Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a megalodon? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a megalodon.
You can outrun them with flippers on, don’t bother with any other technique
On the island map to tame, go to herbivore island ( bottom right of map) and wait as they show up in the lake bit. As u shoot then they will go one side to the other, so take a bird and switch sides each time and you will have a megalodon
Spinos or sarcos don't get prime fish meat anymore off megladons. Not sure if it's a change from one of the last updates.
Required: domesticated and saddled ichthyosaur; bow or crossbow (no gun); toxic arrows or tranquilizer arrows.
get on the ichthyosaur and provoke a megalodon, then move away by pointing the ichthyosaur’s snout in the opposite direction; at this point pull the arrows to the megalodon while he follows you, when he gets too close you move the ichthyosaur at a right distance.
Make sure you’re in an area without too many megalodonts beyond what you want to tame.
Net gun it then tranq arrow repeat, then bam it's out. Took me 2 nets while floating over the water on a bloodstalker shooting it with a longneck
Can be horse kicked by equus if lured to the shore.
Saves harpoons and tranqs.
Cheap stone trap with small water dinos or yourself
4 foundation
3 walls high each side, it will not pass thru
1 giant hatch frame and gate on top
Thats all
Bow take your dino, lure it from top and you get out from the side without walls. Shark is slow and clumsy so you have time to return on too to close gate
Voila
Also work for dunky
Your gonna need a bigger boat AHHHHH
I have found that it is easy and safer if you use a pelagornis to lure the megalodon into a trap. Doing it this way if something really bad come you can just fly off of the water instead of trying to get to shore.
1.get it to agro you and swim as far in land as possible while hitting it with tranqs from a cross bow
2. Now that your far inland when it tries to run you follow it before it can go into nothingness
3.keep hitting it with tranqs after it tries to run and knock it out
Use scuba flippers a decent damage crossbow and you'll have the Meg knocked out in no time because you can swim faster then a wild Meg with flippers your welcome no pen needed no other animal needed just you and arrows just don't don't swim backwards to long......it'll catch you
To everyone saying you can't catch it with a fish trapper boat, you couldn't be more wrong, you just have to do a underwater version of quetz trappers
Get a raft and shoot it to be passed out.
I'm sorry to say this but, they are terrible! They aggroe other creatures easily (even their own kind and same with the manta rays), and the others can be pretty far and still be aggroed (once I aggroed another megalodon abot fifty feet away!) Do not recommend unless you need meat, like fish meat or prime fish meat. Hopes this helps. ~Sharkboy Out!
If you have a fabracater you can shoot them with shocking darts around 2 and three and feed it raw fish meat it's pretty easy.
I was taming one of these bad boys in the herbie island pool and when i finally got it to torpor run it beached itself but still lived if you know what i mean. Ark logic? Anyways it stopped moving and i figured it was just stuck. make sure to check your taming tracker. Thats why i had a lvl 67 shark instead of 89.(i was new to the game ok?) This was in ASE not ASA.
make them aggravated and have them follow you in the shallow end. Use a bow and tranq arrows to knock it out.Meat and Fish meat work but take longer. If they are further down and you want one, ride a sarco and get it to follow you before knocking it out
Herbivore island usually has megaladons in the bay
So i log in the game and there is a glitch the Megalodon is out of water and is unconscious and I had some meat and I tamed it I had to kill some of my Dino’s tho
1. Reinforce your raft with stone foundations, they won't be able to break them.
2. Make them attack your raft and shoot at them with tranq arrows (Bow and crossbow can both be used but a crossbow will be quicker) when they swim away because they are almost unconscious make sure you hit all the arrows you shoot so they won't escape.
3. Tame them with the food of your choice (high level Megalodons will need some narcotics or bio toxin, you won't need it immediately but be prepared).
4. Have fun with your Megalodon!