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

Love it except...when I am holding anything it will not attack. I was holding a GPS and another time a torch and I couldn't get it'l to attack. Attaching torch onto it's saddle works but I was killed by something stupid when I realised my mouse presses were not…

Use an imprinted health leveled moschops with blood packs to raise the effectiveness first. Then let it pick you up with packs in your inventory to tame. Easy way for great tame.

Harpoon net traps what you want for easy picking of the ones you don't. Let them pick you up with blood bags in your inventory. Will drop you so have parachute. Gather blood bags per hit and spoiled meat and raw meat upon eating corpses. Screech sonars enemies in front of…

In the green crystal cave at the south western island (68.3, 37.0) there are multiple desmodus spawns with groups of up to four high on the ceiling. Kill any low levels and within minutes more will spawn in. No leaving render distance required! Got a 150 in minutes.

Wowee Desmodus trap.

So I’ve been having the problem on fjordur as literally a naked dude on a level 100 PT. I’m trying to get a desmodus to make things a bit easier and BAM! Idea. I have force cave flyers on so you need to turn that on for this. But the waterfall cave…

the babies cannot take cooked meat!!!bloodpacks or raw meat!learned this after many times of falling asleep thinking they were eating from my maewing🤦🏽‍♂️

I was trying to Tame a 135 snow owl enar the Blue obelisk in Fjordur... A pack of Desmodeus came to kill me an my ptero. The strange thing is that I wasn't able to see them even the next times I went there. Now I hate them.

Desmodus can’t harvest anything other than raw meat and spoiled meat, even from tek dinos. Use a rex or other dino if you need to get hide, chitin, prime, etc. However, Desmodus can harvest cooked meat and scrap metal from full shipwreck barrels.

One of the easiest to tame and is the best flyer for me. Its a lot faster than an argy although it can only carry small dinos. Just bring a lot of blood bags and beds just in case. Also you can easily steal magmasaur eggs in caves using the invisibility.

Creatures won’t attack or notice you while you are invisible, but if they see you go invisible or they are either attacking you are running from you they will still see you. Great for getting to wyvern egg but once the egg is taken they will still attack you will invisible.

Is it just me or does this animal have no wasted points besides O2??? I look at all of mine and different lvls with different speed at base lvl.

These are gonna replace pteradons as a scout and early tame IMO. a) latching to walls let's you regain stamina and turn invisible during the day. b) 200 blood bags gets you 1 Sanguine Elixir that can only be used once for each creature your taming to increase taming…

Trick to diving sideways:

1) Gain some altitude to avoid hitting objects.

2) Look Straight down while moving right or left.

3) Toggle map on then off without altering directions

4) Speed will begin to hit full dive speed and change desmodus animation to diving.

This…

When taming on official - LURE IT OUT OF THE CAVE FIRST! The anti-mesh doesn't care that you went inside the wall/under the floor only because the wild desmodus pushed you there. So get it outside first and only then let it drag you around as it pleases.

When using a moschops to increase the effectiveness, turn off resource harvesting and make sure to knock down all the trees (if attempting outside of a cave). If not, the moschops will attack the tree if taken nearby by the desmodus, effectively resetting your taming…