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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a basilosaurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a basilosaurus.
I spent like, 30 minutes trying to tame this, and then the taming levels started dropping super fast. Has this happened to anyone else?
The simple noob way to tame them is get any kind of meat and place it in your hot bar.Get on an icthy to do this.it worked for me and now I have 2 OP Basilosaurs.Did I mention how powerful they are?They can destroy just about anything that you find near the surface of the water.
Keep in mind that the second time the Dino eats it takes about 5 mins to eat again but after then will be a lot quicker
I recommend using a sarco, or a high damage icthy.
1. Gather food of choice, and a fast or high damage water mount. Scuba Gear is NEEDED.
2. Using your mount, find a Basilo, go up to it and aggro the stingrays (if their aren’t go to step three), swim not to far, turn around and kill al the stingrays(there are a lot!).
3. Once all the mantas/stingrays are gone, go up to the basilo, get off your mount, and feed it your food of choice (foods options are in taming tab).
4. Repeat feeding process until tamed
Happy Taming!
It will start to lose tame bar for some reason and if that happens you may aswell give up :(
I was trying to tame one. I just used a icthyiosaurus (however it is spelt) it took a couple of trips to the surface but it worked.
In order to tame a Basilosaurus you need a croosbow and an acuatic mount that's enough strong to deal with mantas.
When you have all of this just shoot to a manta that's near the Basil and all of them will attack you, and here you wil pick the your crature and kill all of them.
Once you slayed all the mantas go with the Basil and start taming him pacificly.
Be careful because each time you feed it nearby cratures will come at you.
I recommend taming a dolphin then tame the basilo on the dolphin
Have a tribe mate and have your own ichthyosaurus and have the tribe mate have one too.
1.find a basil of you choice.
2.have ur tribe mate aggro the mantras away.
3.check your basil out and feed it.
4.keep having your friend get away the mantas.
5.keep feeding it until you have your very own (or maybe not own maybe you'll share with your tribe mate) basilosaurus
Watch out because these things have a lot of sting rays following them everywhere and sometimes megalodons
Level 240 took two Theri kibble with a 10x balm. About 10 minutes wait time after first bite.
Super easy, super useful!
Ok so use a Ichthyosaurus because mantas megs and basically everything ignores you so people dont die to the manta cult it has
Roughly 8 min between 1st and 2nd feeding of a 140 x-basilo
For those who lost the basilo from those pesky sharks just cryo pod it (pc and console only feature) or get out of render distance and teleport it to your base (mobile only feature)
Taming this is a must imo, had it been able to swim in the deep without taking damage, it woulda been OP!
Easy first tame on Genesis. Do the wave ray mission a few times to get some armour a weapon and hexagons. Once you have them all get some meat and passive tame a high level one. Low levels are great if you are just going to use it to get oil. High levels are good for farming Bio toxin or fights in general as they have lots of health, and you can't get knocked off of them. They don't take damage from electric attacks like from eels and jellies.
The basilosaurus on genisis part 1 usually don’t have mantas following them , and if they do it’s usually 1 or 3. Making them much safer to tame on genisis 1
basiliosaurus personality:a passive aquatic cucumber dino it’s easily a carnivore and surrounded by mantas (most of my encounters) taming: i recommend a itchy since that’s the safest way I recommend using raw meat or raw prime meat since it’s better then fish meat. Tamed and domesticated:basiliosaurus will be your personal guard in the water he will be a giga chad killing megs I tried that it’s amazing easy fish meat. That’s all you need to know!
First time I tryed it was killed by megs on the way home second time I had 5 itchys and we made it next to my home but then megs killed all my itchys and the baslio (should have brought my megs too but I did not)
RIP pointy, fast, buddy , new dude, and ,hater (the itchy crew)
When it comes to taming this guy, I personally like to hop on a high level spino. The spino easily deals with anything surrounding the basil, and then go ahead and start feeding it. I use kibble, it's a pretty fast tame, but the time between the first and second feeding feels like forever.