Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Fun facts about reapers!
-Reapers have a very high healthpool and damage,and also have an 80% natural armor. You do not need a saddle to ride them.
-To tame one, you must get pregnant from a reaper queen. It must be below 2000 health before it will grab and impregnate you.
-After you are impregnated, you can kill creature to increase the offspring's level. It caps out at an additional 75 level-ups, no matter the queen's level.
-Once the baby reaper bursts out of your chest, it will try to kill you. However, this can be avoided by eating a pheromone gland, which is obtained from dead reaper queens.
-These reapers aren't meant to be confused with surface reapers. Surface reapers do much more damage and have slightly less hp.
That's all! I hope this was helpful.
Does anyone know why my reaper screams every 3 minutes? someone gave it to me for free after my base got attacked by ravagers. Everytime i walk it screams like a queen and each time it gets deeper. Someone comment about it if they know anything about it. Thanks! (By Astro, Please say my name when letting me know 🙂)
How to get your very own Reaper King!
First, if you haven't already, you're gonna want to get a Rock Drake. You don't NEED the Rock Drake, but it's heavily recommended.
With your tame, you're going to want to head down to the Radiation zone. Make sure to bring Hazard Suits, a Magnifying glass, A shield, and your Light Pet. (Glowtail, Featherlight, Bulbdog, or Shinehorn.)
Next, you'll want to build a trap, which I heavily recommend looking up a tutorial for. The trap isn't needed, but it makes things a hell of a lot easier.
Once your trap is built (if you're making one), You're gonna wanna find a Reaper Queen. These things can be identified by the strange moving dust clouds in the ground. If you approach one, there will be a queen. Lead that momma back to your trap and turn on your Light Pet, then start dealing damage to it. Make sure to check it every once in a while after blood starts to show, because you'll have to get it below 2,000 HP. Once it's below the 2,000 HP mark, you're gonna turn off your light pet and dismount your tame. You'll know it's ready when its glowing a pink color. Walk up to it and hold up your shield, because it might attack you even if its ready to impregnate. When it kneels down and sniffs you, it will grab you with its tail and pregnate you. Once you have the baby reaper, you're HP will be depleted to 1. (It doesn't matter how much HP you have, it will always be 1.)
After getting the baby, you can either use the queen as a baby farm, or you can kill it for the glands (Which you can use for the boss terminal.)
After leaving the red zone, you're going to want to go and kill lots of dinos for EXP. The max level for a reaper baby is +75 levels on top of whatever level the queen was. Usually on official rates, the baby will take 12 hours to get birthed if theres not an event. When you log out, this timer stops.
Once the baby is ready to birth, build a small room and wait for the baby to burst from your chest. Make sure to load yourself full of meat, because when you imprint it, the baby will kill you and take everything off your corpse. Raise the baby, and boom. You have a reaper king.
THINGS TO NOT DO.
Once you have your reaper baby, DO NOT go into radiation filled areas without a hazard suit. That's free abortion right there.
Do not birth the baby in open areas! It will run away and you'll never be able to find it again.
Enjoy your reaper!
If your finding low levels and don’t want to kill them. Kite them off a cliff and leave the render distance of said cliff and poof. They despawn and instantly respawn a new reaper. Once you find a good level (120) above for me. Try trapping it on foundations. That way when it impregnates you it won’t bury underground leaving you left to kill it and get max levels on the baby reaper. REC. use magnifying glass to see how low it’s health is. Health for impregnation should be below 2500. Then your ready!
Take a high level rock drake to find these things. Bring the health of the reaper queen to BELOW 2000. Then hit the Queen with a pickaxe while on the drake. She will grab you right off of it and impregnate you. Took me about ten minutes of hitting her on a level 200 drake with high health and and a melee damage rate of about 2000. You can check her health level with a magnifying glass while Your drake recharges it’s stamina.
Here's how reapers work: Whenever they're at low health, they pick you up and shove their tail into you, injecting a symbiote into you. It lives in ur intestines until the time comes when it burrows out of your chest and runs away. Let's face it, it's the most unique way to tame a creature.
If you have one on Gen 2, I highly recommend doing the alpha level velonasaur hunt with these guys. 1 reaper can beat the mission without any help from other dinosaurs or players (much easier if imprinted) and get tons of loot from it. Have fun with your new tek class stuff!
One of the hardest tames possible, you must lower a reaper queen to 2000 health or lower from 45k while it is taking reduced damage from everything but bleeding effect, when it is at 2000 health a pink aura will appear around it and then you have to sit there on foot and let it grab you to impregnate you with a reaper king, btw radiation will kill it before born so be careful
Wait to tame them you have to be there mom.
