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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a otter? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a otter.
If you are playing on mobile you don't bring it a dead fish instead you have to feed it raw fish meat. Similar to what is done with the diplo or other dinos of that type you just wait for their hungry to reset as indicated above their head and then refeed them.
Want an otter to keep you warm in the mountains? Want an otter to hatch dinosaur eggs for you? This is how you get one! (and keep her alive).
Assuming you are on the island, Otters are mostly found around the redwoods And the main thing is along the black sands. However, they can be found in almost every river in the game.
The otter eats whole fish carcasses, not raw fish meat. You have to approach her while holding a fish corpse and press "Feed".
An extremely important points
★ After you have finished the training put it in the inventory of the otter raw fish. Many times the otter becomes tame when there is no food on it and from there the road to starvation is very short. (R.I.P miss Otter Hightower)
★Otters can run very far, so confine them before training begins. They can be picked up with any flying animal the size of a pterodon or larger.
Successfully!
Otters are a great company for you if you love dinos the you can put on your shoulder
Baby otters will die almost instantly after being born be sure to feed it as soon as possible.
If you really want one it takes about 4 minutes to tame one and it takes about 6 fish meat ^ for more to see please do
(Ark mobile)
1) Load soothing balm and raw fish meat into your quick bar.
2) fly your ptera along the rivers looking for a wild otter
3) pickup the wild otter with your ptera
4) while your ptera is holding the otter, fly to a safe height, pan your view around to the rear of your ptera where you can see the wild otter info bar appear
5) force feed the wild otter the soothing balm and raw fish (using your quick bar) in complete safety, while it is held by your ptera.
⚠️ WARNING: YOU WILL MELT IF U SEE ONE, IT IS TOO CUTE ⚠️ Ok.. now that is out of the way, if u do survive the cuteness, this is how to tame it. I suggest you mainly look around the redwoods on the island, I have found 4 of them there. After you found one, you wanna try to wait until it is on land because it is easier that way. Next you feed it your raw fish. Prime fish works best. After a little bit of waiting you can feed it again. After a couple of fish, they should be yours!
ATTENTION MOBILE PLAYERS!!! on mobile you tame this cutie with fish MEAT. not fish CORPSES! ok?
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.
In ark mobile, u can tame it with raw fish meat and raw prime fish meat.
Raw Prime fish meat is better
I normally find them at the river by the green obelisks
(I’m on mobile) I just built a box without a lid (1 thatch foundation, 3 thatch walls, 1 thatch door and 1 thatch doorframe) by a lake so I could fish for fresh food to tame then I hopped on my pteranodon and I followed the river around the red woods (without the swamp) to find one of these lil guys and pick him up then took him to the box I made and put him in it. Turns out the for some reason the otter wanted COOKED fish… luckily I had some already so I just fed him that and some soothing balm and he tamed in about a minute. DO NOT READ THIS TIP THINKING ALL OTTERS EAT COOKED FISH IN MOBILE. Up if you found funny or helpful
These otters live near streams and rivers
Otters can protect you from cold climates drastically, they eat up all your depression and aren't hard to tame at all! Just catch some Sabertooth Salmon or Piranha and bring the corpse to the otter and feed it. There you have your very own cute little otter. But remember to Bola it so it doesn't run away first. About 2 just in case. Kill one and I'll find you on multiplayer...
!!!! It wouldn’t accept fish meat, but instead wanted the whole fish !!!!
Kill a coelacanth and drag it’s body to the otter!
my otter died to a Carno as well. So I pulled out my crossbow and went
DIE CARNO DIEEEE
I just loved him. Rip tiny otter boi
Make a small building without a roof, preferably thatch, then get an argie or a pteranodon, go to the redwood river and scout around for the and otter, they don’t live in the swamp section though, then once found pick up the otter with your flying dino, then drop it into the small building you made, then kill a lot of sabertooth salmon, and then feed your otter raw prime fish meet, then soon you have a noodle!
As far as i know this only works on Asa PC.
All needed is an argy and a melee weapon for killing fish. Find you desired otter and pick it up by pressing C, this picks up the otter in the argys mouth. Only by pressing C again will the argy drop is you can land,take off, and dismount without dropping the otter. Now its jus fly around to fish locations kill fish an feed other.
Xtra tip: Turn of allied dino looking it s a pain with the bird looking around.
I've found my 5 otters in two spots. The first two where the beavers spawn near the waterfall area where there's that one cave (27,48.4) on the top of the waterfall the little water area below the beavers & then the other with the beavers above. Second spot (no cords, sorry) near the blue OB where there's that big area of water with that huge weird tree in it. Hope it helps!
On mobile you passive tame with raw fish meat! For a level 20, 1 raw fish gave a 9.4% taming so it took around 11 fish meat to tame. After the first feeding interval, it got hungry again after around 30 seconds each time.