Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
I love these majestic Dorito heads so much, I, the very rider of the great ‘Bruce Wayne’ (my fallen Carno) have at least five of them for two reasons: their odd characteristics and to mass transport obsidian quickly. Their outstanding speed/weight ratio makes them my personal favorite areal pack mules. And they are literal tree-huggers if you’re in the redwoods.
So annoying to tame, CARRY BOLAS.
Honestly just always have bolas in general
Step 1: Wear Ghillie Armor and go Tapejara hunting.
Step 2: Carefully sneak behind Tapejara, being slow and quiet so as not to scare it as they are very shy towards humans, especially when it comes to their own personal space.
Step 3: Throw bola. If you scare the Tapejara by accident throw bola IMMEDIATELY.
Step 4: Knock it out and then feed it meat until it loves you.
Step 5: You have your Tapejara now!
If you don’t like you tame’s colers, all you got to do is dye potent dust any color and give it to your tame, there you go! A pink Tapejara
What you need:
1 full ghillie suit, they can be made from the polymer dropped by penguins
1-5 bolas
Tranq weapon of choice
20-50 raw meat (preferably with some prime meat too)
About 20 narcotics, just to be safe
I. The easiest way I found to tame them is to look at the spawn map in the Dododex to determine the best area to find one. Anywhere southeast of the green obelisk is a good are for the island map. Once you've found where you want to look, put on your ghillie suit and head over there. IMPORTANT! DO NOT RIDE A MOUNT, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH UNNOTICED
1. Walk around a bit until you find one.
2. Once you've found one, crouch to get closer. Once you start getting very close go prone (you are nearly invisible while prone in a ghillie suit).
3. Once you think you have a good shot throw a bola at it. Don't worry if you miss, it won't notice you unless you get up. If it gets away and doesn't notice you, repeat step 3 (Once it starts flying you still have a chance at hitting it before it gets too far)
4. Once it's stuck on the ground, knock it out. Try to aim for the head to conserve your ammo.
5. Put some meat in its inventory, if you start running out you can hunt in the area to get more. Check up on it every few minutes to give it some narcotics so it stays asleep.
You now have a tapejara, feel free to put a saddle on it and ride it back home. Up if helpful
Look it is hard to knock them out because of the fact that if you get close to them they will run. So you are going have to hit a 360 bola trick shot with the bola and hit it then knock it out. One more thing whe you are shooting it with tranqs they have low health so wait 5 seconds to let the narc kick in. Have fun and good luck survivors!
You can also set up a trap and eat rare flowers near it to have it chase you into said trap, if you don’t want to sneak and throw bolas
Bola that mf outta the sky they don’t take fall damage
Dorito head.
They like to stay high in the sky like a quetz
Honestly if you find one in the air on any flyer fly high above it, whip out a crossbow and grapple to it, whistle your flyer to follow you so you don't have to find it again (or just make sure you have it done beforehand). Finally, switch to a bow or a rifle and tranq that guy and make sure you detach and pop a chute before you hit the ground. Quite possibly the wildest way to tame a Tapejara or a Quetzal.
If you’re thinking on getting one, get it. The hardest thing abt these are finding them. Otherwise taming, saddle making, ect is easy as.
Why you ask? Find one with good health, their xp levels are low so you can level them up easy as, they don’t do much damage but with the health, kill as many things as possible. They aren’t strong you say? I just encountered 3 carnos, 2 sarvos, a few snakes and a pack of terror birds, I was alone and accepting death when ‘Coochayyy’ stepped in and helped. Both got out alive. Upgrade speed and weight. They already come with pretty good weight for a flyer, but their stamina is also alright, might want to level that up too tho. With all these new levels you now have a perfect carrier. When going on long adventures for anything bring them, they can carry all your language as you explore. Up this tip for more ark players to see.
My dudes I recomend Gillette suit,bola then tranq it. if u have access to allow kibble THEN USE IT! They love allo kibble.if u don't have allo kibble just use prime meat and make sure u have a lot of narcotics at least 50 or 100
When I try to bola it and flys away I get depressed
Must have tame for anyone who wants have a Spider-Man 🐦. This is not the easiest tame but once you have it you can basically land anywhere and i mean ANYWHERE!! if it runs out of stamina in the redwoods you can land on a tree and it will regain Stam but a bit slowly and if you are not in the redwoods you can land on the side of cliffs!!!!. Plus you can fly up down, left and right and it has a multi seat saddle. Let others now
Wear ghillie suit before approaching. Crouch/crawl up to then when it lands and use tranquilizer darts instead of arrows. Arrows have a very high kill chance. Once it goes down circle the tame with spike walls as tapejara are very fragile!
There is a bunch of them at the red obelisk on scorched earth. :)
These dudes are amazing tames cause while slow at first they can get pretty fast with only a few levels pumped into speed. They can cling to surfaces and allow you to snipe things from a tree. They can carry three people and if solo you can whistle it to follow you and switch seats and it will hover in the air while you shoot the creatures below.(if you have them whistled to be stopped they will land though) if they run low on stamina unlike other flyers you don't have to land just switch seats for a bit and keep going. They are one of the safest ways to take out powerful creatures too. Their saddle is also gotten pretty early so you can ride them in about mid game. And finally they are a good way to tame a quetzal. Overall an amazing tame absolutely would recommend. Their only problem is their hard to find and if it sees you it will fly off to high heaven and you'll never see it again.