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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for reaper? Tips and strategies for reaper in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Bild a Trap at Lat.: 69 and Long.: 75
Make sure that you have full health or else reaper wont impregnate you it will release in the middle of the process.
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.
I know there's already like 1,000 of these tips but here's another with some extra info that I really wish I knew earlier! Keep in mind I still play ASE.
So first you need a light pet and a hazmat suit, basic stuff I won't get into. Find a high level reaper queen, I like to search specifically around the edge of the radiation zone so I can kite it into non-irradiated blue zone and wear better armor, then make a trap nearby (I highly recommend captain fatdog's/at least using double doors, and making sure that all the foundations are all decently above the ground).
Next, you're gonna need to go find the reaper queen again and kite her into the trap, then damage her until she's at less than 2,000HP, I recommend turning off your light pet (can be done through emotes in the whistle wheel!!) to do less damage when she's really low to reduce the chance of accidentally killing her. Then she'll glow pink and you can stand somewhat close, next to your PASSIVE tame so you can be climb back on when she's done. When she unaggroes to the trap, if you're standing in the sweet spot where she can't attack but she can still aggro to you, she'll crouch down with the little spines on her head twitching (If she doesn't do this, you're probably about to get knocked out, climb back on your tame), pick you up and impregnate you.
If you're doing this on a server with high growth/gestation rates, you can be impregnated multiple times with a box nearby to get multiple reapers with slightly different stats. If the queen gets out while you're leveling up, you can pretty easily trap her again if you chose a flat area. I managed to get one reaper with 24 melee and another with 30, plus 1 reaper with 35 health and another with 39. (For ASA you'll probably get much better stats since the speed stat was removed.) You can also drag out any friends or tribemates if you're on a server with lower gestation rates.
For the baby, I find that a 1x1 box works fine. If you have the Dino Storage mod/The ASA equivalent you can use the soul gun to easily pick up the baby, or fill your inventory with cooked meat and let it kill you (better on lower rate servers/officials).
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
Always have a light when encountering them might save your live
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.
Here’s my way of taming a reaper in Ark survival EVOLVED:
Trap:
This trap is a design by Captain Fatdog, one of the easiest and most reliable ways to catch a Reaper. For a visual guide, search ‘Captain Fatdog Reaper Trap Ark Survival Evolved’ on YouTube — it should be the first result.
Trap Materials:
• 8 × Stone Triangle Foundations
• 8 × Stone Double Doorframes
• 6 × Stone Stairs
• 8 × Stone Triangle Ceilings
• 1–2 Charge Light sources (e.g. Lanterns)
Recommended Gear:
• Multiple Hazard Suits (Reapers shred durability fast)
• Magnifying Glass (to track health — must be ≤2k for impregnation)
• Pump-Action Shotgun (backup safety weapon)
• Light Pet (Nameless control)
• Strong Tame (Rock Drake is best, Spino is a good alternative)
• Riot Shield (to block Reaper attacks)
Process:
1. Use your tame to damage the Reaper Queen below 2k HP (I usually bring it down to ~1k so it doesn’t regen immediately).
2. Once she’s low, turn off Charge Lanterns but keep your light pet active. Position the light pet carefully — far enough to avoid weakening the Queen, but close enough to keep Nameless away.
3. Stand near the Queen with your shield raised until she picks you up. If she plans to impregnate, she’ll roar, sniff you, and then grab. (She can miss sometimes — be patient.)
4. After impregnation, immediately return to your tame and kill her to collect Reaper Pheromone Glands. Swap to a fresh Hazard Suit right after.
Aftercare:
• Build a 1×2 enclosed room (2 walls high + roof) for the birth.
• Eat a Pheromone Gland before the baby spawns.
• Aim for 75 (max) imprint to boost the baby’s level.
• Note: the Reaper’s level = Queen’s level + your imprint bonus.
• Baby will die instantly in radiation zones (during pregnancy), so keep it protected.
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.
Reapers. The rich mans rex. They are based of the alien franchise but that is irrelevant to this tip.
Tip 1. The reaper has no saddle, but takes WAY less damaged than other creatures. It has something like 80% damage reduction. Perfect for pvp and pve.
Tip 2. When getting your first reaper, consider these points.
A. Is it a turret reaper? If so, get as low a level as possible and don't attack anything while pregnant. It takes less element to clone.
B. Is it a combat reaper? If so, get as high a level as possible and cause an extinction event to get as many bonus levels as possible.
Tip 3. Although powerful in the right hands, reapers are no match for mutated gigas. A rex has as much chance.
Hope I helped.😚
did you know if u force tame a reaper queen you can do the impregnate attack at will so reaper queen + tamed = INFENITE REAPERS (it only works on humans sadly) :(
I just looked at this things info n if u hit head shots you could knock it out with 20 tranqs prim cross bow why don’t people just knock it out and lower health while it’s asleep
btw the spawn command is gmsummon "xenomoph_Character_BP_male_C" for a reaper King but for a queen u replace male with female :)
I’ve found that if you catch your baby reaper in the jaws of a mega it’s easy to cryopod him. When you throw him he will no longer be hostile however you won’t be able to fill his inventory with meat from killing you
Was able to transfer to exctinction while pregnant and nothing happened to offspring. It was still on the same timer/xp.
Players ARE able to give birth to reapers on Genesis.6-19-20 build a closed pen, buy max amt of meat and let it eat you.
If you attempt to fight a high lvl queen on a megalosaur, the narcotic spikes it shoots can hit and knock your player out while mounted so make sure you have a stacks of stim berries and several sets of hazard gear ready to use.(Spinos and Drakes should protect you from the spikes)
They can bunny hop over large distances, are faster then most large carnivores, can solo a wild giga, and are relativly easy to get. 10/10 get a large army of these (7-10) and you will be unstopable. My 2 strongest have 50k hp and 1200 damage, and the other has 80k hp with 700 damage, and they are op, if u dont have one, than get one. (Or several)
If you happen to find a Reaper Queen in the rad zone, I recommend not going much further or you will find yourself overwhelmed very quickly! It seems once you run over their spawns they spawn more often, so when you’ve fought a few queens and think to yourself “my health is low, I need to leave” there is very likely more queens waiting for you on the way out!
PLANT SPECIES Z IS YOUR FRIEND: heals your mount super fast and provides a charge light just by standing next to it!