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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a equus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a equus.
Pick them up with an argy and drop them in a taming pen this will make it easier. On playstation for ASA press triangle when they start bucking to feed again. If they are not bucking pressing triangle will just dismount you.
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.
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.
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
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.
A pain in the backside to tame on mobile
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!
These guys are easy to tame low level but a 150! The tame percentage drops as the horse runs do good luck ever taming a high level one. Unless! You knock it out build a box around it wait for it to wake up and the tame to your hearts content.
Best for knockouts!!! Dose lots of torpor.
1.get a argy
2.find Equus with argy
3.pick up Equus with argy
4.drop into a taming pen
5.get a buttload of rockcarrots
6.tame your Equus
When you riding it just let a friend feed him,it works 👍🏻
FOR CONSOLE ASA PLAYERS:
You need a keyboard for this now. You have to press E when it needs feeding on the keyboard as Y on the controller kicks you off.
Also, fun fact. Untamed Carchas as way faster than taming Equus.
Saw this in a different comment but it didn’t get voted enough for most people to see.
It’s simple how u tame em’
1.Make a house for taming passive tamers
2.Find one
3.feed it rock carrots
4.ride it ti’ll it loves you (after it knocks you out 5 million times)
5. Ride it into the sunset
Feed it then mount. You won't be able to control it until the tame is done, dismounting appears to lower taming effectiveness so make sure you have a good supply of carrots (preferred food) on you. When it starts to buck you off you have to hit enter to feed it again. If you pay attention to the bottom left corner of your screen there will be a tool tip that will pop up when you can feed it abs just before it starts bucking.
Good luck and good hunting.
You can feed it then use a bola (which doesn’t lower effectiveness) and after that use fence foundations and walls to keep it in place and ride it for the duration of the tame. No need for it to run around randomly.
The tame equus mission (on ark mobile) is a scam!!
It says to collect 5 rockarrot but it's barely enough to tame a equus
So carry atleast 50 rockarrots