Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Tamed 3 solo so far on official Center map. Hardest part about taming is keeping track of the plesios and the mosas that are usually found in the same vicinity. I use 4 basilos and bring about 5 high health (10k) high speed turtles. You really only need about 2-3 but i bring the extra just in case they get attacked by other creatures.Keep your animals on passive following 1 basilo and put 5 pearls in last hotbar spot. Hop on a turtle, have 1 passive basilo follow you and once the coast is clear, decend down to the squid until it grabs you and the turtle. Hop off the turtle and swim up the the beak then spam E. Hop on your basilo while squid still has your turtle and head back to the surface where your other animals are. Reload 50 more pearls and after first feeding wait about 14 minutes and repeat. After the second feeding, i found you only need to wait about 7-8 minutes between feedings.Dont forget, on PVE your new tuso cannot grab wild dinos so the vampire drain and knockout useless.
More Tusoteuthis Taming & KO Tips
How to tame tuso
1 get a tame. I donβt see why turtles are so good at taming, meg worked fine but either will work. lvl up heath
2 search deep sea, I found 3 on brutal from the bottom left corner of the map to the top left corner of the map.
3 if you have soothing balm use it but I didnβt need it. use black pearls takes 50 at a time but if you did use balm you can use cooked prime meat takes 30 at a time I think.
4 go on a killing spree in the sea to open spawn spots for tuso.
5 when you find it, kill all eels, mantas, and any other hostile Dinoβs near it.
6 tame by letting it grab your tame, then feeding it the pearls or prime meat.
U can only feed it black pearls and it must be grabbed on something to feed it
I tamed one of these and immediately died, of course my reaction was like with most other tames of oh god dammit now itβs gonna die, I zipped over on a dolphin and found it sitting innocently in a ball of about 50 meg carcasses with 2 plesiosaurs in the mix
You need two people, one for feeding the black pearls and the other to feed the turtle that is in the grasp of the Tusoteuthis, with sweet vegetable cake for the health and to feed it stimulates berries as well
Will not grab mosas in mobile!!!!
When taming tusos, use a creature with good health, torpor, and no oxygen stat as the grab target. Quite a few creatures fulfill this criteria, but my recommendations would be:
*Turtle (small turtle, not megachelon)
*Dunkle
*Mosa/Plesi
*Megalodon
As for your mount, ride a basilo so the tuso wonβt grab your mount instead.
Read this, it might help you:
1: The best place to encounter tuso is 90-91 lat and cover all longitude from red ob to the end of herb Island.
2: Don't solo search, make a party and cover full bottom of the map.
3: Don't search in shallow water and surface, go for mid and deep sea.
4: They need to grab your tame then only can they be tamed.(Take Carbonemys with health and speed pumped)
5: They take 50 black pearls per serving.
6: They only agro in deep sea.
7: Last and the most important, the server must be brutal or their chance of spawning is not that much. Put server to brutal and for one day atleast go killingspree in ocean to open spawn spots for tuso.
8: Pump only melee and health to tuso.
If you're mobile player
You can find alot of them in south
If you couldn't find go away render distance and make tidy save then back and search
Pls like
Basilosaurus (whale dino) is immune to the squids grabs. Its also immune to jellyfish stings. :)
The note that the taming is non-violent is entirely on your part. The squid however, can be as violent as i danm wants