Ok so basically. These huge ass fish mainly hang around the herbivore island. Stay out of open water on rafts or you’ll become dinner for one of them. They do have alpha variants but they’re the easiest alpha to kill doing barely any damage to a saddled mount. I easily killed 6 of them near my base on herbivore island on my sarco.

Anyways that’s all from me on these annoyances.

Be careful out there!

If you see this creature while you are on a raft, DO NOT EVER IN YOUR LIFE go closer to it. Get your raft FAR away from it or get the raft as close to land as possible. It will ABSOLUTELY DELETE your boat.

PLANT SPECIES X!!!! Slows them right down. Put one on the back of your raft and not even the alpha can get you unless it comes from straight under. Add a ballista and a captain hat as well for added effect.

There heads have a damage resistance so aim for the body

Leed-sich-thys. Largest creature known to man. 3 times the size of a whale shark.. but it's a damn fish.

Encountered an Alpha Leed next to the southern island. Two tapped my raft lol

Warning do NOT ride raft near them

If you play on ark use and you have a trashy enough device like me that you have to set all of your graphics down to the lowest possible setting, then you don't have to worry about these things attacking your raft as they will only render in if you go underwater and deep enough where anglers spawn since they will also spawn at a certain depth.

please don't ever go into a open body of water if you want to preserve your rafts life and work.

Can it destroy the motorboat? The motorboat is considered metal is that the only way to survive in open ocean against it?

If you are on a raft sailing the seas and encounter one of these, sail to the closest piece of land as quick as possible, (GG for u if it’s an alpha one). If on a motorboat, do the same thing! You might be able to out run it but if it’s an alpha, it would be better to take a little damage and spare yourself the hard work of making another one.

They can spawn at surface areas at the bottom south, even near the shore with all the rocks.

One was unfortunate enough to spawn and get stuck on a rock, so i have a trapped Leed with no effort involved.

You might find one there too, if your lucky.

These creatures are so annoying. They can one shot your raft if it is an alpha. Lost too many raft bases in PvP due to this guy.

All my hard work just turned to fish food

"you are not safe on your raft" you have been warned

Yeah… it eats boats. I am mortified…don’t be me and try to kill it from a raft. That is how I lost all my tek armor to megs and mantas.

One day I went on a trip to herbivore island to get some metal I got a few storage boxes full on my raft and some in my invent. I set of home when one of these swallowed my raft, I lost all my metal and was left encumbered in the sea

In real life the leedsichthys was almost 100% a filter feeder. If we get an update saying it’s then tamable, there should me no way to force feed it and it can only eat by swimming with its mouth open.

When you dont have a motorboat dont drive above deep water. When you have a motorboat they mostly wont attack you. I hope that helps you.

If you sail into one's domain, it will become angered and unleash a mighty bite to devour your ship before swimming back to the abyss from whence it came. However these mighty lords of the sea will forgive trespassers if they throw a jar of honey into the sea for the great beast to devour, the mighty leviathans are too titanic and wilfull for even the greatest of sailers to bring to heel, however if ever one can find one and get to it the titanic fish will gift them with the succulent and delicious meat that lead to this noble species being hunted close to extinction. And if one is brave enough too sail a boat into the kingdom of the mighty albino alpha they will be able to grapple onto it's huge fin and partake the ancient ritual of Alpha leedsicthys surfing, as well as temporarily gaining an excellent platform for hunting the deadly megalodon! Fear these beasts of the deep but also revere them, for they embody the sea, they are both stunningly beautiful, and cruel and terrifying!