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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a thylacoleo? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a thylacoleo.
To tame just fly around redwoods, wait for a thyla to jump on you and then net it. (Bring around 15 nets) after this it should be easy to tranq it out.
I tried trapping one of these guys and every time I got them in the trap, it somehow got out. Maybe I made the trap wrong. I really wanted one of these big cats, then I got an idea! I used the Beelzebufo to knock it out! I put cooked prime meat in its inventory, and a LOT of narcotics. And BOOM!
The simplest and (almost) safest way to tame a thylacoleo:
1. You will need the best crossbow you can get, some tranq arrows, and be wearing flak armor. Also, very important, a harpoon launcher loaded with net projectiles;
2. Then, wield your harpoon, mount your flyer, and go around flying low in the redwoods showing off the thyla bait (that would be you, btw);
3. When you inevitably get jumped on and are in the middle of a fanged hug on the ground, just shoot your net at the thyla, then pepper it with tranqs on the head before it gets free to murder you;
4. Afterwards, just guard your thyla until tamed and pray no nasties come out: a cryopoded Rex does wonders for emergencies. Good luck!
I bring my theriz in a cryopod to harvest wood to make a trap. And then narcoberries so i dont waste any narcotics on it with its insane torpor drain rate.
Think you're safe on your argie up in the sky? Wrong. These little fucks will come hurling at you from fuck nowhere and knock you off your flyer. You are not safe.
You can fly in on a quick Dino and pick it up and bring it to a near by taming pen and then do the old fashion knock out and feed.
How I tamed two of these bad boys (actually one after another: one female and one male) is that I just encountered them running after some prey, got on high ground with an argentavis and shot one with tranq darts and tranq arrows; it went quickly unconscious but its torpor was draining pretty fast so I had to feed it narcotics (around 30 for an 8 lvl) or even bio toxin; the taming process was stupidly long for both of them, I used a lot of raw prime meat and regular raw meat but apparently they prefer cooked meat from what I've heard?
As I'm writing this, Thylacoleos are probably my favorite tames because of their versatility. I tried to somehow climb a huge redwood tree once I rode this beast and oh boy, it works so good.
I got lucky flying through red woods and found a red one on the ground attacking an argy. While it was distracted, I shot it with tranc arrows and knocked it unconscious. I obviously named her Red. BEST TAME EVER!!!
Be careful when flying through the trees in the Redwood! They will jump from the trees and snatch you off of your mount.
You'll find them both in the trees and on the ground. If in a tree, shot it down from a distance and once it's on the ground, wait for it to unaggro before chasing it with a bola.
Extremely useful creatures! They can climb player-made structures! I'm not 100% sure if they can climb metal, though.
If you’re wondering whether or not to tame them. Do it. Great for everything from pvp to caving tame a thyla.
super easy to tame on scorched earth, im a dumbass and still managed to get two of them :) just make sure you have lots of narcotic, they wake up really fast
Tame a creature that u can shoot of the back slowly walk through the redwoods shoot is of the tree with tranquiler dart don’t use tranquil arrow you can kill it easily and set up a trap!!!!
If you want to build a trap build it with doorframes. They can’t climb up them.
They are not running away when their torpor is close to be filled, so It’s not necessary to net or cage them. Use shocking darts for the fast KO, their torpor drain is high.
The most safe way to tame thylas is go to crystals isles scorched earth and ragnarock where the spawn in the desert it makes it sooo much easier because they can’t rip you of your saddle I just moved to ragnarock from crystal isles today. So far on ragnarock I have tamed 5 in the space of about 4-5 hours yesterday I tamed two in the space of about 7 hours (on crystal isles) the day before I tamed 1 in the space of 9 hours so I got 8 in three days and the best plase to go for high level thylas in the savanna on ragnarock the ones I tamed today were all 130+ they are all great my best I got yesterday I named him Garfield he is 223 he has 10000 hp 664 melee 2000 stamina and is just a overall weapon I really need to get a better saddle because he is the best so he deserves the best I hope everyone finds there dream thyla like I did and I hope you enjoy the as much as I do:)
What I like to do when I tame them is fly up really high so they can’t get me find a good level one and try to find a place were it’s safe and place bear traps down and hide behind a bear trap
Rip cole,you will be missed 🪦😢
Bait them out by floating across the redwoods on an archa, then get them stuck and start shooting.
This thyla is the best mount on the game
They want titanoboa egg kibble and they prefer the cooked variants rather than the raw variants and it’s more efficient if you build a trap and shoot it with tranq darts