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Tips & Strategies
I have tamed numerous of these on th cluster I play on(5x taming). I have found them to be extremely easy to tame, except when they fly into a loading screen and buck me off. Otherwise, I use a skiff to grapple them. Once grappled you can use HLNA to scan the stats which allows you to easily see its health to avoid killing it for the tame. Being that they cannot attack while they're grappled with the skiff I drop their health with a combo of sword, pike, pick, and fists to get it very low health. After which you can release it and using the tek suit speed boost just tank the breath attack and jump on its back. Don't tank too many as you'll eventually get knocked out. Can mount the skiff to use stims or healing items. Then it's just a matter of timing the feedings properly, which just watch the prompt at the bottom and not the actual barrel roll. The only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to reset the taming effectiveness. The lvl190 I recently tamed bucked me off and I tanked the breath a bit too much and passed out. She nipped at me until I woke up and when I remounted her, the TE was at 99.4. Ultimately I tamed her with max effectiveness, but I've chalked it up as a fluke.
More Voidwyrm Taming & KO Tips
The voidwyrm, or Tek wyvern is a pain to tame.
Firstly, you need mutagen, and a lot of it for a high level. On my 5X taming servers, it was roughly 4% per feed.
To actually tame them, you need to do the following:
1) find the creature. They are always in space, and have the most probability of appearing at the top of the spawn zones in Space. Look around the asteroids at the North and South ends, that's where I tend to find them.
2) you need to take it down to below 10% of it's health, where it will start glowing blue. It's breath attack is annoying because it stuns you for 5 seconds, and it breathes on you like a person with Halitosis does on the bus.
3) once it's health is down, you need to get close and ride it like you would an equus. The mutagen should be in slot 0 because every time it does a "barrel roll", you should be feeding it.
I haven't found a way to not get bucked off 2-3 times, depending on the level, and if it aggros Astrodelphis, they can slow you down and allow it to get away and heal. It heals pretty fast, not as fast as a reaper though.
Using the creature... It's a Tek variant wyvern. It's breath attack doesn't seem to do damage, but it has a stun effect that let's you get a few free chomps. The longer you hold the breath action button, the more stamina you burn, so only hold it long enough to immobilise your victim
Baby Voidwyrms will eat meat out of troughs and maewings
Go and watch nooblets YT Video. Heβs got a easy way
People never read non-violent incorrectly. It doesnβt mean it isnβt hostile, it means you donβt beat it into unconsciousness as it tries to run away because it knows youβre about to halfway murder it, non-violent in this case is a bull ride.
Nonviolent my ass, if you have a tek rifle use it but if you don't then use a fabricated sniper
Use mutagel in chem bench turn it into mutagen. Put mutagen into hot bar. Ride the voidwyrm , Do a barrel on voidwyrm to tame. Thank me later
So every time I try to tame one it flies to the middle of the map Flys in a circle and dies to invisible acidπ it also completely ignores me and just gets itself killed. This happen to anyone else?
Contrary to what you may hear, the Voidwyrm is one of the simplest creatures to tame in ARK. The issue is attempting such a thing without decent bait and strategies.
Now for the tips themselves, so here we go:
1- Humans don't make good baits. We have relatively low health and can't shoot while stunned. Spoilers: You need to hurt the Wyrm, oh, and it also can stunlock you to death if you are not careful enough. Tames with high HP (20k+) and OK saddles (40+) are enough to even the hardest hitting of their tames.
2- They can and will destroy all kinds of structures. Trapping them with man-made structures is almost impossible, and baiting with structures is impractical, unless you get lucky enough to trap them a corner. Another spoiler: They not always spawn near natural map structures, and kiting them isn't very pleasant...
3- They can steamroll your precious Hover Skiff. Any and all Voidwyrms instantly destroy Hover Skiffs, no mercy will be shown. As Skiffs are the fastest way to search for such a (now) very rare creature, it's advised that you tame them where they spawn, and place your Skiff away from the area.
4- They take reduced damage from TEK weapons; This, however, can and should be used to your advantage, as they need to be brought at very low health to be tamed. Below 10%, to be precise.
TL;DR: Let your creature tank it, carefully shoot them, mount when ready, use Mutagen when they roll. Repeat any of these when needed if bucked off.
Finding them is now the real pain. If you use the Wiki Spawn Map, uncheck the "Space_Gen2" box. You are VERY unlikely to find them in these areas. To the ones that don't: stay to the West of 50 Longitude.
In any case, try to stay at more or less the level of the bridges.
You cannot tame this creature outside of the space zone.
Bringing it into one of the main biomes will give you a message saying it needs to be in space.
Finally it will let me give you the best tip on taming one these bad boys all you need is a net gun and a shotgun mutagen and bam easy to tame after that