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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
How to tame:
They only spawn in the Rockwell biome on genesis part 2, usually near rivers
To tame a shadow mane you need to get fish in a basket, the higher multiplier the quicker the taming speed. I recommend coelencath
Put the fish in your last slot of your hotbar.
During the day the shadow mane will occasionally lie down and sleep, only during the day.
However they do travel in packs, so I recommend aggravating one and leading it away from the pack.
If they aggro they will do their stun dash up at you and if I’m a pack they will all do it, getting you stuck and easy to kill, I know as it happened to me about 10 times
You can also trap it as well.
When it falls asleep you have to approach it from behind otherwise it will anger and lose all taming percentage.
To lower the chance of being detected wear a ghillie suit, or you can use the federation tek suit to stay in the air until it sleeps and land far enough away that it doesn’t wake up and close enough that it doesn’t take too long to approach.
Utility:
The shadow manes don’t have saddles but do have armour ratings.
The ultimate bar fills up when you attack, but if you kill something with the ultimate it refills immediately, side note, the ultimate effect looks dope.
Hold the jump button to do a charge jump, the longer you hold it the further it goes
You can also do the charge jump from in the water
They are really good swimmers
They have the stun dash attack which can hit any number of targets that is in the range of the attack, tested it with a lot of charge bugs in one foundation.
The stun dash can be done upwards and they will do that in the wild
With mate boost, the males can roar and boost the others in the pack, while the females can turn all creatures in a certain area invisible, without affecting movement speed. But if you go too far away you lose the invisibility.
Extra:
They are very good boss fight creatures, just look at syntac’s video.
They are incredibly fun to play around with
They are breedable
Naming:
I like to call mine the names from the lion king or if I’ve got too many, from thunder cats.
More Shadowmane Taming & KO Tips
How to tame: HOPE THIS HELPS YOU :D
1. Wear full ghillie suit
2. Crouch up to it with fish in basket
3. Press e on pc, triangle on PS4 and I think x on Xbox????
4. It should tame quite a bit
5. Track it by the feature they added last year, I’m sure you know what it is
6. Slowly crouch away while looking at it
7. I would make sure to stand about 55 meters away from it
8. Repeat the steps and you should have a shadowmane
9. Hope you enjoyed I’ll cya in next one when I explain how to tame a milk glider/maewing CYA :DDDDD 8D
In fjordur it only sleeps from 8 am to 8 pm. Hope it helps.
For Fjordur players,
you can find fungal wood for fish baskets underwater very close to beaches. They look like bright brown dried mushrooms and you can harvest them with the axe.
Have tamed a few of them now.
Passive tame using fish caught in Fish Basket in your 0-slot.
Larger X value fish seem to giver higher percentage tame per feed.
Fish Basket Tips:
1) Place basket in water and it will take several seconds before it is active. Once active you watch for fish to go near it and press E to catch it in the trap.
2) Fish in basket have a spoil timer. Place basket on hotbar and get in the water to refresh spoil timer.
3) Fish in basket can be released (into protected waters for security) and be “tamed”. You can later come back and put a basket down again to quickly re-catch the fish again. This allows you to have fish on standby for when you happen upon that particular Shadowmane you have been wanting.
4) Waiting on fish to get near basket can be a test in patience. Piranaha however will attack you, and can therefore be kited to a basket, where you will have a split second to catch it in the basket before it destroys the basket.
Taming Shadowman Tips:
1) Where Full Ghillie
2) The Shadowmane will do a few little circles when it is about to goto sleep
3) Crouch when within 30m of them.
4) I seemed to notice that if I had something in my hands, then they would wake just before I got there…so I go in empty handed.
5) If it aggros you, then taming will reset to 0.0%…so dont let it aggro you
6) As soon as you feed it, turn around and run away a good distance.
7) The taming does not wear off unless you get aggro…so be patient.
8) If there, is more than one Shadowmane in the group, it isnt required, but sure is easier if you take the time to split the group (fly high above in tek suit and shoot the unwanted ones with a rifle while they are all sleeping)
YOU CAN JUMP IN WATER WITH THE FISH BASKET IN HOT BAR AND IT WILL RESTART THE SPOIL TIMER! it has helped me quite a bit in taming these water cats
You can refresh your fish basket by having in your hot bar and jumping into water
Be prepared to lose brain cells when taming these, took me 3 hours.
Fungal Wood can be found in the swamp on Asgard (purple trees) and in the Aberration caves. It just doesn’t look like the Aberration trees we’re familiar with. Look for small wooden like stalks holding a round white seed like pod. Hack away.
On Fjordur you can make fish baskets by taming a Gacha that can produce Corrupted Wood.
All you need is 1 stone foundation and 8 walls, hover over top with your tek suit let it teleport to you it will fall into the trap, turn your chest off and poof, you can feed through walls like any other passive tame, no need for all this other stuff.