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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
if you’re planning to tame one of these dudes, which is understandable considering how awesome they are, don’t waste your fish baskets on anything lower than 0.8 fish. trust me. anything lower than 0.8 barley raises the taming bar. i only go for 1.0 fish and up, but if i absolutely need to i’ll go for the occasional 0.9 or 0.8 fish. the best strategy is to, well, wait until it’s asleep. you NEED ghillie armor for this, so put on your ghillie and approach it, CROUCHING. do NOT approach it from the front, always approach from its rear end or its back. feed it the fish, then back up 10-15 meters and run away, because it will turn invisible and try to look for you. you should use the tracking ability to not lose sight of it, then wait until it’s calm and asleep again. repeat this process and you have a tame shadowmane. the males and the female are the exact same without a mate, but if they’re paired up, the male can use a roar buff, similar to a yutyrannus, to buff its pack. the female, on the other hand, can make, not only it’s pack, but any other tame creatures you have invisible with it. they each have a dash attack, they can leap super high, they negate fall damage, they double as amazing water mounts because they don’t have an oxygen meter and they get a water buff similar to a spino, and they have a charge meter that increases whenever you deal damage or kill something. when it’s maxed out, your shadowmane gets a speed and damage buff. if you found this helpful, up this! -J
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
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.
They don't lay down from around 22:00 - 8:10.
Not going to lie this is my favrouite tame was hoping they was going to add it to other maps in genesis easily defeats rock well and fjordur easy hati skull not so much the ice one fenrir gamma beta 😐 alpha I’ve done it with mutations but not with normal shadows manes but they are good ither way always remember to we’re a ghilly suit hope I don’t sound likes person with no soul
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.
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.