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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a astrodelphis? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a astrodelphis.
Literally just make an argy trap in the space bridge area and trap it, feed it, love it forever. Also net gun works on them to separate form the rest of the pod
Do yourself a favor and find a YouTube video for a trap. Chasing them around is insane.
After about 1 minute of nothing happening, the Astrodelphis will start to lose taming progress, however, I have found that this does not affect taming efficiency. Nor does letting the Delphis knocking you back affect efficiency. Just keep in mind to be aware of your surroundings as you can be surprise attacked by a voidwyrm.
To get 100% taming it must be tamed during purple drops this is when element and element shards are the asteroids resource. It was so fast took like 10 element and got 100%
Passive tamed with element. Pretty much the same as passive taming a Diplo, they will attempt to play with you by knocking you back while doing 0 damage. Best strat is to wait for it to get stuck somewhere or kite it by staying next to it. The more element it ask for the more effective that feeding will be, typically I’ve seen them ask for 1, 3, 5, or 10 element at a time in that cycle on a slightly boosted server but could be more on official. Bring plenty of element as they do take quite a bit the higher the level. Thankfully element farming is easy, Saddle is unlocked at level 120 so no boss fight needed to get it, however you will have needed to do the Overseer, Rockwell, or Master controller in alpha, plus get a chibi to max to unlock the saddle.
I fed a 150 1 element and it got .9% tamed on official 1x
Depending on where the astrodelphis is within the space biome, you can trap them to tame them. 5 dino gates + 2 doors. Spaced wide enough for you to get through. In my case I used a combination of tek and metal gates and doors. Built the trap on the ship itself, not on any asteroid. Set the tek door to close after 4 seconds. Kited it down, bit me a few times but trapped her and floated above her petting and feeding element. Much easier than chasing her around. Not my idea, credit goes to youtuber Nappy_Playz.
If you have seen the one picture of leaks in ark genesis it looks like a space race car kinda
Feed it element to tame. Passive tame but will inflict damage at the beginning.
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.
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....
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
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.
(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.
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.
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
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!