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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a shadowmane? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a shadowmane.
These apex predators are the most overpowered creature you can use on genesis part 2! They are tamed with fish baskets, the higher the size of the fish, the better the outcome of the tame! The shadowmanes have three attacks and two special abilities, that being the regular bite/clawing attack, the teleport attack, the ultimate, cloaking and pack roar. The shadowmanes are similarly to real lions, in the way that they are gestation breeders, and are found in packs. Best taming method is to use a gillie suit and sneak up on them, and REMEMBER! You need to crouch in-order to tame them! They are also the singular BEST creatures for fighting Rockwell prime, just bring a massive pack of females and males! The males can use a pack roar, as mentioned earlier, and the females can use a pack cloak. And now, survivors, we’ve reached the end of this log! Stay strong, and keep surviving! And for me to make even more of these logs, going through every part of the genesis creatures abilities and other aspects, get this to ten ups, and you’ll have a big amount to read in front of ya!
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
IMPORTANT: When you have fish baskets if you put them in your hot bar and go into deep enough water the health bar of the basket resets!!! That way you can spend longer finding big fish and just keep getting the baskets wet till you are readyto tame your Shadowmane!
A trap that Alpha’s keep under wraps:
4 foundations
8 double door frame
4 hatch frame
16 stone walls
2x2stone foundation
Double door frames first level up
Then plate ceiling hatch frames above the foundations
Then stone wall box with no ceiling above that
Kite a shadowmane to attack you above the box and when it falls in get out of render distance as fast as possible so it stops attacking the trap. When it lays dow crouch beneath and feed it through the hatch frame.
How to tame:
They only spawn in the Rockwell biome on genesis part 2, usually near rivers
To tame a shadow mane you need to get fish in a basket, the higher multiplier the quicker the taming speed. I recommend coelencath
Put the fish in your last slot of your hotbar.
During the day the shadow mane will occasionally lie down and sleep, only during the day.
However they do travel in packs, so I recommend aggravating one and leading it away from the pack.
If they aggro they will do their stun dash up at you and if I’m a pack they will all do it, getting you stuck and easy to kill, I know as it happened to me about 10 times
You can also trap it as well.
When it falls asleep you have to approach it from behind otherwise it will anger and lose all taming percentage.
To lower the chance of being detected wear a ghillie suit, or you can use the federation tek suit to stay in the air until it sleeps and land far enough away that it doesn’t wake up and close enough that it doesn’t take too long to approach.
Utility:
The shadow manes don’t have saddles but do have armour ratings.
The ultimate bar fills up when you attack, but if you kill something with the ultimate it refills immediately, side note, the ultimate effect looks dope.
Hold the jump button to do a charge jump, the longer you hold it the further it goes
You can also do the charge jump from in the water
They are really good swimmers
They have the stun dash attack which can hit any number of targets that is in the range of the attack, tested it with a lot of charge bugs in one foundation.
The stun dash can be done upwards and they will do that in the wild
With mate boost, the males can roar and boost the others in the pack, while the females can turn all creatures in a certain area invisible, without affecting movement speed. But if you go too far away you lose the invisibility.
Extra:
They are very good boss fight creatures, just look at syntac’s video.
They are incredibly fun to play around with
They are breedable
Naming:
I like to call mine the names from the lion king or if I’ve got too many, from thunder cats.
Do me a favor and have a really good day today, you've earned it.
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)
It's a passive tame that requires you to have Gillie armor, you have to wait for it to sleep then feed it fish.
Don’t feed them trilobites it moles the taming go to 0% 😭😭😭
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
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.
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
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.
If you don’t have collision enabled on your server you can just use a cage to catch good fish then place a fish basket beside it this makes it so much easier to get fish
Assign fish to hotbar and jump into water and it will restart spoil timer useful when waiting for stubborn manes
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
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.