Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a basilisk? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a basilisk.
Before taming get AT LEAST two magmasour, voidwyrm or anything that will take it. One male one femal have them breed on repeat until you get around five eggs. Mount a flying Dino of your choice with a ravager or the bulbasour trick and fly above it throwing down eggs. Boom now you get your own basilisk or as I like to cal it sasashaaahassicaasesesheth
You can pick it up with the Rhyniognatha even when it’s buried. Pick it up with the new bug, drop
It into a trap with, put down magmasaur eggs and profit.
Make sure to not loose Agro, will drop taming
Find a clear area/kill all dinos.
Drop your lightpet.
Put metal foundation ontop of lightpet.
Put Rock drake eggs ONTOP of foundation.
Lure Basilik to foundation.
Wa-lah!!!
It is a passive tame all you need is 16 pillars 4 foundations and 4 ramps place the foundations to make a big square then pillars around the outside of all foundations and then have add the ramps on one side and lure it in once it is it will not go into the ground and start taming, if you need wyvren eggs or magma eggs I suggest fire wyvren eggs because if you tame them on fjord it only takes 2 runs with a 5 minute break between to let them respawn to tame Max level tame make sure to let it eat one egg at a time must be dropped in the middle of the trap so it will eat the egg
Be carful never tame these until you get a rockdrake utherwise you are basically sacrificing 2 drakes so get a drake so you can easily gather eggs I world Recommend waiting until you have 3 drakes because early game loosing a drake is bad
Quick taming
1 take rockdrake eggs
2 find your basilisk and clear the area so it dont loses taming effectivnes
3 get a bit on high but not too much so the basilisk can agro you and drop down eggs
Needs rockdrake eggs, dont believe the golden eggs
Diplos can dig them out of the ground
This was so easy to tame all I did was accidentally drop an egg and the name your new basilisk came up but watch out for the radiation it kills them so easily
Can I use my rock Drake eggs or do they need to be wild eggs?
Trap: 2 stone foundations wide, 4 long, 2 dino gates snapped at each side, one on the end. Run basilisk in the ungated end, run around the trap and snap the last gate behind the basilisk. I have a ceiling 5 pillars high at the head end (just outside the trap) to drop eggs from. Once the basilisk is tamed, demo the last gate you snapped, and you can bring a new gate and reuse the trap. Been used on official without issue.
Just chunk a fertilized egg at it from the air
Basilisk are super easy to tame on fjordur. You can find them on Balheimr (volcano island). place a stone foundation on top of a shinehorn (found in abberation cave on midgard). Drop rockdrake eggs around the foundation. Use a desmodus or pteranodon to lead the basilisk to the foundation and it will agro on the goat but not be able to hit it. And it will eat the eggs.
-Fathom
You can now tame the basilisk with fertilized magmasaur eggs on genesis ! It was just released in the patch tonight !
You can tame it with fertilized voidwyrm eggs
I tamed my level 20 on 2x using 3 drake eggs. I strongly suggest using a trap. One behemoth gate and 5 dino gates did the trick for me. Just tossed the eggs down and went far enough away that it would drop aggro. Each egg gave abut 49.5% effectiveness. Good luck!
How to get a perfect tame on these guys?
1) Don’t lose aggro, taming effectiveness will drop quickly. Once you stop hearing boss music, dismount and get right back up in-front of its face.
2) Same goes for burying^, pillars and doorways placed on foundations will do the trick, avoid using solid walls to stay visible to the basilisk.
3) Eggs. They take a long time between feeds, as long as it is aggroed, you are doing nothing wrong. You can use a mount to drop eggs (from your own inventory) to it safely.
4) Taming it on foot? Bring stimulant & extra water, their bite still does decent torpor damage even if you wear a hazmat suit. Take a few steps back after you get hit.
Basilisks are one of my top favourites in ark, their zig-zag movement & it’s burrowing ability makes it really unique, I wish it could defend itself better from behind though.
If you build platforms bellow your cage when taming it you don't lose taming afishase
Taming a basilisk in crystal isles is utterly impossible if there are no rock drakes no magmasuars and we cannot use wyvern eggs... what do we do left? Slaughter them all? Snakes can still be cute when deadly alright? Stay safe around these giant wor.s dear survivors!