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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.

I tamed one of these of a 170lvl by feeding it raw meat and using a soothing balm. You had better use a soothing balm on high/med levels like mine but the taming process drops, so that's why you should use one. PRO TIP: Basilosauruses (Wild/Tamed) can automatically produce…

If you are raising a baby keep in mind that their food drops faster than they can eat, so you have to force feed them until their food bar is full or else they will eventually starve to death even with food in their inventory. If you are on singleplayer you can also leave and…

The one I came across had mantas around it...LOTS. thought I killed em all... Nope. Make extra sure you kill them, and look around a bunch before attempting anything with it

56 points9 years oldReport

Use sarco or Rhyniognatha for taming they can swim fast and have goog DPS and hp for meg and scuba suit for the fast swimming that how I got my basilo

After first feed on a 150 with kibble it won’t be hungry for almost 5 mins.

35 points6 years oldReport

Not to hard to tame, they like to stay near the surface and they usually spawn more in the northern part of the island. Prime meat is the best to use, and remember it’s a passive tame and it won’t aggrieved unless you it but watch for mantas which will follow the basilo and…

Sweats oil, attracts water critters, jellyfish slayer, looks adorable. best tame.

But…

DONT USE IT FOR MOSA / PLESI TAMING. mosasaurs and plesiosaurs usually if not only spawn in the abyss and your poor whale sausage will get compressed down there.

Take care... They are surounded by Mantas which block you... So you can't run away. 10 of them kill almost everything.

48 points9 years oldReport

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…

Two things I found to make these incredibly easy to tame:

1. Baryonyx - this guy will destroy the mantas and anything else that will threaten your taming

2. Scuba gear for ease of life underwater for the next 10 mins

Job done!

29 points6 years oldReport

Tame while riding an ichthyosaurs!! You can outswim the mantas!!

32 points7 years oldReport

Idk how no one has said this yet. If you want to tame one in mobile just use an ichyosaurus. No one attacks you and they are incredibly fast. The perfect underwater tame. Also useful for any other underwater thing cos even if u attack something it doesn’t attack back. Except…

I play in mobile if u ride a icthyosaur while taming it the manta's won't attack u

25 points5 years oldReport

i LOVE them. they are super nice tames. they are basically big itchys on steroids. and are just as fast. love em love em love em!

For Fjordur players:

DON'T USE SANGUINE ELIXIR!!!

It does not work underwater, tame it with 6 kibbles

I just tamed a male I named him Riptide and he was killed by 7 megs and 3 mantas 5 seconds later rip riptide

I don’t know why, but nothing in the sea agrros on the dolphin. So it’s best slowly killing the mantas and then feed the basil

28 points6 years oldReport

Dododex has its stats all wrong the amount of food or kibble is correct but the time is way off.

If you feed a basilo its first feed.

It will take roughly 2-3 mins untill 2nd feed the time is different if it's an evo weekend 3x it takes 29 seconds inbetween each kibble feed

26 points6 years oldReport

On Ragnarok you can find a ton of these inbetween the two little islands in the bottom left corner. If your bad like me and have taming speed on 3x if you find one under level 69 it will instantly tame with exceptional kibble. You will die but your bassilo will kill the mantas…

Tame a baryonyx and move close to a basilo with mantas around it. Don't attack but let them aggro on you move away from basilo and tail stun/attack mantas till they are gone. Feed prime meat or mutton and wait forever for second feeding. Once it is hungry again it is only…

23 points6 years oldReport