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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for drakeling? Tips and strategies for drakeling in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Spring drakeling heal, shoulder or otherwise, is overpowered, can raise babies without food as it counteracts starvation ticks!
Can be used as sustain in longer fights just monitor health or armor
Can also help fight environment degeneration or starvation on yourself, basically can help you survive if not enough fortitude or insulation!
We’re on an unofficial server. We have no mods in regards to dinos. We are currently on extinction. Dododex and google says they are not on said map. I have tamed several winters, a couple summers, and a spring on said map. 🤷🏻♀️
To tame a drakeling you need to have a torch then search for the drakeling then equip your torch and wait until the drakeling comes on your shoulder but keep holding the torch then it maybe forces you to kill or level up crafting skills or others, if you did what it forces you then congrats you got a drakeling
Best tools for taming these, pump action shotgun/Chainsaw/pick/Sickle. FIRST Use a torch to get it to land on your shoulder. Use pump action to take large dinos down to instantly fill bar for kills, chainsaw wood or corpses for Harvest. Build wood foundations for Crafting(3 ceilings does the trick usually). Then Have extraordinary kibble in last slot to feed overtime as you Fill your drakelings request.
Good luck.
Craft sleeping bags they fill the craft want very fast never need more than 2
The first step is to get them to land on your shoulder. Food of any type will not work on them; instead, you need a torch to lure them. Once a Drakeling lands on your shoulder, the second step of taming will begin, where they will take you hunting.
You will see a set of instructions near your hotbar asking you to kill other creatures. Once the bar is full, you will need to feed the Drakeling a Superior Kibble. This will increase the taming progress by a small percentage, and the progress bar will reset, along with the timer. Repeat this until it reaches 100% and you’ve tamed your first Darkeling.
Equip a torch and get close to it. It will jump onto your shoulder and then just read at the bottom of the screen what it wants you to do. Seems to jump between tasks and feeding it taming food, which I think is superior kibble.
PS do not fall in the water while it is on your shoulder it will dismount it and mess up the taming
Use a torch to lure it to your shoulder then complete its requests of gain harvest, crafting, or kill exp. Have to kill on foot. It will fly off if you hop on a mount. Likes exceptional kibble or mutton best but any meat works.
For summer drakelings, use a torch next to it and it’ll hop on your shoulder. You’ll have some task to do in order to tame it
To Tame: Find a drakeling and hold a torch in your hand nearby it. Let it get on your shoulder and when it does it’ll request: Killing xp, crafting xp, or harvesting xp. You’ll have 2 minutes to fill the bar doing what it requests and once full you feed it with kibble in last slot on quick bar- repeat the process until it’s tamed! :)
To start taming, pull out a torch and run up to the Drakeling. It’ll jump on your shoulder and want you to do something before you can feed it.
To tame this, you must not have a shoulder pet on. Do not hop on a tame. Because the animal will jump off your shoulder. Put extra extraordinary kibble in your last slot. You use a torch to draw it in. At the bottom of the screen it will tell you what it wants you to do. 1. Either harvest. I find trees the best. 2. Craft something. I find that thatch ceilings are the best, usually takes five. 3. kill something. I usually use an ascended sword. once you do one of these three things, it will tell you to hit triangle.(ps5) to feed it kibble.
Hold torch near it and it will land on your shoulder. It will request certain task and once task is complete, you can feed it kibble.
To tame: hold a torch it will land on your shoulder, do the task it says on screen, (xp via gathering, xp via killing things, xp via crafting.) then feed a kibble or meat, rinse and repeat.
P.S. when the task it gives shows up on your screen DO NOT GET ON A DINO. You must do the task on foot with tools and weapons. I recommend carrying fiber around since it’s light and just crafting drawing paper if you have bob’s tall tales (For the xp via crafting task.) For the killing task target small things with a sword or a pike. For the harvest task just hit rocks or trees.
I trapped one of these cuties in my base. Was fine for hours until it stormed outside, then it lightninged my damn base and was pissy. Attacking wasn't consistent but still rude. Trapping it didn't make it aggressive and I was able to wait a timer to get back on for an hour without it despawning from my base so you can trap them when you're busy!
Passive tame. Use a torch to lure them to you. They'll land on your shoulder and want you to either craft, kill, or harvest enough to fill an xp bar, once the task is done its passive tame, repeat until tamed.
Superior kibble wasnt effective but I swapped to Extraordinary kibble and it went quicker, haven't tried exceptional kibble though
Tamed with a torch after it will land on your shoulder and ask you to kill,craft,or harvest. Do that in the time limit and feed it kibble off last slot I used yellow kib.
Use a torch to get it to come down and land onto your shoulder. Then it will give you different missions to complete so get it to tame