Onyc taming, present day (2017) still possible?

[HawthornThistleberry]

Every how-to guide and video I can find about taming onycs uses one of two techniques, neither of which seem to work anymore, or if they do I can't get it to work.

1) Find one alone in a cave at exactly the right height above ground. Stand under it with ghillie and bug repellent (some say not needed) and feed it. Take it home. Problem: even given the unlikelihood of finding one in such a perfectly placed position, they aggro long before you could get under them, even with ghillie, bug repellent, and crouching.

2) Build a trap box, aggro it in, build a wall to close the box, go outside, wait for deaggro, then feed it through the walls by taking advantage of the odd clipping. This is the most popular method I see in videos, and it's sure simple and straightforward in them, but what the videos show no longer works, I think. I have tried a hundred configurations for this, with me feeding through the walls as in the videos, or from a hatchframe below, or from above, through stone, through glass, from crouching, with and without ghillie and bug repellent, from on a ramp, from every possible angle. It's patently easy to get to where, with every flap of its wings, I see the "press E to feed" message, but that message flickers in and out, and it never gets a feed in. We even managed, through one particularly contorted combination of circumstances, after several hours of trying, to get where the message did not flicker, but it still would not let us feed it -- as long as it's through a wall. But once there's an open door, window, or trapdoor involved, it aggros, no matter how much ghillie/etc. we use.

I realize an onyc is pretty useless, so probably no one bothers anymore. It's just one of the challenges I haven't beaten. But maybe they've made changes in the hitbox clipping since those videos were made, and it's not even possible anymore. Or maybe I'm missing something blindingly obvious. Anyone have any insight into how it's done *now*? Or if it even still can?

[heroicidiot]

If you tried it and still doesn't work, then it doesn't work

[[Countess]Vol†z]

Personally, I wish they'd update the bat to beable to hitch a ride on your back and act like a parachute.

[TheWorldWonders]

I think you may be able to lure the onyc outside and pacify it with the pachyrhino.

[HawthornThistleberry]

Interesting idea! Wonder if anyone's done that.

[heroicidiot]

The Onyc is tamed non-violently, rather than through the use of tranquilizers, and requires a player level of 65 to feed. Since it is a naturally aggressive creature, you must first apply Bug Repellant.png Bug Repellant to yourself in order to keep it from attacking you on sight. The Bat will not be tameable if it is trying to attack another creature or is feeding on a corpse, so you must remove any such distractions from the area, or lure the Bat to a more secluded area.
Once you have the repellent applied and distractions dealt with, place the food you wish to feed it in the right-most slot of your hotbar. Then, carefully approach the Bat until the button prompt to feed it appears - it will eat the piece of food you give it and a taming bar will appear. You must then wait until it becomes hungry enough to be fed again, and repeat the process.
If you accidentally get too close and touch the Bat, it will become aggressive and attack, despite the repellant. In order to continue taming it, you must get far enough away for it to lose interest in you. A Ghillie Suit can be used as a substitute for repellant, but you will need to be prone to get close enough to tame it, leaving you vulnerable to attacks.

[Lilo]

Rebind E to the mouse wheel, scroll mouse wheel to feed, catches it even with the 'flickers'. But I haven't tamed one recently to test if they are still tameable.

[HawthornThistleberry]

Originally posted by Lilo:

Rebind E to the mouse wheel, scroll mouse wheel to feed, catches it even with the 'flickers'. But I haven't tamed one recently to test if they are still tameable.

That's an interesting idea. I can program a mouse button to hit E many times quickly too, like the one that clicks 20 times for quickly feeding an animal a stack of meat. But since, even when we had no flickering (that one time) it still wouldn't eat through the wall, I don't think it'll help. But it's worth a try. If I can get people willing to give it another go, going to try the pachyrhino method, and see if that'll do it.

[Jon.Topps]

Did you ever manage to get it? I'm having the same issues here. I've gotten a bat right in front of me, no aggro, I can see the "press E to feed", and nothing happens.

[HawthornThistleberry]

Nope, never found a way. Not been playing ARK for a few months though.

[Charnel]

Honestly still a waste of a tame until they allow breeding

[Cataclisto]

Last time i tamed one, as a troll present to someone for the haloween event last year, kited the bat outside of a cave into a taming pen, weared ghilee, applied cactus broth (that i got from SE) and bug repelent and then tamed it

[Jon.Topps]

Read yesterday, some places the bats are untameable, and apparently this includes the place I was getting bats from (the castle in Ragnarok). I have to get one from carni caves, which is gonna be a HUGE pain.

[Wariat117]

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Onyc#Taming
According to this you need 65lvl and bug repellant before you start feeding.

Also as someone stated not all onycs are tamable (this page doesn't have ragnarok but there are at least 2 caves on island which show it as untamable)