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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a magmasaur? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a magmasaur.
It’s just a normal lizard that wants to be loved
Passive tame this reptile with hot magma and make sure that your crouching because if it sees you it will run for the hills. It just wants to be loved, LOVED!!!
Or steal it’s children your choice
If you can transfer your Rock Drake to Genesis it is pretty easy to steal Magmasaur eggs with them. Just turn invisible look for the best egg to steal. Quickly dismount grab the egg get back on and haul your butt out of there.
When raising Magmasaurs, you can incubate their eggs with either standing torches, dimetrodons (level melee only, it increases the incubation effect), air conditioners or a combination of all of the above. It takes a LOT of heat.
They eat Ambergris which can easily be mined from the lunar biome with an Anky (for the best yield).
Higher level Magmasaurs are best to raise, they have better food value.
At the “Juvenile” stage when they can be on trough, you can put their food (Ambergris) into a trough which helps with raising multiple tames (or bring over a character that has Tek unlocked and use a Tek Trough to preserve the food). (I play Xbox official).
Low level Mags might not look like they are taking food from the trough if their food value is low. Watch them and see if they eat once the value reaches zero. Higher levels do better for some reason. This knowledge might save someone some sleep. :-)
To feed they eat sulfur as baby's.
So after losses.. I've worked out the magmasaurs food drops at a rate of 15 (rounded up from around 13.7) per minute, 900 food per hour. Feed your mag 1 ambergris every half hour to keep a happy healthy lil magma blob
If anyone are on fjorder use the andrewsarchus with a saddle and 10.000 health and when you get there pump in damage now and there you go a fierce egg ready to grow for you
Best way to get the eggs is with parachute and grappling hook, you grapple down pickup the egg and then grapple to up the walls.
Now that we can transfer in and out of the genesis servers I’ve been getting a bunch of eggs, and from experience the best tame to get eggs ISNT the bloodstalker is a rock drake. I know there kind of hard to get but there invisibility is the best we to get into the best and the wall climbing and gliding is the best way to get out of the volcano without and trouble
Use a desmodus’s Invis to go in the cave and steal an egg. I got a 140 doing this!
When you dont have Ambergris, but still raising one. Use a Snowowl to heal the baby!
If you’re based in the Snow biome, it’ll take anywhere from 16-20 ac’s to incubate the egg. Hope that helps some of the boys out
Using the rock drakes cloak ability allows you to get right on top of eggs without drawing aggro.
If you have plan on raising babies, (basically getting them) have a way to get like 15-20 stacks of sulfur to be safe, and for future magmas, also it takes DAYS to grow up, like 3 days no joke. It wants imprint every 8 hours, I highly recommend leaving them overnight otherwise it will take a week or something crazy, it’s hard to get full imprint so don’t expect it. When they are tamed they are metal harvesters, obsidian, stone, crystal, and they can just walk through lava. Also dealing nice damage. If they die, cry.
On lost island they spawn in 2 caves north of the volcano, one is at the beginning of a lava stream and the other has 2 entrances on ground level and doesnt have lava coming out of the entrance. Basically just get in and get out quick as they can one shot you off your tame if hit directly. The eggs need access to the hottest temperatures in ark for incubation so you will need a large amount of torches to hatch. Requires sulfer on lost island and ambergris on gen 2, abilities include smelting on the go and a spit attack that can be charged into a massive fireball that consumes 1 metal ingot, a AOE attack around the creature, or just simply can be held at 100% charge to burn everything around it. Will keep you warm in cold biomes but looses access to most of its abilities when in water or cold.
An easier way of obtaining Magmasaur eggs is to level up a Gigantopithiscus in the health and speed catagories, then bolt into the mountain, jumping over the bugs. Once you get to the magmasaur ‘den’ use a whip to gather a few eggs then get outta there
My dad came up with a fool proof strat, using a high level procoptodon, you can circle around the lava and aggro every magmasaur, but you are much faster, so do a circle and while they’re on the other side, hop off and grab the eggs, get back on and hop around, before you know it, you have every egg in cave
Ambergris last a lot longer in tek troughs.
Don't have tek? No problem. Just transfer your character with the ambergris in your inventory. Before you spawn, quit and return to main menu. Then re-download your character next to your troughs and your ambergris spoil timer is reset. 👍🏽
If you are trying to grab an egg on foot. A parachute and a grapple hook work pretty good
I is really easy if you get desmodus and just fly in and go to a nest where there is not many magmasaurs. Take the egg then leave right away because the heat will bring your health down pretty low.
On PlayStation the babies eat Sulfur 50 food per eat and the food drains slow won’t need much to raise on 1x