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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Horse taming: in two different methods.
Method 1, the cheap method.
You shall need:
Rockarrots, Ghilli suit, Dangerous mount or weapon, (I used a level 90 therizinosaur and a master-craft sword) A flyer like a PT or argy.
Use your flyer to locate a horse. I found three near rock edge at the bottom of the island map near all those beaver dams. As the Equus lives near the swamp, use your dangerous mount or weapon to kill all the titanoboas, terror birds, raptors, etc. Then crouch up behind the Equus and mount it like you would on a tame! Tame the rockarrot you put in your hotbar, wait till it’s hungry again and repeat!
Method 2 the RG method.
You will need an RG, 2 wood foundations, 10 wood doorframes and 2 walls, rockarrots.
Place the trap in a 1 by 2 box without a roof and put the walls at the front of the trap. When you find your horse carry it with the argy back into the trap. Make sure the horses head is facing the walls. Land your argy a distance away, mount the horse like in method 1, and feed it rockarrots.
Equus uses:
You can ride a horse without a saddle but I recommend you have a saddle because it works as a mobile mortar and pestle. TO MOBILE PLAYERS: don’t use engram points to learn how to make the Equus saddle before you do the tame Equus persute! You get a journeyman saddle as a reward.
They have two attacks, a headbutt that deals more melee, and a back kick that increases the victim’s torpor. The Equus is also very fast, can jump a lot, has brilliant stamina, and a weight reduction for chemicals like narcotics and stimulants.
Thanks for reading!
More Equus Taming & KO Tips
They would rather jump off a cliff than be tamed by me.
I usually build a simple fence foundation and railing pen to use for passive tames. Then I’ll just take an Argy or a Dino able to carry them and drop them into the pen. That way they cant run half way across the map.
Noted: Where There Is Equus There Is Allo , Where There Is Allo There Is Tears. Ty For Reading! ♥️
When you try to tame these guys, go up to the back and bring at least 2 stacks of mejoberries. Also if you see one near an allo just get away from it, it has a 0% chance of living. Hope this helped and thanks for having the time to read my tip
Here's how you tame an equus in ark mobile:
Step 1 : Do not mount on the equus. For some reason, the ark mobile equus don't like it. It increases taming with rockarrots like 2% and not mounted taming makes it 20% ( level 15)
Step 2 : Feed it rockarrots from a safe distance. Don't let it see you. You can approach their hind legs (dont touch them) and feed rockarrots. Otherwise it runs away.
Step 3 : If it runs away, just don't follow it, just see where it is going. If it loses aggro. It will not stare at you. Then feed it again
Step 4 : A good tip is to enable the 'Tame: Equus' pursuit so you save engrams for equus saddle and get one for free.
Follow the process for mobile and bam!! You got yourself an equus
As of 12/23/23 if you are on console trying to tame these in Ark Ascended it’s bugged. During the taming process when you get prompted to feed the button to do so on console doesn’t work it’ll just buck you or you dismount it.
Taming one of these is a pain, which is what I named mine after taming a level one hundred. Here's what you'll need:
•An Argentavis
•A passive tame pen, ideally 4x4
•Dilophosaur kibble or Rockaroot.
Depending on the level, I’d say grab a minimum of 50 and a max of 150 Rockaroots, as for kibble you should be fine with 15-20 of them.
Here's a few pointers;
•Start the tame an Equus quest on mobile.
•Find a decent leveled Equus.
•Carry it to your passive take pen and drop it in.
•Equip the taming food on your very last hotbar slot.
•Sneak up on the Equus and feed it then immediately mount.
•Once mounted feed it only when hungry.
Sooner or later you'll have one.
The benefits definitely show once obtained, they knock out most dinos with a few kicks and you can lasso the ones knocked inside of water as well. They also act as a traveling mortar and pestle so keep some spoiled meat and narcoberries on you.
My Equus was level 100, turned 149 after 99.9% efficiency taking. It took around half an hour and 100 Rockaroots over all. Hopefully this helps!
If you plan on taming one of these guys MAKE SURE you have A LOT OF CARROTS taming it with berries it takes A LONG TIME to get one with berries so once again HAVE A LOT OF CARROTS!!!!!!!
This stinking thing!!! So annoying!!! I was taming it on a cliff and I was a bit slow and it knocked me off. RIGHT INTO A SWAMP. I swear, while everything was eating me, sarcophagus, titanoboa and mega parana, I saw it laughing at me.
Never try to tame an equus with 9 rocarrots while surrounded by a spino, a rex and a therinozaur.