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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for hesperornis? Tips and strategies for hesperornis in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Just kill and get the raw polymer. Please don't try to tame. (will take 3 hours).
Build a pen to lock them in and then bring fish to it to tame and earn yourself a golden egg to make kibble
Can use their eggs to make oil in cooker. Tame a bunch of females and a male to have a passive oil farm. Plus use a female to kill 5 fish and have a chance at getting a golden egg which you can give to yourself or your tames for an xp buff. Big creatures dont receive as much of an xp bonus. Golden eggs can be used for extraordinary kibble but I personally just use yutys for that
If you are force taming, these guys need to be awake for the command to work. It is cheap but trust me you probably don’t want to do an hour long fetch quest for it.
Side note; the hespers have an instant kill attack on fish.
Can’t tame in snow cave on extinction.
Lasso, drag onto a trap boat, then ride around to the fish. Bigger the fish, faster the tame.
Feeding them sabertooth salmon seems to work the best.
I was starting out and I killed one of these because they would attacking me then I saw two and tried to tame the female which I did but then it just deleted my save (one tip if you don’t want it to hurt you have a fish in your hands like your carrying a fish)
Of you want to tame one of these I've noticed that they sometimes they come to you like dolphins if you have fish on the final hotbar spot, might be good to keep in mind if you are having trouble lugging a giant fish around with you.
Use an otter or itchyothornis to collect fish for you then go to the hesperornis and feed it the collected fish. They love sabertooth salmon so target those.
Even though on the wiki it says its a small egg type that makes simple kibble, the regular egg will NOT make kibble. The reason for this is that if you cook the egg without the other ongredients it turns into oil. This mechanic overlaps with the new kibble system and as such, it turns into oil before if can become kibble.
You can easily kill for polmor