Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a equus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a equus.
Well the Equus is a hard tame,even a t-rex is easier but you will need around 30-60 carrots so to get that you will have to plant some get a medium plant crop and in order to the seeds go to the nearest forest and keep gathering plants until you get the seeds plant the seeds with fertilizer inside the plant crops.
How to tame a equus———✨
Find one-✨
Put it in a safe place-✨
After get about 100 to 50 rockacarrots ✨
Ride it then when it try’s to buck you off feed it
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After a long painful time you will have a equus like me✨
On rare occasion they will spawn on herbivore island
You better tame this cause you can use it to tame gigas and rexs
Bring a tribemate with a fast tame to escort you when you're taming one.
You can get lucky solo, but they like to run to the most dangerous spot they can. Something like a carno or rex should be able to follow along with you and kill any threats to it.
When mounted quickly use rockarrot
If you are struggling to keep them from dying/running off then pick them up with an argy and put them in a pen.
It took me two hours to tame on mobile, if your going to ride it make sure you don’t get distracted...I learned that the hard way
To the person asking about the carrots on the island you have to gather seeds from the same plants you get berries and then plant them in a large crop plot. Be sure to water and fertilize!
If you put it in 2x2 trap then feed it while it’s head is poking through the wall you can skip the minigame needed to tame it and just passively feed it. Also works for the unicorn
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!
If you are on mobile don’t tame a level 95 like I tried to do each carrot did 1.3% and when I finally got it to eighty percent I accidentally tapped the carrot twice to feed which dismounted me, lost ten percent taming percentage and effectiveness. :( then to top it off when I quickly remounted it it was already bucking and I wasn’t ready… I was knocked out then lost ALL my progress. So in respect for the Equus I gave it it’s freedom and plonked it in a safe spot to taunt me every time I fly by. I was seconds away from lighting it up with a fabricated pistol but i felt like that would be a b!tch move. Just go for a bad lvl if on mobile, there are better mounts then those filthy bloody equestrians anyway…. Maybe I’m just salty lol
Its quiet easy to tame them
Step:1
Kill all dangerous animals including spino,rex,therzenio,etc .from a safe spot where they can't reach you or see you, also wear a gillie suit or better
Step:2
Try trapping it,if you
have the necessary time and resources
Or
Step:3
get a major soothing balm,the one with 10× taming boost through the free gift on mobile or other ways
Step:4
Sneak and approach it and apply the soothing balm then mount it and sooth it with a rococarrot,it should take 1-7 mins depending on the creature's level and the terrain and dangers nearby
Step:5
make a safe route home with your eqqus,or better kill all the dangers nearby,once home you don't have to worry much
Kill off all predators in the area, then sneak up to the Equus and mount it. Feed it rockcarrots until it is tame.
Build 4x4 thatch room with open roof, collect a bunch of carrots, find equus (recommend turning on pursuit to get directions to nearest one), grab with argy, bring to pen, take.
Rockarrots are magic on these. I seriously fed it and didn’t even need to get on.
Get a good supply of rock carrots doesn't take many but mistakes will be made..can be carried by a Wyvern even if you need to land for stamina every 3 seconds
(mobile) Taming effective rate varies incredibly even on one single equus...I resurrected a lv150 wild eerie equus and reloaded the save 5 times. All attempts were done with 10x soothing balm and 3 dilo kibbles. It took two kibble on three tries, three kibble on one try, and the last attempt left me with zero kibbles and around 60% taming bar. I don't know why it's so different, I mean it's the same equus! Well, anyway, best save your game before trying to tame one of them, if you aren't doing so already.
For mobile (android and ios) if you're having difficulty feeding it in time remember you can put the food on your hotbar and go to settings -> controlls -> (left or right or both) multitap and set it to the inventory slot where you put the food so you can just double tap anywhere on your screen to feed it, also don't forget if you try to feed before it wants to or you miss the time I'll kick you and deal massive amount of torpor so it might be worth putting 1 or 2 points in fortitude and bringing stims and water
On the southern end of the Island, just east of the first artifact cave, there is the small island with the A shaped boulder is. Going north of that, upriver, you will come to an area where the river splits. Sometimes there can be around 3 trotting around on the land splitting the river