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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.
Tip! In case people didn't know, these puppies (kitties?) Have live birth!! Be prepped for little babies instead of eggs!
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ok i found that a good trap for fjordur is a simple 6 gateway
Use a 2x2 trap with 2 high walls and a ramp and you can feed it through the walls and it won't aggro you or anything else
how do i get fish in the fish basket?
this was as hard as heck. due i accidentally pressed the release button wasting fish. i couldn’t put them in a cage for whatever reason but eventually i got it. now im strolling on my level 72 shadow mane.
Hi, I mostly play single player, and the shadowmanes aren’t super high level. So I get about five fish, about 1.1x. Put on gille armor, and crouch up to the shadowmane and feed it. It will cloak itself, you should find some cover. If you agro the shadowmane while it’s asleep, you will lose ALL taming percent. But you can agro to it while it is awake and it won’t lose its taming percentage. Getting a female and a male is very important, because they each have a different special abilities if they are mate bosted. The female on pc if you press x it will cloak all surrounding tames and if you press x on the male it will roar and buff all nearby shadowmanes. Up if this helped you get a really good pack animal. 👍
Traps! The importance of traps is underrated up for new bobs to see!
1. On the fjordur map Shadowmane do not teleport.
2. Your trap should be placed in central location at spawn point. On fjordur, placing traps on the small islands on bottom level is best as they are flat and manes follow you off cliffs easy.
3. I find the best trap on gen is 4 stone foundation 16 stone wall, 8 stone double doorframes, 4 hatch frames. Place bird or desmo in front of cage as shadow mane falls behind you when teleporting. Do not fly above box once caught.
4. On fhordur same trap but add 2 stone foundations going out for staircase support, place 8 stone stairs for ramp on one side. You know the drill, land next to chosen mane, fly lead it up ramp let it Vite you at top of ramp otherwise it runs right over.
5. Once mane is trapped I set up a box with sleeping bag just step over to the water grab my fish 10 at a time and will dive underwater for more spoil time. Go under hatch frames from BEHIND the shadowmane, sit under hatch framecross section and feed fish, sneak out for more fish after it goes invisible, rinse and repeat.
Is it normal that shadow manes glitch and don't fall asleep even when it's day?
Use a fish basket near a river bank and stand in the water until you get a Puranas attention and trap it when it is near the basket. Besides that I think Every creature needs female and male divination!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Use gen 2 for any anf all engram needs you can farm hexagons to buy the engrams if you are out and you can unlock any engram. Make a multistory trap and its a piece of cake use hatcframes ad the roof/floor and you can feed shadow through it and be safely inside
THE LITTLE BLUE BALLS IN THE PURPLE SWAMP GIVE FUNGAL WOOD
On fjordur you can harvest fungal wood to make fish baskets from small blue orb things on the ground in purple forests or big shroom-like stuff in oceans
Take 3 shadows ride 1 and have the other 2 follow close distance and set to attack your target and just go and chomp a Dino and let the follow shadows finish it
OR
find a spot that spawns lots of wild Dino’s and place 7 pillars on top of each other with a ladder on the side of the lowest pillar and place a Dino leash on top set the distance you want then leave a shadow in it on aggressive and low target distance then come back later and have 4K meat on it
use a skiff to bring to eden side
Use nothing but 2x and up quality fish will cause taming effectiveness to stay at 100%. A wild 150 shadowmane will tame out at a level of 225!
Best tip of all you can CRYO YOUR FISH just use the nets underwater to let your fish out and CRYO IT