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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a desmodus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a desmodus.
A 150 is about 170 blood packs on 1x offical
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.
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.
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
When the des drops you and you have parachute active shoot him with heal beam from tek pistol to give 100% tame effective UP THIS IT WORKS!!
you can use a shild while taming the desmodus. He will still pick you up, but the desmodus won't be able to damage you.
My friend: you tamed that low level Des?
Me: I did, still not craft the saddle for it so it's in cryopod
My friend: HOW? The blood bags are still in the fridge.
I smiled as she shocked by the massive red messages in tribe log.
You don't need blood packs to tame a Desmodus, you are the blood pack yourself. Just pack 3 beds and sacrifice yourself to the low level Desmodus so you can have blood packs for higher levels.... or just do it the normal, painless way.
Find one single it out have blood bags in last slot of hotbar have plenty of parachutes let pick you up drops you parachute down rinse repeat
Babies won't eat blood packs while you're offline. I've lost two babies this way.
One of the comments suggest using snow owl to get blood for first one. Not bad, but every time you heal using owl, it’ll go through your meat. If you can make med brew.
They can be found In the cave near the emerald trench (the canyon with green colored crystals and hexagon rocks) follow the trench all the way up and there will be a cave with spiders centipede and onic (smaller non-rideable bats that can give you mega rabies so maybe bring cures) after you go In use a spyglass or if you have one a snow owl to look for them try to find a low level so it wont kill you and you don’t need as much blood then put the blood packs in your last inventory slot and get it to attack you and pick you up rinse and repeat until tamed then use that one to get blood and tame a higher level. Hope this was helpful thanks for reading ☺️
Use a megalaina to increase its taming effectiveness make sure to put some lvl into the megalainas health works like a charm moshops work to but found megas better
Pretty important to note that in order to receive the extra levels for efficiency you need to "feed" it a passive small creature before/ during the taming process. Each time it feeds on you it loses efficiency I don't know what tame is best used but I am using a Moschops and it is working well.
Get a good pteranodon, build a trap made of double doorways and a gate in the front, use the pteranodon to lure the bats into the trap(Pteranodons can fit through double doorways but bats can’t) net gun all the bats, close the gate, kill the low level bats, then tame the one you want.
They pick you up and eat blood packs out your inventory
It was hard to tame my 156 it’s took a lot of blood I died a lot
Make sure to bring a parachute it’s going to drop you sometimes k
Bring BLOODPACKS to tame :)
I really like what they did with the image I hope they do that more.
They are all over the swamp island on fjordur
Tame a Snow Owl first, then get bloodpacks, heal yourself with its freeze attack, and repeat... Up for new players to know!
Easy tame, Ride on andrewsarchus and shoot with fab or longneck, get it to attack high hp moschops and then run under it with blood packs. Great flyer on day 2. Tamed 3 in under 30mins.