Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
To tame the basilosaurus it's a passive tame so kill every thing around it and start feeding it
I would take a barryonyx to tame basilosaurus mainly because of the rays.
Here’s a tip! Take a Baryonyx out and stun all of the creatures around it! Try not to hit the Bassey, all the others will follow you and you can easily stun and kill them all! Have kibble or preferred taming method in you last item slot! Put you Barry on follow and just feed ‘em! 😌👍🏻 HAPPY TAMING!!
Never ever get too close when taming on mobile, you’ll get bugged inside of it and drown.
Mobile passive taming for this guy is easy,
1. Get a Ichthyosaur
2. Hit the basilosaurus once and guards will flee
3. Hunt megalodon and get their prime meat via pickaxe
4. Passive tame basilosaurus
These guys are very good defense and I found mine around herbivore island.
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
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 be restored. It’s not just the mouth that does damage, it’s the hips too. Might name my next one Shakira!
I got lucky and was able to find one of these things without mantas near it in the shallows of Herbivire Island...thank goodness, do not use fish meat!!
Basilo=popular kid
Mantas=everyone else
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 by it taking damage in deep water, its very small and takes a long time to kill your whale and can easily be healed by surfacing. The underwater caves have pockets you can surface at to heal. The surface healing can out-heal almost all wild dino damage and a lot of the cave damage. Fight at the surface if you can.
They also generate oil over time. They can only carry 20 oil at a time though so make sure you empty it often. The oil also spoils so use it quickly.
You can also press left trigger at the surface to jump and spray water. Careful not to beach your whale in the process though.
So I found this guy at a island where herbivores spawned I had some prime meat I feed it and I tamed it once it is tamed everything attacks it
Was swimming and i see this and the mantas start attacking me and my meg and sadly he died upv0t3 so my meg can rest in peace
Rare Flowers affect the Basilo (slightly inconsistently) allowing you to kite it into your own water pen for a super safe, even easier tame involving much less swimming about. Seems to require you to eat at least 2 flowers to trigger the aggro effect, and it loses aggro the second the effect ends.
I recommend erheir raw prime, or raw prime fish meat.
I tamed mine with raw prime fish meat only, no soothing balm. I actually was pretty lucky, because a basilo spawned next to a leed, and a leed spawns next to a basilo. So I took all the leed's raw prime fish meat, and put it in my Bary. I fed it constantly, aware of oxygen.
Finally, I tamed it and named it Silo. Saddles are suprisingly unexpensive. These also spawn by Herbivore Island. Along with leeds. So I you see a basilo, look for a leed if you a trying to find one. Everytime I see a basilo, I see a leed. Be careful! When you feed it the mantas attack. Recommened mount, baryonx. Baryonx will stun the mantas, and you will be able to feed the basilo while on baryonx too. They come in variants of dark blue, or a pink, magenta color. They have a good bit of health, and do not aggro on you when you get close to it. Have fun with your basilo, if you read this. Goodbye -TinaZ
I tamed mine with a baryonyx to kill the manta bodyguards. The time between the first and second feeding interval takes a while, so sit back and grab some coffee while you wait. Regular meat will do as after the second feeding, the interval is only about 10 seconds. Make sure you keep all Megalodons and other mantas away from it while taming. I absolutely love mine for alpha killing and bio toxin farming. Also they get a crap ton of hit points per level up, almost 400.
just get a nice lvl sarco and kill s everybody around him. if you doing the tame with meat (like me) get ready cause its going to require a loooooooot of time.
Bring baryonx it stubs mantas