Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for desmodus? Tips and strategies for desmodus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Harpoon net traps what you want for easy picking of the ones you don't. Let them pick you up with blood bags in your inventory. Will drop you so have parachute. Gather blood bags per hit and spoiled meat and raw meat upon eating corpses. Screech sonars enemies in front of you. Can fly in caves and latch onto walls
In the green crystal cave at the south western island (68.3, 37.0) there are multiple desmodus spawns with groups of up to four high on the ceiling. Kill any low levels and within minutes more will spawn in. No leaving render distance required! Got a 150 in minutes.
Wowee Desmodus trap.
So I’ve been having the problem on fjordur as literally a naked dude on a level 100 PT. I’m trying to get a desmodus to make things a bit easier and BAM! Idea. I have force cave flyers on so you need to turn that on for this. But the waterfall cave around 75 35 by a little village is perfect for this! They can’t get past wood so just set up a bunch of double door frames across the mouth of the cave, take your good PT and bait the suckers out! Then you can use the PT to cull any off you don’t want! Hope that helps up if it does!
-Teeny
Can fly in aberration? Hmmmmmmmmm
I was trying to Tame a 135 snow owl enar the Blue obelisk in Fjordur... A pack of Desmodeus came to kill me an my ptero. The strange thing is that I wasn't able to see them even the next times I went there. Now I hate them.
One of the easiest to tame and is the best flyer for me. Its a lot faster than an argy although it can only carry small dinos. Just bring a lot of blood bags and beds just in case. Also you can easily steal magmasaur eggs in caves using the invisibility.
These are gonna replace pteradons as a scout and early tame IMO. a) latching to walls let's you regain stamina and turn invisible during the day. b) 200 blood bags gets you 1 Sanguine Elixir that can only be used once for each creature your taming to increase taming progress by 30%. P.S I think since they fly and latch to walls like tapejara they might be able do ceilings too
Trick to diving sideways:
1) Gain some altitude to avoid hitting objects.
2) Look Straight down while moving right or left.
3) Toggle map on then off without altering directions
4) Speed will begin to hit full dive speed and change desmodus animation to diving.
This helps you traverse the map lightning fast, and reliable gets the speed glitch being mentioned by others to occur and at full speed.
Don't have a breeding section yet but they will eat blood bags off a maewing
They can't pick you off a Andrew with a saddle so just use one to blast the bats you don't want
When taming on official - LURE IT OUT OF THE CAVE FIRST! The anti-mesh doesn't care that you went inside the wall/under the floor only because the wild desmodus pushed you there. So get it outside first and only then let it drag you around as it pleases.
When using a moschops to increase the effectiveness, turn off resource harvesting and make sure to knock down all the trees (if attempting outside of a cave). If not, the moschops will attack the tree if taken nearby by the desmodus, effectively resetting your taming effectiveness back to 50%.
I found that you can use a bat to pick up and tame a daeodon,
which you can use to heal any babies or any creature.