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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

U can check if its a golem by using the spyglass. Once found the lucky 1 search for a hill. Put some pillars down in front of it and place a cannon on top of it. I would also recommend that u put down a bed behind the hill. Then u can kite it to the pillars where it will just get stuck and shoot at it (it has no headshot multipliers). U need the hill if its about to throw a rock at u since those will often 1 shot u. If its about to do that u just run to the other side of the hill and then keep shooting it. I would recommend to tame it with as much mantis kibble as u have and the rest sulfur (everything else takes far to long and even a low lvl golem still has a lot of hp)
More Rock Elemental Taming & KO Tips
Use the formula y=(5000+100x)/1800 to figure out how many cannonballs are necessary to knock the golem out. Y is cannonballs. X is level. I suggest bringing at least 2 extra cannonballs.
If you have a level 9999 and use stone and are on 0.01 times taming it takes 80 years....
It's a bit silly that kibble tames it a lot better than rocks or sulfur because even in the dossier it says that it lives off of absorbing nearby rocks and minerals. So mabey they should make it so you have to feed them a rare mineral like obsidian what if they made it so you could tame one fast and with high effectiveness by giving one a few hundred or few thousand obsidian . or what if there kibble was made out of a combination of ores and minerals .
They should make the boulder throw able to knock out other rock elementals.
Me: hits it with canon ball trying to nick it out
Golem: u should have aimed for the head( dies)
There is a great little natural passage that you can kite the golem in to at 64.1 - 49.9. We tame all our Golem there. They can't get out but once tamed can be moved out. It offers a great firing position for your cannon.
Don't steal someone's 190 lightning wyvern egg or expect one of these at your base.
ROCKET LAUNCHER WORKS AIM AT THE HEAD AND WAIT FOR IT TO GO UNCONSCIOUS I JUST SUCCEEDED AT TAMING ONE WITH THIS
PRO TIP: on 2x taming weekends (Evolution Events) on official servers. You can knock out a level 20 or below elemental, slap some sulfur in it, and call it a day as it will not require narcotics on 2x but WILL still take 4 hours.
If you tame it with stone you will end up taming a giagantosaurus with cooked fish meat