Do not underestimate this tame. My lv 37 just took down a 120 alpha megladon. The surface heal buff is the real deal.

I found my very first one on the stranded island in the right bottom hand corner of the map, it’s a good place to start

These things have an insulation ability so when riding one you won’t be cold in deep water, however when in deep water they will start to lose health so be careful

Why does all the mantas attack me when im riding an dolphin?!?! And why i cant feed it meat whitout unriding it?!?!

What it’s used for?

IMMUNE TO JELLYS EELS AND TUSOS

Great for biotoxin

Can keep you warm or cool

Produces oil

Generates oil over time, thats pretty useful. Idk in what speed tho

A balisosaurus will always be surrounded by some mantas(I haven’t actually counted how many, but it is a decent amount), aka. The death pancakes. If you are swimming nearby/attack the balisosaurus, the mantas will attack you. However, if you best the mantas and the giant whale, you can get a lot of oil and hide(with blubber as an exclusive win if you choose).

I’m a lvl 14 noob and I’m trying to tame these guys with my dolphins and meat. Does anyone know if sharks aggro to them? Because I’m living on an island surrounded with sharks.

Must tame!! These are amazing! Just in a one day trip into the ocean I gathered 820 bio toxins, 443 silica pearls, 1000+ raw fish meat, and 41 oil. I encountered alpha Megalodon too and took it down like nothing with the basilosaurus! It's now level 35 and its health is 5557.2 and melee damage is 329.9%. They're absolute tanks!

Do not tame under the flying island ok the center,it is to deep and it will eventualy die

Fun fact I found real useful, I have my base in the herbivore island and there's LOADS of these guys around. I know a lot of ppl say it's hard to tame but reality is (at least for mobile, not sure about pc or console) that if u don't want the mantas to attack, feed the Basi off a back of an aquatic tame. According to the dossier, the mats follow the basi to eat and once a player comes near they see it as a threat. But if another water tame comes it'll ignore, and let u tame the basi. I currently have 3 and I'm only level 41 on solo, very quick to tame, I recommend normal meat over fish meat if Ur a low level just cuz they tame faster for some reason. And what's more to these beasts, I don't have a saddle but at least now I already have access to oil, cuz this guy produces it, making kibbles as easy as ever. Hope it helps and have fun taming Ur basi :)

Ciao

They Commonly Spawn Near The Shores Of Herbivore Island And Can Rarley Spawn In Hebivore Islands Cove They Are A Passive Tame And Prime Meat Is A Fairly Good Feeding Source Make Shaur To Kill Of Any Megalodons In The Area And Finish Of All The Manta Rays Following It Before Approaching

The Basilosaurus is a dolphin-like creature that primarily dwells along the shallow areas of the ocean. It has the ability to keep survivors warm or cool.~Steel Cookie 123

These guys are though! I tamed one and we were attacked by 6 megs and my bailasaur killed them at level 5!!! 6 Megaladons!!!!

Literally everywhere at the back of carnivore or herbivore island 🏝

How to tame yourself a basilosaurus :

1- You can find a basilosaurus near the beaches.

2- They're surrounded by mantas that act as their guards, in order to be able to tame it you must kill his guards using a decent sea creature (Barynox,Sarco,Megladon).

3- Once you kill the mantas, get close to it and feed it raw prime meat (Its a passive tame).

4- Beware! dont ever hit the basilo otherwise the taming will restart i also advice having your tame on passive so it doesn't accidentally hit the basilo, changing the food type will also restart it too.

5- The basilo starves every 10 to 4 seconds so it won't take that long just keep protecting yourself from any impending hordes of sea creatures.

6- Once tamed you can get into sea caves without having to worry about getting dismounted by a Jellyfish or the electric fish anymore so you can start killing jellyfishes for biotoxin, also they produce oil, its the best tame to go to sea caves with!

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.

I don’t know if other people have experienced this but in ark mobile (or maybe other ark variants) but if you use potent dust on Basilosaurus it knocks them out for some odd reason.

There's always one on herbivore island

MOBILE ONLY

ride an ichthyosaurus and feed it meat prime meat or kibble and I recommend using soothing balm,the reason why I use ichthyosaurus is because in ark mobile it is ignored by every other predator,so just hop on ur icthy and feed the basilo , also DO NOT DISMOUNT WHILE FEEDING ITS FOOD you can just perfectly feed it from the itchy while the mantas are not knowing that free Willy is being tamed