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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a basilisk used for? basilisk battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
I am posting a kewl, neat, or useful use for each and every tame in ASE, not the cash grab made by a certain molusk… anyways let’s get on with it.
The basalisk is a tame that I personally have never used but would like to in sometime. I love farming and caving, quite possibly the two least liked things in ark but I love them. And the basalisk has the 9th best base weight stat currently so it is great for farming. It has the best weight reduction for stone at 75% which is the same as the doedic but the big snake is faster and has a better overall weight stat. The basalisk is good for more than just grinding on pve, if you are a PvP chump and are into that you can use them greatly for defense in a raid. The taming process is not have as bad as it seems, just trap it in a 4x6 stone trap WITH FLOORS and lure it in with either a ramp or dino gate and throw fertilized wyvern eggs (level doesn’t matter so grab any egg you see in the trench) magmasaur and drake eggs work as well. Drop the eggs in the trap and watch it happen.
—your favorite pickle, SaltyPickle05
Honestly don't use the bury feature while you are riding it. To use it press the jump button while riding it. The ability is cool and it makes you untargetable but if you are anywhere near water it will likely glitch and send you and your basilisk through the map and kill you both. I lost a level 100 in the upper mushroom One because of this. The Basilisk is fast enough and tabky enough to run away from anything without using the bury ability anyway.
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.
WARNING!:Do NOT, i repeat, DO NOT, bury underground and go underwater. Even if it is the smallest little stream or pond that might not even register as water, as it will glitch your basilisk and you will lose it. It will be burried underground and will not respond to whistles.