Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for ichthyosaurus? Tips and strategies for ichthyosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
For the guy that said "admit it this was your first ocean tame" no it wasn't the megalodon i tamed this evening was my first ocean tame the reason I didn't tame these thing is cuz they are always around sharks and mantas when i go to the herb island i knocked one and kill the rest and there was one and i didn't tame it cuz is a pretty low level
Easy, great tame!
Things to note before taming:
-feeding one causes others to appear
-they have bad health and melee damage, but make up for it in speed
-best fighters against megalodons in packs
Here’s how to tame:
Find ichthyosaurus away from dangerous creatures like mantas and megalodons. You also will want one near the shore. Next, put raw meat (prime or reg.) in slot 0. Swim and approach the ichthy. It will be curious. Quickly feed it meat. Prime meat sometimes tames an ichthy instantly on taming multiplier three. Make sure it was away from Megs! Any megs around will now try to attack you sea creature. If attempting to take one near dangerous creatures, bring an ichthy saddle so you can hop right on and swim to safety. Your new ichthy probably will cause others to appear. If so, you should tame them. You could have a pack of 8 with upgraded melee damage and health, and they could easily beat a megalodon!
So, this is an update to my previous post about my Ichthy being aggroed on mobile. Apparently it was just a glitch and somehow it was fixed. If you're on mobile and the ichthys are clutching getting aggroed on even when you're riding them, try a few things. I do know that after my lvl 200+ died, I tamed another ichthy and all ichthys are no longer aggroed. So, though I don't know if this is how to fix it. Try it. Another thing to try is just to save the world in your backup saves and then delete the world and then restore it from the backup saves. If none of this works then I don't know how to help 😭
I tamed one but it died to a megaladon 😔
Grappling it and feeding it worked for me
You can passive feed on these things on mobile making it easy to tame basilos mantas and eels
Came upon this creature without any prior planning, had some spare prime meat so I thought why not? Immediately after taming it, 2 megalodons, a male and female, swam up to the shore and killed it before I could do anything to help. Proper planning like having a saddle ready and some kind of water inclosure already made for the creature is probably your best chance of keeping it alive.
Saw that others had luck keeping him around using tames to make him curious, so I tried to tame one of those guys with a pet Spino in tow. Unlike the first time I saw one, it wasn't curious about us AT ALL. It immediately retreated. So, because I'd found it in a river, I tried to corner it.
It committed suicide-by-beach. Literally swam up onto shore and insta-died rather than be near us.
I don't think they like Spinos. Leave yours at home.
If you are haveing trouble finding them go to the red obelisk and in the water beneath there are some and I have even encountered meglodons there.
guys be really carefull if you stay to close to the rock and thing like that ur ichthy might get stuck like mine
I still can’t tame one cuz the megalodons immediately target me when I get more deep in the ocean
Swim your ass up to it and than feed it A simple kibble bam you’ve got yourself the fastest aquatic mammal! No trapping necessary!!! 🤟🏻
You can not pick up an Ichthyosaurus with a Karkinos, despite that dododex says you can.
Use dodo kibble it’s easy to make it all you need is 2 to tame a high level even a level 55 and 80