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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Hey guys, Its astro. I want to tell you a few things about the Crystal Wyvern and how to tame them.
Regulars
First, You want to be a level 75 or above.
Then, you get crystal or primal crystal from the hive (Primal crystal is advised, but if you cant do that, get regular crystal.)
Next, You will want to find yourself the wyvern you want. There are three variants, Tropical, Blood, and Ember. The tropicals spawn in the South West, Bloods spawn in the West/Central, and embers spawn in east/volcano zone.
After you find your wyvern, you want to jump onto its back (Get a good position so you don't fall!) And start feeding. Once you feed the wyvern it will start flying around in random directions. If you have a flyer with you, you should whistle follow on it so you don't loose it.
Lastly, Once you're finished taming your lovely new friend, you can take it back to your base or tame more beauties!
Additional Tips:
If you dont get positioned correctly on the wyvern and you fall off, don't panic. you can bring parachutes with you or a wing suit. If you do fall off and dont have any of those items, try to aim for water or a passive wild dinosaur. It will cushion your fall and you wont take as much damage.
Heirs
But Wait, there is another way on taming the Crystal Wyvern. The nest
In the nest you can go and grab eggs of Tropical, Blood, and Ember. Although, Ive never seen tropical eggs there, so if you want a tropical i do not recommend going there.
First, You want a good flyer. A wyvern or tropeognathus is probably the best option. Pterodactyl, Agry, and anything else are going to be way to slow and do not match the heirs' speed.
(This is if you play on official, if you dont, build a trap.)
Next, You want to find a trap and maybe take a few practices to see how it works, everyone builds different traps!
Then, You will find wyverns in the hive (possibly 20.) and lead it over to the trap, now, this is also a way to get primal crystal, trapping and knocking out.
After that, you will go back into the hive and fly around it to look for a nest. !! THEY ARE NOT ON THE INSIDE, ONLY ON THE OUTSIDE !!
After you find an egg thats a decent level (I'd say 150 - 225) you can lead all the wyverns to the trap and fly back to your base
Lastly, you hatch the egg and raise it to adult! Ta-Da! you now have a wyvern.
Additional Tips:
Wyvern heirs spawn in the bottom left corner of the desert, south of the griffin trench. Their levels are like a normal wyvern, they go to 20 - 225 (on official rates) and are aggressive. Once you pick up an egg from them, all the heirs in render radius of you will become hostile and try to attack you. These guys are also way faster than a normal wyvern. I'd recommend taking a Tropical Crystal Wyvern, because they get a speed boost in water which makes them faster than the heirs. If your wyvern is weighted down, i recommend dropping the items that would be possibly weighing you down. (Like meat, Talons (don't if you need for boss), Arrows, Bad loot from killing wyverns, ect.) These wyverns are easily detectable because they only spawn in the bottom of the desert and wear these alpha skulls on their heads.
Once you hatch the egg to the heirs, it will not spawn with the skull or look like an heir. it is a regular wyvern. The babies here do not eat milk, they eat Primal Crystal, Which I have discussed about getting.
Find (200-225)
Trap
Knockout
Take
Feed baby
Repeat
Well, I hope this tip helps out new people who don't understand it! (aka my tribemate lol) I will be making these tips on many other dinos just to get a better understanding on them. Bye! and have fun wyvern taming!
More Crystal Wyvern Taming & KO Tips
There are 3 variants of the crystal wyvern. The tropical one gets the hydrated buff( more damage, resistance etc) when standing in water like a spino. Even though it gets the buff in water it can’t swim and is found in the white shores area. The blood one breath steals the life force and heals while using it breath attack and is found in the forest with the red trees. The ember crystal wyvern is found in emberfall. It’s breath is more precise and can go further than the normal fire wyvern breath. The breath also has a rage meter with the more you use it the more damage it does. Eventually it will start to get blue flames in the mix. Hoped that helped you
Raising baby/eggs found
Only eat primal crystal while raising. And not notmal crystal or Raw meat or else.
Omg its the most easy baby you will raise
Its hatch and the food it already have can already last 1 day
On the next day i give it primal crystal until equal to HP, if you give more its wasted. Thats about it... maybe will need to give it food again a little bit before adult. But yea really i gave it 1-2 times primal crystal until reach same lvl of HP.
Seem to always want primal crystal when asked to imprint.
If you have cryopods, cryo it and throw it back and will ask something else.
Thats it 4days to adult.
