I’m no expert but I think I’ve found the best way to tame these guys. All you need is an Argentavis and 5-8x primitive spears. Our plan is to snatch the otter from the surface of the water with the Argy’s mouth grab (click right stick or C on pc). This part might seem a lil daunting but I believe in you. Once you’ve scooped up the otter keep it in the mouth of the Argy and find a nice body of water with plenty of sabertooth salmon. Land on the shore close to the water (the otter will stay in the argys mouth). Now use the primitive spears to kill sabertooth salmon (or any large fish). When killing a fish with primitive spears it will automatically start dragging the body. Now here comes the best part. With the otter in the Argys mouth which will be raised above you, it is actually possible and super simple to feed the fish to our otter friend. You now have an Otter with none of the headache.

Give it like 1000 health

Attack a rex

Rex looses agro

Rex dies

Otter Win

Ark Mobile: If you're able to I highly recommend a mining cap for the otter. Makes it easier to find and an amazing night light. If he's on your shoulders the light works best in third person. That way you can still wear a good helmet, still see at night, and still have your weapon out.

Try to tame it when you mount the araneo(the spider) it well be easy tame and just use some shooting balm

Health increases its Hypo/Hyper bonus despite what others have posted.

Please add to genesis they are their!

Make an army of these little guys and name them all “Otterman Empire”

Nightmare to find! Quite rare! Find one then, Spear/kill fish, then drap fish (pref salmon high lvl) to it. Mind the piranha etc... best shoulder pet imho! Gives huge boost to heat & cold climates.

Put it around your shoulders. Keeps you hot when you're cold and cold when you're hot. He'll even fetch pearls for you and look adorable doing it.

Does this happen to anyone else????: I put the otter on wander and put it on wander but it js swims in a circle and doesn’t collect anything??

I have 6! 4 of them are common colors, 1 is green and magenta, and the other is pink and purple!

Okay, so the way I tamed them is simply by first: kill any dinosaurs near it or in range of otter, next eat a rare flower, then it will come up to you and nibble on your argy (preferred mount cuz it can pick up the otter in beak), then use a ithyornis (or a weapon to kill the sabertooth salmon if you don’t have a ithy yet), then drag the magical (or less magical) fish over to the otter and feed it!

Worked 10/10 for me (it can get a bit annoying when the fish keeps getting in your face)

Guys!!!! Otters DO keep u cool in heat waves and other places. Tested it by going into the volcano w my otter. Not sure if it works in scorched earth, (haven't left the island yet...) Up so peeps can see!

One thing I see people haven't been talking about regarding these cute little guys is that their insulation also makes for good egg hatching. Of course, for max efficiency for this you need a group but they do help!

To tame hold fish in your other hand and go up to it click or tap the fish then in a few minutes you will get an otter

Once tamed, keep on hunting even at least coelacanths at first. I had one which for some reason despawned. When he slaughters a fish (any fish) he takes at least 4 silica pearls and for every 3-6 fishes he kills he gathers at least 1 or at best, 3 black pearls. Very useful at all times, especially at the tundra.

You can find them on aberration on top of the waterfall just follow the river

If you kill one of these a lv 100 Titan will come to your base and destroy it along with you

If u kill this guy and admit it I we'll take my otter army and watch them beat u and your tame PS there at max level

There is a small river/lake place near green ob there are no threats there I found 5 there on an official Xbox server thehundreadcrossark7 if you wanna join just go to official legacy servers and type in ark 7

Good enough fish hunter, though not as effective as Ichthyornis since it can’t one-shot fish & doesn’t give them a prime boost. However, it can get silica & black pearls when killing fish. If it has pearls, you’ll be notified by an animation.