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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for ovis? Tips and strategies for ovis in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
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
I will never tame one of these again now in ASA I love those baby’s so much great addition
After taming, put ovis in a cryopod and store in cryofridge. Once it's stores a lot of levels, level up it's health only. Kill the ovis and harvest it with a chainsaw. Make sure you are within reach of some sort of storage coz you will get tonnes and tonnes of hide, pelt and mutton. It's has been known to completely lag out servers with the amount of things you can harvest this way...
The frist time I saw mine, I was on the edge of the redwood forest near a small stream. I picked it up with my Argent, so if you want to take it home and save it for breeding or tame meat that's the way too go.
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.
Easy place to find in Fjordur is Jotunheim, go SouthEast. The cold there is killer but the best way to stay alive I've found is with full fur gear, an otter around your neck, Frio curry soup to keep help with the insulation and med brews as well as blood packs on your quick slots. I recommend at least bringing 20 or more med brews if you plan to stay alive longer than 2 min.. a HOT tek canteen will work wonders if you have one.
Use a desmodus(Bat).
WATCH OUT for microraptors and other predators!!!!
OVIS are an instant passive tame with sweet vegetable cake!
You only need one sweet veggie cake even for 150.
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!
Sigh..... all those ragnorok players with their ovis’s. Why are so rare on the island?
on the island they rarely spawn and when they do they get eaten. they spawn all around the snowy region and redwoods, not so safe places.
They are found a lot around the snowy mountain. Don't listen to the map, they are more common where it says 'very rare.'