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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.
If you wanna tame a reaper u gotta get a good weapon and I say a sniper ascendant is best and get a light source and get its health below 2000 then turn off lights and go near it and it will impregnate you
You have to be online during the gestation
Up for people playing on official
ok so if your on gen 2 and want these boys dont bother woth weapons, onfact you can get them day 1 all youve got to do is go to rockwells innards and get then bellow 2k in the acid!
On Gen 2 you can go to the Rockwell zone (also where you initiate the final mission) and lead an r-reaper queen (which should be easy to find inside of that area) to the acid area under the heart, keep track of its health and when it’s ready lead it out and get pregnant escape the Rockwell zone and kill creatures to increase xp on reaper (max 75) when the baby is ready the birth have a 1x1 stone hut to keep the baby contained, happy reaper taming. Hope this helped!
To tame it is tricky. One known way is to let it “impregnate” you, then hunt and kill these for pheromones. One the timer finishes, a baby will burst from your chest, and you’ll need to make sure you’re in a large room to contain it. Consume the pheromones to be able to feed it. Otherwise it will attack you.
Bulbdoggo +rpg equals reaper king 👑
Reaper Queens will shoot spike from there tail at you while the King's will shoot toxic slime balls at you incase someone doesn't know. :)
Surface Reaper Kings are immune to ForceTame for some reason. It dosent work for me on Xbox series s atleast. try it yourself!
if you want to find a reaper you don’t follow the portal trust me I doesn’t lead you to one
The baby phase is 8 hours long.
ASA changed Reaper Level Calculations. Since i've found no credible data on this yet, i experimented to get a working formula. Base Level of the Embryo (E) doesnt change below Player-Level (P) 50, its allways 0.6x of the breeding Queen (Q). Above that (P>=50) it rises according to E = Q+(P-150)*0,6*(Q/150). The possible 75 Bonus levels during gestation are just added on top flat, and are not impacted by player level. A whole level has to be reached and is not rounded up. The formula is pretty accurate, tested on ~100 combinations, and only in very few cases off by a single level, i am not yet sure as to why. ~SK
I have never tamed a reaper in the game so don't take me on this but I heard that when it plants the baby in you and when it comes out you take a lot of damage so I thought a healing brew will help with the damage but don't take me on it can someone try to confirm this for me
If you want an effective way while also kinda cool way to keep a Reaper King Baby from running away or killing everything on sight, build a metal 3x3 room, and build a small box in the corner with two double doors to work as a sort of airlock, and have some AC in the room, and when the Baby finally becomes a juvenile, you open the doors and lead it out.
For gen 2 All you need is a stone box, I use a 4x5 stone trap with the short sides being blocked by gateways, just have the queen chase you into a space biome and put the trap on the platform just outside the space biome entrance, have a roof on the trap tho, but it only needs to be as high as the gateways, the reaper will chase you inside and then you trap it, I used the striders chest cannon so I didn’t use any charge lighting cause of the chest cannon does enough damage with the reaper’s resistance, after the reaper is glowing red( low enough health) break a gate, lead it into the tube where there is gravity, it’ll do its thing then leave, for more tips hit up my Ig :spamz_from_tyty, or my snap war_hog3
Pretty much build a 7x7 metal (or stone) foundation, then put a behemoth gate where you'd like to bait the Reaper queen, then next to the right side of the gate build 4 pillars up and put ceilings around the sides of the entire foundation, now put 4 on the other side whilst putting 2 in corners and one every other ceiling. Now that your traps set have a pet or lantern with light and hurt the queen till it's really green (bloody) now stop hurting it and wait for a bright pink (from my experience but others say it's red) and wait at the front of the Reaper Queej with a shield.
If you are mass farming R queens and looking for a high level the best method for respawning queens is luring them off into the pit in Rockwell’s Innards a new reaper will spawn every time this is done. No need to kill the queen.
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!
When you find a reaper QUEEN make sure that you have a light pet of some sorts and turn it on. This will get rid of the 80% damage reduction. Next, attack it until the health is below 10% (until it starts glowing pink). Then turn off the light pet and approach her. When she starts sniffing you l, stay completely still and wait for her to impregnate you.
Make sure to get to an enclosed room and then wait for the reaper to pop out. You can gain exp for the reaper’s stats by killing wild creatures when you are still impregnated. Also make sure to eat a reaper pheromone gland to ensure that it doesn’t kill you. After all that, just raise it like you would a baby rex. Like!
The reaper queen is always black, but the kings color will be random. If you use the same queen, the kings color will always be the same
If u go to Rockwells innards on gen2 by the boss fight terminal and lure to the acid it will kill the reaper queen and then after it’s low enough and impregnates it try to kill it if not just go kill some spinos and when the timers up just make a small 1x1 and fill ur body with as much meat as possible