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.
Desmodus
🦇 The Desmodus Draculae is a bat in ARK: Survival Evolved that's included in the free DLC map, Fjordur, which was released on June 12, 2022.

Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Desmodus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
To tame I use a snow owl to heal while harvesting blood then I tame two mosschops put lots of blood in there invintories put them in passive let a low level bat it argo on them and pick them up then it should have 100% taming affectivness harvest blood with that rinse and…
To tame I use a snow owl to heal while harvesting blood then I tame two mosschops put lots of blood in there invintories put them in passive let a low level bat it argo on them and pick them up then it should have 100% taming affectivness harvest blood with that rinse and repeat. Good luck Randle out.
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…
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!!
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…
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.
To Tame it you mite need blood packets
Hey tribe mate knock that bob out and get the syringe
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.
A 150 is about 170 blood packs on 1x offical
Tame a gloon set it on auto mesmerized. There’s a broken glitch in the game as soon as they rip you off whatever mount you’re on it will automatically tame it 👍🏽 hurry get all the vampires/ get to breeding . I just went in to a cave and accidentally did it by having…
Tame a gloon set it on auto mesmerized. There’s a broken glitch in the game as soon as they rip you off whatever mount you’re on it will automatically tame it 👍🏽 hurry get all the vampires/ get to breeding . I just went in to a cave and accidentally did it by having it on my shoulder, trying to get drops tamed every single one that ripped me off my mount instantly.
On ASA, you can use the medical stand with a high health creature (such as a diplodicus) to get tonnes of blood packs to tame them.
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.
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…
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)
Hands down the best flier I've ever tamed I used it to kill rexes, allo packs ,and deinychus and had full heal when I got to base. I hight recommend but it can only get blood ,raw meat ,and spoiled meat no muten , hide ,prime meat ,or pelt.
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
Bats, where to find them, and how to tame them, on fjordur map ase.
Where to find them; in fjordur you can find them in the volcano caves and rarely at the bog island, default realm.
How to tame them: use blood packs (depending on the level always bring extra too) and let…
Bats, where to find them, and how to tame them, on fjordur map ase.
Where to find them; in fjordur you can find them in the volcano caves and rarely at the bog island, default realm.
How to tame them: use blood packs (depending on the level always bring extra too) and let the desmodus grab you, I suggest you clear the area of other bats and creatures, the bats won’t attack you while your grabbed but will try to kill your bat once the taming is done. Also bring a parachute in case it drops you from too high (thats how I died)
Utility: the desmodus can latch onto walls, screech for echolocation (pings people, tamed and wild creatures)
Can suck the blood of grabbed enemy’s (also tamed but you can toggle blood sucking) use the blood for healing your bat or you and to make an elixir that does 30% taming or imprint, can cloak to become invisible at night or when latched, and use night vision. Needs saddle to ride but saddle gives it armor. Oh and it can humming bird. (Fly up down left right and backwards) thanks for reading -BoXXy
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…
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)
To farm blood packs insanely fast find a high level doedicrus and attack with desmodus so easy...
If you only have a low lvl desi, Diplo are basically walking blood banks. You can easily get a couple hundred blood packs without taking any damage. Can also leave the Diplo alive for more at a later time.
Do you have to give it blood packs ???
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