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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
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.
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.