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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a tusoteuthis? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a tusoteuthis.
How to take a tuso
First you will want to get the following
1. Saddle (unlocked level 91)
2. Creature for tuso to grab (I suggest a carbonemys)
3. Creature to find and kill stuff in area (I suggest basilosuarus)
4. Black pearls tusos eat increments of 50 (to get the pearls you can kill trilobites, kill amonites, kill eurotrapids, or kill tusos. Killing tuso will sometimes give pearls but when it does it will give 25-30. I found kill tusos easiest.
5. Get a full set of scuba gear and extra scuba tanks
Taming it
1. find your tuso they are rare and spawn in the deepest part of the sea.
2. Swim up to it and let it grab your carbonemys. Make sure your tames are on passive during this process so they don’t kill the tuso.
3. Dismount your carbonemys and swim towards its mouth and feed it 50 black pearls.
4. It may need more feedings in which case you will want to level your carbonemys health and bring several of them with you. The tuso will not let go of the carbonemys after it being fed and may kill it although it will let go over time. Repeat process until tamed.
5. Saddle up and enjoy your tame!
Usage when tamed
1. Can spray ink to blind enemy dinos. Will also give it a speed buff when used
2. Immune to jellyfish and eel attacks
3. Can grab and knockout Dino’s
4. When grabbing you can use a high damage crush attack instead
5. Good stamina health weight and dps and speed
OK so for those of you actually looking for tips.
1: it can eat 50 at a time so take 50 with you each time.
2: it hold mounts only for a little bit so if you can, just hop back on the turtle quickly and swim away till the next feeding
3: once you tame it beware manta s and anglers as the tuso cannot hit them while they glitch into the head of the squid. It's not that hard if you prepare to lose everything and keep trying. It's worth it once you do but you will need escorts to help with mantis and anglers such as megaladons.
Get a basilosaurus
CAUZE THEY ARE IMMUNE
TO HIS ATTACKS
So many outdated tips.
- clear nearby enemies
- have the tuso grab a high health tame.
- be mounted on a second creature that can attack or use hotbar.
- feed it black pearls while mounted.
Mosasaur is the Giga of the sea you say? Well this here scurvy kraken is the titanosaur of the sea! Get in yonder boat and flee! Or you'll end up like me!
Listen clostly, dont lure them to the surrface or they wont want to be tamed. Second, it takes one 50 black pearl feeding. Third, they have to be holding onto something. DO NOT BRING PLATFORM SADDLES NEAR THE SQUID IT WILL GLITCH OUT.
Tips to tame on non dedicated servers with friends
1.get afriend thate scared of water
2.find the squid
3.ur friend will get tpd and feed ur friend to the squid
4.SUFF IT WITH BLACK PEARLS
For the stuck squid on the crystal isles beaches; it is tameable. Eat a Rare Flower to aggro it and you can passive tame it normally!
Mount a basilosaurus, grab yourself a turtle, have the turtle follow you on lowest setting, while you're on the basilosaurus. Move very close to the tuso it will grab the turtle ignoring the basilosaurus completely. Wait for the tuso to hold on to the turtle and then dismount your basilosaurus and quickly swim up to the tuso's face up close and feed the tusa black pearls. Very easy tame! Enjoy your sea creature!
Don’t let it grab your tame when near the ocean floor. It’s mechanic while holding your tame makes it tilt in such a way that you are moved underground. Then the game rerenders you and your tame above the water. Lost a lvl 218 mosa instantly. Try and get the squid to go a little higher before trying to tame.
Honestly the best place to find a Tuso is the western part of Ragnarok, at roughly 50,10. There is a medium sized trench that houses at least a dozen. Here's an easy way to tame.
1) Grab something to breathe underwater. (Scuba or a tek helmet)
2) Grab a beefed up tame with good hp. (I use a Shadowmane because they breathe underwater and have insane natural armor)
3) Let the Tuso Grab your tame and while it's latched, swim up and feed it one stack of 50 black pearls. It has to be 50. Any type of meat will take you 3 hours compared to a couple minutes.
4) Rinse and repeat. Be prepared to die, taming a Tuso for the first time isn't super easy but remember not to panic. Clear the area out around the Tuso you want to tame first and then try.
Don’t believe the comments saying you need 2 minimum tribe mates to tame this. It can be easily solo tamed i like to use two turtles one to sit on and one for bait. Let it grab the bait turtle then feed the tuso and jump back on your safe turtle and whistle the bait turtle back and just repeat.
***Easiest Way To Tame A Squid***
1. Tame a Carbonemys and level all point to health
2. Go to Crystal Isle and find tuso on the beach at the edge of the map (top left, bottom left, top middle and bottom middle of the map is where tuso mostly spawn). With these method you dont have to swim deep underwater to find one.
3. After you find a tuso, place your carbonemys infrontof its mouth but not too close so you can reach the mouth later on without your carbo blocking it.
4. hit the swuid until it grab your carbo and feed it black pearl.
5. Easy tame.
You dont need to go deep underwater and deal eith mosas,megs,plesio, and other stuff.
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
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Don't tame the squid around the world barrier or the sea floor. If you attempt to tame it, one mastercraft saddle on a 30k turtle should get you through four feedings without force feeding veggie cakes. Drive a raft over and set your turtle to follow you on Passive. Ride the turtle down with your 50 pearls and let the squid come to you, get as close to the max depth for the squid as possible. When the squid grabs your turtle, jump off spam A at its beak. Hold A to ascend quickly upwards and if you had the squid at max depth the turtle should be able to follow you back up without being grabbed again. Set a timer for 10 minutes at the surface and when the timer has about a minute left start your descent to find the squid again. Rinse and repeat. Brought three turtles using this strategy, only one left the raft and all three turtles survived.
If you find a beached one on Crystal Isles and it doesn't want to be tamed, park your turtle inside its tentacles. Get off, swim up to its beak and punch it till it grabs the turtle. Then feed it pearls from your last inventory slot...free squid.
To tame the beached squids on crystal isles you need to swim a turtle in the middle of its tentacles and then punch it in the beak, thank me later!
On Ragnarok, go to 50,10. Go down and towards the end of the map. Let a tuso grab your mount (I used a good Barry. And feed it the black peals. There can be dozens of squid there, so be carful.
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 won’t grab your mount instead.
Just need a decent plesi with good saddle. Make sure to line up at the same depth of the squid. Plesi on passive and low follow. Jump off the please and stay to the left above it. Wait for the grab. Make sure it is a good grab no glitch. Swim in and feed. Swim up call follow and set 14 min timer. Repeat until tamed.