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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.
Quick tip: don’t knock them out. That’s not how you tame them
I would advise having preserving salts if you’re gonna use rockarrot so I doesn’t spoil as quickly
Tbh, the equus has a terrible spawn. It spawns near almost anything dangerous you can think of.
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 spawn in plains which are near the swamp
Run run run, crouch when close still approaching at an angle, when close enough,(stack of carrots in zero slot) click three “e” three times; one to feed, one to mount, one to start THE RIDE! Each time you get the feed prompt, hit “e” and pray it gets stuck in a corner and doesn’t run off a cliff, or into carnivores. Ignore everything but the prompt, hitting “e” without hesitation. (You cannot control the run at all). That’s it.
When mine was getting tamed in redwood he was like running in a same trail because there was a large fallen redwood tree on one side and on other it was the redwood sapling and there was a terror bird but eventually he was lured by a gallilimus (sorry if I misspelled) at that time I thought gallilimus was an avatar of God haha anyways he is still alive (equus)
An absolute pain to tame, have fun.
So for ASA on Playstation you can tame these I'd you get a USB keyboard, you have keep pressing E to feed it and it will not let you control the direction with a mouse but a controller lets you turn it as normal
Bump if this helped you please, and good luck!
It eats troodon kibble or rockcarrot then ride every time it is going to stop and do its animation you press 0 or right on the d pad and have rockcarrot or troodon kibble there then u have your equs. ;)
You might want to take some anti-nausea medicine before trying to tame this thing because it just runs in circles (for me at least, and on mobile). A lvl50 took like an hour of running in circles. It was very painful.
But sorta worth it because it’s a mobile mortar&pestle and now I can lasso people.
Yall. This isnt simple. Only those who have actually tamed these know the pain. Ecspecially on mobile. Pain, and frustration.. Dismounting by feeding it rockarrots accidentally... PAIN. But they are worth it. Low hp, but massive torpor. Low attack too.. And also, they are fast, but at the same time slow, so I guess you could say their speed is MEDIUM. Also, they run so close to danger, you sometimes sweat in rl Happened for me)..
Don't listen to the taming numbers. Bring twice the amount.
When taming these guys except them to want to run into danger. So what to do? get it stuck in a trap.
When you see a dead equus on the ground it means run for your life there was a family of Rex's so there's your tip.
When I was trying to find and tame my first equus it was pretty rare and always spawn near the raptors,therizeno,spinos,rexes,allos and other deadly Predators. But after I've tamed one I saw 3 equus spawning near Peaceful rivers many times lol
Tip for begginers-equus spawn mostly near rivers or forests. Before taming, you should watch the area carefully or else maybe when you have almost tamed an equus a carnivore may come out of nowhere and ruin your taming, Because most of the times I saw them spawning near rivers spinos there. But if you have Argy then just pick up equus and put it into a taming pen and there you go.
And also use kibble or carrots to tame it. Don't use berries otherwise it will take whole day to tame an equus.
Here's a proper way for getting early versatile mount on mobile, first, get something like raptor (to actually find an equus)
Next you wanna do the hunter cave to get a balm, but I prefer Saving the balm you get from piranha hunting pursuit xd
At last, get some rockarrots(Trike/Stegois the best for it. You can try farming using a medium crop plot too, they're pretty common in loot drops) and start the pursuit and go searching for them
I find "the forest near the soo called volcano mountain and the whole area around green obelisk" the best places for finding equus
Wherever you find them, just soothe them with balm then feed carrots and you got yourself a very versatile mount
-an unknown guy
I'd say building the pen is best bet but why these gotta be so hard?Also how do you feed it while riding?
I was taming one of these things, and I decide to count the time between each feeding on mobile it was around from seven seconds to 41 seconds for anyone that’s curious most of the time it was in the 20s
(This is approximately so it would probably be different for you)
To tame these is what I did I brought them to my base where my friend gave some balm and it tamed instantly so always use MAJOR SOOTHING BALM
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