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3802 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 4, 2021   Report

Both male and female can turn invisible. However, one can transfer invisibility to ANY friendly creatures. I believe the female. -Syntac

2007 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Aug 4, 2021   Report

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

705 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 27, 2022   Report

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.

788 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 6, 2021   Report

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)

7 points   🔧 Utility   4 weeks ago   Report

btw if you hold super jump in the water you get more speed { if this doesn't help I'm so sorry for wasting your time}

314 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Sep 10, 2022   Report

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

274 points   🔧 Utility   Sep 25, 2022   Report

Since Shadowmanes have eight attacks/abilities, let me walk you through how to use them on a Playstation!

Primary attack: this one’s easy, press the right trigger.

Teleport/lightning attack: double click the left trigger near a creature.

Teleport attack (with radar ability): hold the left trigger down until a target is found, then press it again.

High jump: hold down X until crosshairs appear. The longer you hold the higher and further the jump.

Camouflage: click the right joystick.

Charged attack: hold down the right trigger. (You can only use this attack when the bar at the bottom of the screen is full and the shadowmane’s eyes are glowing. If you deal the final blow with the attack, it will automatically recharge.)

Roar pack bonus (male): double click the right joystick.

All tame cloak (female): double click the right joystick.

6 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 7, 2025   Report

How to use it attacks/abilities (Nintendo Switch)

Simple Bite/Attack - ZR

Jump - A

Super Jump - Hold A

Stun - (get close to a creatue you want to stun) ZL

Invisibility - Click right stick once. Click again to deactivate

Roar buff (male) / Group invisibility (female) - hold right stick for a few seconds

Have fun with your murderous fishkitties :)

~ Shadowclaw

318 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 25, 2021   Report

When it's low of health you can send to sleep and it recovers their 50% of health

283 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 22, 2021   Report

This creature is the crown jewel of ark creatures, as it is fast, strong, has good weight, can take a hit, and cloaks and swims incredibly fast. As well as everything listed above, they have a dash attack that hits multiple targets, and gets a crazy mate boost. There more, but I’m tired of typing how good shadowmanes are🙂

244 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 15, 2022   Report

You can refresh your fish basket by having in your hot bar and jumping into water

294 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 8, 2021   Report

You can replenish the timer on the filled fish basket by putting it you tool bar and standing in any body of water.

288 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 7, 2021   Report

Be prepared to lose brain cells when taming these, took me 3 hours.

240 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 4, 2021   Report

Both male and female can cloak themselves, but female can also cloak all dinos in an area around it, while the males cannot. The males can instead give a courage effect I imagine is similar to Yutys, but I don’t know for sure. Both male and female also have a powerful charged jump, and a dash attack where they teleport between a group of creatures and damage them, and also stun them for a couple seconds

171 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 15, 2022   Report

Controls for xbox

Left trigger. Dash attack

Right trigger. Attack

Hold a. High jump

Right stick. Invisibility

Hold right stick. Special ability depending on gender

247 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Nov 8, 2020   Report

So far it's my favorite gen p2 creature that has been revealed

152 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 8, 2022   Report

So if you are throwing out a ton of dinos out of pods at once and you have a male and female you can roar and it’ll wake them up instantly. I use for babies when I raise with maewings

2 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 15, 2025   Report

Use ghillie and cactus broth if on fjordur approach from the back somewhere between the tail and back absolute necessary

111 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 20, 2022   Report

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.

139 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Aug 23, 2021   Report

They don't lay down from around 22:00 - 8:10.

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