Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Desmodus's dossier has now been released. Here's the dossier info.
Wild
Even with all the other monstrosities around here, this fugitive from a Creature Double Feature deserves top billing. I mean, Dracula's right there in its species name! And Desmodus has a shriek that'll scare just about anything out of its way. It's also shrewd enough to limit itself to victims that it can carry off into the night.
Although I'm not superstitious enough to advise stocking up on garlic and stakes before you decide to track down Desmodus for yourself, I'd still advise you to hunt these horrors out in the light and away from their caves β they seem uniquely adept at flying and hiding in those dark, narrow spaces.
Domesticated
Taming one of these beasties lets you add its eerie abilities to your arsenal. Use their unsettling scream to scatter your enemies. Command Desmodus to snatch up small prey for you. Let its uncanny power to vanish into darkness become your personal stealth mode.
Desmodus has blood thinner in its saliva, which drains prey of more blood than this vampire could ever digest. If you can stomach the excess blood and drained meat your vampire pet leaves behind, you might be open-minded enough to appreciate another of its unholy gifts: a 'sanguine elixir' that helps enthrall the most stubborn beasts.
More Desmodus Utility Tips
You can STEAL WYVERN eggs using the invisibility ability at night
THE ELIXIR IT MAKES DOES WORK ON PASSIVE TAMES!!! You just have to feed it the required food first and then you can use the elixir!
Echolocation will probably work like snow owl and bloodstalker mixed together
Desmodus are immune to radiation. Tried and tested. Great for rock drake trench. :)
to change the ability to lifesteal for console is holding square while riding it up for more people to see
This is one of the best tames in all of ark! It is the only flyer that can go in caves it has night vision it can go invisible and it has echolocation. It can get blood packs very easily. And it is the only way to craft sanguine elixer which can give an automatic 30% to either taming or imprinting ( note it can only be used once per imprint/tame) it also has a life steal effect and you can shoot while riding. It is also fast and has a dive ability kind of like the snow owl it can land on walls and roofs and also it has decent health and melee. Definitely worth the tame!
You can detect active bee hive using screech on them. The one with the Queen bee will be highlighted. Up if new
Only harvest's regular meat and spoiled meat, donβt try for prime or mutton, just goes straight to spoiled meat. ^^^
These guys are super good. They can go through caveβs without dismount, immune to radiation and capture rock drake egg easy as pie on fjorder. Tame them as soon as you can π¦
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