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3152 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 1, 2020   Report

You 110% need bug repellent, tried taming these and every time I got targeted by bugs and they would ruin everything.

3076 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 1, 2020   Report

If you have your menu out while taming, bugs will not spawn to kill you.

2374 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 22, 2020   Report

When breeding, make sure you breed the pair in a good spot. You CANNOT pick up the egg.

1812 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 28, 2020   Report

Dont need to put blood bags in any slot. They'll eat them straight from your inventory.

Be warned that multiple swarms will come an interupt your taming process knocking you loose an you'll fall an possibly die. So bring help.

1200 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 1, 2020   Report

Can insta kill jellyfish when above water and you can get easy biotoxin.

1309 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 27, 2020   Report

WARNING:If a tamed bloodstalker gets to low enough health, it can and will begin to eat you (if you are "riding" it)

1225 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 3, 2020   Report

Just tame a lot of low level parasaurs they’ll give you 100% taming efficiency better than blood packs

1024 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 4, 2020   Report

1. Taming efficiency is going to be quite low during tame and in order to fix that, you need to sacrifice some tames to it

2. Other Bloodstalkers may try to grab you while your already being succ'd, in order to stop that, kill all other Bloodstalkers in the visible area

3. To stop Insect Swarms from interrupting your taming, open your inventory during the taming process, they for some reason don't detect you with your inv open

4. Bring a parachute just in case you are dropped for some reason

5. When he is tamed, only use him to get around and only level Stamina and Health. He is a garbage fighter and if his health gets low, he will start eating you and will kill you but in order to stop yourself from dying, put blood packs in your inv, he will eat those instead until his health is normal again

6. They can be breeded but be warned, when they have an egg, you cannot pick up the egg because it becomes attached to the ground

Have fun and good luck taming a Bloodstalker

742 points   🔧 Utility   May 12, 2020   Report

If a survivor has ingested beer, a tamed Bloodstalker’s name will temporarily change while under the effects of said alcohol. Try it out for yourself, some of the names include “Blerdsterker”, “Mr. Wiggles”, and my personal favorite “Grabby McSlurpy”.

762 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 18, 2020   Report

If raising babies. Use bloodbags. They eat raw meat like a giga practically. Meat=10 food blood pack=200 food. Hope this helps

453 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 20, 2021   Report

The trick I used for high level ones, and you won't find this anywhere cause I have searched for weeks myself...., is high level phiomia. They have the best effective tame % and it is hp based. So leave them cryo'd then level hp before sacrificing them to stalkers. Sacrifice them while using cactus broth. They'll never grab you. Once it's 100% efficiency, get naked & get grabbed with blood in your inventory. After that it's a simple ghillie/bug repellant. Don't use cactus broth during that part or they'll instantly disconnect. Figuring all of this out made taming easy as all get out. Nooblets video is dead wrong on certain aspects, so if you watched that, forget most of it. Basic kibble tame Phiomia. It's worth it. No other comment on here mentioned any of this. Time efficiency and effectiveness, this is the absolute best way to tame them.

396 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 8, 2021   Report

You can pick up bloodstalker eggs after the new Gen2 update!

420 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 27, 2020   Report

1127 bloodbags for a level 145 on 1x rated

325 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 26, 2020   Report

My results so far after a bit of testing:

Can double jump, can climb, can walk on water, highlights creatures, can shoot bio tether to grapple and drag creatures to you (including flyers) can shoot a single tether to swing around or shoot 2 simultaneous tethers to propell you forward or to set up position to ambush. Keep holding the tether button to pull you towards the tether point and accelerate speed. (ps4) L2 for double tether (disconnects automatically after pulling you to the point) R2 for single tether (doesnt disconnect automatically). Can move extremely fast when tethering correctly.

261 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 29, 2020   Report

Letting it eat a few tames before latching on to you buffs it's taking effectiveness so requires less blood bags

261 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Feb 27, 2020   Report

You’ll find them hiding on the giant trees under the branches preying on some of the wild life. 70 70 is a good place to look for them if you’re having trouble but watch out, they’ll snatch up your tames when you least expect it. RIP moschops

3 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 30, 2025   Report

before taming this creature tame a desmondus first and kill some things with your desmondus then get the creatures blood then vuala you have so much blood for your bloodstalker

242 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 3, 2020   Report

It has no fall damage!

222 points   🔧 Utility   Apr 17, 2020   Report

Large bear traps indeed do work on bloodstalkers!

Bumpup

180 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 2, 2020   Report

You can use baby oviraptors to pick up your bloodstalker eggs, and then the baby oviraptors die their body time is the same as the egg incubation timer so you can drag the egg anywhere until it hatches.

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