Keeping megalodons safe

[Windmill]

So we've tamed a couple megalodons, they're great and super fun, but we don't seem to have any way to protect or keep them when we're offline. If we leave it in passive, other megalodons eat it, but if we leave it in neutral it ends up in the depths of the ocean somewhere because they swim around a lot when they fight and don't return to where you left them. With normal dinos we can put them in the fenced in pen to prevent this, but anyone have any solution to keeping the sharks? We had wanted to set up a base in a cavern but there's no point if we need to tame a new megalodon and get 120 keratin for a saddle every morning.

[Intra]

What's stopping you from building underwater?

[Kaltfeuer]

at the coast where my tribe has its base, it is flat waterbed for a bit and than goes straight down (to deep to build there for me, for now).
so there is no realy good way to build a base, as the ground on the flat area is to uneven to cover a building big enough to make sure that other megadolons can't attack the tamed one through the wall or without leaving gaps in the wall due to uneven ground.
other issue is what gate to use for a Megadolon? i think the wooden gate is not big enough for it? (haven't tried to ride one through it yet, just a visual guess)

haven't checked out the other coastarea, so don't know if there is a better suited area for underwater-building

[ThatFawker]

Srry for my bad english but yah I have this problem too. Tamed 3 megalodons, and all died ;/ There are some places with a wide not too deep area where you can build a pen for your megalodon, but the problem is that wild megalodons' aggro range for pet-megalodons are like infinite when in the water (If not in water they deflate into the sky the instant they get out of water = instant death) but different for humans. Ive tried luring megalodons into the not too deep areas, and they stop chasing after me when they get there, like they have a certain point where they can't reach, but for your pet megalodon or dead wild megalodons on the shore or near land, they will try to get them even if it's on the tip of the shore. For now, it would be very hard to keep one alive, unless you have the time to build a good pen for it. The game needs more updates.....

[Synthetik]

I have yet to keep one as a pet because I have been pondering this very dilemma.

I have been thinking of using the same offline pet-mode I use for our land dino's though:

For sharks
- have more than 1 - three is probably safest.
- keep 2 on neutral and one on passive.
- mount the passive shark and use global "all follow me" (they will follow the passive shark and not you). Consider parking the passive shark far enough from shore to make it difficult to reach for griefers maybe?
- this will allow the two on neutral to defend against attacks (also defend the passive shark) and then return to the passive shark. As if being on a leash, if it were.

As stated, neither tried nor tested but it's the best plan I've got so far for when its my turn.

Definitely don't plan on fencing mine in - makes it too easy for someone else to kill it, given the option to do so anyway. My plan probably wouldn't work, wouldn't keep them 100% safe, but its the best idea I've got!

[Aurestrasz]

There are plenty of coves that you can build a behemoth gateway in and some walls to wall it off from other sharks coming in. Some of them do spawn sharks in, but if you wall it off and leave your sharks are neutral/aggressive, they will take care of the sharks that spawn in the coves while being safe from other sharks outside the wall. Some of these coves even have a natural barrier against sharks from getting into them, because you literally need to ride your shark through some shallow water to get into them. However, there's a risk to these coves, as your shark can get beached/stuck and die from that. Other than that, your best bet would probably be what SynthetiK suggested. Granted, on PvP servers, there's a high probability they'll die no matter what you do due to griefers and what not.

[Feisty_Yeti | TF2SP]

can other megaladons break wood fences? if not, keep them in a cage

[HawthornThistleberry]

If you can't build a water-pen, what you can do is designate one animal (in the water ideally, or if not, very near the shore) as Passive. This one is your anchor. Then mount that one and whistle T to the megalodons, who are on Neutral. Now, they'll defend themselves, but if they have to swim away for a bit to do it, once done, the 'follow' will bring them back to the anchor.

Note that the animal-following-animal seems to reset after a server restart, and of course it'll do so even more if the anchor dies (but hopefully the others will protect it so that won't happen). And don't use an anchor so far up shore that the megalodons will beach themselves trying to follow it.

Mine are kept in a water paddock, though: http://i.imgur.com/AVeWQV1.png It's now twice the size it was in this picture. Coels and megapiranha can swim into it, but they don't bother the megalodons and ichthys.

[Iriath Zhul]

I built a gigantic seapen for my megalodon and plesio, and tested it to make sure you can't swim in or out. Both dinos were gone when I came back (I know they aren't killed because it's PVE).

You can't trust anything. Abandon hope. Load a Quetzal with dodos and live in the volcano for the rest of your life.

[Caelum]

I'm on the western coast and still see my tamed Mega every day. Reminds me that I gotta feed it probably. Build a pen near the cape at the edge of the first bay, south of the snow biome and south of fight club point, where the argies, rexes, etc keep fighting it out. Water is shallow enough to build stuff and deep enough the mega can swim around. Dunno if I could keep a plesio there though.

[moTom]

Build a very small pen at the shore, put a turtle or something like that inside, hop on it, whistle follow all and set the sharks to neutral. Once they´re done fighting they´ll swim back to the shore cause they are on follow, even if they are miles away they´ll come back with this.

[sarsox]

put all you sharks on following a raft that way they always return afther a fight simpel and effective

[WarmedxMints]

Originally posted by HawthornThistleberry:

If you can't build a water-pen...

Yes you can, I'll post some screenshots of my water pen in a bit.

[Singrave]

call greenpeace
KEEP THE MEGALODONS SAFE!

[HawthornThistleberry]

Originally posted by WarmedxMints:

Originally posted by HawthornThistleberry:

If you can't build a water-pen...

Yes you can, I'll post some screenshots of my water pen in a bit.

Obviously I can (I posted a picture of mine), but the original poster said he couldn't because of his location.

[Bignastycupcake]

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