Didnt need to cryo it while i go to sleep or else
It seem to consume 0.1 food each 10 sec or so, which is super slow and this is why it can last couples hours before first feed
Hope helped .
No one was writting tips bout babies so.....
MUST BE LVL 65 TO TAME ANY CRYSTAL WYVERN
Crystal wyvern easy passive tame. If server allows, run onto its back between the shoulders and feed it crystal in your last slot with [e]. On it's shoulders it will be less likely to drop you. Carry food and drink, have a flyer on follow if you can, and parachutes just in case.
If no one has used this tip or trick might find useful! When approaching one of these passive Wyverns. You can hop on it’s wing and back it to its back and literally ride it’s back while suppling it crystals. Make sure to have your bird on follow!! Make sure to spread this around.
This is going to be your all-in-one tip for crystal wyverns.
Firstly, the variants and where they can be found. Crystal Wyverns in general are only found in the crystal isles map.
Tropical Crystal Wyvern: probably one of, if not the top favorite here. It spawns in the beautiful southwest beaches (I’ve primarily found them on the most southwest island) and they look bright blue. They have a breath attack that spits water and does damage over time. Also, once tamed they get a hydrated buff when touching water much like a spin-off would. Which increases speed, making this the fastest wyvern. But also buffing damage, etc.
Blood Crystal Wyvern: A health stealing Wyvern which lives in the middle area of the map ( around 55, 33 ) you can tell if you are in the right place if there are red crystals in the biome. It’s only ability is it’s breath attack. It siphons health from the target. But other than that, nothing too special.
Ember Crystal Wyvern: found in the east area of the map in the areas rich with orange crystal and forest, these wyverns ability is that they are practically just like the normal fire Wyvern you would find on other maps, except it does more damage the more you use it.
How do you tame these?
Crystal Wyverns are a passive tame. Meaning you don’t knock them out ( but as you will see we still have to, if you are familiar with getting Wyvern milk then you will get it. )
They can be tamed with your normal crystal, found in abundance or primal crystal ( the much more preferred taming food. ) to retrieve primal crystal, you must knock out a crystal Wyvern (it can be any type and it can be a male or female) the higher the level the more primal crystal you will get once knocked out, you have to just interact with its unconscious body to retrieve them. Keep in mind these spoil in 40~ minutes and there is no way I know of to preserve them.I recommend a lvl 80ish because any higher and you will get too many crystals and they will spoil before you can use them, when I knocked a 140 out it gave me 26 crystal and I only tamed two before it spoiled. You can’t tame crystal Wyverns fully with normal crystal, you need at least some primal crystal, otherwise it won’t even tame. Unless its a low level on a boosted server.
To start the taming process. Simply approach the wyvern ( they won’t attack you unless you attack them unlike normal wyverns. ), then try and get on its back while it’s landed. It can be a bit weird but I’ve done it many times on official smalls. I think that jumping on the wing then moving up to the back works best. Go prone while your on the back. Make sure you have your crystal, and start taming. Feed it, and it will fly but since your on its back you will stay with it and you can still feed it in the air, if your on the ground you have to wait for it to land which could take a while, hence getting on the back (also it’s cool). Once you feed it the first time depending on the level, it will take along time for the second feed but be patient and after that it’s the easiest tame.
Extra things to note:
There are Heir Crystal Wyverns, these are Wyverns that are found in the desert in a cave and they are untamable, but if you head into the cave you can steal one of their eggs, like the classic method.
Lastly is the crystal Wyvern queen, the boss of crystal isles. It is one of the only boss arenas that lets you bring flyers.
I know this was a bunch of info so I recommend remembering this tip as it likely will answer your questions.
I hope I taught you something, and good luck getting your own Crystal Wyverns, Survivors! - Layth
For everyone wondering you must be a level 65 in order to tame these with either crystal or prime crystal. The way to get prime crystal is by knocking a crystal wyvern then pushing triangle or Y in order to get the prime.
You can actually tame the one that you took the crystals from
U can get the primal cristal by knocking them, once u knock them just pick it up from their back.
Best way to tame is to jump on its back and feed it, u'll get a free ride and an easy tame ( take a parachute in case )
So I did further testing and baby and juvenile Crystal wyverns eat 1 food every 1 minute and adolescent Crystal wyverns eat 1 food every 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Their are 1440 minutes in a day so baby and juvenile wyverns need 1440 food to make it 24 hours and adolescents Crystal wyverns need 576 food to make it 24 hours.