You don’t need ghillie suit or cactus broth as long as you always approach from the back.

I’ve have just tamed a 145 on officials and is took about 30 fish all 1.0 or just above.

You can actually sneak up behind them crouched without gillie if your careful. When they are asleep of course. Do not attempt to tame a waked shadowmane.

To tame you have to wait for the Shadowmane to be asleep (easy to spot but has to by around noon in game) then feed them filled fish baskets with preferably 1.5x fish in it. Then use the tame tracker to track it as it will teleport away and you need to find it. I suggest bring a flier and some good weapons to kill the hostile creatures that will get in the way

You tame them using a fish in a basket with a weight of

.5 or more then when they "rest" you sneak up to them and feed them the fish baskets

Fish baskets the higher quality the better. Needs to be laying down and go up behind it. And feed

Male Shadowmane taming: Wait (at a distance) until it lays down on its own for a nap, then feed it a fish basket from your last item slot, filled with fish that have a quality of at least 0.5x, passive tame. You cannot interact with it while it's unconscious from a knockout.

To tame them they have to be sleeping. Passive sneak tame.

Males have a charged jump, a dash attack, an attack boosting roar and a cloak ability limited to itself. Females have dash attack, charge jump and a cloak ability that works on friendly creatures around it and itself. They both have the ability to make a stronger attack after attacking normally for a while. You know this is ready when they get a glowing effect on their feet.

Be careful while trying to tame these beasts, they can teleport and stun you even if you're in the sky.

The shadow mane can only be tamed at daytime, when it sleeps. I only successfully tamed with fish baskets with a fish over x0, 5. Sneak up to it and put the basket with fish in it onto your last slot. Repeat until tamed. It will take a while. The type of fish in the basket will also count probably, but I didn't test that for now

Get a bunch of fish baskets a catch some fish. Bigger fish= Higher efficiency. You'll find them coiled asleep around Rockwells garden, approach them from behind while you're crouched and feed the the basket in your last slot, be sure to track them because the go invisible once fed. ONLY FEED IT WHENS ITS IN THE SLEEP ANIMATION. If it says "cannot be fed: Has Aggro", leave render distance and go back. They come in packs so try not to wake the others or you go

bye bye

They are a PASSIVE tame during the DAY while they are ASLEEP. Use fishing baskets to catch fish and place in the taming slot and walk to to them to feed. They will briefly wake up and teleport away before falling asleep again. Just put on the tracker tame and you can keep up with them pretty easy. No saddle needed. Ride ‘em home. Happy arking.

You can only tame him in if its day. Then when he sleeps you must feed him with a fish basket. Prefer piranhia.

Have to feed them while they take a nap with fish caught in a basket!!! The aggro stops the taming!!!!!!

This may help people but there is a bar down below your tool bar the more you kill the higher your damage is and hold the jump button makes them teleport jump

So in order to tame them you need to feed them fish baskets while they sleep during the day. But remember to sneak or wear ghillie when your taming it.

Taming is "use a filled fish basket in the last item slot to take with a fish with a quality of at least 0.5x"

Can only tame them while theyre sleep

No need to rush, I left my shadoemane in my trap over night at 60%. Woke up and continued taming. Effectiveness didn't drop to much. Take your time. Remember to keep track via in game menu. 👌

Collect your fish ahead of time to make taming easier. I use fish baskets to catch them and immediately toss them out and cryo them to store for when I find a high level Shadowmane. This way allows me to keep them indefinitely from expiring. I keep an eye out for 1.4x and above. When you trap a shadowmane, toss your fish out (no need to wait for cryo cooldown, it doesn’t matter) in a nearby water source and trap them with fish baskets to feed to the shadowmane. I usually toss out 5-6 at a time if I know I have enough daylight to feed them all to the shadowmane. Make sure there it’s a safe area before tossing out your fish, otherwise you’l have a bad time and your fish will get killed.

You can only tame shadowmanes during daytime, they don’t lay down at night, save yourself the headache of trying.

Wear Ghillie

Take Cactus Broth, that way you can run almost all the way up to the shadowmane and crouch for the last few feet, feed it, then back up and run away from it about 10-15 foundation lengths.

Approach the shadowmane from its tail/back side, if you approach facing its head it will notice you more often. I use a spyglass to watch where the tail end is when it lays down and then run my mount around to that side, jump off my mount and run up to it.

They are easiest to tame on Genesis, since you can hover above them in your suit (no need for ghillie if you take a cactus broth) and drop down right behind them when they lay down, (remember you don’t take fall damage in your suit) crouch immediately, and feed it the fish, then double jump away and fly up above it. Rinse and repeat. Make sure you are high enough that you are out of the range of its teleport attack.

Although Shadowmanes do not have saddles, they can be one of the toughest mounts in Ark if leveled up correctly.

And easy way to load up on fungal wood in Fjordur is to find one of the dried mushroom looking things that sit near enough to the surface of the water that you can use a chainsaw on it. There is a spot on Fjordur at 73.6, 45.9. It’s somewhat tricky to carry it all, however if you lay down a sleeping bag and have a Fjordhawk, just fast travel back to your base and your bird will bring your bag, or keep enough fiber and thatch on you so you can make the baskets right where you get the fungal wood.