Dododex.com has a new look and new features. Share feedback

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.

Dodex fix your stuff takes like 5 mins for hungry again

93 points6 years oldReport

Kill all the mantas with a baryonix and feed it meat when its hungry. Easy but op underwater tame. Hope i helped someone

73 points5 years oldReport

To tame the basilosaurus it's a passive tame so kill every thing around it and start feeding it

120 points9 years oldReport

Discovered this by accident, but a Sinomacrops will scream at and scare away all the mantas that surround the Basi. Not required, but the easiest way I found was to set my Sino to have "auto scream" enabled and "scream requires aggro" disabled. When you get…

I would take a barryonyx to tame basilosaurus mainly because of the rays.

58 points6 years oldReport

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…

85 points9 years oldReport

Never ever get too close when taming on mobile, you’ll get bugged inside of it and drown.

58 points6 years oldReport

Get an ichy and aggro mantas. Then lead them far away. Then return to basi quicky fees it and run off wait 5 mins then return to feed again. People keep saying ichys do not get aggro by other creatures but that is so not true so becareful and watch your surroundings.

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!!

57 points6 years oldReport

For the peeps that asked,

Mantas like the basilos cuz it says in the dossier that they make a mess when eating so mantas are kinda like scavengers that eat the left overs

After the first feed, it will take a long time to want to be fed again. Don’t worry. Just follow it around and keep it safe. After a while, it will want to be fed again and it will progress according to the time intervals on the app.

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

45 points5 years oldReport

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…

51 points6 years oldReport

It's best to get a baryonyx to stun and kill every manta around it

74 points9 years oldReport

Is not affected by Cnidaria or electrophorus shocks, this in addition to its surface healing makes it a great mount

73 points9 years oldReport

The Basilosaurus is really easy to tame. It is a passive tame, so all you have to do is stay away from hostile creatures jellyfish, manta, etc. Then you feed it your meat, I chose raw meat, and you feed it until it is tamed. It get really hungry really easy, so it doesn't…

To anyone, all the nasty in the ocean will aggro on you regardless of whatever water mount your on in the PC version, so that must be a mobile only thing.

32 points5 years oldReport

I found that you can use sarcos or itchys to tame these creatures just hit one of the rays and lure them away then after the very long first to second feeding after that it takes like 15 seconds to feed again

36 points5 years oldReport