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

The health regen on these things is insane. Keep fights near the surface and avoid crush depth for best results.

152 points🔧 Utility9 years oldReport

I don’t know what everyone else did but In my experience the Icythaurus or whatever the dolphin is called, still gets attacked. Everything is chasing me on it. Sure I can out run everything but the tips here made it sound like you would get ignored.

Also, someone said you…

Takes ages to feed after the first time but after that it is nearly instant worth taming as they have high weight and good damage bit they are usually followed by 20 mantas so taming can be difficult

This will be your best ocean mount due to the fact that it can not be shocked by the eels and Cnidaria,cant be grabbed by a tuso,regens health very fast on rhe surface,and many other uses.

136 points🔧 Utility9 years oldReport

Kill all the mantas with a baryonix and feed it meat when its hungry. Easy but op underwater tame. Hope i helped someone

Discovered this by accident, but a Sinomacrops will scream at and scare away all the mantas that surround the Basi. Not required, but the easiest way I found was to set my Sino to have "auto scream" enabled and "scream requires aggro" disabled. When you get…

This is the only sea mount you should currently use for adventuring or the underwater caves. High levels easily tear through alphas and other hard to kill creatures like squids or mosas without the fear of dismounting due to squids or eels or jellyfish.

Do not be almarmed…

96 points🔧 Utility9 years oldReport

I read on the Ark Wiki that these guys are actually passive don’t let their size and teeth intimidate you but be warned they are most often accompanied by a flock of Mantas which are annoying

A basilosaurus is able to ignore a jelly-fish sting, disregard the grab of a tuso, and makes oil. Careful, everything arggos these dudes for no reason.

70 points🔧 Utility7 years oldReport

The basilo is a great underwater tame, preventing dismounts, when it goes to a certain depth it starts to lose health, although it has so much health it doesn’t rly matter, it is widely used for soaking underwater bases due to its high health, to protect yourself from being…

I keep thinking I hear Lugia. Also this thing kills tusos and alpha megs easy. Only advice for alpha megs is to stay near the surface of the water for healing boost while fighting and when the Meg tries circling to reposition itself just stay where you are and let the stamina…