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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
I don't understand how they've updated to Unreal 5 for Ark Ascended and still can't fix the button to feed these stupid birds 🤦♂️
He protec
He attac
But most importantly
He crap
Figured out a very streamlined way to get golden goose eggs!
First, tame yourself a female goose friend. You do this by dragging fish to feed, so I'd recommend taking an icthyornis (seagull) before attempting to tame even a minimum level, since their golden fish buff is absolutely needed.
Once she's tamed, find a pond with a lot of fish in it; try to make sure it's safe for your goose! Throw her into the water and set her to wander and aggressive. Then stand back and let her do her work.
Once your hesperornis starts to appear passive, even in the presence of coel, she's ready! Pick her up on your shoulder and throw her on shore, and she'll lay an egg and return to the water on her own. This is usually a regular egg, but don't worry, since these can be refined into oil in your cooking pot!
Once you do get a golden egg, make sure you're ready to use it (have Laz Chowder premade, if you're making kibble!) cause these things spoil and they spoil FAST.
Apparently the taming for this bird is bugged in Ascended because I've been teying to tame a lvl 90 female for hours now. Can't drag the fish corpse to it. It won't let me feed it. I've even tried taming it with fish meat. Has not worked at all.
I had just tamed a saber and I had my pt with me I saw one of these guys I didn’t know they attacked you…it attacked me and my saber killed it:(…by the way up this if they are hard to find
Use an itchthyornis to gather fish for it. The buff increases efficiency.
They deal hundred millions of damages to fish... but only does 1 damage to other creatures
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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.
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
Feeding them sabertooth salmon seems to work the best.
Tamed Hesperornis WILL lay golden eggs, just takes a bit of time. I had mine on follow in the Redwoods river, and whistle attack targeted it on a fish. It must kill and harvest SEVERAL fish before going on land to lay an egg. It will either lay a normal duck egg, or it will lay the golden egg. It seems to be random, however mine laid about five normal eggs for every golden egg. If the type and size of fish matters, I have not figured that out yet. It will usually kill all types in one shot, and it will not agro every single sabertooth Salmon in the vicinity when it kills one so don't worry about them ganging up on your duck. I was using a lvl 80, probably tamed around level 50 or so and all I put points in was health. Have it kill every single fish in the river before you give up trying for that golden egg. It will happen, give it time. Hope this helps :)
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.
How To Tame:
Use ichtyornis(seagull) to catch fish and bring it to them (preferebly get saber salmon) keep feeding them till tamed.
Easily Get Golden Eggs:
bring your hesperornis to the hidden lake really safe spot full of fish the most perfect one on island and set it to aggressive and enable wandering the hesperornis will eat fish till it he is done you can notice it by seeing it not swimming quickly and runnig around so pick it up and throw it on the ground it should lay a golden egg after 3 normal eggs
i recommend using the egg to make extraordinary kibble and use them to tame yutyrannuses so you can get imprinted ones for bosses and permanent extraordinary kibble
Also put all of hesperornis upgrade points to health
You can’t pick wild ones up with Creatures. Luckily these animals will attack you and chase you if you go right up to them.
I used this to a create a Box with 1 foundation, 3 walls and a door. Got the Hespornis to chase me into said box where I locked it inside. After that it was a simple case of getting my Icthyornis to hunt and retrieve fish for me then feeding it to the trapped Hespornis. It still took a long time. But at least i didn’t have to chase the Hespero or press Y to feed then drop the fish
When you anger it. Don’t try to laugh because you will laugh. It looks even more pathetic than a dodo rushing at you and it deals LITERALLY 1 damage. Upgrading it to 200% means it only deals like 2. Don’t take it to fight.
How to tame a Hesperornis:
Build a trap using
1 foundation (any kind)
4 walls (any kind; I prefer walls over rails)
4 ramps or stairs (any kind)
4 ladders (whatever you can make)
Place a ramp on the outside of each of the walls & a ladder on the inside of each.
Speed is everything. If you have or can acquire an Ichthyornis first your tame will be forever more wonderful... later on that.
Place your trap just on the shore where you have seen Hesperornis running around. (It's a flightless bird). Find them at the edge of a swamp or around a secluded small body of water.
Antagonize a Hesperonis to make it follow you & walk to your trap. If you run, you'll probably disinterest him/her (preferably her).
Once in the trap s/he will stay put. Use the nearest ladder to get out. Now run to the water to gather fish. Kill but don't harvest. You'll see the E:Drag appear. Press "E" to drag fish to the trap. When you jump in you will lose your fish so be prepared to grab it again. ("E" to drag). Don't let her/him feed on it. You will see the Yellow "E: To Feed Fish". Press "E". Rinse; repeat until s/he tames out. Press "E" to change her settings first and foremost. "Behavior"- change
ATTACK Your... to "Passive", "__ only conscious, and "Low" on following-you'll thank me later. Now, press "E" to put her/him on your shoulder. SUCCESS!
Note 1: If you get and learn to use an Ichthyornis, it will catch fish for you and turn it into "Prime Fish" that waits for you to gather it and feed it to your Hesperonis. This is a much quicker and more effective Tame.
Note 2: Any fish will do, but Prime will do better, quicker, and better. If you cannot get Ichthyornis, you can make a fish trap from foundations placed in the water with a gate at the end. Two auto-gates work better, but cost more. Argo Salmon and lead them into the trap. This is very tedious compared to getting an Ichthy, which will always be useful.
How to get an Ichthyornis... Make sure you have more than one tranq weapon. Crossbows work well because they are faster than Longneck rifles. Use tranq arrows (Crossbow) or tranq darts (Rifle). Shock tranq darts are best because you won't need many and they will not kill your target (unless you spaz and pellet the poor bird). You can tame underwater if you must, but try to down it over land if possible. You have more than one weapon because your target will steal your weapons. :O This bird is worth your frustration, believe me. Not short… sorry.