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

Its almost impossible to tame on genesis they swim so fast and the waters you find them in have a plethora of eels, sharks, manta, dunkley, and many other things.

You can use sarcos,ichtisaurus to make the mantas close to the basi grt distracted but if u wanna kill the mantas u can bring a spino and bring the mantas to land and the kill them with the spino or use a Meg and other options are another basi,plesiosaurus sarcosuchis(high lv…

So first I didn’t know about these guys but when I found out about them I quickly knew they were useful. So I started trying to tame them but the somehow end up getting killed. I though something attacked them but I soon realized that maybe they were dying cuz of drowning.…

THESE THINGS SUCK

- Extremely slow

- Takes pressure damage (doesn't even pay bills)

- Annoying taming progression that's not worth if it's low level

- Surrounded by mantas when taming

Before you say that it's imune to tuso grabs or can't get…

Just a warning these things apparently can destroy your raft so ya if you on a raft I recommend not going to far from shore if you want your bout in one

1. Approach it

2. Feed it meat ( any kind )

3. Repeat the process

Bonus tip: there may be aggressive organisms near the Basilosaurus ( so be careful and turn the Dino damage to 0 so the they can’t attack you )