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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.
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.
Take a super health boosted carbonemis put him follow on lowest take him to this gaint hugger boi and let him give the turtle lots of hugs. Meanwhile feed it some black pearls, he will start to love u.
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.
if you’re on crystal isles and see one on the shore you can tame it, hit it with a dino that could be carried you can use a land animals because you won’t need to go out far, okay so it should take maybe a couple hits for it to aggro hit it once if it doesn’t aggro take a 30 second brake and keep doing this repeatedly till it finally aggros on your dino feed it black pearls and it’s yours (ur welcome)
It says "Taming (non-violent) not because its a lie and this thing is really mean but because its a passive tame since you don't need to knock it out
Whoever said feedings after the first one take less interval was full of BS. 13 minutes, each time.
Don’t tame these anywhere near the world border. I got dropped out of bounds and my stuff deleted.
Let it attack your animal then feed it black pearls while it still has your animal if u do it quick your animal won’t die (have to have 50 pearls )
All you have to do to tame one of these is search the deep ocean find a open space and go on a killing spree until you find one. After you find one you just let it grab your mount (Many suggest turtles) then go to its mouth and feed it meat or black pearls (more than 50).
While taming note that you should enable first person on your character not your dino because if you accidentally swim upwards it will shift all attention toward you in third person it happened to me two or three times so to new players this is a tipe from me and also it does a crap ton of damage so if you bring a mosa say with a primitive saddle it should have 20k+ hp or just set dino damage to 0.1
While taming it, always go for the mouth in order to feed it. Learned that the hard way. 🦂
Found out today that when taming one you can have it grab wild dinos instead of your own tames, I had a beached one grab a wild trike and tamed it with that
Don’t make the mistake of attacking it with an itchy and thinking it won’t attack back it will, even if it says it don’t want to be tamed now and it annoys you don’t attack
The beached tuso on crystal isles can be tamed you just have to hit it on few times while on your tame and stand infront of tentacles. It will put you through the mesh but when you get off youll pop back up feed pearls and repeat until tamed. Your tame will also pop back up when it lets go
FOR MOBILE PLAYERS!!! If u have soothing balm, then even for a lvl 150 of these, u just need 50 black pearls, so yeah, u only gotta feed it once, takes 2 seconds! Have fun!
I think one of the easiest ways to get black pearls is to get a mosa keep leveling health and damage about 15K hp and 300-400 damage. Then find and destroy the alpha mosa. (you might want a saddle with good armor) Bring a Megalodon or other creature to the squid, once he is grabbed very quickly swim to the squid and feed the pearls you got from the alpha. That is how I have tamed my two squids and it works very well. (I play mobile so I don’t know in it will work on pc or xbox)
You can use turtles to tame this but you will need some with a lot of health and good saddles
I used a tame deino with a 96 asc saddle and 36k health . The only real hassle is the wait time between feeds . I fed a 150 once and then just kept swimming in circles till the food meter went down , usually takes about 500 less food Loss to be ready for next feed . Try to wipe out the area around , it’s a hassle when a random tuso can grab you and it’s stuck in the wall.
Use a Dunkleosteus instead, get 100 or 200 black pearls in your inventory (consumes 50 black pearls per feed)
My babies eat between 500-600 cooked food per hour. I increase my food refill time with them by 10 minutes till I feel comfortable leaving them alone for an hour at a time till juvenile. Usually have about 10 going at a time with as many tek troughs to take over. Hope this helps with anyone's raising.