Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a desmodus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a desmodus.
GUYS THATS IMPORTANT UP PLEASE!!!! You can STEAL WYVERN eggs using the invisibility ability at night up please that's an important tip!
You should tame a low level first get tons of blood packs then tame a high level
Blood extraction syringe + snow owl = easy blood packs to tame your first desmodus
They can't dismount you from an Andrewsarchus saddle sit safely within the cockpit and pick off the bats you don't want
Use tames that is carry-able by the desmodus that's on wonder and passive and get the desmodus to pick it up several times and this will increase taming effectiveness .
Babies take bloodpacks as food when raising.
Make sure to have parachutes because they fly up when taming and will drop you.
You don't need to sacrifice a creature to get taming efficiency up; just put some blood pack in the dino inventory, it'll save a lot of hp on the dino you're letting the desmo play with.
Also this seems to be faster efficiency gain than just letting it eat a dinos hp, needs a bit more testing tho.
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
To raise baby put blood and meat in maewing then it wil eat Every 7 minutes with out blood in maewing it eat evry 30 sec
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!!
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
Feed these boys moschops do get up their taming effectiveness
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
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
A 150 is about 170 blood packs on 1x offical
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.
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.
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