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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
I don’t know what’s going on, but you cannot make a cage and trick the AI into going in the cage… that’s probably something that worked a long time ago.
🦆 Feeding Protocol – Fish on the Ground
• Kill a fish, ideally a Sabertooth Salmon (offers ~4× taming progress) or piranha (~2.4×) .
• Drop it on land near the duck—ideally in shallow water close to shore.
• The duck will waddle over and eat it. Reports say larger fish = faster taming .
• Some players use a simple trap: a 1×1 enclosure with an open side and ramp so the duck enters, then cage it, feed fish through its bars .
• Want passive fish‑hunting? Set it to aggressive/wander in water, let it kill fish and eat corpses, then move it to shore to feed .
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🌀 Temperament & Aggression
• Ducks usually ignore creatures unless you’re close or near their eggs .
• If you touch them, they’ll bite and flee—don’t shove or whack them accidentally .
• During taming, they can become hostile—sometimes glitch or wander off; best to use wander/aggro with manual fish feeding .
• Ducks may trigger aggression if eggs are nearby—players report wild ducks attacking when you loot eggs .
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✅ Summary of Best Practices
• Bring big fish (Sabertooth Salmon or piranha).
• Drop fish directly near duck; use traps if helpful.
• Use aggressive/wander behavior in water to self-feed, then bring to shore.
• Avoid touching the duck or its eggs until tame—it’ll bite!
• Keep ducks away from eggs while working with them to prevent hostility.
More Hesperornis Taming & KO Tips
The regular eggs can be cooked in a cooking pot to produce 12 oil. Don't see anyone saying anything about that.
Fun fact you cant feed it a Megalodon.
Use an itchthyornis to gather fish for it. The buff increases efficiency.
The most frustrating thing about taming these guys is not only do they take a lot of fish but the same button to feed them is the same button to drop the fish(i don’t know if it’s different in pc or ps4)and it’s constantly swinging around your face making it annoying because you’re constantly dropping it. Either make it so the controls to feed them are different then dropping it or make ur so it’s not constantly in ur face.
They deal hundred millions of damages to fish... but only does 1 damage to other creatures
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Don’t be stupid like me. I was dropping fish after fish in front of it and was wondering why there’s no taming bar. Didn’t realise you have to passively feed it not just drop a fish in front of it.
Feeding them sabertooth salmon seems to work the best.
Tame to this kill fish and drag there body to it and once tamed if you feed them more dead fish corpses it will build up and lay a golden egg which is used as a buff to certain dinos or oil or a player buff
Here's how I tamed one using Ichthyornis. 👇
What I did was use my Ichthyornis to Hunt fishes and bring the dead bodies for me.
Change his settings to "Hunt and retrieve", put him on your shoulder then you go swim. While you are swimming aim at The fish you want and double tap F (on PC). Ichthyornis will fly, kill the fish and bring the body to you.
Then you take the body to Hesperornis and feed it. Once you get used to it it's very fast and easy. I recommend following Hesp from behind so you dont need to adjust your aim all the time.
You can do the same to tame Otters.
Even a fat Sabertooth salmon takes it 17.5 percent.
But just get a wooden cage go to the duck have it attack you go behind the cage it will go into it and just close the cage, then feed it fish carcasses