Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
3 min 30 second feeding interval it seems. I have better taming effectiveness by keeping it aggroed while running it in circles. Lvl 20 only took 2 eggs. Lvl 85 took 4. Drop 1 egg. Aggro. Let it feed. Start stopwatch. When ready to feed it rears up n screams but does not spit
Ok, listen up they can spawn in the portal area. It killed me and friends about 10 minutes in the dlc. It just spawned in our faces.
Guys the rhyniognatha can pick up the basilisk i found it cool to be able to pick up a giant snake
So I just started abb and I was doing well running from carnos and raptors that, luckily, did not see me. Then I found some stegos to hide by and there was a trike not too far away it’s head was glowing red I was so confused. Welp let’s just say I did not see that Balisk intil it popped out of the ground shot poison at missed hit a stego and then want on a rampage killing everything on sight. I ran for the tunnel that separated the portal and the world outside I made it and I’m hiding there right now
(Sorry little lengthy) by a noob of aberration
AS OF FJORDUR UPDATE: basilisks can now eat fertilized wyvern eggs! I got a 145 to down ONLY wyvern eggs and it completely tamed! It might hurt the taming effectiveness some but I’d say it’s still worth it if you’re not ready to get rock drake or magmasaur eggs! I did this on PS4 with no mods, meaning it should work on at least other consoles and hopefully PCs too! Up if you want fellow survivors to see this so they can stop risking their butts in the magmasaur and rock drake caves and have an easier time nabbing some wyvern eggs! (I know it works with fire and poison eggs, I haven’t tested other variants)
So, my friend and I are playing Fjordur until I have the great idea "Let's go tame a basilisk!" So we go to Balhmeir and find one burrowed. My friend was in a mech and shot it, and the splash damage got it out of the ground. We were on the ground with it, and turns out it was an ALPHA BASILISK. I think the ark Devs were a little high when making this...
Easiest and most cost effective way to Tame a Basilisk.
You need:
1x small shoulder pet ( I prefer Bulbdog but use whatever you want)
1x Metalfoundation
Enough eggs to Tame your Basilisk (check Dododex for thst based on your settings)
1x Eather Tek suit or Crossbow with grappling hooks
How to:
After you found your desired Basilisk go as close as you can to it without waking it up.
Place your shoulder pet on the ground and then place the foundation on top of it so that it's below the foundation (careful as sometimes if you go a bit away from the foundation the light pet will popp back on top of the foundation so check if it did)
Throw the eggs on top of the foundation.
Now get close to the Basilisk and lure it towards the foundation. Once it is near the foundation Eather jump with the Tek suit and fly far above him or grapple with the hook. The basilisk will loose Interest in you but will aggro on the Bulbdog and try to bite it but it can't hit it. It will remain there forever and never even bother to burrow. It will eat the egg on its own when it wants to (be careful of other Dinos as they might aggro on The pet too and due to that hit the basilisk.)
Now just wait and voilà you for a Basilisk.
Watch out in volcano biome on genesis these oversized drugged titanoboas will kill you while you’re trying to complete a hunting mission just by following the tracks, I think it’s because I’m on a rock drake though
Aggro range is crazy long. The poison is easy to dodge but I haven't been able to get away from it yet.
You Can Now Tame The Basilisk With a Fertilized Magmasaur Egg in The Volcanic biome on Genesis! Here’s A Tip if Your New To Basilisk Taming, I Majorly Recommend Placing Foundation’s on Your Trap Because They Will Borrow Underground if There’s No Foundation Placed and Lose There Taming Efficiency Also The Fertilized Magmasaur Egg Has To Be Dropped From The Players Inventory Not Your Tame! Good Luck.
Get yourself a Rock Drake, Karkinos, Spinosaur or any other creature usually ignored by this creature, dismout to gain its attention and mount again; Drop the Rock Drake Egg from YOUR inventory and proceed to circle the Basilisk until it looses interest on you. Wait for the feeding interval to end, repeat.
If you have access to a tek chestpiece and some element, you can hover and dodge spit while dropping eggs. And if you have a full tek suit, you dont even need to dodge spit as you'll be immune to it
The Basilisk can deal torpor damage. It deals 3x your Basilisk's melee damage over 10 seconds. A 500% melee Basilisk will deal 1500 torpor damage over 10 seconds. Bite once every 10 seconds to make full use of this. Take into consideration a wild dino's natural torpor depletion rate.
Get a rock drake, wyvern, tek wyvern, magmasaur egg farm or use low level eggs
Attempt after attempt after attempt, the truly best way to tame them is to throw a pet or small dino, set a stone foundation on it, throw the eggs on top of that. It can't break the stone foundation, it will exclusively focus on the pet, occasionally eating the eggs while attacking. I found this strat way deep in the comments, so hopefully people see this and get it around.
I don’t know if this is going to help anybody, but my partner and I have tamed three different Basilisks with Fertilized Fire Wyvern Eggs. On Fjordor, we would use the arches from above the Basilisk, and drop the eggs down below to them. This was done by the volcano where Gigas can also be found.
I hope this helps somebody!