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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Desmodus

🦇 The Desmodus Draculae is a bat in ARK: Survival Evolved that's included in the free DLC map, Fjordur, which was released on June 12, 2022.

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Desmodus

Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Desmodus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

These can be a early game tame, just get lvl 74 to get the saddle by how ever you want, then tame a pt and get blood bags as you do it, also make the saddle while you are there. Then fly to the area where they spawn( about 90 lat, 70 lon) , enter the cave and tame a high lvl or…

4 points🥚 Taming & KOReport

Plan on dying, prepare for the worst. Make sure you have a ton of sleeping bags placed nearby, also bring parachutes to reduce the chance of death. Good luck!

4 points🥚 Taming & KOReport

Has invisibility in any form at night or anytime when latched. Night vision is accessible through the wheel. Hold bite to build scream and hold grapple to build invisibility.

4 points🔧 UtilityReport

If you're using forcetame, don't let it grab you first as it drops the taming efficacy immediately and so you'll only get 192's instead of 225's assuming standard max difficulty settings.

3 points🥚 Taming & KOReport

Carch losing to a baboon: F*CK YOU YOU STUPID RED A** MONKEY B*ITCH

Carch losing to a bat: understandable have a nice day

4 points🔧 UtilityReport

THESE THINGS ARE SO COOL!!!!!

They can hang onto a cliff or tree and you can shoot off them!! So helpful for taming!

3 points🔧 UtilityReport

You can easily navigate most of the caves on The Island with a Desmodus. Beware of Purlovia in the Snow cave as there are sections where you have to fly low and the Purlovia can stun and dismount you. Go at night and use the invisibility buff. There is no other way that I…

3 points🔧 UtilityReport

Can’t wait to tame this, probably will need blood packs considering it is probably something like a vampire bat. So that being said make sure you have lots of tribe mates with high health ;)

4 points🥚 Taming & KOReport

Just found out the hard way. You don't need blood packs in your inventory to tame. I was ambushed by a desmodus and it's taming meter was still going up just from draining my characters health.

3 points🥚 Taming & KOReport

Best way tame a low level get a lot of blood packs get a high level they upgrade easy just use the red things there’s like 200 of them but they have night vision and invisibly one of the best tames ever, they are the best for stealing wyven eggs just go invisible and activate…

1 point🥚 Taming & KOReport

Tame a low lvl desmodus before you find a high level farm up minimally 40 bloodpacks and then farm more after the low lvl tame to get a high level and let it suck blood from tamed dinos i prefer dire wolfs or daedons so the taming effectiveness goes up and you dont lose a lot…

3 points🥚 Taming & KOReport

If u turn off the harvesting settings this thing will only collect blood packs so its imv eont fill up with meat and u can focus on making the potion things that i can craft on it

3 points🔧 UtilityReport

thees may be good for rock drale taming just cause ypu could steal an egg then hop on batty latch then turn invisible 🤔 but ive never done this its just an idea but id be cool to try

3 points🔧 UtilityReport

This tame does NOT harvest element dust, oil, electronics, or scrap metal from tek dinos. It harvest raw and spoiled meat from them.

3 points🔧 UtilityReport

As of right now, you only need to have bloodpacks IN your inventory, they do not have to be in the last slot of your hotbar. I accidentally tamed several when a low-level culling went wrong whilst I had packs on me.

3 points🥚 Taming & KOReport