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760 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 21, 2024   Report

Otters are wonderful companions, whether holding artifacts for you, or regulating your temperature, so here’s a guide to help you tame one.

1. Otters are found in most of the rivers on the island, so I recommend just following rivers until you spot one. Sometimes they can blend in with the fish, so take it slow, so you don’t miss one.

2. When you find one, it can be useful to trap it, because they tend to move around a LOT. Either way, you need to kill fish to feed it. The fish have a number next to their name like 1x or 2.3x or .5x. This correlates with the size of it, the higher the number, the bigger the fish. The highest number or biggest fish gives the most taming progress, so go for those. In addition, the type of fish matters. Sabertooth salmon give more progress than coelacanth which is better than piranha.

3. Once you kill the fish, you need to drag it. Then go to the otter. While holding the dead fish and looking at the otter, it will let you feed it to the otter. Repeat this until the tame is finished

Happy taming!

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2074 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 24, 2021   Report

Use a Pteranodon and grab it on water. YES! YES YOU CAN GRAB OTTERS ON WATER USING PTERA AND PLACE OTTER ON A 1x1 THACH WALL THEN FEED WITH FISH LIKE SO EVERYONE CAN SEE

1094 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 30, 2022   Report

If you start to overheat or freeze to much tame

one of these guys. Because they can control

your temp if you press E to pick it up! Best

shoulder mount ever!

1696 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 30, 2021   Report

On mobile u feed them raw fish meat!!!!!!! Pls ^ if helpful and so more mobile player can see

708 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 20, 2022   Report

Helpful Tip: Did you know you can hatch eggs using these mfs? First, tame 3 otters, place them in a triangular shape with the egg in the center, then BOOM!! u got yourself a baby dino. Nature's incubator.

836 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 24, 2022   Report

Already said but worth saying again - upgrade its melee damage for more cold resistance!

1871 points   🔧 Utility   Aug 18, 2017   Report

The otter can be very useful for gathering fish meat — it will harvest fish on demand. You can also use it to forage for Silica Pearls, and it will occasionally find Black Pearls.

828 points   🔧 Utility   Mar 30, 2021   Report

I’ve read many of the comments and I just want to clarify that the otter insulates you. Meaning yes it will protect you from the cold, however it also helps keep you cool from heat.

247 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 27, 2023   Report

This creature has the more utilities than any other shoulder pet:

5.It has reduced weight meaning you can carry it and carry less weight on your shoulders.

4.It can carry multiple of each artifact unlike you or any other creature.

3.It can be used to find prime fish meat and pearls, allowing you to get food while on expeditions.

2.It keeps your body temperature stable, allowing longer expeditions into hot or cold areas.

1. It is the cutest creature in Ark!!! Just find a pirate hat skin or a cloth hat and put it on It’s head and be dazzled by cuteness!!

1187 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Aug 19, 2017   Report

There oterly near water falls. also there cute.dont kill plz thx.

640 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 2, 2020   Report

Fun fact: If your on mobile, you can just tap on tames and you’ll be able to summon your lost companions.

To the person that lost Otty, I’m not sure if you knew this but if he’s alive, you’ll be able to get him back, he won’t have his inventory items though

663 points   🔧 Utility   Jan 29, 2020   Report

Dear owner of Henry otter, he is fine you dont need to worry abput him. He was simply accepted into Woghorts and the disappering you saw was simply him entering fish #13 3/4.

943 points   🔧 Utility   Sep 25, 2017   Report

Increasing melee damage increases the hypothermic and hyperthermic insulations on the carrier.

50 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 23, 2024   Report

Good tame for staying warm. Can be used to incubate eggs.

Hat sold separately.

460 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Aug 26, 2020   Report

Once I went out to tame Raptors, or... try to shoot one from the safety of my raft... but then I saw a lil otter, my heart melted!!! Then I realized, the OTHER things that were in the area included: A baryonyx, a pack of 7 Raptors, A theri, and sum other aggressive friggin things, and the otter STILL LIVES THERE. Soooo many trikes and parasaurs died to the pack of FREAKING 10 RAPTORS! But the otter. Just lives. How.

172 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Aug 7, 2023   Report

I almost had my otter die while clapping a bronto with a shotgun because he only eats fish

1 yes = 1 more otters in ARK 2

410 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 20, 2020   Report

Just feed it fish on mobile. I have four words words Belle otter allo pack one like for one ancient amber for her

229 points   🔧 Utility   Sep 30, 2022   Report

it's really important to feed your otter raw fish meat or it will starve! They don't eat normal meat. Learned the hard way. Never again. RIP Nugget.

-MangoDragon3

580 points   🔧 Utility   Sep 7, 2017   Report

It increases your insulation. With fur armor and a otter. The winter mountain won't kill you anymore

404 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 12, 2019   Report

These little guys are so much easier to tame in mobile, but harder to find. You still need to kill a megipirahna, but you don’t need to grab its corpse to feed the otter. After harvesting its meat you can easily walk up to it and feed it until it’s tamed. It doesn’t run away in mobile, and I’m sure you can use any fish meat.

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