These guys can usually be found around herbivore island, but do be careful if you are on a raft because sometimes a leedsichthys can spawn around herbivore island and they will destroy your raft.

Even if you don't tame it, it still gives you quite a bit of oil when harvested, as well as prime.

I just tamed a level 150. Took about 30 min. Tamed to level 221. Am on official, also i wasn’t prepared well. You should definitely Use its kibble, that is definitely the best way. The taming bar went up 10 each kibble, but i had only 3 exceptional kibble.

So i finished the tame with raw mutton.

I had to kill every things around it first. I used an andrewsarcus. Had it on follow and passive.

Very important : the sanguine elixir didn’t work on the basilosaurus.

I know booooooooo

When tamed be careful these things loose next level health the deeper into teh water they get so having one of these by ur underwater cave base is not good

I have tamed one called Beth Smith and she kills parasaurs that go in the water, she has 6k Health, but not only does she get hit by Mantas and Icthys, (non-suprisingly) but she gets chomped on my Megs too! (suprisingly) That's funny cuz I tamed her in a Meg pod that didn't care! While taming I lost my Icthy. RIP Inez Lantus.

The rays are very annoying I went down about 9 times as the rays attack when you feed the basilo

This thing is insane mine took out 5 megaladons at one time

Steelslaughter here,

Perhaps the most versatile, combat oriented, tankiest, and easiest water tames, I’ve converted two basilo’s into near-invincible war machines I can only describe as ARK’s equivalents of an underwater John-117. I, no joke, led 20 or so megalodons to one and all of them were shredded in under a minute. Also they produce oil, which is nice, but it spoils, so I usually solve the oil situation with my dunkleosteus. Very well rounded and a PASSIVE tame, would certainly recommend!

Peace out,

Steelslaughter

I just went into super shallow water and it was right there. I killed the mantas and now am trying to tame it.

You can find them in dead in ragnorok so I recommend harvesting there body and get oile.

Tamed ones attract Icthys too!

Timers are way off, do not suggest using them for accuracy on feeding times

If u tame a lvl130-150 with 50k HP and rest on melee it will make u King of sea.:-)

It can be found up north on the island but it is quite rare

For some reason, when ever I go around the water surrounding Stone henge (near dodo island), I always find one of them just chilling by the shore with mantas. btw im on mobile

Grab an Ichty, get some meat or kibble, feed it, go away (not too far) and come back, it should make it starve much quicker.

It also works for other creatures. When going away from it, just make it intender and go back, if you go too far it will loose the taming bar.

U can tame it...But it takes time for higher lvls.But with some patience,U can get it.If ur even not have the saddle engram,It's useful.It can get natural oil through its inventory and u can even kill it for instant oil...But I recommend using icthy for taming and killing one...

Easy way to tame get ichy then find one then megs and mantas don’t argo(only mobile players)then tame. Enjoy 😊

I used my Baryonyx to tame one of these guys (went to herbivore island to find one). There was SO many mantas but it was fine I used my bary to lead them to me then stun and kill them, it wasn’t hard at all. Taming was easy as well since I used the kibble. (On mobile btw), so just have a baryonyx by your side and go to herbivore island and you’ll be set.

HUGE TIP: Have a sinomacrops on your back when taming these. Auto scream on. The sinomacrops will SCARE OFF THE MANTAS! Time your feeds with the scream cooldown. You can probably get 2 feeds per scream after the first feed. Just make sure they’re gone or you have a raft close. If you have a raft close you can just fly straight out of the water by bumping into your raft and holding x. ^^^