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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a reaper? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a reaper.
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
You need to turn off your lights or it wont impregnate you. That includes your shoulder pets
A rhythnio can pick it up. Do what you will with that’s info since it makes it easier to pick up reaper queens.
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
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.
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
Make sure that you have full health or else reaper wont impregnate you it will release in the middle of the process.
You can now transfer servers while being pregnant, you can also die witch is good I guess.
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.
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
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.
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) :(
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 reaper queens spawn on crystal isles, get impregnated asap! The devs will fix that and you won’t be able to get reapers on crystal isles!!
1: Go to Gen 2
2: Go into rockwell innards
3. Find Terminal
4. Set down beds beside terminal
5. Aggro reaper queen
6. Lead reaper queen down in pit with acid
7. Aggro reaper queen near back of pit (safer here)
8. While acid lowers queen reapers health find a good spot and shine a lantern at it to speed up process.
9. When reaper queen health is 2000 aggro up little hill in put away from acid.
10. Hold shield up and get fingered by queen.
11. Keep shield up until queen sniffs your butt
12. Get knocked up.
13. Fly up to terminal and heal your self
14. Fly out of rockwell innards
15. Use dino and kill all dinos for xp. (Up to 75+ lvls)
16. Build small enclosure.
17. 5 sec before birth use permanent from your hotbar.
18. Give birth
19. Claim baby
20. Give meat
21. Once baby is 10% (juvenile) it will look like a miniature reaper and no longer try to kill you.
22. Raise it. All done. Enjoy.
Full guide of getting a reaper king: Get a high level reaper queen, trap her with four dino gates and just use a rifle and lantern hit it to 20% health, it should grab you with its tail and boom! You’re pregnant! Kill as much as possible to gain XP and when timer is almost up get into a 2x2 box and wait for the baby to burst out of your chest. They eat A TON so ready a hundred meat and feed it and you have your own reaper! Hope this is useful for u guys.