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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for shadowmane? Tips and strategies for shadowmane in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Here's a trap idea build a 2x2 foundation build a 1 high door frames and fill the roof with hatchs and build 2 high walls and add stairs to get up once shadowmane is in stay in the middle of the hatchs and wait till its feed able it is a easy simple trap and it works 9/10 times its brilliant
WARNING: Build in stone or metal
Did you know that they can climb up walls when they are invisible?
Can be carried by Quetzal. Makes the taming easier if you have a taming pen in a safe location. All that is needed is a quetz, a harpoon gun with net ammo and the fish in baskets at that point.
This is a difficult tame but there are ways to make it easier.
Tame a quetzal first and pick up your choice mane and bring it to one of the vents on the edge of space. This way the shadowmane can’t aggro on anything and it makes the whole process easier.
When catching fish stick to very shallow water as the big fish get stuck and become much easier to catch. Use a snow owl and spyglass or radar tek stryder to check sizes, ignore anything below 1.5.
Once you’ve trapped your cat and caught your fish the shadowmane will only go to sleep from about 7:00-19:00 in game time so outside of that frame keep your fish from spoiling by standing in water with them in your hotbar.
It has a water super skill like a spino and has a ultimate power gague power it up by getting a hit
2.4x fish let me get 100% effectiveness while taming in my 4x server not sure how it applies in official rates but wanted to make note of it...
For a easier tame put them in a 4×4 trap two walls high then run out of render and come back and feed them through a wall don't fly over them however bc then they can teleport out and too you.
When its netted it goes really often to sleep, cant attack you and it the net doesnt decrease the taming efficency
You can use a Tek Bow to pull one out of the pack away from the others while they all sleep. It won't wake up the rest.
Use a 2x2 stone trap with 2 high walls, net or go out if render to deal w aggro, makes tame easy, cryo the fish then put in baskets once you have it trapped, also use cages to trap fish, makes it way easier!
Search up Vannin HHH on YouTube his trap is rlly good.
These guys are so good! They have the jump of a karkinos (hold jump and aim) amazing damage and can even turn invisible they have amazing animations to one of my favorite tames EVER!!!
This is one of those creatures where the hard part of taming it isn't actually the taming process itself (sneak behind them and feed them fish from a basket, I suggest catching fish in the Eden zone because the lakes in Rockwell's garden are chock full of pirahna). Instead, this creature is tricky to obtain because of its environment. Literally every bad creature can be found living around it, and as mentioned previously trying to catch fish there is hell. If you want my ultimate advice: catch fish in the Eden zone, clear out the zone around the shadowmane, stand on a tall cliff and wait for it to sleep, sneak up to it's backside, feed it, add it to the taming tracker, and then repeat this process as many times as needed. Once again, DO NOT TRY TO CATCH FISH IN ROCKWELL'S GARDEN.
I believe you have to do it between 12:00 and 20:00. If your off a little it resets. If you don't crouch at the right angle behind them it resets. But getting it's attention at night between feeding doesn't seem to reset it only at day hours.
Always crouch but crouch at full speed and ghillie doesn't really make a difference. I used exo tek armor to drop in about 15 metres away then instantly crouched, walked up to the tail end of it and fed it.
They can stun the Mek, knocking you out and resulting in a very bad time.
If you aggro the shadowmane whilst taming it, the taming meter goes down to 0%, so don’t aggro it lmao
When you feed it the first fish basket it will run away and go invisible. Track it with the current tames screen. Makes it easy to follow around etc. It likes to attack stuff so if you can trap it then it would save the hassle of losing its effectiveness or being killed. These take ALOT of fish baskets btw.
Minimum weight of fish .5 higher weights give higher percentage to taming speed.