Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a desmodus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a desmodus.
Here’s a some steps to tame a high level bat:
Step 1: get some blood packs from yourself(69-89)
Step 2: tame a low level desmodus
Step 3: use the desmodus to look for a high level you want
Step 4: look at Dododex to see how many blood packs you need
Step 5: use the desmodus to get enough blood packs for that level
STEP 6: just go right in and tame that bad boy >:D
EXTRA: the reason I suggest taming a low level desmodus is because it would be faster to get blood packs using it rather than using yourself and having to wait to heal or respawn. Hope this helps!
block the entrance of the waterfall cave with stone doorways. you can run in, lead them to the entrance, they get stuck but you can look at them and kill the low levels you dont want, then use a cryopod to throw in your moshops and watch its effectiveness with the tame tracker. if theres more than one bat, both will take turns draining the moschops, but it will not change the effectiveness. practice running out the cave, theres a specific path to get out without getting stuck on the ground.
As of right now on Tuesday 6/14/22 they use less blood packs then the taming calculator says, I would still bring more then needed though about 80/120 blood packs for 130-150 tames, once you tame one just using basic right trigger atacks on wild dinos will get you blood packs back for more desmodus tames!
I've heard it supposed to be a blood pack tame so you feed it blood packs similar to a bloodstalker whether it's a knock out or tame or what am unsure of
If you carry enough blood pack you will accidentally tame them all. lol guess ive got an army now.
Bring parachute it will drop you
These can be a early game tame, just get lvl 74 to get the saddle by how ever you want, then tame a pt and get blood bags as you do it, also make the saddle while you are there. Then fly to the area where they spawn( about 90 lat, 70 lon) , enter the cave and tame a high lvl or low lvl, depending on how many blood bags you have.
Hope this helped!
Hello There! In order to tame this terrifying bat you need to have blood packs in your last slot or you could even use yourself if you have enough health.💀 Anyway, they can be found only on Fjordur (as far as I know) and they are basically nerfed during the day! Basically a Bat Blood-Stalker.😂
To get at %100 effectiveness and max lvls gained tame a good lvl moschop pump nothing but health put blood packs on the chop let bat pick up the chop not you it will gain effectiveness but not tame % once at %100 then let the bat grab you while having blood packs on you to tame it up this to help pretty easy tame start with low lvl to get lots of easy packs for higher lvl
Okay, this is how I tame these guys.
1. I go into the cave of Desmodus behind the waterfall in the spawn map.
2. I spyglass them and look at their levels.
3. I will then net projectile (or if you can, kill) the lower level Desmodus.
4. I kite the high level or desired Desmodus out of the cave before the others become unprojectiled.
5. I cryopod my Dino I used to kite it out. (Or you can use the glider skin, if you know how to use it!)
6. I let it pick me up and let the taming begin!!
Hope this helps you!!! Good luck on getting a Desmodus
If you need blood bags fast, get snow owl and have someone making blood bags and just tap the heal button on the owl and you heal Instant so can go again. Did this and got about 300 blood bags in about 30mins or so, only have 120 health. You should only need about 100 to tame most but bring extra because your not going be able to not grabbed by others, and bring parachutes
As of right now, you only need to have bloodpacks IN your inventory, they do not have to be in the last slot of your hotbar. I accidentally tamed several when a low-level culling went wrong whilst I had packs on me.
To tame it I would recommend a moschops so when the bat picks it up taming effectiveness is boosted when you have 100% effectiveness let it grab you and I recommend have ATLEAST 100 blood packs, more would be recommended for higher levels. Once all that is done you should have a brand new desmodus draculae!
Picks you and eats blood bags as it Flys around with you in claws to tame
People you don’t need ten blood sacks I was just wrong with that tip I said. you need way more
Not sure if this is a thing or just weird coincidence, but when I tamed mine it seemed to gain efficiency faster from tames at night than it did during the day, as well as taming faster at night too.
If anyone could confirm this that’d be awesome, I may have just had some weird stuff work in my favor.
All you need is Blood packs and parachutes.. let the bat pick you then when it goes to drop you, deploy a parachute and slowly fall down. The bat will then continue to pick you and suck your blood without dropping you from the sky
Plan on dying, prepare for the worst. Make sure you have a ton of sleeping bags placed nearby, also bring parachutes to reduce the chance of death. Good luck!
Bring grappling hooks or parachutes
You can extract blood in a tek sleeping pod. It works pretty well since you don’t have to eat from the healing. It’s end game af but if you got it and you want a bat or blood stalker you can have hundreds of blood packs in minutes.