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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.
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.
Make a trap and use a Carno leveled in health to bleed it out before shotgunning it. When below 2k health throw away your light pet and bring out a shield to block its attacks. When it sniffs u put the shield down otherwise it will fail to impregnate you
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
Caution: YOUR OWN LIGHT PETS WILL WEAKEN YOUR OWN REAPER. I was riding my reaper toast, while I had my bulldog Soup on my shoulder and soup was lit up. I didn’t think anything much of the yellow stuff toast was emitting, but long story short fall damage from the reaper jump ability almost killed my reaper. So do not pair light pets with them. Even if they are your own.
If you put a floor under a reaper it can’t burrow after you got a king so you can farm it
If you breed gigas for stats and colors, save the babies you aren’t going to keep. Pet a lystro and if you shot gun 1-3 baby gigas while pregnant it’s your +75
PRO tip if you can get under the queen she can't hit you
All you need is a rock drake with decent health and melee such as a 145 and up. Upon finding the queen you want to impregnate you, use your drake to get the queen below 2000 health. To check the queens health use a magnifying glass. Once it is below 2000 it will be able to pick you off your drake to impregnate you. You don’t even have to jump off. To increase the chance you can go to first person while on your drake and hit the reaper queen with your magnifying glass so it can target you. Then it will sniff and pick you up to impregnate you. While fighting the queen use a light but as soon as it gets below 2000 turn the light off. The reaper cannot impregnate you while the light it on. It is that easy and people can make it too complicated
It speeds up the tame if you bring it a cig afterwards
How to tame reaper in 14 steps
1. Buy gen 2
2. (Optional) Download awesome spyglass
3. (Optional) Build a small shelter, of course you can gave birth everywhere but why complicate the process
4. Craft bed
5. Go to Rockwell heart cave or whatever it's called
6. Place bed
7. Find decent lv reaper queen and agro her to acid bellow boss summon terminal
8. Wait until she lose her health to 10%
9. Get her out of the acid (I recommend starting to move her out when she still has life because when I taming reaper she died in acid a few times because she didn't want to come out)
10. Wait until she emmmm
(If you die just respawn in bed placed near boss terminal, it's 'safe' place)
11. (Optional) Kill her and collect pheromone gland
12. Rip and tear until it's done or 5:00 minutes left
13. Back to secured building, eat pheromone and gave birth (if you don't have one just try adopt him before he kills you)
14. Cryo her to skip grow
Congratulations you become father
If you are PvE player go to aberration and flex that your R-reaper have more colors and looks better
There are rumors that if you forgot about your tame Helena Deus will find you and force you to pay aliments.
If taming on gen 2, use a carch with super high melee and trap it it with 4 stone foundations and 4 gateways. Kill a lot of stuff with the catch than use HLNA to see how much health it is at then hit it until below 2000 than get the carch away and get your baby!
Why do thorny devil tail spikes take longer than punching it?
Why WHY do they not drop prime they maul me every single time I go to the surface
it takes a little to make the reaper queen preginated by it when you try it be in a little room or the baby reaper will get out and escape
Trap a reaper queen in a trap then shoot it with any weapon (don’t use melee weapons or she will kill you) then she will start glowing red because she want to give you her offspring then she will stab you and transfer it to you and you will be at very low health so you should bring blood packs or med brews. Make sure not to take any radiation damage or the offspring will die. Also BEFORE the baby is born make sure to eat pheromone glands so the baby will think your it’s parent. Then just raise it like any other Dino and then you have a reaper king
When you give birth, DO NOT FORGET TO BUILD A ROOF in your birthing room, they jump stupidly high.
You have to get knocked up by an alien to get a tamable baby alien that bursts out of your chest and kills you without the pheromone buff. Just when SWC seems to run out of new ways to passively tame something they manage to find a new and even more dangerous one. I'm honestly scared about what they'll come up with next.
The queen can pick you off your drake saddle for impregnation if you get off and get back on
If your plan is to build a huge army of Reaper Kings, build an outpost with a high to max level Queen inside of it with foundations at the bottom, so it cannot bury to escape.
Once the baby is born, you can use either a creature that can carry other creatures or a Maewing so that Pheremone Glands aren’t a problem.
Imprint and continue making your army!
Same person who did the easy carcha no trap tame tip
Everybody says, “Get it under 2000.” But what weapons may you ask?
Here’s a list of the weapons I tested, best to worst order. It’s also my opinion, sorry if it’s not your piece of cake.
1. Ascendant pump shotgun (Don’t do too many shots.)
2. Fabricated Sniper rifle (Headshots.)
3. Assault rifle (Its lower since the ammo drains quickly.)
4. Shotgun (Pretty good.)
5. Tek railgun (Very long reload time, it can regen a bit of health.)
Obtaining a reaper
Find a reaper queen, R - reapers are found in Rockwell’s innards, but be careful of the summoners and the weird goo in Genesis 2. I use Captain Fatdog’s trap. Get it’s health below 2000, use a sheild to go near to get impregnated, this is an optional part but you can kill the reaper queen for the level of your child. The pheromone glands will come in handy of which she drops.
Stuff you will need :
Central lantern or a light pet
Metal, etc. shield
Ranged or melee weapon
Medical brews
Hazmat suit (Abberation)
Good luck and stay surviving!
-Slither