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Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Basilosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

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…

Ignore the sharks when you are cruising along on a basi - they will lose aggro and turn away.

Alpha sharks? Don’t stop. Just keep cruising and biting back. You will eventually kill the alpha and lose less of your basi’s health.

It’s worth noting that Sinomacrops’ ability to scare creatures APPLIES TO MANTAS. If you go near a Basilosaur, and punch/aggro a manta, your Sinomacrops can scream and scare off the Mantas, and they usually won’t come back in my experience so far

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…

If you want a ton of oil but you don’t know how to get any just get on your itchy and start killing one of these they give you like 250 oil every time you kill one up if this was helpful

Sincerely chicksleeper

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

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…

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…

My tribe has one of these beasts with 60k health, Another tribe came and with a turret raft and our 60k health basilo was the only thing that survived. We play on a normal difficulty server.

We were living out of a bunch of rafts

Tamed basilos can only produce 20 purple oil at a time but killing a basilo will give you about 200 regular black oil so it’s more worth killing them than taming them to get oil

This thing is a shark magnet! (after game ) Everytime I try and do anything with the Basil, I'm swamped with Meg's. He did really well till just about t mins ago. 5 Meg's and an uncountable swarm of Mantas was too much. The Meg's target the Basil from way…

Really great creature

Soft skin

cute

Immune to jellies

too fast healing on surface

Okay damage

Passive tame but hard to tame one

Oil produces in inventory

Too good in pvp because of fast healing

Fast

Keeps cool in warm and warm in cold

Thats probably best tame…