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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

The redwoods are now basically a no fly zone, I lost a quetz, and a pter to these b******s. They jump out of the tree, rip you off your mount, and then pin you and your mastercraft armor to the ground and murder you.
If you want to tame a thylacoleo, I recommend bringing a quick, but powerful mount such as ceratosaurus, carnotaurus, or even a thyla if you already have one. Before you head to the redwoods though, bring an argentavis in a cryopod. Also, make sure you have strong armor, such as flak, or even chitin could work. Ensure you bring a pike for in case you get pounced in the process of searching for one. Make sure you've built a trap somewhere, preferably near or at your base, and ensure that it is a 2x2 made from wood or stronger. To begin, take your mount over to the redwoods and find a high level thylacoleo. You'll spot them hanging upside-down on the thickest redwoods trees, or on the ground. Once you've found one, pull out your argentavis, pick up the thylacoleo, and fly it over to your trap. Drop the thyla into your trap, and tranquilize it. Then, make sure you have roughly 150-250 narcotics to keep it asleep. Feed it cooked prime meat or extraordinary kibble, which is easily obtainable using a yutyrannus egg farm. After it is tamed, enjoy your new thylacoleo!
Yall this ain’t a kitten it’s a koala on steroids
My hate for these guys is immeasurable
It all started when I played ark for the first time, I had managed to tame a high level tapejara and absolutely love him. I named him Barry and we set off on many adventure exploring the island. On day I was just flying through the redwoods and usual taunting the carnivores below me for not being able to touch me. BAM the thylacolia jumped out the trees and ripped me off Barry. Barry was whistled on nuetral and as he came down to aid me a desperately tried to get him on passive, but I was panicking, my screen shook as I was terrified as this was my first encounter of one. I tried to punch it but I inevitably died. I respawned and immediately got on my pteradon but just as I got on the saw the message in big red letters that Barry had fallen to the thylacoleo.
My Barry rest in peace
You can't even run from these. Just accept your quick and painful death.
To tame a thyla. Get a stego and pump it with health(a thyla cant dismount you when your on one) then js let one find you walking through the red woods (there’s no point to look, it’s gonna find you first) then jump off and trank it as it attacks ur steg. And trank it. The Steg should have anywhere from 15k - 25k health not to die. EMMMJOI
They prefer cooked meat over raw. Don't waste your precious raw mutton, better cook it, as it tames faster and with higher efficiency.
Thylacoleo has a bleed effect that does % of hp damage over a small amount of time. i killed my first titanosaur with my thyla but attacking and running when it agro’d BUT you can’t let the bleeding deal the finishing blow. This just happened and my thyla and I didn’t get the xp.
Hit the sky button so people don’t make my mistake and miss out on heaps of xp 🤥
I was upset the app doesn't have it listed in Fjördur, but Thylas are actually on the map. Let's try to get it updated!
I love these little monsters!!!
I've died from them many times,but lets forget about that for now
There is an easy way to tame them !!!
1. Build a floor 2×2 with 1-high walls and two ramps in the near of the Thylacoleo
2.Attrace it with your aji or another flying thing and make sure it run over the ramps an fall into the trap
You already know the rest (;
Set a parasaur on turret mode and fly over redwoods carrying it with a flyer. Any of these things will get marked.
Thylacoleo are capable of pinning down flyers in mid-flight (anything but the Quetz and Wyvern, I believe), other Thylacoleo, and even Therizinos. You can also jump from object to object by holding down the jump button while pouncing from a tree or cliff (have to hit it at the right angle, however).
Had just finished farming crystals and metal on the mountain in the Redwoods, was flying back to my base with my Argy carrying my Ankylo when one of these f*ckers jumped out of nowhere, pinned me down and killed me. I thought my dinos were done for, flew back as quick as I could with my Ptera and just as I got there luckily my Argy-Ankylo duo managed to kill the oversized cat.
(We love you Cole! :D)
You can use a snow owl's heat vision ablitiy to see thylas in trees!
It's basically the Randy Orton of Ark.
It just RKOS's you outta nowhere...
These cats always perfectly land on your back.
Me flying casually through the redwoods : Can’t go 10 steps before getting torn to shreds by an overgrown kitty cat
Me actually trying to find a thyla to tame it : Can’t go go 3 times around every single tree but still can’t find any…
And that’s why I’m always looking for a thyla… it’s safer… I even made my base in the redwoods to better look for them, and almost never got jumped on…