Sacrifice dinos to it just like a dino to reduce the taming time. Goes up about 5% per low level dino. Will reduce taming time by 3x

Took exactly 110 bloodpacks for a 145 bloodstalker on small tribes Xbox

Let them grab you , get free and throw him little high lvl dinos before , after 4 dinos let them grab you agaim and enjoy higher effectivity

I play on a 10x server, so i thought it would be pretty easy to tame these creatures... i waent looking for them with 250 bloodpacks. (wich is a lot more than Dododex suggests.) I have found a lvl 130 Bloodstalker and it grabbed me... the first 20 seconds i thought i would be ok... but when a minute lasted, i saw it was only at 20%, and it consumed around 75 bloodpacks. I knew i wouldn't make it... so i jumped off. And now my dino is dead... maybe, just maybe, if you take a look at the x10, you might also see the consume rates... maybe the speed has been multiplied.. when i did that on dododex, i suddenly needed around 700 bloodpacks.... makes sense to me.. give it a "^" so people can see this... Good luck out there, survivor

Turns out the babies need blood packs for food when maturing… wish I had known that before

When I saw this I thought it was a plant so I hit it with a pick, I learned the hard way it is really a not-so-plant bloodsucking machine.

On xbox you can hold LB and click in the left stick to go underwater

If you are playing ark by yourself and you want to tame a Bloodstallker, bring beds trust me. You will die a lot if you’re looking for a high level or lower level and bring bug repellent because, they will attack you. Then after you tame it, you can name it the evil nurse.

Do not feed it cooked meat it will die if its a baby

If you want to tame these and have a tribe mate with you and a tek phase pistol you can have 1 person get grabbed by the stalker then the other person shoot you with the phase pistol on heal mode and it will tame as long as you don’t die which you shouldn’t if your tribe mate is shooting you with pistol on heal mode. No blood packs required

They are on genesis 2! Coords: 71/05

Few things I’ve learned about the bloodstalker. So a good thing to know about bloodstalkers is that blood packs heal it 750 health!! A good amount that will definitely be useful during PvP, you can’t force feed the blood packs but they eat them pretty fast after losing health. If your blood stalker starts draining your health find an animal you can grapple ASAP, it will stop draining your health and heal from the Dino you’ve grappled and get even more health. When in the air on the bloodstalker for Xbox if you hold RB you can float on the bloodstalker, be ready to go into first person riding mode when you let go of the button. Good luck survivors, hopefully this helps one of you out :)

So i tamed a lvl 145 using 200-198ish bloodpacks on 3x taming. Just figured you guys should know

Happened twice to me already, but when you cryo a bloodstalker who's standing in the water, it won't drop a bag so the items inside are gone.

If it catches you punch it and it will let you go I learned from experience it killed me before I knew that trick :(

There may be big trees about everywhere in the bog but bloodstalkers only spawn around 70 70.

It’s a passive game. Use the blood extraction tool to get blood bags. Lots of them. Make sure to have healing vials. Get webbed and pulled in with the blood bags in the passive taming slot at the end of your bar on the right. Keep putting more in as he/she drinks them. I needed 400 ish for a 95

Tamed a 140 with 3 bloodpacks left in the inventory…

So much stress…

Depending on your health (this is for official stat setting, 300 health is average for official) you can get about 100ish blood packs every 10 minutes. This is useful for knowing how long you will have to farm blood packs for when taming

Tame a 5-6 pheomias, get each one to about 1500-1800 hp, let the blood stalker grab it and kill it, the taming effectiveness will go up by 5% on the first kill, it will jump up by 2% additionally per kill..took me about 4 pheomias to get it to 100% effectiveness