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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Encountering Tips

How do I kill a titanoboa? titanoboa battling strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
They live in swamps and manegrove forests
So it eats any fish meat... then why does it like to eat me?
Just watched this on a show called world's biggest beasts. This thing was huge IRL at least 2-3 wide 50-60 foot long. The constriction on this titan was much much greater than the constrictor of today.
You take a normal snake. Give it tons of drugs, and you have a Titanoboa.
Maloi the Baryonyx.
If you kill it and look in its inventory, its got a lot of good stuff like bows, armor, and arrows or cooking recipes. I use bows and pikes to kill them, and pack stimberries. Im playing on easy-casual on ark mobile so might not be the same for other versions.
The first time I made a Long Neck Rifle I found one and shot it. One bullet and one less level twelve living tranquilizer.
The dossier says dark caves but I have photographic evidence of them in the jungles. Their found in abundance in the swamps, and uncommonly in the jungles, so keep your eye open. They spawn literally where you would expect to see a snake. Stimulants are goof if you get bit because these guys will knock you out quick and kill you. To my knowledge it's not worth taming these snakes as they have an annoying version of passive taming that requires you to drop an egg near them so they can eat it. It's honestly easier to steal their eggs and kill them. Thankfully their not too difficult to kill as long as you shoot them in the head. A few head shots from a bow should do the job. I personally like snakes, but I'm not going to go through the trouble of taming one of these dudes just so it can die to an oversized seagull. Part of me is disappointed that this boa dosnt constrict its prey like it should have. Instead it's just an oversized viper
There are too dangerous to kill with a melee weapon.. so make sure u have any reange weapons
These boys are actually not that bad if you have a sword. As a lower level I was terrified of these guys until one attacked me. I just started backing up and it couldn’t catch me. These guys are actually really slow so just keep backing up and hitting them.
Titanboas are an easily accessible sorce of raw prime meat. Keep stimulants handy!
These things can easily knock out a raptor. Be warned.
If you get bitten and don’t have any way to reduce your torpor, run straight to somewhere that is hopefully not accessible by this demonic creature to give yourself a chance of survival once you’ve fallen unconscious. If you don’t do this? Goodbye.
These guys are super scary. no matter how powerful you are, always watch out for these guys if you're in or around a swamp. swamps are FILLED with these guys, and when they bite you, they fill your torpor bar up and knock out both you and your mount. DO NOT get knocked out, especially when in a dangerous area like a swamp. if you get bitten, eat a bunch of stimberries and feed them to your mount too. my pteranodon and tapejara and me can take out almost anything we come across (so far), and i'm still terrified of these guys. stay away from titanoboas and other poisonous creatures, even if they're not powerful they'll get you killed. keep at least 50, preferably 100-200 stimberries on you when traveling through, over or near swamps.
Dude I hate these things They lit will knock you out in a hit.
Shoot at from a distance if possible... have stimulants or something to wake you up on hand, they will knock you clean out in a couple bites!!
Kill IT before you geht seeping.These Things are real topor Machines If you geht bitten one time you Will Go sleep so Spam stimberries or kill IT the fastest you can.
Me trying to finish hunt mega piranha quest, i was just one piranha away from finishing it and this reptile appears.
A dilophosaur can usually take out a boa of an equal level. You just stand back and watch.
easy to kill with a bow and arrows! if you encounter one, sprint back a bit and stop to shoot. a good bow will take it down in two shots. decent source of meat, just don't get knocked out! i play on mobile so i don't know if these things are true for other versions of the game.
The dossier says "found in dark caves..." Really? Have they never went to the swamp and get their A's beaten by them?