Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Not CRAZY hard to tame, but still hard
All you need is:
About 300 bloodpacks (Probably overkill)
A daedon (leveled in health, also put 100 bloodpacks in its inventory)
An andrewsarchus (idk if you need a saddle or no, but this will be your shelter)
Keep the remaining 200 bloodpacks in your inventory, and find your bat and set up camp. Send out your daedon by the bat. MAKE SURE EVERYTHING NEARBY IS PASSIVE. Go run under your daedon and wait for the bat to attack and pick up your pig. This will boost its effectiveness. After that, let him pick YOU up. This will tame the creature. Rinse and repeat
This thing literally picks me up when I was away from my screen. Luckily I had enough heath and it was just taming while it was caring me around and stuff so I suggest just standing where it’s at and just let you carry it away but if your health is not over 1000 then don’t do it.
You can do it with no blood packs but you need a crap ton of med brews
They also spawn in the cave near the emerald trench.
Lat: 68.2
Lon: 37.3
Many people aren't saying it here but the seemingly best spot to find desmodus are in caves, like the jade cave at 65 lat - 40 long or on the bottom left island in the first large divet of land on the map if you follow the coastline east, you'll see the green crystal nodes and the Greenland style plates of rock near the snow biome. Happy rabbies time
This is one of the best tames you can get, dont lose it!!!
Pros:
- good stats hp/damage/weight/stamina
- good fly speed
- can get invisible in the night
- screech
- can latch on any place even trees (careful, the stamina recover is slow when it is latching and if got attacked they loose the wall)
- collect a lot of blood, meat and spoiled meat
- you can use the blood to make elixirs that increase the taming efficiency in 30%( just 1 elixir per tame)
- can shoot while flying
- fast landing
- fast hp recovery
Cons:
- collect too much spoiled meat
- they gathering is limited ( dont get hide, prime and other things)
I dont have any real bad thing to say about desmodus, they have a lot of pros (some I dont listed) and even the cons are not bad, are useful and balanced. Desmodus eat meat, but prefer blood and it recover their hp with this. Now I cant live in ark without one!!
Tame a bad level first than tame high level with the blood packs that it gives you
To raise baby put blood and meat in maewing then it wil eat Every 7 minutes with out blood in maewing it eat evry 30 sec
Try to tame a low level one first so you can farm blood packs with it, it'll shorten the farming time for a high level bat.
You can also tame a Daeodon first and use it's healing aura when extracting the first few packs, the pig can also help you raise the taming effectiveness for future high level tames, just let it wander on passive near the Desmodus you want to tame, keep some blood packs on it's inventory and let it get picked, it'll raise the effectiveness.
Let it pick you afterwards and feed on your blood packs to raise the taming meter, when it's about to tame, be sure to check if the effectiveness is close to 100%, if not just let it pick the Daeodon some more.
YOU CAN'T STEAL WYVERN EGGS WHILE INVIS. THEY STILL HIT YOU. LOST SO MUCH LAST NIGHT. DON'T DO IT.
So, desmodus is the genre of the vampire bat, but since this is ark, and there’s already a “small” bat. You can pretty much guarantee that it will not be as little or cute as the cover page.