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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.
Use ghillie and cactus broth if on fjordur approach from the back somewhere between the tail and back absolute necessary
I suggest that you search for the fishes first (preferably 1.5x and above) before looking for shadowmane and then cryopod them, that way you can release them later and recapture it with fish basket after you found the shadowmane without needing to worry about fish basket spoils time
Also, as long as they don't aggro to anything their taming rate won't get down
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Since I haven't seen anything regarding this I'm gonna share another useful tip:
I know the filled fishbasket is a nuisance with both weight and the need to refresh it once in a while. What you can do is after you've caught a fish, throw it out again, cryo it and you can preserve it this way as long as you like. Just craft some more baskets when you are going to tame a shadowmane just bring out the fish from your cryopod, use baskets to fill it up again and then use them on the shadowmane. Up soother ppl can see it too
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
2 mates on spoons.....clear the area that your shadowmane is in..we clear all trees, and ALL wild or tamed Dino’s other than our spinos....we choose take fish no less than 1.3x in size (level doesn’t matter on official). We wear ghillie full suit. We attempt taming from 9 am game time and stop attempting at 7 pm game time (1900 hours) it WILL hold it’s taming throughout the night for the next day to start where you left off....BE PATIENT, only approach from its back side when It’s laying down with your basket of fish. When I step off the spino at no closer than 27 meters from it, I crouch walk all the way to it, feed it, and turn around and crouch ALL the way back to my spino.....start tracking your tame, keep area clear of Dino’s or trees that glow lets lurk in.... dead Dino’s, or most live Dino’s really mess with this beast!! Keep all live and dead Dino’s harvested within 200 meters of your tame....rinse and repeat the process.... if it looks glitchy, let it walk around for a second.... if it starts jerking or looking like it’s coughing a hair ball, that means there is a Dino somewhere near by!!! Kill said Dino and let the shadowmane relax... hope this was helpful. Just tamed our first one on official pve. Thanks
Go to the tracking for taming Dino’s and you will see it when it is cloaking
Taming a shadow mane is not as easy as it looks. The first thing your going to need to do is get the taming food for the shadowmane, which is fish in fish baskets. Try to catch big fish because the bigger the fish the more the taming effectiveness. Now your going to need to find one. Finding shadowmanes are relatively easy considering they live along rivers and bodies of water, be careful though as they can be in packs of 3 - 6 or less. Once you have found a shadow mane try to isolate it from its pack so that you don’t get attacked by the other pack members, then build a 4 foundation, 16 wall, 4 ramp trap and lure the shadow mane inside. Once the shadowmane is unaggro’d on the trap you can feed it, shadowmanes are nocturnal so because of this they will take short naps in the daytime which is how you feed them fish in fish baskets. If you follow these tips I guarantee you will tame yourself a decent high level shadowmane to conquer the ark with. I wish you the best of luck survivor!
They tend to use a lot of stun attacks so be wary before You go ahead if You hear thunder move as quick as You can from it get away from any shadow mane unless You have a group of dinos but other than that if You are gathering resources or something I suggest not so unless You know more about shadow mane and noglins then You shall be safe and one more thing if flying away make sure Your Dino is not a bird or a flying one becuase that one will be dead land dinos can help You but You should not go near them unless taming
This will probably be one of the more popular creatures everyone will want in genesis part 2. I just hope it will be a simple knock out tame. 😂
Stone dino gates and gateway
make a medium size circle
use a dino or yourself and run through a gate then close it
It can't teleport through so only enter when it's sleeping
Have some beds
Don't use any fish you find , try to only get big sabertooth salmons
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
Your welcome
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
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.
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.
Important!!!!
Fish you catced dont have to spoil!!!
Put them on your hotbar and dive under water.
I’m not sure if anyone knows this but this is the easiest way i’ve found to tame them when it comes to using fish.
1. Go to any map of your choosing
2. Trap the fishes in Fish Baskets
3. Release, then Soul Ball or Cryo them
4. Transfer to Gen 2 or Fj (where ever the Shadowmanes live)
5. Unpod the fish into water and retrap them in baskets
Just be careful when unpodding them in hostile areas as other dinos will attack them.