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How ARK players tame and knock out the Basilosaurus: what to feed it, what to knock it out with, and how to keep it safe.

There will be tons of aggressive mantas around the Basilosaurus. Bring a Baryonyx to tail whip the Mantas, then kill them and you should have no problems trying to tame the Basilosaurus. Or use Bug Repellant.

-1 points7 years oldReport

Tamed one during a 2x event and it took 24 mins not 12 with kibble, it was level 145 female

-1 points7 years oldReport

Feeder timer for kibble was about 70 seconds not 51 like mentioned at the time of this posting

-1 points7 years oldReport

Use a baryonyx to carefully agro the mantas and then your good, I used cooked prime meat to tame mine and once you feed them swim out of tender distance and you’ll be able to feed them again literally like 10 seconds, if you hang around it’ll take longer to eat because…

-1 points8 years oldReport

Ignore the feeding intervals, took me 30 minutes to tame a lvl 80 with mutton... worth it tho 😂

-1 points8 years oldReport

Kill Everything around it. Your best bet is a Baryonyx. Ichthys will be as good as dead, Megalodons might get shred by Mantas as well. To get the aggro of Mantas, just attack one that is away from the Basilosaurus and the others will come to retaliate.

If you plan to use Raw…

-1 points8 years oldReport

Found a lvl 140 by Stonehenge. Used my Baryoynx w/

320 ish melee and that was perfect for killing the mantas and sharks. I used 26 theri kibble and the tame went flawless. Tamed out at 207 and has a nice red color to it. Named it Tamoto Basil. Bring extra oxygen tanks just in…

-1 points8 years oldReport

Use a megalodon or bigger to tame since they always have a crack team of sea pancakes following it. If using a megalodon watch out for other sharks since they have the aggro range of a god. I usually find them around herbi island

-1 points8 years oldReport

*scuba tank just 1

*shark

*ovis

*chainsaw

On single ex took about 16mins for a 140 fed 1 or 2 pieces of mutton then 5-7mins later started 8sec intervals put mutton in the shark with preserving salt started with 17mins on mutton ended with 1:46mins on mutton keep preserving…

-1 points9 years oldReport

I always find them around herb island .. best way to tame I found is one guy on an ichty following and feeding it and another guy on a baryonyx or other quick strong water tame to fight off any threats that may interrupt taming

-1 points9 years oldReport

These guys are totally overpowered I got a 150 mutton tamed and killed a alpha mosa with it and still had half life xD mine got 30k health and 450mele he could kill everything solo when jou got low health swim up and they Regen pretty fast

-1 points9 years oldReport

Make sure to kill all the sea pancakes before attempting to tame as they do NOT like you getting close. An easy tame once you get rid of the threats.

-2 points7 years oldReport

Taming bar started dropping for unknow reason. Must need to tame it quickly. They give a bunch of oil if you kill them but x plants for so.e reason don't want to Target it for more than a hit or two at a time.

-2 points8 years oldReport

I was taming one and the taming bar went down by .1 every second for no reason!

-2 points8 years oldReport

Ive experienced, on xbox one, that the intervals for fresh/raw meet is 13 secs instead of 8, might be helpful

-2 points8 years oldReport

Suggested that using a decent sarco carrying a certain amount of mutton and a pack of preservatives which is not difficult to assemble.The sarco is strong and fast enough in the ocean while encountering a group of mantas or the sharks around the basilo.Also taking care of being…

-2 points8 years oldReport

Takes about eight minutes to eat again after the first feed

-2 points8 years oldReport

(Ps4) Use a tamed dolphin and press triangle around the front flippers and you will dismount and feed the basil at the same time. Make sure you have food in last slot of course. The dolphin can get you to the surface quick to get air.

-2 points9 years oldReport

First time I saw it I was happy but that ran quick when I saw that it was surrounded by 50 stingrays. How luck can change

-2 points9 years oldReport