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.
The Basilisk Can Now Be Tamed With Fertilized Magmasaur Eggs in The Volcanic Biome on Genesis and Here’s a Tip if Your New To Taming a Basilisk, I Majorly Recommend That You Build a Big Enough Trap And Place Foundations on The Ground or They Will Borrow and Lose There Taming Efficiency and The Magmasaur Eggs Have To Be Dropped By Your Character Inventory Not Your Dinosaur Inventory or it Won’t Count, Good Luck Survivors!
Best most current taming tip, gather low lvl magmasaur and or rock drake eggs, put in player inventory, clear area around basilisk and or kite to a safe place and hover 1 dinosaur gate above it with an owl. Basilisk stays aggroed, not in horizontal range of uts poison spit attack, no building needed, drop fert drake eggs down and afk. Tame 10 event basilisk on crystal isles that way. Beautiful colors. Lvl 95 to 150s. Used a high lvl and high armor gasbag and saddle perched just right in volcano area on a rock piece where basilisk aggroed but couldn't poison spit me. Afk tamed multiple in same spot.
You CAN use Wyvern eggs (tested with Fertelized Fire Wyvern eggs) and I play single player with the taming rate boosted to 2x, but one eggs gave 77% taming done. Another thing is to KEEP IT ON AGGRO, if it buries (which it will once it loses aggro or shortly after) it will start to lose taming progress slowly. Recommended dino is a Desmodus or Griffin, stay low, and dodge attacks, all the while keeping it right on top of the egg. This worked on my PS4 edition.
Do Not I repeat DO NOT code yourself the fertilized eggs! It will not drop and you will probably end up just force taming the Basilisk… Hope this helps!
It eats rock Drack eggs and magmasoure eggs!!!!
For taming it is recommended to use a trap with foundations so it doesn't burrow. Remember they can fit through small dino gates.
Feeding intervals are actually 4:34 when taming.
They also eat wyvern eggs on Lost island, bit sure about the other maps! !!REMEBER THIS!!
Keep in mind when taming one of these beasts, that the taming calculator is off on the time interval. Considering that you need to start the taming sequence off with 1 Rock Drake or Magmasaur egg, you need to knock that 4 minutes and 10 seconds off whatever total time DodoDex tells you for your taming settings. I lost some levels on a max level Basilisk because of this fact that I wish I would have known. If you think I'm right, let people know.
Is a pain to tame i kept getting one shot bcuz its a 120
Basilisks can now be tamed with fertilized voidwyrm eggs!
Will not tame on 3 magmasaurs eggs on 3x
People think that you can only tame basilisks on ab and gen 1
But you are incorrect
On gen 2 you can feed them Voidwyrm eggs to tame
Tek suit in gen 2 doesn’t let the spit hurt you. Trap them in a 3x3 foundation, 3 doorframe high trap for an easy tame. Takes fert voidwyv eggs :)
Trap a light pet on the floor under a foundation so it keeps aggro and fly above it with your federation suit, then drop voidwyrm eggs and you have an easy basilisk game on hen 2 on gen 2
As of Genesis Pt 2, you can tame basilisks with Voidwyrm Eggs
The reason wildcard wont make them eat crystal wyverns eggs is because crystal eggs are easy to get. You passive tame wyverns and breed them, boom is basilisk. No, its a balance. Not tryna hate btw
It’s kinda like taming a Titanoboa, just bring a few extra eggs and a little more caution!
So I spent the weekend learning the light pet/metal foundation taming method. A couple of helpful tips for those interested in taming these using this method that the videos don’t mention:
1. The basilisk has to aggro you not your mount or it will not tame. It is important to use a large tame that normally won’t make the basilisk pop out of the ground because these are tames they don’t naturally aggro when hidden.
Dismount, aggro the basilisk and then remount before it hits you! This is important. If it hits you it will continue to aggro you and not tame! Kite the basilisk to the foundation with your mount to avoid getting hit.
2. Carry some throwaway podded tames like low level moschops. Use these to make the basilisk pop out of the ground so you can see it’s level. That way you don’t have to waste foundations. Let it kill them and then bury itself again.
3. Clear the area of other wild dinos before taming. If it gets distracted by a random wild it will stop taming.
GL
When you tame this creature you should use a bloodstalker and magmasaur eggs and a jerboa stuck under a metal foundation.