Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
THINGS YOU NEED TO TAME A DRAKELING:
-Exceptional Kibble or higher (last slot of hot bar)
-Torch
-Harvesting tools (pick, hatchet, etc)
-Weapons with ammo (shotgun works best but any will do
1.) Find your Drakeling. Gene Scanner is the best way to do this. They are very small and easy to miss, about the size of a Dimorph.
2.) Equip the torch. The Drakeling will fly up to you and land on your shoulder.
3.) The Drakeling will want you to gain a certain type of experience: kill experience (kill wild animals), harvest experience (collect resources), or crafting experience (craft from engrams).
4.) Once you have gained enough experience from doing those things, press the E button to automatically feed kibble from the hotbar and advance taming progress.
5.) The Drakeling will now want you to gain a different type of experience. Get the EXP and feed more kibble. Repeat until tamed.
I am not sure if taming progress/affinity is affected by kill species/kill level, what resources are harvested or how much is harvested, or if what engrams you craft makes a difference. More research is required. But the EXP requirements are pretty low on 1x official so just use whatever is nearby and focus on speed more than efficiency.
A couple of things to keep in mind.
-Once the Drakeling lands on your shoulder, you will have two minutes to complete the taming. If you fail to tame, it will leave your shoulder and you will have to lure it with the torch again.
-YOU MUST BE ON FOOT THE WHOLE TIME! If you mount a tame at any time, the Drakeling will run away and you will have to start over.
-The taming process is the same regardless of what season the Drakeling is. Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter have different appearances and effects but are all tamed the same way.
-The Drakeling is not hostile to you or your tames, but if there are a lot of wild dinos nearby it can sometimes be hard to get it to come to you.
Once the Drakeling has been tamed, put it on your shoulder like any pet. Open up your inventory and a new item called Attack will be there. Equip this item and the Drakeling will move off your shoulder to become a weapon. From here you can use it in combat, it has a bite attack and a breath attack. You can also use the Drakeling to give buffs to your tames (right click). Unequip sends it back to the shoulder. Also, holding R to bring up the radial menu while itβs on your shoulder will allow you to toggle the parachute and the Drakeling will automatically slow your fall and prevent fall damage.
Enjoy your new pet!
More Drakeling Taming & KO Tips
I was wondering why it wasn't landing on my shoulder even with a regular torch equipped like the comment suggested. I finally realised that it was because I haven't bought the DLC they are in. So yeah you have to pay if you want one of these.
Iβve also seen them spawn on extinction, even though it shows that they do not spawn there I have seen it
It is NOT a knockout tame. Use a torch to lure it in, then do whatever it says (just know it's XP related, like crafting, killing, etc) after you fill the bar up, you feed it using the last slot of your inventory (duh) keep repeating this and it will soon tame! Have fun, don't die!
Go out with the scanner to find the direct links and then whip out your torch when you get close and it'll land on your shoulder. Then it'll indicate what it wants you to do for experience either kill something craft something or harvest something. I found harvesting with a ascendant pic on wood to get thatch is very good XP and goes quick. I carry and ascendant shotgun for when it wants me to kill something. The shotgun works great because it's very fast and powerful. As far as the crafting goes carry the materials with you to make standing torches. Excellent XP and not too heavy to carry you can just throw away the torches that you make. Follow these tips and you'll have many many drakelings.
While taming it, donβt hop on a mount or go in the water. This will make it hop off your shoulder and interrupt the taming process.
For those of you that have the reusable things like torch and bola. You CANNOT use the reusable torch for taming. It only works with a regular primitive torch.
Morter & pestles are perfect for taming these they max out the bar in one craft. Carry a stack of hide, harvest stone during the gathering phase and craft morters during the crafting phase.
Equip a torch it will land on you and give you tasks complete
The spring drakeling requested you earn exp by doing tasks
Crafting
Harvesting
Or killing dinosaurs
You have 2 mins to complete the task then you feed it meat and repeat till tamed.
Approach with a torch out and it will land on your shoulder. It will then require you to gain a certain type of XP. So far I've come across crafting, harvesting and killing as requests. Once your XP fills the bar to 100 you can feed it exceptional kibble from the last slot of your hotbar. Rinse and repeat until tamed.
To tame, use a basic torch. Iβve found that if you have a cosmetic equipped to the torch (like the sparkler skin) it wonβt land on your shoulder. I couldnβt figure out for the life of me why it wasnβt working, even after clearing some dinos out and harvesting corpses. After doing that, I've tamed quite a few. So yeah! Happy taming π