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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips
What is a otter used for? otter battling strategies in ARK: Survival Evolved.
Aside from being able to wear helmets and being cute, these guys are useful. You can set one or all on aggressive and or have other otters on attacking/attack your target and they will hunt fish. On aggressive they solely go after fish and nothing else unless accidentally hit, often they don't seem to leave bodies of water on aggressive. Otters have chance to gather a pearl when killing and gathering fish. When perched on your shoulder they act as a person's AC unit which is great for maps like Aberration and Fjordur.
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
When leveling up or mutating your otter put it’s levels at a 2-1 ratio into melee damage and health. Melee damage allows your Otto to keep you warm while on your shoulders better and health allows your pet to survive longer. Don’t level weight because if it is encumbered it doesn’t matter because it doesn’t move
Tamed Otters do not eat regular meat, only fish meat. My otter was refusing to eat even though she had plenty of meat in her inventory and plenty of meat in a nearby trough. To remedy this, I tried multiple things; moving the trough closer, giving her more meat, and even force feeding her. She would not gain hunger with regular meat. The moment I got fish meat, she ate. I'm not sure if they can eat other types of meats like mutton though.
Idk y but no one has written about how to use them to get black and silica pearls.
So to get pearls u have to keep them on aggressive and on follow and let them attack fish like phirana etc but sometimes it doesnt work with normal fish called coelaths. And to get pearls u have to let them kill the fish by which i mean u have to let them last hit them and by then they will have pearl (1 or 2 of white and black or either one of em) in there inventory.
So I prefer goin for phirana and sabertooth cause they r agrressive and chase u till the shore so use that chabce to kill a lot of fish by otters. I hope i helped many which were having confusion like i did.
At about 1,500 melee I was able to survive sulfur springs (150 degrees Fahrenheit / 66 degrees celsius) but I'd aim for 2k just in case
After upgrading melee to at least 1.5k you can upgrade food and health instead (Food in case you forget he's on your shoulder so he doesn't starve) or anything you'd like to upgrade 👍🏻
- C [The Reaper Lover]