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

You can use tools like guns or crossbows of their backs. And since they can also latch to walls you can latch to a wall and shoot other dinis

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…

If you want a high level, get a moschops, level it all into health, find a 140-150 desmo, lure it somewhere, get it to grab you with some blood packs, and a sanguine elixir, as soon as he’s about to grab you spam the elixir that’s on your hotbar and start the tame. Throw…

Babies eat raw meat but a ton of it… for efficiency use blood packs they give 200+ food and have a long shelf life with stacks of 100

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.

At night while not latching or flying if you stay still you are COMPLETELY INVISIBLE! That’s right no air distortion or anything you can’t even see yourself! You look like just like air,

For a decent level one you only need some 40-60 blood packs, and just have them in your inventory, not in your hotbar(although you can have them on hotbar) and then agro it. I use a longneck, but you can just use a bow. Once it agros let it get you. It will grab you and carry…

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…

Use blood packs when raising babies to optimize your growth with a long shelf life and stacks of 100 makes for super easy raising