Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a desmodus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a desmodus.
Do yourself a favor and tame a DAEODON and use it to get the taming effectiveness up. They are MUCH more effective than Moschops. Daeodon increases the TE by 5 or 6 percent for each time the Desmodus picks them up.
You should probably find a cave and take dodo blood
Stock up on blood bags.
Grab some parachutes and some sleeping bags ( I usually bring 2 stacks of both)
Have the blood bags on you use the parachute as soon as you are picked up it will stay deployed until your feet hit the ground. (Works best with two players)
Without blood bags babies will go through the meat extremely quickly. Not much of a problem when they're newborn but becomes more apparent as they age. Be sure there's some available
They hang on the ceilling, I ran past them all the first time I went to search for them.
Don’t listen to those who say only blood packs or only meat for raising babies. Use both since there’s a cooldown for blood packs so it’ll eat meat in between.
Only meat= starve
Only blood packs= starve
Both= A sweet new flyer
When your at the cave get blood packs to heal when they sucking on you
Im not sure about anyone else but I've tamed 4 high level bats and according to dododex they all have low stam, very high food, high melee and very low weight, and average everything else im not sure if wildcard changed the bats in an update and dododex haven't yet
Use an imprinted health leveled moschops with blood packs to raise the effectiveness first. Then let it pick you up with packs in your inventory to tame. Easy way for great tame.
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.
Can fly in aberration? Hmmmmmmmmm
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.😂
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.
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.
The baby Desmodus does eat meat although the consumption rate is massive, instead blood packs can be used as food for the baby it will just eat them when the hunger meter gets low giving the baby 200+ food.
Bring a few parachutes if you’re doing it outside of caves or near by caves they do drop you more often than expected. If you’re looking to boost efficiency bring a few tames able to be carried by Desmondius.