Aberration Creature Taming

A concise compilation of all the basic information you might need to tame all of the new creatures added in the Aberration DLC.

Glow Pets

There are four creatures in Aberration which can create a 'charge light' aura, and ride on the player's shoulder. A charge light aura is required to protect oneself from and to damage Nameless and Reapers, and as such it is essential to have one of these glowing pets with you in many areas of the map. They are completely passive: they will not fight if attacked, and require hand-feeding to tame. Plant species Z seeds work best for this, but as they can be time consuming to collect I prefer to just use mushrooms, their second favorite taming food.
If you wish to take the time to do so however, gathering plant species Z seeds is done by approaching a plant, waiting close enough to it that it stays 'open' for several minutes, and then it will release a seed which you can then pick up.




Bulbdog
- Location: green zone
- Prefered mushroom: aquatic (hydration/frost protection)
- Diet: meat
- Skillset: highest charge capacity, lowest recharge rate
- Challenge rating: low (they're ugly and everywhere, so don't feel bad if you lose them. They are very easily replaced)



Glowtail
- Location: fertile cave (green X)
- Prefered mushroom: ascerbic (narcotic)
- Diet: meat
- Skillset: lowest charge capacity, highest recharge rate
- Challenge rating: moderate (take your time clearing out threats before you try to tame a gecko. I recommend taming a ravager or two inside the cave to help clear it out and to help you retrieve the artifact within)



Shinehorn
- Location: blue zone
- Prefered mushroom: aggeravic (health regen/hallucination protection)
- Diet: berries
- Skillset: medium charge capacity, medium recharge rate
- Challenge rating: moderate (you will need another glow pet to safely traverse the area where shinehorns are found, and there are many threats in the area as well.)



Featherlight
- Location: red zone (easiest entrance is at the purple X)
- Prefered mushroom: auric (heals radiation sickness/dehydrates)
- Diet: seeds (i recommend getting an iguanodon and making use of its fruit seeding abiity)
- Skillset: low charge capacity, high recharge rate, can fly and therefore keep up with the player without riding on your shoulder(in my experience all of its stats are surprisingly low, even at high levels)
- Challenge rating: high (the area where featherlights live is difficult to get to, requires a full hazmat suit to even enter, and is filled with the most dangerous creatures on the ark, including reaper queens, which have over 45,000 health! in addition to this, featherlights often fly around, and that makes them difficult to follow and feed. They sure are pretty, though.)

Mid-game Creatures

RollRat
- Location: everywhere except caves and the surface
- Saddle requirements: level 58, metal, cementing paste, green gems
- Taming method: passive
- Taming food: honey (must be thrown at the rat while it is burrowed)
- Diet: berries
- Skillset: can carry several riders in addition to the 'driver', can 'roll' very quickly and without taking damage(though if you hit anything the saddle will take damage, and steering is not easy), can harvest wood extremely well, and has a 20% weight reduction on wood as well.
- Challenge rating: easy (neutral temperment, will only attack in self defense or if you take the gems they dig up)



Ravager
- Location: everywhere except the surface
- Saddle requirements: level 47
- Taming method: standard tranq'n'feed
- Diet: meat
- Skillset: can climb up and down ziplines, get an 'alpha' buff when in groups, and can carry twice as much of most resources(wood, thatch, metal ore, green gems, fiber, crystal, and stone all literaly weigh half as much in the ravager's inventory as they would in the player's or other creatures'). the one downside to ravagers is that they are not immune to radiation, and thus require regular feedings of mushroom brew to use in the red zone.
- Challenge rating: moderate (they travel in packs, are difficult to see due to their lack of bioluminesence, and wild ones do a 'gnash' attack which slows the victim for 10 seconds; more than enough time to 'gnash' again, essentially paralyzing them.)



Karkinos
- Location: shallow water, lake bottom
- Saddle requirements: level 65, blue gems
- Taming method: tranq'n'feed, except narcotics do not work on it so you will have to use blunt force trauma, such as with catapults, ballistas, or cannons.
- Prefered food: carbonemys(turtle) egg kibble
- Diet: spoiled meat
- Skillset: can breathe underwater, can carry small to medium sized creatures in its claws, and is a very good jumper.
Challenge rating: high (if it grabs you or your mount you are in big trouble, and aiming a cannon at it can be very frustrating and consume a lot of resources.)

