What you need is a couple fish baskets to tame them, they have a time where they fall asleep what you do is you CROUCH to them put the fish basket in your last inventory slot feed it. Once you do it'll wake up and go invisible, but you can see its pink glowing pawprints follow it and it will go out of invis and goes back to sleep feed it again and repeat the process

fill hot bar with food that way its a easy refill,,, build / 4 stone foundations, 16 walls(preferably next to water) kite one to youre "room" hover above it will teleport just behind you so pretty easy for it to fall in, drop and run so it doesnt teleport back out, leave render range so it deaggroos and will sleep, and then poof you can feed through the walls. and make sure the treats dont spoil from said nearby watersource. up so ppl see, this makes then a total cake walk

CONSERVE YOUR FISH BASKETS!

Trap fish in a fish basket, then cryo the fish. Keep them cryoed until you want to tame a shadow, then make another fish basket, release them from the cryo and trap them again. Put the fish basket in your hot bar and submerge yourself to reset their timer. No wasting fish baskets. Get lots of fungal wood to make more baskets as they will destroy after you "tame".

--AK

Shadowmanes, have a time period within which they sleep, this is during the day and starts at 8:00 you can see the world time by holding H and looking in the top left corner. Also Ghillie suits are completely unnecessary as long as you stay behind and retreat quickly once fed.

Elixir can also be used on passive tames such as this one. However, I've read on Reddit that somone used it on Shadowmane and that it restarted their taming to 30%. I was sort of scared because I was also going to tame Shadowmane at the time, and I was sure that I don't have enough fishes to tame high level (most of them were higher than 1.5, I think I had two of them like 1.3) I already included the fact that most of them are gonna probably spoil, as I don't remember that often to refresh them in water. I had some problems, as the game was really glitchy and I ran out of good fishes. So as you can tell I was forsed to use elixir. I took situation as if it finishes tame (Shadowmane at the time was st 70%) I'm gonna just put it in cryopod but if it restarts I'm gonna just give up since I didn't have any good fish left. I put elixir in my last slot and I slowly aproached Shadowmane as it was sleeping. I just looked at him and I pressed 0 (button for PC -last slot) and it was tamed! Pretty happy expirience, because it was my first time using elixir on Shadowmane. My first try taming Shadowmane was without elixir and it was also good! It was pretty low level so I didn't need that good fish. He died to another player killing us in half of the game R.I.P Safet (Safet is old Bosnian name XD)

How to tame shadowmanes:

First you will need fish baskets (how many depends on the level, so check dododex)

You should also wear chillie armour and you can also consume some captus broth

Then you need to crouch up on a sleeping shadowmane of your choice (they are usually asleep in the middle of the day)

Feed it fish baskets and then move away because it will wake up

Then continue doing that until it is tamed!

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Shadowmanes are horrible in simpler traps that don't fully abuse ai and whatnot, so if you don't want to waste 40k stone for half a trap, try netting the shadowmanes when they go on the prowl (invis) and killing the bad ones while leaving your preferred one alive, then leaving the locale and coming back and doing the tame the right way. Trust me, it is way more consistent when you don't use a trap, just leagues more dangerous.

Go to the NE corner of the purple map there is a giant lake there make fish baskets and capture piranhas. They count as well and are much easier to catch then simply fly south. You can reset a fish baskets spoil time by putting it in your hotbar and stand in water. Find your shadow and trap it with four Dino gates and doors in a tight square formation. They cannot walk through the gates so get it to teleport in or seal the trap as it's clawing you. Wait for 0830 time, Crouch walk up to it with a fish basket in your last hotbar slot and feed it by its tail. Feeding if by its head will reset tame progress.

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.

if you’re planning to tame one of these dudes, which is understandable considering how awesome they are, don’t waste your fish baskets on anything lower than 0.8 fish. trust me. anything lower than 0.8 barley raises the taming bar. i only go for 1.0 fish and up, but if i absolutely need to i’ll go for the occasional 0.9 or 0.8 fish. the best strategy is to, well, wait until it’s asleep. you NEED ghillie armor for this, so put on your ghillie and approach it, CROUCHING. do NOT approach it from the front, always approach from its rear end or its back. feed it the fish, then back up 10-15 meters and run away, because it will turn invisible and try to look for you. you should use the tracking ability to not lose sight of it, then wait until it’s calm and asleep again. repeat this process and you have a tame shadowmane. the males and the female are the exact same without a mate, but if they’re paired up, the male can use a roar buff, similar to a yutyrannus, to buff its pack. the female, on the other hand, can make, not only it’s pack, but any other tame creatures you have invisible with it. they each have a dash attack, they can leap super high, they negate fall damage, they double as amazing water mounts because they don’t have an oxygen meter and they get a water buff similar to a spino, and they have a charge meter that increases whenever you deal damage or kill something. when it’s maxed out, your shadowmane gets a speed and damage buff. if you found this helpful, up this! -J

I wonder if it has claimable babies on asa

peeps, I think they’re mammals; so no egg retrieval tames probably.

Cactus broth and ghillie is the ez way to 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

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.

In my experience in taming you will need

#1: fishes in baskets (0.7x up)

#2: gilly armor (optional)

#3: skill (you will most likely die)

#4: spy glass

Step by step to tame :

1: locate desired shadowmane

2: wait for nap time (day)

3: approach for the back (away from face!!)

4: feed fish

5: RUN

6: wait for hunt to end while watching with spy glass

7: repeat

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Watch out if you tame these boys they can jump high

Make sure to have cactus broth on you or a gillie suit. Sneak up on it with your fish basket( passive tame and make your fish basket at the best a 1.5)sneak up on it and be care they dismount from tames, and passive tame.

Make sure to track your shadowmane so you know where it goes when invisible!!!