or feed. Watch out for the time if you build on an asteroid because at midnight the asteroid will disappear!

The feeding cycle goes: pet-wait-pet-1element, pet-pet-3element, pet-pet-5element, pet-pet-pet-10element. It will then cycle back round.

Anyone know why I keep losing effectiveness everytime I feed it element?