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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for ichthyosaurus? Tips and strategies for ichthyosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
If you have a bary but not one of these or another aquatic the easiest way to tame I have found is to go on ur bary, find a good ichy and kill everything aggressive that could arrgo you around the ichy. Then go up to it, dismount, and feed. Rinse and repeat for a first full aquatic tame.
these creatures are so useful, they can attack anything without aggravating it, i mean sure it may turn and hit once but then it goes back to minding its own business (i ended up killing 2 rexes and 3 brontos at lvl 24 :D )
I mostly recommend building a trap on a raft, while that requires more effort, it’s the most effective way.
BRO REXES LEAVE U ALONE ON THIS THING HOWWWWW????!!!??
I suggest getting into a u-shaped bay and placing a behemoth gate and door to block the entrance.Then,they have nowhere to run.
Some cliff notes on the itchy immunity trick on mobile:
1. Do not feed the itchy raw meat/prime fish meat(still yet to be tested)
2. Taming a whole pod on an itchy may cause the immunity to drop(Though the itchys can take on predators with other tamed dinos at your base if coastal).
3. You will not be completely immune 100% of the time, you will receive an initial hit on your itchy before regarding as neutral/immune
4. Alphas will not be affected by immunity glitch.
5. Triggering the ammonite Rallying Cry trick will drop the immunity(however, a quick hit can fix this).
6. Dismounting an itchy will drop the immunity(the itchy and you are regarded as two different entities).
This guy is just bad for harvesting don’t get if your low level
So I ONLY play on Mobile and as of 09/19/22 at least on my game the ONLY time any creature aggros me is if I dismount. I could literally eat a Megalodon without any aggro if I wanted to wait that long to kill it, lol. I'm going to do one imprint to use on my game cuz their stats could use a slight buff for real. But then going to use it to passive tame a Basilo without dismounting!!!! Of course I'll eat the Manta etc. before completely tamed as to not lose said Basilo. NO AGGRO for me but I do play on EASY as well 😜
Use these for underwater taming, they're good for taming megs, plesis, mosa, etc, but just use a crossbiw to knockthings out and your all set.
Make sure to have them loaded with a LOT of food before you go out as they burn through so much food while going full speed
Iwant. To. Fiete.
Physically impossible to tame without kibble. They swim into the deep oceans, and then it becomes jaws
How to tame:
1- build a decent size trap out of dino gates (I recommend 5 behemoths) in a shallow (er) water area
2- obtain meat
3- find dolphin and (try to) lead back to your trap
3.5- (optional if you're ok with wasting resources) use a couple of dino gates to limit dolphin's movement in trap
4- feed until tame
To tame these clowns you HAVE TO PEN THEM IN. I tried taming like 5 now and they just run off so you can’t tame them
In case you don’t know there is glitch that makes them almost invisible
When wearing saddles , you can hunt anything except for Cnidaria
Encountering any creature will make the creatures damage you ones
But then thay will become passive , i got my first Basilosaurus without any
Problem. But I’m in ARK mobile though
In level 13 in the beqch i saw in the water and then soothing balm i feed some raw meat i unlock the saddle and tada i name this ichthyosaurus dolphin thingy i name it loid Henderson or loid for short