I found mine while riding my itchy it was pretty easy tame I named mine bailey it makes oil so I don't have to look for trilobites I'm dont have a saddle for her yet but I really want to ride her

If you are playing ark mobile then ride on a icthy because there is a bug where when your on an icthy you won’t get targeted by mantas and megladons

Use a baryonix to kill the mantas

First I thought it was aggressive, so I trained it to tame it , I was wrong

If you aren't too lazy to breed them you aren't too lazy to get the best option for any underwater cave. They will take a very slight amount of crush damage in some caves but that's nothing to a basilosaurus with 20k health

5 Tips for Basilos

#1 These are hard to tame and are a hardy tame

#2 They give a insulation buff when you ride on them

#3 They are a passive tame

#4 The reason they are hard to tame is that the have paparazzi group of mantas and dolphins and when you attack and or feed them the mantas get

#5 They passively make oil that you can find it in their inventory

A little fact: If you have a basil and you are in the ocean and got dismounted from your mount (like an ichy) and you have a tamed basil with you , make him follow you and swim directly to the surface.The basil will follow you and push you up wards (if it doesn't, just make it swim close to the surface and just swim/climb onto its back) your welcome! :)

These things have an insulation ability so when riding one you won’t be cold in deep water, however when in deep water they will start to lose health so be careful

Why does all the mantas attack me when im riding an dolphin?!?! And why i cant feed it meat whitout unriding it?!?!

I have a level 100 basil and when looking for a male to breed I encountered an alpha megalodon and like 4 high level megs near it. I took out all of them without losing practically any health. The male I ended up taming the male basil and it got the final hit on alpha Meg, just a side tip alphas give crazy xp my lvl 50 male basil got 30 points from it!!!!!

They often spawn in the shallow waters in herbivore island. Stego and bronto are the 2 close sources of prime meat there.

Ez tame, passive tame, don’t be scared of it

Instructions:

1. Get your itchy so Megalodons, and eels and or jellyfish don’t get you

2.Get a therizenosaurus kibble

3. Find

4. Once found just swim beside it and put the kibble and a whole pile of meat

5. Successive. Grab the saddle and enjoy a badass time and eat everything

Ps don’t go in deep water or it will take oxygen dmg

Lost my girlfriend, almost got fired, lost a week of sleep, spent over a hundred bucks, but I did it. I raised a fifth generation Basilosaurus. I would say it’s definitely worth it considering it does about Giganotosaurus damage and we did the speed and stamina stats right and same for the hp and all. Really, it’s all we need nowadays. Btw fifth gens can kill alpha tusos if yer careful, well really if you did stats right no need to be careful.

Do not underestimate this tame. My lv 37 just took down a 120 alpha megladon. The surface heal buff is the real deal.

I found my very first one on the stranded island in the right bottom hand corner of the map, it’s a good place to start

A balisosaurus will always be surrounded by some mantas(I haven’t actually counted how many, but it is a decent amount), aka. The death pancakes. If you are swimming nearby/attack the balisosaurus, the mantas will attack you. However, if you best the mantas and the giant whale, you can get a lot of oil and hide(with blubber as an exclusive win if you choose).

What it’s used for?

IMMUNE TO JELLYS EELS AND TUSOS

Great for biotoxin

Can keep you warm or cool

Produces oil

Literally everywhere at the back of carnivore or herbivore island 🏝

Fun fact I found real useful, I have my base in the herbivore island and there's LOADS of these guys around. I know a lot of ppl say it's hard to tame but reality is (at least for mobile, not sure about pc or console) that if u don't want the mantas to attack, feed the Basi off a back of an aquatic tame. According to the dossier, the mats follow the basi to eat and once a player comes near they see it as a threat. But if another water tame comes it'll ignore, and let u tame the basi. I currently have 3 and I'm only level 41 on solo, very quick to tame, I recommend normal meat over fish meat if Ur a low level just cuz they tame faster for some reason. And what's more to these beasts, I don't have a saddle but at least now I already have access to oil, cuz this guy produces it, making kibbles as easy as ever. Hope it helps and have fun taming Ur basi :)

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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.