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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a hesperornis? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a hesperornis.
To get fertilized eggs, they must be on wandering in water. They wouldnt mate onland, only when I put them in water. Just attach them to a hitching post in the water.
Taming a high level is painstakingly slow, especially if her mate is lurking around. Only .5 to 2.0 % for a SALMON! I would rather poke my eyes with ice picks than tame another one. But seriously make a 1 foundation with 4 walls trap with ramps on both sides. Make sure you put a ladder in side as you will need to get out after you fed it. DO NOT use a door and doorframe as you may mistakenly open the door when trying to feed it and it can get out. Aggro the bird and lead it up and into the trap.
Screw this shitty version of the penguin. A Giga is easier to tame and 100x more useful.
I was taming it, when it got to 81% after about 30 fish or smth it ran in front of me and got hit and went all the way down to 0.1 taming.. 1like = 1 more taming %
Use piranha the taming % will be higher than other fish.
Feed while they are swimming cum up under them so much easier need them for their golden eggs. Then you don't have the fish in the way out in front of you
Use a seagull to gather the fish you need for it!! Just get your seagull to kill the fish and bring it to you, then you feed the duck
How to tame a hesperornis
1.knock it out and realise that ur a beach Bob
2. forcetame it
Pain in the ass to tame. If you want a large egg, tame a Mouschops, way easier.
How to tame?
Go to a small lake, they are usually there.
Check the water temperature in the lake *at night*. You're going to be in this water for a very long time. If there are sabertooth fish in the lake, it is a significant bonus.
Clear the lake of any predators, you're going to be there for at least three hours unmounted, so be prepared.
Enter the water and start killing fish. Take their bodies and arrange them on the beach. Take one corpse and approach Hespronis from behind. Feed him the fish's body. Continue like this for three hours, as you chase him like a madman in the water throughout the day and night.
Put it on your shoulder, smile.
Easy taming trap that helped me, got four back to back. 1 foundation, 4 window walls. Place foundation down and two walls up, hit hesperornis let it agro on you and lead it to foundation and trap it in with the remaining two window walls. Fed (through open window slot) it sabertooth salmon 1.0 and higher for faster tame.
Just kill a creature near you.
We had a raft with walls all around it and the entrance was a door with some stairs so we ran into it with the door open and it went right in, then we just took turns bringing it fish, it took about 30 minutes and only escaped once.
No, this isn’t a tip…. But I just got done taming one of these…. and it felt like I was in passionate of the Christ. I’m on Xbox a.k.a. Xbox controller.. this was a really torturous experience.
Followed one of these around as close as physically possible while holding a fish corpse. So close that the "feed fish" gray text was on screen, but never turned blue like when feeding a basilo. Also clicking the action buttons wouldn't feed it at 0 range. Woohoo looks like I'll have to force tame it or spawn a tamaed one. I love having to use console commands to make up for developer durpery. That's probably why they're in the game tbh.