Goodbye childhood
I personally recommend using a Giga or Rock Drake if you don’t have a Giga, btw getting a Giga is easier than this I know from personal experience. Firstly, I think that both Aberration and Genesis 2 are equally hard to get one, unpopular opinion, as Aberration has seekers, radiation, nameless, horrible terrain, elemental rivers, and horrible creatures, spore don’t count due to hazmat suit. Genesis 2 has tentacles, summoners, swarms, acid pools, horrible creatures, and annoying terrain/spawns, such As a lack of places to set up good traps and the fact that Reaper Queens only spawn in the farthest section of Rockwell’s Innards. Plus too many summoners. The only reason I would recommend Genesis 2 isn’t that it is easier, but because you can go down there sooner. Btw, I’ve tamed Reapers on both maps. For Genesis 2, use a Giga or Rock Drake, with good melee and health, you can easily lose 20,000 health from a decent reaper so be careful. Also don’t turn on your light pet until you are near a Reaper Queen, unless you want to be constantly attacked by seekers and swarms. And don’t bother with the Rock Drake cloak, creatures will still attack you. I would recommend the tunnel to the boss summoning platform as only tentacles really spawn there. Bring the Reaper Queen there, turn on your light pet, and start killing, be wary of the Reaper’s health. Once low enough there will be a pink aura indicating it wants to mate , either bring a shield or be careful ,also, turn off your light pet. It should grab you but, it can glitch out, just be patient, once impregnated get out of there and kill creatures until you have enough for 75 levels and give birth, make sure the baby doesn’t escape and feed it then bam. For Aberration, wear hazard, if you’re impregnated and take radiation damage, the baby will die. You will want a light pet for this tame to be on, to keep the nameless away, but be careful of seekers. No trap needed, just use a Rock Drake, Gigas arent immune to radiation, then same process as before. Remember to wear hazard armor. There ya go! Thanks. I will do a Giga tip next -TGIB
you can not reroll stats with the same reaper they will pop the same every time
you can not find colored reapers until one pops, the color of the reaper will repeat from the same reaper but you will not know it pops colors til one pops, queen will look normal.
you can transfer with babies in you
shotgun spinos or reapers on drakes back for extra 75lvls
blackbox self with cooked meat for baby to harvest you when popping in a closed room(this way it cant run anymore and will feed itself almost to full grown on x4 if not full)
to get pregnant build the oldskool larger trap its more efficient on gaining reaper aggro and animations run smoother) and preferably build outside of rads, rads will instakill your baby if you get even a glimpse of rad sickness
use magnifying glass to check reaper hp.
all the tips you really need
Haven’t seen anything in Dododex about it but queens do spawn in the Abb Zone on Valguero as of March 12 2021
Since Dododex hasn't added the raising times I will.
12 hour pregnancy
7 hour 30 minute baby stage
Total maturation time 3 days 3 hours
Total time with pregnancy 3 days 15 hours
Baby reapers eat 6 stacks of cooked meal per hour.
45 stacks should be enough to account for spoilage until it's out of baby stage.
To feed baby reapers easier make an airlocked pen and get a though full of cooked meat in your inventory 5 minutes before it hatches. Use a pheromone gland 3 minutes before birth and then claim it and stay in it's inventory. Force feed it cooked meat as it bites you since biting you makes it lose food. Then once it kills you it should collect all 60 stacks into it's inventory. Use a gland to make sure and if not feed it until gland wears off and stand on your body so the reaper eats the body.
Good luck!
Remember after you have been impregnated by the reaper queen (by lowing it’s health it not sure the spike in its back will grow red) taking any radiation poison will kill the reaper king inside of you
You can tame them really easily on gen 2. Just find the reaper u want and lead it under Rockwell’s heart into the acid. The acid drain it’s health really fast and you can get them day 1 easily.
Easiest way to raise a Reaper:
Create a pen big enough for a Maewing.
Stock the maewing with cooked meat.
Birth the reaper (easier if you have pheromones so it doesn't attack) and go to your Maewing and use "pickup nearby babies".
This will put the baby in the Maewing saddle and now it cannot roam around OR attack you.
The reaper king can be obtained in baby form by weakening the Reaper Queen and letting her impregnate you. I prefer to trap her to weaken her, she will almost kill you when impregnated so make sure you are well equipped with Medical Brews and good armor and a good shield. Any creatures you kill during the players pregnancy will boost the level of the Reaper King baby. Good luck guys.