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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

How to tame: Monke. Mobile Edition
1. You need a trap (2x2 1 high) for it to not get clapped by wandering angry bois around the Redwoods, make sure it's at least wood for the next step, if you are let's say... polymerless, you can do a stone trap instead, NOTE: you also need an argy for this to work as well... and titanoboa kibble
2. Get ghille, the monke is very confrontational so make sure you do not anger him it is recommended, even if you have a stone trap
3. Find da monke, he's found in da redwood forest and found either wandering in the middle of nowhere, or squaring up against many Terror Birds (he will most likely die) so scoop it up before it gets ambushed, also beware of Purlovias, there the moles of Thylacoleo
3.5: Kibble making, after the monke is in da trap, I highly recommend Titanoboa Kibble since it only takes Longrass and jerky, which is easy to get and titanoboa egg can be found in Hunter cave (middle south cave in the canyon) and in the swamp leading to the redwoods as well, the eggs are very easy to spot as they are ALL WHITE in the dark grey stone and murky green in the biomes, so that's easy
4: Taming, for some reason the monke doesn't get hungry for so long you could've tamed a 150 female Diplo before its hungry, but moving along, after taming your beloved monkey, what now?
5. Use: now, there's 2 special abilities, replacing the jump action with Throw, don't get confused unless you want to noobishly die from fall damage, throwing is pretty self explanatory but you cannot aim you shot the monkey just throws you. And there is Two attack modes like the Pulmonoscorpius, which is Backhand and Slam, they do the same damage but Backhand is faster. Note: Follow whistle works ish for a couple seconds and then stop working for some reason)
6; Wandering: sometimes there's a bug (or feature) where even if you turn off their free will they will still go to the nearest bush and start harvesting fiber. Yes. You heard me. FIBER, but if you try to do it while mounted you only get berries but if you position yourself under a bush it will squat down and gather a good amount of fiber and if there's two bushes in reach it will collect 2, but it's maximum amount of bushes it can harvest in one squatting is 2 before it has to squat down again
Weird thing: Humans and Mesopithecus both drop human feces but not Gigantopithecus for some reason :/
~I have rambled enough, time to go! CPG
More Gigantopithecus Taming & KO Tips
1 build a 4 by 4 foundation wood or stone the put the walls.
2 find a gigantopithecus
3 carry it with an argy
4 drop it in the box that you made
5 make 1 roof and place it anywhere outside the box
6 feed it
And thats how you tame a gigantopithecus with ease.
Tamed 2 ( lvl 125 and lvl 90 ) did some upgrading mostly to health and melee. Turned my back to cook some meat. Hear scary music, see lvl 130 Rex's corps just flying over my head.
I coloured mine green, named it shreak thèn dropped him in the swamp
From experience, fly with argie and drop them in a box and then take them. Passive tame btw. Mine kept getting attacked by terror birds and the tame bar would reset.
β€΄οΈ so others morons like me will know.
Use gillie armor!
No gille armor all you need to do is crouch behind it and shove berries up its butt...I'm not kidding
They don't have this listed on here I don't know why, but they collect 2 x more of plant x seeds than than any anamal I have found.
Just stay behind it crouching and shove berries up itβs ass
Donβt put walls around when taming, put 4 doorframes beforehand, pick up with argentavis and then you can get close enough to tame easily, while it canβt get out. It does not fit through the doorframe. DO NOT PUT DOORS ON DOORFRAME.
Easy to tame, just sneak and bring one soothing balm and berries but i prefer mejoberries. If your looking for one of these go to the redwood forests and you might find one just search for it, but becareful the terror birds might attack you or purlovias the sneaky rat.