The guy who said "First make sure the area is clear" bro I spent 5 hours waiting for the area to clear.

Just get a meg or a high level icthy and lure the mantas surrounding it to someplace more open and kill them. If you kill the first lot following the basilo, another lot won't spawn and the basilo will be perfectly alone.

Keep in mind if any creature attacks the basilo, the taming will reset.

Good for farming Bio Toxin.

They are immune to Cnidaria

You can find basilosaur spawning in the circular water bay just behind blue ob on the center in ASA. We just tamed a 145 that finished with 461% mele.

The dinos spawn frequently at a higher level on the center.

I can only say that this guy is a legend. No one can win them in sea if you breed them with 3x stats. 160% speed and nearly 30k hp is really sick. You can easily clear any underwater cave.

Special trait: mantas and ichys will surround the basilosaurus, protecting it. (When you feed the basilosaurus on a non-water creature, like a sarco, the mantas will attack, so be careful). Pro tip: find them on herbivore island, in the bay.

I live on herb island and they spawn all around me just tamed one and it's my second most powerful tame (after a spino). These r a must have in my opinion

In ARK: SURVIVAL EVOLVED MOBILE, these guys can also make oily ink like the tusoteuthis(I am not sure with the other arks though). Refinable too already. Need not taming a tusoteuthis anymore ‘cause this guy does that work. Got one named Dolphy and he produces oily ink every few minutes. Max stack is probably only 29.

Produce oil, immune to electro chock

The best marine mount if it was faster

The mantas don’t follow it to proteck it they follow to get the food they leave behind

They're the safest most care free marine mount you can get. Only down side is they're slow

I tamed one and it started making oil but the oil is purple but I take it out and more is made it looks like tuth oil

If you are like me, a noob who is scared of literally every dino in ARK, then you can find these guys stuck against rocks in the ocean in the shallower waters, there might be Megs near by so be careful, just feed it raw meat you will have a new pet whale that sings.

Keep in mind that the second time the Dino eats it takes about 5 mins to eat again but after then will be a lot quicker

The basilosaurus is the king of the ocean. Nothing can stop a perfect tamed 150. Really good to farm black pearls off alpha mosas n squids.

Killing Low level Basilos are a great way of Obtaining Raw prime meat. Unlike other creatures, Basilosaurus ONLY DROPS Raw prime meat.

Very easy to trap and tame on Crystal Isles.

There's a river on the west end of the redwoods that's considered ocean so they'll spawn in it. Just gate off each end to trap the basil, kill whatever's in the water, and you don't even need a water tame.

I’ve tried to take these twice and failed both times. Damn Mantas. They are my second least favorite Ark water creature.

Just tamed a Bali named it basil and she faught off like 8 megoladon

Good job basil. 1 up for more megoladons being killed with a Bali

Mobile passive taming for this guy is easy,

1. Get a Ichthyosaur

2. Hit the basilosaurus once and guards will flee

3. Hunt megalodon and get their prime meat via pickaxe

4. Passive tame basilosaurus

These guys are very good defense and I found mine around herbivore island.

Easiest way I know to tame them is using a baryonyx after first feeding use the stun attack of the bary to stun and eat the manta''s then you should be good just pray no more manta's arrive they've cost me a near perfect tame on one twice.