It’s useful for healing, yes but it also eats a crap tonne of food to heal. I once had one and it ate multiple stacks of meat in a few minutes with healing on. Still helpful for breeding and raising tames.
Daeodon
The Daeodon (or 'Hell Pig') is a vicious pig. This pig has a high healing and food consumption rate, making it difficult to maintain. It can be tamed and ridden, however, taming it is quite a difficult task.

Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Daeodon in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Took a ton more tranq arrows for a level 116 than it says, and only one kibble rather than seven :/
Don’t pump his food too much because when you go out of render of them they will eat everything until they’re full
If your playing solo you can instantly feed your daeodon by putting a bunch of food and then going out of rendering distance and when you come back the deaodon will be Full
Put most of the levels into the food stat as this is what is used for healing other tames and will drain whilst healing, the more points into food means the daeodon can heal for longer.
Also gather a good amount of berries and seeds
found a 300 on a boosted server , took a while to tame. Definitely need to trap it, use stone doorframes and you should be set
They don’t spawn in packs in gen 1,they are found In the bog biome on the genesis part 1 map.
For early encountering here is the way to kill them
1. Use a bow till they get close
2. Bola them
3. Use a spear to finish the job
If you can spread them out
Each one will take 1-3 spears typically
If you are a bit further into the game tame a dire bear and ride it…
For early encountering here is the way to kill them
1. Use a bow till they get close
2. Bola them
3. Use a spear to finish the job
If you can spread them out
Each one will take 1-3 spears typically
If you are a bit further into the game tame a dire bear and ride it around, but don’t let it get swarmed
Best use these guys for boss fights.
*Crit spot is under the head
Really good I have to do dungeon and it help me to keep my baby dinos alive and is challenging to tame one
A good name for this is John pork
If you're having trouble with it's healing while wild, KO him. He won't heal the torpor.
Just so everyone knows, do NOT bring these things into the boss arena unridden. Just use them to heal your creatures after the fight. Their healing in the boss fight is pretty mediocre because they tend to waste all their food early on, and bringing multiple daeodons sacrificed…
Just so everyone knows, do NOT bring these things into the boss arena unridden. Just use them to heal your creatures after the fight. Their healing in the boss fight is pretty mediocre because they tend to waste all their food early on, and bringing multiple daeodons sacrificed damage from what could have been a few rexes instead. However, if you have more than 1 player ridden daeodons will be a lot less wasteful and the player on them can use a shotgun when they’re not healing.
It’s so damn hard when encountering cause the these guys usually come in packs of 3-is that only me that find 3 together.They are pretty fast to get away u have to have a bola more than one.Bola them and get away.If u want to tame get an Argentavis.OR.U can bola the ones u…
It’s so damn hard when encountering cause the these guys usually come in packs of 3-is that only me that find 3 together.They are pretty fast to get away u have to have a bola more than one.Bola them and get away.If u want to tame get an Argentavis.OR.U can bola the ones u don’t want and make the other one follow u to where u want to know if out or go use a taking pen and u can lead 2 at once into the pen than tranc em to the body or head.Make sure u have enough stamina.Nkw u have a buddy that can hill itself and dinks around it.
Values above are incorrect, a 140 probably needs about 40kibble. They eat very quickly, are easy to knock out, tame like you would tame anything else with one factor to keep in mind, they are almost always in a pack of 3 so however you would tame a dire wolf, use that same strat.
Be carful you need to always check on it it will use the food as Health and it eats meat so make sure it always as meat using heal mode not
They eat so much, if you get one of these guys be prepared to spend your entire life hunting for food
If u try to fight 3 or more u should bring a pump and some tanky animals
The guy who said go tame a snowl owl, I can’t tame one because they don’t spawn at The island,scorched earth, and rag. (Those are the maps I only play)