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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.
Takes 78.5 hours total to raise, each imprint is 11% except when it goes from 44 to 56% to offest for that 1% that would have been lost
Disable wondering to make raising easy
The fun way to tame a taper king is to get you friend who doesn’t play Ark to play Ark, just say to him/her “I’m taming a Reaper, imma need your help cause I can’t tame it, it won’t knock out.” Once they get on you will both fire a crap ton of tranq arrows at it until it’s health is very very low, then just say “okay buddy you may have to get a little closer to fire the last few, but it looks pretty close to getting knocked out!” Once your friend gets picked up, dropped, and the reaper is gone, they may get discouraged, you should tell them, “you did it, look!” And once they notice that they are pregnant with an alien bug dinosaur thing, they will probably crap themselves!
And that is how you tame a reaper king, folks! ( it’s also how to have one less friend to play Ark with you😉)
The baby phase is 8 hours long.
The +75 levels distributed to a baby Reaper King’s stats are rolled for at birth. This means, if you’re playing solo on PC, you can create a backup of your world right before giving birth and roll back your world as many times as you want to try for better stat distribution.
(This strategy is for if you’re absolutely sick of hunting down good Reaper Queens.)
If your character starves to death while having a R reaper not sure about regular it will kill the reaper. Keep this in mind
I found that using 4 gates and a large bear trap traps it.
You can then use a charged lantern to weaken it and then you can attack it. Make sure to turn off the light when it gets low though otherwise it will die.
Use a trap with charge lantern or light pet with a ballista check periodically turn lights off and look for red glow then you are ready
Make a 5x4 Stone foundation( or Metal) and place 3 Dino gates around it. Then put a behemoth gate at one end and that will help you trap it.
Can survive 24 hours without food lol
Before you get impregnated kill a reaper queen for glands and not get killed
If you put stone foundations on your trap where the queen is standing and the queen doesn’t bury after impregnating you, you can either kill it to max out your offspring xp, or save it for more babies.
Reapers are my fav Dino, they are OP,and can be found at the spine on aberration, along with genesis,to tame one,make a 20 wide 20 long stone floor, put stone gateways around it,and find a female reaper,trap her in the stone, get a tek phase pistol,put it on kill, and shoot her until she has a red glowing aura, when she has the aura,get a riot/metal shield, block her acid tail shots,and move close to her, she will then pick you up and impregnate you with her tail,then she will dig and run away,you then have yourself a baby male reaper,kill as many Dinos as you can, this will level up your baby reaper,eventually it will burst out,and then you feed it meat,BE WARNED baby reapers will kill you,so kill a female one,go in her inventory,and get the pheromones,when you feed the reaper, eat the pheromones, and it will grow to be an OP mount, good for absolutely destroying people’s bases.
On gen2 you can cheese it by baiting them down into the acid pit at the bottom, if you want to speed up the process use a charge lantern it makes it 10x faster
I got my 150 in a metal trap and used a spino and feather light to get it to 600hp then got pregnant
I can confirm that being in god mode doesn’t stop you getting the offspring buff
Aberrant Reaper Queens have hidden colour regions that pass down onto the offspring.
It’s not easy unless you have great source of food and a more easy way to trap anything,it can detect, not breed, and has a lot of good stats every few times it’s mostly health to be good.
They really turned the tables on this one
once impregnated don’t drown or go into radiation. You are allowed to go into tek sleeping pod since they fixed that. Once it pops make sure you are blackboxed with meat in your inventory. It will kill you and take all the meat and as long as you don’t cryo it, you won’t have to feed it until it grows up. Even with slow official rates