Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
To all who are wanting to tame one: (WARNING! WALL OF TEXT)
If you are level 40+, your surname needs to match that of one of these creatures. For example, if your name in the game is Sasha, but the one you want to tame has the name Morphi’i, you will need to change your name with a name change ticket (100 amber) to Sashai’i. If you are level 95+ or have the gold crown skin on your helmet, then you can disregard needing to change your name.
Next, a trap of a 4x4x4 cube with 4 wooden Dino gates is the best way to trap it. Griffins can damage wood, but I was able to trap & tame 2 with a single of the structure aforementioned. When taming, it is important to note that if you do not have a soothing balm, it is going to take literal hours to tame the griffin. A x10 taming balm is decent, and easily obtained from a dungeon (the southern one near the center is my favored one for gathering these), but a x15 is preferable. Keep in mind even with a x15 it will still probably take 20+ minutes to tame *at best.*
For food, it only accepts prime meat, prime fish meat, either raw or cooked (but raw is better, of course), or allosaurus kibble. To get a griffin to lay eggs, you must have the female mate with a male, and griffins only mate with another griffin of the same surname. Go for a low level, always, unless you are prepared with thousands of narcotics and armed with the patience of a saint.
Once tamed, lead your griffin back home and put it in a safe space to let it passively level up. Once it’s health is at least x3 that of a normal griffin and it’s stamina is at least x2 of its original value, you’re ready to take it out on flights.
Furthermore, breeding griffins will produce better offspring, just like with all other dinos, but again, be armed with the patience of a saint. It takes many real-life days, about 2 weeks is my guess, of nonstop gameplay, for the baby to mature completely. While it is in its baby phase, it must be near its mother to feel secure enough to eat. However, once it is juvenile, it can be moved away from its mother if necessary. Hatching the egg will take at least 5 air conditioners.
TL;DR: Royal griffins are mainly trophy tames, but once trained enough, they are a cross between argentavis for firepower, and tapejaras for flight mobility, with a large aoe attack.
More Royal Griffin Taming & KO Tips
Hey there! This is A SUPER SERIOUS TIP! If u want a high level use a 15x soothing balm… they cost 45 amber but an easy way to get amber is to go around the map on ur fastest flyer or mount and open supply drops… there is a 25% chance u will get amber, the better the drop, the more amber u get, also if u find a ringed drip they have a 40% to drop amber, underwater drops have a 30% of amber drop, ringed underwater drops have a 50% chance of amber drop, the maximum amber u can get from a drop is 5. Also cave drops have a 25% to drop amber… One more thing, the artifact of the strong can reward amber occasionaly as well. -Valkeri
If you need to tame a royal Griffin in 30 second then do this:-
Step1:-go in the top of Griffin mountain and put trap and trap it and
Wait for night then put a bed and sleep this will do your Griffin food zero
Step2:-then knock it
Step3:-give 10×balm and put your meat or prime meat or griffin kibble fast
Don't unclaim it because it will not die after 15 min. But it will become a real wild griffin and get angry on you.
U need to be level 85^ to tame
If a Griffin doesen't respects you, you can't tame it.
If you have the same last name as a griffen it will respect you
The most time consuming creature to tame
If you’re in single player, Taming these will be much easier, just follow these steps.
1. Select a low lvl griffin, Lead it away from the mountian into a trap where there are no creatures
2. Place down a bed and sleep, this will cause the griffin to be starving when u KO it. (Only works in single player, in Multiplayer just leave it trapped for a few hours and dont let it kill anything)
3. Knock it out, Get soothing balm and give it to the griffin, Then get prime meat or allo kibble and give it to the griffin. Just make sure you have enough so that it tames
4. Get another low lvl griffin with the same last letters in its name that is the opposite gender.
5. Repeat the process, tame up around 2-4 females and 1 male only.
6. Breed them, make griffin kibble.
7. Repeat the process with a high lvl griffin, but use griffin kibble instead.
Quick tip: when i tamed a 290 griffin at 10x balm it needed 4 griffin kibble and at 15x balm it needed 3, if that helps.
PRO TIP FOR MOBILE USERS!!!
Do not spend ancient amber on soothing balm.
Instead do this.
1. (Optional) Get aurthoplura pet (Recommended from clever cave) you can tame a lvl 70 with one broth of enlightenment, although it is a pain getting the black pearl. It is passive tame but you can easily get close with bug repellent and ghillie armor, The aurthoplura is a good tame cuz no other animal can see it.
2. Go speedrun the caves with aurthoplura with its stealth you can easily pass any enemies.
3. Do the snow cave first (remember to bring fur) and bring about 5 sleeping bags find the artifact (you can do the entire cave with this guy place sleeping bags near artifact grab one, and then die respawn near obelisk tribute it and die again respawn back at sleeping bag and so forth. Do this until you get gas mask. (You can teleport tame out of cave).
4.head to swamp cave with buddy, gas masks and sleeping bag, do the cave (you might have to do some of it on foot so I recommend bring weapon) find artifact place sleeping bags and repeat.
You can also do this in lave cave and get acendent weapons (mastercraft if in easy) and also will not work so easily in hardcore.
Got 15 times 10 soothing balm this way
Hope this helps ;) WCKDD1
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Changed how to tame a Griffin for the first time because apparently my other one was asking for ups.
Items needed: A bed and a thatch foundation, 85+ level or the same last name as the Griffin, 100+ Allo kibble depending on the level. (This can be easily obtained by taking an easy female Diplo which is the allo's preffered kibble and going to the east of the island and taming a female allo despite the level.), A bit more than the amount of tranq darts Dododex suggests for your Griffin., HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of bio-toxin depending on the level, the torpor is going quicker than you think. It just has a lot of it, preferably a 10x soothing balm which is easily obtained by doing cave runs or the megaphirana quest, 4x stone dinosaur gateways and 2x reinforced dinosaur gates (This acts as the trap.), and last but not least, a high health flyer.
1. Find a low level Griffin (The lowest you can find for your difficulty) that respects you, this can be seen by viewing it with a spyglass and it should say 'Respects you.'.
2. Place down your trap, this should be 4 stone dinosaur gateways in an even line with small gaps that are big enough to shoot through and for your flyer to fly through, but not big enough for a Griffin to fly through. Then, place only ONE reinforced dinosaur gate at one far end of the trap.
3. Using the flyer, aggro your selected Griffin and lead it through the trap, getting out through the gaps once it's inside. After that you will need to VERY QUICKLY place down the last reinforced dinosaur gate at the other far end of the trap.
4. Now that you have your Griffin trapped, you should be able to start shooting it without a problem and without it running away.
5. Once it is unconscious, immediately use your soothing balm on it and make sure its torpor is FULL. Then place down your bed and go to sleep, once you wake up it should be fully starved, then start feeding it the allo kibble.
6. Once it is tamed, bring it back home and repeat the process with another low level Griffin of the opposite gender and same last name, as they are low levels, they should be WAY easier to tame than just 1 high level. After you've tamed both griffins, you may now breed them and get a significantly higher level. Good job.
(This can also be done with one higher level griffin, just without the other Griffin taming part. It works either way.)
-Tytirlot