Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for ichthyosaurus? Tips and strategies for ichthyosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
When tamed, block and support the Itchy. Or megs and mantas will KO your tame.
Well if you are on mobile and dinos of lvl. 30 rarely roam the island, just cook a Dodo Kibble (You get a pursuit named 'Fresh Breakfast') Just put a Dodo egg, some rokcarrots(You can mostly find them on small hills to big mountains, and to be specific, in jungle ferns and to be even more specific, they thrive near mammals). Then craft a cooking pot and put filled water skins, then add some mejoberries and some fiber. Also add cooked meat. Then light the fire. You get your Kibble. Go near that dolphin and feed it. It will get tamed in one or two kibbles (if it's under lvl.30)
Go to red ob then there will be a river that will have some
Well, I read the comments about them being aggrod by everything in the sea and thought "but I'm in shallow water? And there are 0 sharks? Only these 3 friendly dolphin who swam up almost ASKING for me to take them under my wing?
Well, after no time these guys were following along behind me in my boat!...... and then they were eaten at our first stop along the coast....
Tamed my first one today a 135 kibble tame. I've never tamed water mount before and I am on Center. R i p scratchy. My Level 55 came scratchy 2 will never replace you. I need a scratchy because it's an itchy saurus AKA Itchy and Scratchy. Yes whether or not you're on it or not it gets aggroed
To tame a lvl 100 or more you need 80+ fish and a 10x taming boost
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 😭
Usually, Ichthys are OP in mobile as they initially are mounts that don't get aggroed on like arthros and rafts. As long as you stay on the dolphin! But for your information, this is STRICTLY for mobile users.
BUT!!! For some reason...everything aggroes on my ichthys!! I tamed three ichthys and they all got killed because stuff aggroed on it! I didn't even attack anything and the ichthy was just chilling beside the beach! Why did this happen???? Is my game glitched? Or is it a glitch in mobile that nothing aggroes ichthys on mobile and thus my game is no longer glitched? Whatever it is. I need to fix this!!! But HOW???????
P.S. This is a rare occurrence, usually ichthys don't get aggroed on in my games, so it's not my ARK that's the problem, it must be my world that's the problem. But idk how to fix it!
With the addition of the new Kaprosuchus you can now grab the Itchy and another tribe member can easily feed it dodo kibble, without the risk of it swimming away.
They are too friendly to be remembered as carnivores
An itchy is easier to tame than most neutral/passive creatures. It naturally approaches to you if you swim close to it, but it will never make a move to attack, allowing safe feeding so long as there are not predators.
How to tame an ichthyosaurus:
1. They are passive tames, you don't knock them out to tame them.
2. I recommend taming an ichthyosaurus that is in shallow water.
3. After you find an ichthyosaurus, you will need to feed it meat or preferred kibbles. Also, raw meat works better than raw fish meat.
4. Keep feeding it until it's tamed.
-If you're on mobile and trying to complete the pursuit of taming an ichthyosaurus, you don't need to make a saddle. You will be given a saddle after completing this pursuit.
Hope this helped!
-Pablo27