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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a ichthyosaurus used for? ichthyosaurus battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Tip : on mobile, certain ichthys get aggro’d by sea creatures when tamed, but certain others have the famous no aggro ability. While riding a no aggro ichthy, you have an entire world to explore. Nothing aggro’s onto you, even if you attack it. Ex. If you attack a meg, it might aggro for one second and attack but after that you can kill it without any hiccups. Keep in mind that not all ichthys have no aggro. You need to leave your newly tamed ichthy out in the water for a minute to see if anything aggro’s and kills it. If nothing kills or attacks it after a minute or two, the ichthy has no aggro.
Tip : in mobile, despite the common knowledge that either “ichthys lost no aggro ability” or “ichthys still have no aggro” there is something complicated : certain ichthys dont attract aggro until tamed, and certain other ichthys keep their no aggro ability forever. If you tame one, it might not have no aggro, so tame one and test the no aggro ability. If it has no aggro, you have found the perfect ocean mount. If it makes other creatures aggro, then it must be executed. I tamed 3 ichthys with no aggro, but then i tamed a 4th and it got eaten by megs immediately. that how i found this out
Basically your must-have first water mount. Outspeeds anything in the water, is ignored by all land predators, and is immune to attacks by the sea scorpions. Without this little guy, I never would have had any chance to brave Ark’s depths. Trying to tame anything else first is usually ridiculously hard. (Except for amphibious creatures that work well on both land and water.) Triple thumbs up.
One of the best tames ,just put some meat in ur hotbar and boom u have an itchy a fast water rocket , on mobile they are op since they dont get agro u can literally kill tons of megs without a single bite from them ,so for oil just tame an itchy and get a pick axe, , but WARNING : dont ever ever ever leave ur itchy while in water ,u will get immediately killed and wont be able to go back to the itchy , if its following you it will be spinning around like an electron so u cant mount it ,an advice u can go to the bottom and kill angelerfish u will get loot ,and angelergel u can then tame a manta lol ,u can go to the pole and hunt penguins for polymer another warning DONT LEAVE UR ITCHY because finding ur corpse in the ocean is not fun that if u find it , best thing to do if u want to loot a loot drop is to leave ur raft above you directly and have a bed in it so u can respawn and take ur loot if u died, and remember u can get dammaged by the cold in the night or in the pole , a good water tame but unreliable in serious cases