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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Heres my way of taming it. It's super easy and you don't have to worry of a rock htting youor your cannon or the golem possibly escaping. If you place a metal Gate down and two more on both sides of the first Gate(at a 45° angle) and two more on each side(90° from the first Gate) you get like a wide "u" shape opened cage. Break the gate you first placed and then place a cannon on a metal foundation a good distance away from the cage opening. I've never tried using just one but place two metal gates(it can't damage them with the rock) in front of the cannon at least what would be a foundation or two away. Lead the golem in the cage and run through the two gates(so the golem doesn't turn) to your cannon, aim for its head and fire when ready. If it disguises again, then shoot it with some projectile where the cannon is and continue. Don't go back to the golem because you either might get hit, or move the position it was in
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.
Use cactus broth. Sneak up to it but not to close and place metal gates around it. Then setup your Canon. Do something to it to wake it up and blow its head off