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.

On lost colony get blood packs from deinotherium i got like 40 blood packs from one

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

It can only go invisible when latching onto a wall or roof, or from 9:00 PM to 5:15 AM

One of the greatest secret abilities of the desmodus is its ability to fly in caves. Unlike many flyers, the desmodus is actually able to fly without any setting changes required.

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!!

Fun fact: if you feed the elixir to a baby, juvenile or adolescent Dino even if it’s not ready for it next imprint go into the baby’s inventory and eat the elixir in your inventory and it will give the Dino a 30+ imprint bonus.

It can turn invisible at night and while it is latched upside down during both night and day. Every time it bites a creature, it adds blood packs to it's inventory, making it good to use to tame bloodstalkers. It collects tons of spoiled meat when it eats corpses making it also good for narcotic farming. It has echolocation which allows it to ping all nearby creatures, and finally it has the ability to dive similar to the griffin and snow owl. It's tamed passively by putting blood packs in the last slot of your hotbar and letting it pick you up.

If your trying to find a decent cave=

On fjordior there is a swamp island there on the swamp island there are two caves the big one just has bugs in it the smaller tunnel one has a few onycs and like 2-3 desmodus in it but the cave is kinda hard to find the cave is pointing to the autumn section of the other island

Like the entrance of it.

(Sorry if that sounded confusing)

A 150 is about 170 blood packs on 1x offical

Put lots raw meat in maewing when raising babies. Do not use blood packs or cooked meat. It will starve due to the cool down timer on blood packs.

To Tame it you mite need blood packets

Hey tribe mate knock that bob out and get the syringe

Can only turn invisible at night and screech reaches really far , amazing tame u need blood packs grabs you like bloodstalker will eat the blood packs to tame

These Oversized Onycs are extremely easy to tame for such a versatile and powerful mount, if you have enough bloodpacks they’re literally a guaranteed tame, as when they pick you up they don’t damage you, and if there’s other bats they can’t damage you either if another bat has already picked you up.

I was shocked to say the least when I tamed a low level to farm blood packs for higher level Desmodus ,

shocked at how powerful it was even at such a low level, 25 when i tamed it, I was able to take down 2 high level Stegos, 145 I believe and the other tek and 95 speaking of level 95s, I also destroyed a level 95 Carno as well as a level 145 trike that couldn’t reach me but I could reach it ,

Now that I’ve got some high levels, just now tamed a female level 145 now level 186 after taming ,with really nice Easter colours too , and a male that’s a good level, 122 after taming from not sure what level since that one came out of nowhere, lol.

I’m back at base with them both as typing this and just might breed them, the fact they can breed is also crazy considering they 1.Are capable of Harvesting an infinite supply of blood packs.

2. Are Overpowered,( I love them for it)

3. can go invisible at night or while latching, ( if you play pvp this could be real useful)

4. Able to shoot off of them while riding including when they’re latched,

5. Did I mention when latched they don’t even drain stamina?

6.Did I mention they’re overpowered ????

7. Can pick up players and some creatures , combine that if you play pvp and it’s night you can ambush someone off their Giga or something and kill them easy,( not sure if Desmodus can be detected with parasails if they would have a parasail with them or something)

Use a daedon on passive to increase taming effectiveness. Has much higher health, heal rate and a saddle which allows it to easily tank lvl150 bats

As no one mentioned this at all the effectiveness goes up depending on the HP of the tame you are "feeding" it I find daedons are the best way as they have a high health stat

Do you have to give it blood packs ???

To farm blood packs insanely fast find a high level doedicrus and attack with desmodus so easy...

I haven’t seen anyone mention anything about babies but they eat raw meat they won’t drink blood the blood packs. Hope this helps

Desmodus can be tamed with blood packs, it’s a passive tame, and you can give it smaller tames of yours to make its efficiency go higher for more levels.

The Desmodus can harvest spoiled meat in absurd amounts, the bigger the creature, the more spoiled meat you get, which is good for getting narcotics.

Desmodus can also harvest blood packs from creatures, without killing the creature. If you have 200 blood packs in the Desmoduses inventory, you can craft a sanguine elixir, which is good for taming, as it raises the taming bar by 30. It can also be used for imprinting + passive taming.

At night, you can use echolocation, which turns the Desmodus invisible, meaning you can easily steal Wyvern eggs, Drake eggs, etc.

The Desmodus also can fly in caves.