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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
There is a VERY easy way to get a Tuso that I don’t really see anyone ever talking about, but here it is. All you need is the following items:
-50 to 150 black pearls (depending on the level)
-One to three small tames (raptors are easiest in my opinion because they eat mutton)
Once you have these items, travel to Crystal isles. This is a free map, so anyone who has access to transfers can go here (to transfer, go to an Obelisk, place any items you want to bring with you into the “Ark Data” section, and press “Travel to Another Server”).
The location of these easy tames is in the south-most area of the desert, at about Lat. 89 Lon. 39. There are *sometimes* tusos there, and they are kind of washed up on the beach. They will not really attack you if you walk close to them, and most times you even need to punch it several times to get it to aggro. Be patient. Make sure your tames are positioned close to the tentacles, so when it decides to aggro it will grab them and not you. Once it has grabbed your tame, swim (or walk, depending on how deep in the water it is) to the beak in between the tentacles and press the prompted button to feed it. It will eat 50 black pearls at a time, and after each feeding you will need to wait a long time before feeding it again, so don’t sacrifice all of your tames right away. Each feeding of black pearls will require it to have 1500 point of hunger off its maximum amount, so if you open the taming tracker in your inventory you can see how hungry it is. Repeat this process until it’s tamed!
Sorry for a lot of text, I wanted to make this easy for even new players to understand.
More Tusoteuthis Taming & KO Tips
How to tame tuso
1 get a tame. I don’t 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 didn’t 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 Dino’s 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 it’s 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!!!!
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.
Basilosaurus (whale dino) is immune to the squids grabs. Its also immune to jellyfish stings. :)
Tame turtles
Let it attach to turtles that you are riding
Swim up to its mouth and feed black Pearl's to tame
He eats when he’s missing around 1400-1500 hunger
I’ve feared the ark ocean for a while now and this just brings a inky cherry on top