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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
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
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.
Sleep time starts at +- 8:30 till about 18:00 pm game time
It seems they knock you off your mount.
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
They fall asleep at 08:00 every day.
I was taking a look at the wiki, and I found out what I THINK is a leak? If you check the color scheme, it shows an “albino (really just admin colored, but we all knew that)” Shadowmane, an in game model (or maybe devkit, but still). So I might have found a secret?
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Every one says “this is the easiest way” and get all the likes. The ONLY easy way is building the hatch frame trap, you can sit there no ghillie suit feeding it through the floor and sneak away when it lays down to unpack more of your fish. All these most liked tips do not account for the fact you need cryo pods to put the fish you trap into so they don’t decay, and then you have to put them back in a trap to feed the shadowmane. IT IS NOT EASY TO TAME IT WITHOUT A TRAP, IT IS NOT EASY TO TAME IT THROUGH A WALL, YOU WILL WASTE HOURS ATTEMPTING SUCH “SIMPLE” NONSENSE! You need to set up the hatch frame trap described in multiple undervoted tips. lead the shadowmane into the trap via ramps or hovering above it and letting it jump to you, and staying crouched underneath feeding it trapped fish, when it goes to sleep you can sneak away to unpack more fish, or deal with threats, and when you go back you need to wait for it to sleep and approach from its backside. They only sleep during the day so get away from the trap before nightfall or stay put and do not move throughout the whole night.
Shadowmanes dont aggro on rock drakes so you can wait on one till it sleeps but if it aggros on you before you get on the rockdrake it will attack you and both dinos ate found on fjordur aswell
where to find on fjordur
there are two purple swamps a north and south. ive only found them in the south. it is easy to know what is south and north. south has more of a almost pit like look while the north is just flat with the terrian. and another way is that it you tp using the tp button or whatever you use depending on your platform of gaming spawn at asguard east. then find one in or near that purple swamp.
They do not sleep at night, and if they see you or your creature, they will attack and go into a sort of hunting state to where they’ll start killing everything in the area. What I did was just leave render distance and come back, the Shadowmanes are usually sleeping when re-rendered into the game. From there you feed it once (you actually don’t need Gillie as long as you’re careful) and just continue the taming like a normal passive tame.
Assign fish to hotbar and jump into water and it will restart spoil timer useful when waiting for stubborn manes
They are very good animals
Both Male and female or boy and girl, can turn invisible!
They are almost impossible to escape when encountered I always died when I was a new XD
For everyone who says you can’t craft fish baskets, go to Asgard then the blue swamp. Not only will you find shadowmanes, some of the plants harvest fungal wood
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I recently found out that if you put a wooden cage on the fish, the fish cannot move out of the cage:) I hope this helps.
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.
I’m pretty sure that shadow manes are nocternol because while I was trying to tame a shadow mane it wouldn’t sleep and it was night and all it was doing was running after animals and fish hope this helped you :/
Easiest way to tame a shadowmane without a ghillie suit:
[This won't make finding large fish any easier, but will greatly help the taming process be basically 100% impossible to mess up]
- make a 2x2 box, 2 walls high, 3 walls high on opposite side of ramps
- make sure the walls are actual walls, not doorframes, windows, etc.
- build a ramp on whatever side you so please
- bait shadowmane into trap and leave render distance to deaggro the shadowmane
- if the shadowmane is continuing to attack the walls of your trap, build new walls and place over the wall(s) it's attacking
- done, let it sleep, walk up (with or without ghillie suit, won't matter) feed it, and boom...