Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a ichthyornis? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a ichthyornis.
Tame a low lvl one then once its tamed use it to get raw prime fish meat from Coeleths and tame a higher lvl one
Super low HP, so tranq dart is best. Optimally, find it when it's walking on the beach, then KO - annoying as hell to shoot while flying with ANY server lag. Kibble-less tame is possible but you need to watch its torp. Also - it's small, so remember where it is!
When it lands bola it so it can’t fly off. Use tranq darts because arrows may kill it, but a club works for low level birds. Very slow tame with raw fish, so either make pego kibble or use prime fish, which can be gathered from a saber tooth salmon with a sickle. If you can’t get one to land, you can try to shoot it midair with the darts or the bola, but they move in odd patterns sometimes, and may fall in the water. If you kill all the fish near it it will decide to land. After you get your first, prime fish will come easy for the higher level ones.
Every time I try to tame it it dies
To bring it down kill the surrounding fish BOlla it tranc it tame with fish
When taming, put narcotics and kibble (or just fish) on a nearby Dino or chest under treetops not too far from the shore. Then, collect berries from bushes as you walk to the bird. They’ll agrro on you, and they can only steal the useless berries you got before (also Ark devs, make it so when they eat narcotic they stole from the player, their topor goes up. It’s realistic, and will make our live much easier) bola it when it swoops in, hit it with a club or something, and boom! Tamed.
It took 1 tranq arrow with crossbow for lvl 5, but I wasted about 25-30 tranqs in the process. So have about 40 tranqs and a crossbow.
Put ALL YOUR DINOS in passive, because this thing dies SO MUCH EASILY and them, tranq them, and feed.
AND NOT SHOT IN THE HEAD, THEY WILL D I E
These numbers are very off. The kibble gives 1% so rather then the handfull it clames it is far more. Only raw prime fish seems acurate.
If pegos had wings this is it keep an eye on the sky
I could knock out a level 20 with a club within the time a bola would stay on it. I would also suggest taming a pegomastax or two and make their kibble because it can take hours to tame it with fish meat. Then just tame more and more until you can destroy anyone.
The way they fish is really buggy but they look cool so its necessary to tame one
It can also hunt Dodo's giving extra prime stand by a grill and set it on a aggresive for lots of cooked prime meat. Also does bonus damage to Trilobites but cant carry them back.
A 120 Kibble tame didn't take 20 minutes and 3 narcotics on x3 taming. It took about 30-40 minutes and about 10-15 narcotics. Always bring extra!
The egg incubation time and time spent as baby are wrong. Its less than 4 hours as a baby and less than 2 hours for incubation.
Wait for it to land a level 45 took one traq dart and 4 kibble
I tamed a 90 n 10 using a dickwads behemoth gated pen, aggro them inside a behe gated base n they'll fly away into the gate to be bola or even btr, they'll get tired n land
Use a grappling hook to grab it while over land then use your darts
Good for raw prime fish meat and rock prime meat
Only took 4 kibble for a lvl 75 on official paper instead of 6