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.
i tamed one of these guys and i named it [It looks like a zebra more than a horse]
Easy steps for taming equus (ark mobile):
1.) if you don’t want to be eaten by other creatures around the area, just bring it to your base with an argy, optional if you want to put it in a taming pen (dino gates).
2.)if you have soothing balm it's much better, but if you don’t carrots are good enough.
3.) Ready your carrots and soothing balm in you hotbar and wear ghillie then approach it carefully from behind. But do the feed it right away cuz it will knock you out/off if you feed it then mount it. You have to firstly mount it the feed it.
4.) prepare to get dizzy lol
(Bonus tip: if you want to have it feed much quicker, after feeding it, spam jump cuz it drains its stamina and will be hungry after filling its stam.)
Reminder: when you drain its stam, then it says feed it, “dont” wait for it to stop running then you feed it.
-Hopes this help
To tame these guys, you need to go and find a place where you know they spawn, then make a four by four structure two walls high. And then get a argaventise and grab the equus, then put it in the safe structure, nothing SHOULD see you if you stay inside with the equus, but, they usually need rockarrots, but sometimes other things, but I would suggest get some seeds and grow atleast 50 carrots, then when you have your taming food, you can either wait a while for them to get hungry each time, or every minute or two mount them, feed them quickly, then get off, if you do everything correctly you should get your horse! Goodluck! Hope this helped!
It's got a lot of horsepower so you can out run the fastest of dinos.
(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.
How to tame: Equus: ARK Mobile Edition!
Prep: 2x2x2 trap (why 2 high? Just in case :)) (4 foundations, 16 doors) of any material, these don't fight back and flee instead, Rockarrots, I'd suggest bringing a WHOLE LOT (50-75) because you'll see in a minute. And you'll also need a tame that can pick up the horsey (oh and Time too, lots of Time)
Find: there's no real place from where I've found but they live by the shallow jungle and near the bases of mountains (or you can do Tame: Equus) and after you found it pick it up with argy and drop in trap
Tame: I don't remember you needing ghillie but just crouch behind and feed, normally when you start riding it will run around crazily most likely Into danger like an Allo (that's why the trap is required) or off a cliff but after a lil while I'll do a QuickTime event that needs you to feed a rockarrot before it bucks you off, rising the taming effectiveness very little (like 1-2%) so rinse and repeat until tamed
Have fun with your brand new Horsey! Just don't make it be a battle mount... trust me...
RIP: h o n s e . - level 27
Firstly, why did it take 8 dilo kibble and 20 rockarrots to tame a level 3... Dododex said it would take 1 kibble but that’s alright I happened to have a rockarrot farm for this reason lol. Taming the horses is difficult because they kept spawning by rexs and scorpions but they tent to run in small circles for me. Bring lots of carrots!
For Ark Mobile: Use ghille suit for easy taming. Do not mount. If you mount it and feed it rockcarrots for some reason the taming percentage it gives is lesser than of unmounted feeding. I tamed a lvl 150 equus and fed it rockcarrots with 10x balm unmounted it increased 20.7% but when i mounted it and fed it rockcarrots it only increased by 6.3%. Be warned.
I'd say building the pen is best bet but why these gotta be so hard?Also how do you feed it while riding?
In mobile it won’t knock you out it will run in circles in the same place. That happened with me when I tamed the equus.
Feed them Carrots and don’t knock them out 😀
What you need for taming an equus,
1. Ghillie armor
2. 10 rockarrot
3. A tame that is in the area
4. Food for the equus (put in inventory)
Does anyone know what it means when you tame it and it says lazy equus?(does it mean anything)
This horse is so annoying to tame, it's a passive tame that will take you busy for so long...
When taming these guys, I recommend two things:
1. Get it in a taming pen either by carrying it and dropping it in or by knocking it out and building the pen around it.
2. Bring at least a full stack of carrots —they spoil kinda quick, plus they only give a tiny bit of progress.
~Nyala Kurta
I would not recommend taming a high lvl. If you have the resources, by no means go ahead and get him but I found out recently that it takes an absolute butt load of Rockarrots (100 for a lvl 95) to tame him. It took a very long time and in the long run, I didn’t even get him. Not to mention, you have to have extreme focus not to let him buck you off and lose taming progress for that long of a time.
1. Build a 4 by 4 wooden wall or stronger (not thatch)
2. use a arventavis to pick up a equus
3. put equus in the pen or chamber what ever you want to call it
4. then just equip rockarrots
5. then do the rest
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
Use triangle on ps4 to feed it when mounted only when it bucks
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)