Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a dunkleosteus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a dunkleosteus.
Very hard to get it to chase you, so you’ll have to chase it. An ichthyosaurus is best because it’s fast and you can shoot from the back of it. Though, I would recommend bring a basi for protection from eels, megs, and jellies, just to be safe. The dunky is slow but it can go far.
Also, don’t take your eyes off of it for too long or you’ll never find it again.
Says 113 tranqs for a 55 Dunk but an X-Dunk took about 180...
Take 5 metal behe's and two doors to 84.3 47 on Crystal isles look for the charging station. The rest is up to you.
Don't look at how many tranqs it will to knock this out if you're taming a x-dunky, x creatures take less torpor so it will take more tranqs
If trying to tame one make like a wyvern trap on the bottom on the ocean and hive someone else shut it. I use a sarco to lead it in the trap. On the center you can make the trap right next to the air bubble to escaped in the Airr away from any attack range and have a keypad to shut it. This will allow you to use any tranq attack
taming a X dunkleosteus is so much harder than taming a normal one. It takes more arrows to knock it down and you will probably kill it before you can knock it down. And yet you have to deal with those stupid eels and megalodons. Be sure set up a trap and bring your friends to deal with those eels and megalodons. Solo tame is ill advised imo. And do not ride basilisaurus when you try to lure it to the trap, for some reason dunkly is afraid of the basil and it will run away from you. A ichthy is a better choice, dunkly will chase you as well as those eels, thats why a friends is needed.
OR just use command "dotame" to save your time and your dolphine.
For a X-version BRING AS MUCH TRANQ THINGS AS POSSIBLE! Make USE A ICHY! I have used a Bary but it was to fast to get so i had to corner it, you could try the huge octo tame for grabbing but i doubt youd get that before a dunkleo but if you do...USE IT. Hope this helps -The NightWart
Can knock out with giant squids
If u have squid just grab amd hild it. It'll apply torpor and ko it without trap or arrows
The easiest way to tame it is to shoot it from a baryonix. Who the dunkleosteus torpo gets, he flees. All others will be Agro in the area . So that they also run away, use the special attack and everyone in the immediate vicinity runs off.
Patrol your coastlines .. you sometims get them on the beaches and make easy tames, throw 3 gates around them and stand on a wyvern and dart it ... Take plenty of darts if you that lucky.. 4exceptional kibble and the jobs done 242 dunkly with very little work .. happy hunting
Found one. Taming with raw fish. For some reason, though, it ran away from me on the first hit.
It took me forever to tranqulaize broke 2 crossbows with toxic tranquilizer but the taming was pretty fast took it 10 seconds to tame.
If you want to tame these, ride an ichty you can draw your crossbow on his back. If you hit the dunkle with tranq, he'll flee. So you need a dino that can draw crossbow on it.
Here are my recommendations for the amount of toxicant arrows you might need. Lvl 5-50, 20-90 Arrows. Lvl 55-100, 100-200 Arrows. Lvl 105-150, 200-300 Arrows. Lvl 155-200, 300-400 Arrows. Lvl 205-250, 400-500 Arrows. Lvl 255-300, 500-600 Arrows. Lvl 305-350, 600-700 Arrows. (These are for non-X-Dunkleosteuses)Also bring atleast a 250% crossbow.
When taming look for their mate or partner because they will attack
Even though everyone says they don’t attack you on mobile that is wrong they do while they are not very dangerous if you have a decent tame you should be just time
The dunkleosteus. Primarily known as the bone crusher. It's head was made of an armour plate so common sense says.. don't aim for its head. You're welcome.
How do you tranq one I'm on mobile and it ma re me brake my crossbows twice
They are very slow so you don’t need a trap just a sarco and shoot while riding the sarco