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20 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 2, 2020   Report

One of the best Fiber/berry Gatherers I have ever seen, only real problem is they are really slow.

19 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 2, 2020   Report

When taming, make sure not to trap it. When it comes in contact with a barrier of any kind, sabertooth salmon are spawned in behind it. The salmon will bite it an reset its taming. If you tame it in the open water with no barriers it will tame pretty easy. You can not put berries into your hot bar and passive it or honey. You can not knock it out to tame either.

7 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 24, 2023   Report

Not actually as hard as you think. Also people say he "eats" the fish but I think they are cleaning him.

16 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jul 5, 2020   Report

So apparently you can grab the swarm with a tuso keep in mind you will be slow and venerable however

15 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Sep 13, 2020   Report

Tip for everyone:

Don't get a microbe swarm while on a Mount. Get off to aggro and stay off, the swarm will aggro easier off a Mount, and stay aggrod better. Swimming backwards you'll swim at a similar speed to the microbe swarm. (PC) Use "K" to see where you're going.

Solo player tips:

Step 1. Set dino spawn to 2.0 to find Megachelon and microbe swarms easily. (Also up dino tame speed if you wish)

Step 2. Get full scuba suit, but only use the body piece when you need it as the ocean biome in Genesis GREATLY reduces oxygen consumption underwater.

Step 3. Get night vision goggles to spot microbe swarms very easily. Works best at night.

Step 4. Get an X Basilosaurus.

Step 5. Find a high concentration of Megachelon and then swim down to find a microbe swarm. Bring it back up and use the basilosaurus to defend against sharks, eels, and sabertooth salmon (watch near the microbe swarm around the turtle, they'll spawn nearby the swarm)

Step 6. Start collecting Megachelon to build an army.

6 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 23, 2023   Report

Easy tame, agrow fish on them and move far away, the tame will work 0 to 100%

10 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 11, 2022   Report

It eats meat btw if anyone wondering

4 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 15, 2023   Report

If you’re planning on building a pen/breeding facility that will keep your world turtles safe, you are gonna need more space. These things BARELY fit through behemoth gates and are prone to getting stuck on uneven terrain on land.

You might think you know how big these guys are. You are underestimating, and probably by a good amount.

7 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 21, 2022   Report

You need to lure a parakeet fish school (if the school won’t aggro that means there is a feces near by and you need to pick it up) to one of these and you need to be off your mount for the taming to start. Do not leave the megachelon side or else the fishes will despawn (and the taming bar wil slowly go down) and don’t let anything attack it or the taming will start over.

14 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 28, 2020   Report

Tame using a microbe swarm. Lure it to the megachelon and then defend the turtle from everything thats agressive. Careful. This takes a very long time.

14 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 28, 2020   Report

Not immune to eels.

Way to go wildcard.. you made a big giant waste of time.

Again.

8 points   🔧 Utility   Apr 16, 2022   Report

The dodo basketball mission on beta gives lots of acendent saddles I played three times and got 2 acendent saddles

13 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 28, 2020   Report

To tame you must lure the "microbes" (swarming fish) to the turtle and allow the taming meter to go up. If the turtle gets hit the taming bar restets.

1 point   🥚 Taming & KO   Sep 28, 2024   Report

Parakeet fish will not lock onto you if there is feces nearby, pickup all the feces that your tame drops

8 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 8, 2021   Report

Megachelons and the swarms do not combat with eachother and just don’t work. The turtle is so much faster then the swarm and the swarms just deaggro on you every 3 seconds . I had a 150 turtle and once I got the swarm to the surface they just stopped aggroing and they wouldn’t attach to the turtle. I tried this with 3 different swarms and they all did the same thing

12 points   🔧 Utility   Apr 4, 2020   Report

These guys can collect silk under water

12 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 29, 2020   Report

Lead a sea swarm to it then swim near it. Dont let it take damage or it will rest tameing .QD

11 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 22, 2020   Report

Make sure you stick close to it while taming or it's bar will drop to zero and you'll have to start over

5 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 10, 2022   Report

Him turtle… feed turtle…….build turtle.

6 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 2, 2022   Report

To tame you need to lure a parakeet swarm to the turtle. You only need ONE swarm to tame these dudes… here’s what I gathered from experience:

1. If they get hit during taming progress resets to zero

2. The higher the level parakeet swarm (and the higher it’s health) the quicker it tames

3. While taming the swarm will have coles and salmon spawn behind it and attempt to eat the swarm, the more this happens the slower the tame will be (if eaten enough parakeet swarm disappears)

Their taming is like an annoying mini game, would recommend a baryonyx for fish that spawn and also to kill sharks that try to attack the turtle.

Tip: coles can’t catch up to the swarm, so if one spawns would suggest leaving it be as it seems only one fish will pursuit a swarm at a time

Another Tip: gen is the easiest map to tame, I did it naked. Most annoying part of this tame is luring the swarm to the turtle to start feeding, I found this buggy on a mount and oxygen, stam use and sped are all buffed underwater while swimming on this map.

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