Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for basilosaurus? Tips and strategies for basilosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Try using a kapro to pick the mantas out of the water
If you look around herbivore island you can spot a few.
Went down in the depth with my lvl 440 imprinted Basilo equipped with ascendent saddle. Fought a lvl 110 alpha mosa with 160k HP in a head on fight (aka standing still and holding down attack). Killed it in about a minute, and my Basilo lost just 1k out of 70k HP.
A high lvl imprinted one with a good saddle is completely OP, takes a while to breed and raise tho.
Bring a Sino along with you when taming a Basilo. They scare away the Mantas, which allows you to pick them off one by one.
Found on ragnorok 15 lon and 40 lat
Rule of thumb for passive tames like this sucker, first bites to the rest have a ratio of 3:00 minutes to 0:30 seconds.
I tamed two today, a pink/white male named Moby, and a black/light orange female named Oilette.
Oilette’s first bite took 4 minutes, the rest took about 30-45 seconds.
You can imagine my surprise when I found out that these guys were passive tames.
Ride Dolphin because Manta & Magaladon won't attack on you. If u ride Manta then Megaldon will attack on you.
STEPS :
1) Take Raw meat / Prime meat
2) Get on Manta
3) Feed . . .
DONE
Be careful when taming if there is a lot of manta around!
A good way I found to tame these are shooting the animals around them make them follow you for a bit and then ditch them (use sarco) and go back without having trouble.
Lead the mantas away and other hostiles. use baryonyx to stun and kill all hostiles. Then give it any meat and it tames very fast.
Use a Baryonyx to remove the manta around the Basilo and profit, really easy to obtain and useful tame
If your going to tame these and your on mobile here’s a few things :)
Go to herbivore island, they spawn there.
You need to tame a ichthy.
If your on a ichthy no mantas will attack you when your around baslios many mantas are to.
I suggest you bring a decent weapon to protect you. Like a sword or some sort of gun just in case,
Very simple tame but only issue is once the Baslio is tamed the whole damn ocean comes after it so get out of there with your baslio quick otherwise you and the baslio will be murdered and after taming one you might wanna build shelter for your sea creatures if you haven’t lol
I have some tips on this guy.
They are good tames, underwater tanks, high inventory space, making you cool in warm places and warm in cold ones, and they produce spoilable oil (if you want oil just kill a wild low level to get lots of oil).
Taming this things is easy, tame a Ichthyosaurus, make a saddle, hop on, go to deep seas (near the herb island is the best), kill a low level one to get raw prime meat, then put it in your tame inventory to make them immune to spoiling for a bit more time.
Find a High level one and tame it, they took their time getting hungry the first time but from the 2 one they get hungry pretty quick.
This guys are very cool, they make a very calming sound, but they have a BIG problem, this things get attacked by any wild thing in water with no reason.
I once got inside of my underwater cave with my Ichthyosaurus and I heard the fight sound track, I came out and saw 10 mantas, 5 megalodones, and 5 electrophorus killing my basilosaurus :(
I lost my 590 oils, 5k hide and 5k fibre and my journeyman’s compound bow :(
R.I.P my level 50 basilosaurus 🪦
Use normal meat to tame, tame dolphin, and get OP Dino