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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.
The males are bigger with manes but the females can turn invisible and the females can also make not just it’s own kind invisible but big groups of other species of dinos invisible COOL RIGHT ya it’s ight BUT it has a lighting dash attack which deals heavy damage to groups of dinos and players
probably THE best ARK creature so far, it can be used as a good travel mount due to the high jump ability, it can swim underwater really fast too, doesn’t have an oxygen stat so it can stay underwater forever, receives the spino’s hydrated buff, also a pack buff, the roar buff, deals an unholy amount of damage, also i almost forgot to mention the lightning stun ability, the invisibility, in my opinion it’s also a better ocean exploring mount than a basilo or even a tuso, they do get stunned by eels and jellyfish but a pack of 3+ will easily deal with that.
- #1 Shadowmane Glazer
It's a passive tame that requires you to have Gillie armor, you have to wait for it to sleep then feed it fish.
I can’t wait for this creature honestly the female can turn invisible and other creatures tamed around it invisible I don’t know what the male does but I can’t wait for the adventure with this creature
This is the only tip you need net it then trap it with Fence foundations and double doors then derender it so it loses Agro
These are my favrouite tames in ark there good for bosses some times Wyvern eggs it very easy in usability is amazing stealth 10 / 10 like rock drakes stuns well 5 seconds roar buffs is good health high melee too one thing is it is so hard to tame a high level with big fish it only get half way so you needs gilly suits other than that nothing bad
It seems they knock you off your mount.
Im having problems with the shadowmanes going to sleep i have been siting here for about an hour watching these guys walking around but not sleeping
To tame your very own murder kitty, you want to have full ghilly armor/cactus soup. (both will make taming a LOT easier) Tame during the day because at night they won't sleep. Wait until it falls asleep crouch or crawl towards it and feed it a fish basket from the last slot in your hot bar (if the fish baskets are starting to spoil, put them in your hot bar and go into water. This will reset the spoil timer) after it's been fed once, it will turn invisible and start walking towards you, so watch out for it's footsteps. Track it, and repeat feeding until it's tamed.
Hope this helped 😉
-Blacknight
Don’t feed them trilobites it moles the taming go to 0% 😭😭😭
The trap nooblets made makes it so that you don't have to worry much at all about the shadowmane seeing you, however, still be careful because if you get too close they can aggro and it's annoying to make them undo it (this is the link to the video https://youtu.be/zog8of25aac) (up to let more people see)
They fall asleep at 08:00 every day.
In fjordur it only sleeps from 8 am to 8 pm. Hope it helps.
Just in case it aggro’s you during tame, bring a net gun so it don’t kill you. Then leave render range to reset aggro.
Looks like they're going to be like pack hunting rock drakes when they come out, the females camouflage, and the males have a pack bonus.
Sleep time starts at +- 8:30 till about 18:00 pm game time
They fall asleep as soon they eat a live thing so if you lure a idk a dilo or a patchy they will kill it then sleep
On fjordur around where the shadomanes are located. You can harvest the wood to make the baskets. They look like white mushroom type plants. About half the height of your character. And the traps nooblets and others have shown on YouTube work too trap and tame the shadow’s as well I got a pair last weekend.
This one is my favorite “Dino” it is super versatile, a high level tamed one will take you really far, I have even killed los level gigas with it, super easy to tame, take a while tho, if you are in genesis just build a 1x1 cage with walls of course, build it out of rock and just lure the shadowmane by flying over the cage and rapidly leaves before it recharges its attack, it should fall right on the cage, after you can just feed the fish to it and that it, if you are in Fjordur use a flying mount and that is it, can be a bit more complicated if it bring its little friends with it