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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
On island, the best way to find ovis is to take some veggie cake in your own inventory, Dino’s will eat veggie cake in their inventory, and a large carnivore Dino or Therizinosaur into the arctic and eat everything in sight. Don’t spare anything that moves. Even eat the trees (so you can see better). When stuff starts to spawn back, ovis will spawn with them. Keep an eye out, because they live mere minutes before stuff will eat them. Tame it and cryo it like your life depends on it. Have had several die in the moments between taming them and pulling out a cryopod, one with wolves, one died by Argy. Be FAST!
More Ovis Taming & KO Tips
THEY EAT BERRIES AFTER TAME
Ovis can be hard to tame, but are invaluable once tamed, so here’s a guide to help you out with taming one
1. Ovis are a passive tame, so you won’t need any tranqs
Ovis only eat veggie cakes to tame, so prepare those, on single player you only need 1, on official you might need more.
2. On the island, Ovis usually spawn in or around the redwoods but there are other places. Since it tames really quick I would just tame it where you find it, unless there are immediate threats, and that way you won’t need an argy which can carry them. Once you tame it, if you don’t have an argy you can cryo it to take it to safety. Once it is tamed it will eat berries
Happy taming!
The ovis is a sheep-like creature that many survivors find useful in farming. It can be found in the grasslands. While rare, it can be tamed simply by feeding it one Sweet Vegetable Cake. This sheep can be sheered with Scissors to obtain Wool, or killed to obtain Mutton. While the ovis can be mounted, it is not an ideal mount for transport and provides very little use once mounted, other than its ability to climb up steep inclines.— Smallfoot
You only need one sweet veggie cake even for 150.
You find them (most often) up in the north biome, at the blue obelisk. As of now, they need to be born on a ceiling (One tile above where you want them), so they will not fall into the water under the map or other unaccessible places, warning, with this method they will still fall through the ceiling, but they will fall onto the foundation underneath, allowing you to claim them there. Another warning, The baby ovis needs to be claimed immediately, or else it will die of starvation, it will also have abnormally low weight, so be sure to feed it very often.
Do NOT have your Sinomacrops on you when go to claim a baby. They kill them before you even get to see them.
It's hard to tame them at the beginning-LateMid of the game and it's hard to keep their Lamb chops from rotting. Therefore, if you see one, pick it up with an Argy and drop it in the farm you prepared in advance. He will wait for you there until you have to tame a serious predator. Don't waste it on something small like a raptor or caranturus.
Pls pls do not kill them, they are so rare it took me 4 weeks to find ONE after I slaughtered 2. Tame them and breed it so much easier trust me
Before you tame it you can shear it which means you don't have to keep it to keep the wool. Also tame it with a sweet cake but then use berries to feed.
They die easily if you have an Argy pick it up and take it to a safer location