End-game Creatures

These creatures are all EXTREMELY difficult to tame alone, and if you have a tribe available I highly recommend that you have them help you. Ridden dinos are much more effective than non-ridden ones, even without imprinting boosts.



RockDrake
- Location: adults can be found in the blue and red zones, eggs can be found at the red X on the map.
- Saddle requirements: level 75,metal, red gems
- Taming method: adults cannot be tamed, you must steal an egg and hatch it.
- Imprinting food: nameless venom
- Diet: nameless venom until adulthood, then meat
- Skillset: can climb sheer cliffs, glide, detect reapers, cloak, and carry a passenger in addition to rider.
- Challenge rating: high (to get to the eggs requires radiation protection and the path to the eggs is very long and very treacherous. Make sure you know where you're going and how to get there before you start your journey down. If you stray from the main path, you are likely to encounter a reaper queen. As soon as you pick up an egg, all the many adult drakes in the area will attack, and they are nearly impossible to evade.)


Basilisk
- Location: everywhere, but rare
- Saddle requirements: level 85, metal, cementing paste, green gems
- Taming method: cannot be knocked out, place eggs and get it to unborrow and eat them
- Taming food: fertilized rockdrake eggs
- Diet: meat
- Skillset: good stamina and very high carry weight, can burrow with or without a rider, has a powerful ranged attack, and can knock creatures unconcious with its venom
- Challenge rating: high (spawn sparingly and are hard to spot when burrowed. The only eggs it will accept are fertilized rockdrake eggs, which are extremely difficult to get, and they can be finicky about eating them)



Reaper
- Location: queens are found in the red zone, kings are found on the surface and can be summoned by nameless.
- Taming method: the only way to get yourself a reaper is to be impregnated by a queen and then successfuly 'give birth' to a king while under the effect of a reaper pheromone gland, gathered from dead reaper queens. (being exposed to radiation or sleeping in a tech bed will abort the baby, dieing will reset the timer but not abort it, and all your xp gained while pregnant will go to the baby instead of you, up to 75 levels, added onto the level of the reaper you were impregnated by )
- Imprinting food: reaper pheromone gland
- Diet: meat
- Skillset: it's like having your own pet boss; though they do not obey whistle commands, and until they reach juvenile growth stage they will attack anything not under the effect of a reaper pheromone gland.
- Challenge rating: high (reaper queens live in the irradiated red zone, have a minimum of 45,000 health, are hard to spot, do tons of damage, and are very fast. You will likely need multiple max level, imprinted, mate boosted creatures to stand a chance against these things.)

[Pikapops]

good job. though if you are lucky, reapers and rock drakes are obtainable in early/mid game

[shady wolf1234]

thanks

[AlphaGodith]

@shady wolf1234 the best way i can describe it is they are an uncommon spawn in the entire red zone away from the 'spine' (the metal remnants of a rail system or something that trails along the ceiling). if you have a rock drake, its feathers will rise up when you're near a reaper.

[shady wolf1234]

anywhere else i should look?

[shady wolf1234]

i was looking for the reapers in 61 71.8 but no sign of them

[AlphaGodith]

@vanna.kjyshy i do not get the same options... or at least, i didn't last time i played aberration. i'm too lazy to go test it again right now, so i'll make the guide a little ambiguous as a compromise.

@Aidsken fixed thanks

@Blacskpot plant species z works differently than x or y, in that you can't actually harvest it. instead you have to get close to it and wait for it to 'eject' a seed from itself, which you can then pick up. it's an uncommon, kinda... pulsating-like plant that 'opens' and produces charge light when you get close to it.

[Northern Lights]

What plants drop the plant species z seed? @Godith Shadowind

[vanna.kjyshy]

@Godith Shadowbind

The seats besides the drive on a Roll Rat is 5 people.

Screenshot to prove it. This is what you get to board an additional seat wheel part> http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1270350108

[Aidken]

Featherlight has a typo in its title.

[RickyBaker]

i havent gotten abbiration yet so google is useless for me looking at the new dinos thank you.