I finally found an otter near the rivers and a random spino ran in and ate it :(

Everyone mentions that they regulate your heat. I want to give you an idea how much.

Are you sick and tired of always changing your armor depending on temperatures where you’re at on the map? Well look no further! I recommend ascendant ghillie and one of these bad boys (slaps the otter on its butt) around your neck!

No, but all jokes aside, it’s literally the only thing I wear. I completed all cave runs with this combo. The coldest place on the map I’ve found is at the bottom of the ice cave. At -22° I wasn’t even cold because of the otter. And the hottest temps on Carno island and the lava cave, he’s kept me cool.

Last night I landed on a rock to try and tame a archelon. Accidentally tossed the otter off and he went through the rock to the bottom (250m) of the ocean. After I finally got everything prepped to go down and get him, he was on herbivore island 800m away. He swam back to my last base we were at. Not sure if they’re supposed to do that, but it’s pretty damn cool!

I recently found out that they are the best tame in the game.

Use 1: Keep you warmer when holding

Use 2: LIVING INCUBATOR

Use 3: being the 2nd cutest thing in the game (1 is ferox, in my opinion).

Use 4: Can wear hats to make it even cuter, AND, have armor.

Hope this helps pros and noobs alike

-EricBro5000

Even when tamed, they ONLY EAT FISH MEAT! I was lucky and found this out before my otter even started farming! Garnet is a helpful little boy. Gon’ get him a W I F E

Use them to hatch your eggs I used 2 of my otters to hatch a wyvern egg because I didn’t have enough air conditioners

For gathering with the otter you don’t always have to pick him up and double tap F for him to gather and attack targets you can use the whistle command “attack this target” and it does the same thing but without having to pick him up and double tap F and he doesn’t have to be on your shoulders.

What I do is I throw him off my shoulders I go and kill the fish myself and once I got a good group of dead fish I just use whistle “attack this target” and he gathers the meat and pearls from the dead body. Hope this helps for anyone that was constantly picking the otter up and double tapping F to gather.

Otters get silica pearls and black silica pearls from dead fish’s inventory. They eat the fish, and then the pearls get transferred over to the otter’s inventory.

Very easy tame and super useful early game. They give you heaps of insulation at base and if you level up melee it works even better. Second best shoulder mount of all time (that I’ve tamed) first goes to compy, naturally

Fun fact:Otter spawns at any river maybe a bit rare of them but if you have 2 otter and mated make a farm to became common but on waterfalls it has 45% to spawn on rivers 20-35% but on large rivers(including shore rivers) it has 10% cause of the danger if you tame it anything you kill he/she will gather meat/prime meat/fish meat/prime fish meat on dead bodies up if this help

Pls don’t kill otters… they give plack pearls after killing fish or I think harvesting clams(silica pearls). This is super useful during late game!

I bred otters and the parent killed the baby. Lesson is be careful when breeding otters, some are adorable,cannibalistic maniacs.

Do you say they’re just cute tames? No real use? WRONG! I took my level three otter out and got it to kill a fish. When I went into my house to get the fish meat out of it’s inventory, there was twelve fish meat AND 1 silica pearl. And you might say, oh, silica pearls are easy to get. Oh? Well then how easy is it to get a BLACK PEARL? Oh, pretty easy, cause yeah, my otter had that too! They can just kill fish and get pearls! Up if you find true and helpful!

There so cute and I love them if your in the right world they spawn like hot cakes near the swamps

For the owner of Henry Otter...

My prayers are with Henry Otter

They're on Genesis in the Arctic in the east haven't really seen them anywhere else but every map is different. Hope this helps😊

While it is probably the cutest creature in ark, let’s not forget that it has a use. It is the best gatherer of black pearls, one of the most valuable resources in the game.

These guys are a passive tame. You have to kill a fish then drag its body to the otter and press the 'feed fish' key. The easiest way to do this is with an argent. With your tertiary attack you can pick the otter up in your beak and it will stay there even when you land. Simply fly to a spot near fish and feed the otter while it's in the argent's beak. If you don't see the prompt to feed right away, drop the fish then pick it back up.

On mobile: You can tame it passively by feeding it, prime fish meat > cooked prime fish meat > raw fish meat > cooked raw fish meat.

You can pick them up with Argies and tame them right in your base or if you have taming food on your hot bar, you can tame them in the air while the argy is carrying them.

They can’t carry artifacts on mobile but they still insulate both you and fertilized eggs.

Grab the otter with your argentarvis but not with the claws, instead do it with the beak. That way you can carry him from river to river searching for big fish while he is sitting with your argi. Remember to change your argi to passiv

Heres an easy tip to find em cuties: where a spino spawns, an otter spawns