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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for basilisk? Tips and strategies for basilisk in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Bola your friend unless you aren't playing multi-player if u aren't ,run for your life
Get a rock drake, wyvern, tek wyvern, magmasaur egg farm or use low level eggs
Please I know basilisk may be annoying but be glad that most of the time you don’t find the alpha you need to fight alpha Rockwell
OH WAIT I WANT ALL THE TEK GEAR I MUST FIGHT ALPHA VARIANT WISH ME LUCK
Once tamed these critters are as gentle as puppies - and as deadly as a viper while protecting you
Easy tame - zip line, tanky ravager, handful of hazard helmets. Aggro, have line already placed at angle so you can adjust elevation above the basilisk. Jump on line near basilisk while he is biting, and inch up just until the bite barely stops reaching you. If you do this right and don’t put too much distance between you and snake he will keep biting and missing, and will not fire the gas and will stay there the entire tame while you drop eggs (FROM YOUR PERSONAL INVENTORY NOT YOUR TAME). Basically you’re staying between his two attack ranges. As long as no wild critters aggro him away you will get perfect tame. In an ideal world have a partner maintain a perimeter clear of wild dinos.
U need to have rock drake eggs to tame it preferably get low level rock darker eggs like level 50-15 if u are playing on max difficulty!!!
Takes 4 minutes and 10 seconds between eggs
Looks like a dragon worm. With freaky teeth.
Great it eats tek wyvren eggs now…
Bring it to a safe area or a cage to feed.
Try and line up the eggs and kill everything else around will make it easier tame
Havn't seen this yet, you can tame them with voidwrym eggs on Gen 2
Dont go underwater when buryed or it will get stuck but dont worry there is way you can unstuck it.Get yourself a whip and whip him to the ground and unbury him and there you go.
You can make a simple small trap using 1 stone foundation and 4 stone dino gates. Place 3 gates down on 3 sides of the foundation and kite it in, then place the 4th gate down to lock it in. You do not need the doors, just the gate frame.
For the best results the basilisk MUST stay aggroed the entire process. Walk around the trap on foot or keep a small dino near by to keep aggro. You will lose eff if it de-aggros. Ravagers are great for this as they are semi tanky and highly resistant to their torpor bite.
The eggs MUST be tossed from the players inventory and if taming with a tribemate, the eggs must be tossed from the same players inventory. Dropping eggs from dinos or multiple players will confuse the basilisk and it will refuse to eat. Pick up all eggs and re-drop from the original player to fix.
You MUST stay in render range. Leaving render will burrow the basilisk. If it burrows in the foundation it will get stuck and be untamable.
Finally, the time between eating can be quite long. Between 2-5minutes. Dont worry if it takes too long to eat. If you feel its taking too long try picking up all eggs and try dropping them closer. It may be trying to eat an egg it cant reach. You CAN drop all eggs at once or one at a time but make sure it can reach every single egg otherwise it will get stuck and wont eat any eggs. It eats the eggs in order they were dropped. Try to kill off any dinos that may accidentally walk by and attack the basilisk. If taming in the red zone, have a cryopod ready as tamed basilisks take radiation damage.
You can not knock out a basilisk and they’re very hard to fine when they’re underground
If you see one when you’re not trying to tame it run a lvl 3 jumped me and 1 shorted my while I had full flak