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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a dreadmare? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a dreadmare.
Ceratospine is also 1 of the needed trophys. Please add
1. Locate demon horsy on The Center or Scorched Earth (ONLY SPAWNS AT NIGHT)
2. Kill it
3. Collect alter from lifeless corpse
4. DO NOT PLACE ALTER IN BASE! (explanation #13)
5. Place alter somewhere open
6. Summoning can ONLY TAKE PLACE AT NIGHT
7. The alter will ask for boss tributes (any alpha trophy from the current map + its RANDOM)
8. 5 minute timer to place in the required tribute
9. After each tribute is placed, the Dreadmare will be summoned and you have 3 minutes to kill it to progress taming.
10. Flys very fast in a circle and keeps its distance.
11. Best to use medium to long range weapons such as rifles and bring a Wyvern, Giga, Carch or Rex to help with fight.
12. However...if you don't feel like chasing Evil Pegasus around, you can build a trap around the alter ;) Suggest 3x3 floors around the alter and above, and 24 doorways at 2 height. Make sure there is an opening on the ceiling above alter to match the floor
13. If you do not place the required tribute within the given time, a high level dino of the given tribute will spawn. (Ex. Alter calls for Alpha Rex tooth, if the tooth isn't placed inside before time runs out an actual Alpha Rex will spawn!) keep that in mind if it ever calls for a giga heart ;)
14. Each time you miss a tribute, the alter loses health. You can miss a total of 3 tributes before the alter is destroyed and buh bye tame :(
15. Once the taming bar is at 100%, it will give you an option to tame and TADAAA! You have yourself a Horse from hell!
They demand amonite bile on Astraeos, pls add this to the list!!
Breedable and eats spoiled meat when raising
All tributes on the map can be asked for. Asked for sauropod vertebra on SE: summoned the titanosaur. Somehow I lived. Successfully tamed a lvl 15 😐
It’s about 6 hours on 2x to get to juvenile. They eat spoiled meat.
I recommend having five of each type of apex drop and trophy before you try and tame one. However you don’t need any aquatic apex drops, meaning that megalodon fins, megalodon teeth, basillo blubber, alpha leedsicthys blubber, alpha mosa teeth, tuso tentacles, and alpha tuso eyes are not needed. However in the list of things that are required are the alpha apex drops (alpha raptor claws, alpha carno arms, alpha Rex teeth) plus giga hearts. The easiest way to acquire the heart would be to lure a giga or carchar into lava on the island and center. Also just to clear up something, rhino horns are not apex drops and are not necessary. They can also request trophies, so the alpha Rex skull trophy, alpha wyvern trophy, and alpha death worm trophy. The apex drops it wants will always be available on the map you’re trying to tame it on, so you don’t need to worry about collecting wyvern talons on the island or the center. On Scorched it is harder as most of the requests are one of the three wyvern talons, plus a lot of alpha death worm trophies and alpha wyvern trophies, which are pretty hard to get, so I’d tame on the island or center.
Taming a 150 on x2 official center.
Genuinly asked for 6/21 megalania venom. It can and will ask for the same thing over and over again so beware. And ark always knows which thing you are low on or missing!
If you can stand close to the side of a cliff face it is 100x easier to kill as the dread will not fly in circles and will usually come closer to you and get stuck on the cliff side.
Kill the dreadmare then it will drop an altar place it and give it a talon of somekind it can also only spawn at night and be tamed at night
If you are playing on a server that allows for creatures from other arks to be transferred in, then by far the best way to kill it is with Reaper kings as their tail Projectiles knock it from the sky and force it to land. Awesome for with either Killing Wild dreadmares To get their alter or during the Taming process
Place 5 metal gates over the alter to trap the creatures that spawn.
They appear at 20:25 and disappear again at 5:15. When they disappear they will remain in the same spot until the next night, but will be invisible/ banished. Screenshot these times to remember them.
First you got to feed it about 5 dollars before taming
You can skip tributes if you do not have the right one but BEWARE! If it asks for a giga heart while taming a 150 dreadmare and you do not have it, it will spawn a 150 giga.
After killing it, take altar, bring to a cliff, place with front facing outwards. That way, if you dont have the gigahearts, it will send the giga flying off the cliff
If you do not have the tribute, it will spawn in what it’s asking for and you have to kill it. It’ll give you credit. You only have 4 times to not have the tribute, then the Altar is destroyed.
Trophies
Alpha Deathworm Trophy
Alpha Rex Trophy
Alpha Wyvern Trophy
Tributes
Allosaurus Brain
Alpha Carnotaurus Arm
Alpha Raptor Claw
Alpha Tyrannosaur Tooth
Argentavis Talon
Cerato Venom Spine (unconfirmed)
Giganotosaurus Heart
Megalania Toxin
Sarcosuchus Skin
Sauropod Vertebra
Spinosaurus Sail
Therizino Claws
Thylacoleo Hook-Claw
Titanoboa Venom
Tyrannosaurus Arm
Wyvern Talon (Fire, Lightning, Poison)
Yutyrannus Lungs
WARNING! Cannot use Daedon to raise dreadmare. Had it next to wyvern and it still starved.
So, couple of things good to know.
The horses that spawn during the fight have much less health then their original counterparts.
The creature that spawns alongside it is also the same level as the horse you are taming.
Melee damage does affect the ranged attacks.
Weight affects the crypod weight.
They are also my new favourite tame
Prepare a lot of tributes! If you alreafy have the altar, place it in the start of the night 20:40 or ealy, cuz in the morning taming stops and continues the next night.If you can find a peacefull spot to place it near your base or bring the tributes with you. DON'T put it in your base, cuz it can summon a giga if you don't have enough hearts!!!! GL guys!