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ARK: Survival Ascended – Guide to Taming the Ossidon and its Abilities
This guide details how to tame the Ossidon in Ark Survival Ascended, including the necessary preparation, the taming strategy, and the Ossidon's abilities once tamed. It highlights the difficulty of the process and the need to optimize the strategy to avoid setbacks.
1. 🗺️ Where to find and prepare to tame the Ossidon
- ✅ The Ossidon is found in the snowy areas of Ragnarok, Valguero, and Venta.
- ✅ In the future, it will only be available in the Lost Colony expansion.
- ⚠️ Taming the Ossidon is difficult, so it's crucial to know the correct methods.
- ✅ It is recommended to use the gene scanner to locate it more easily.
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1. 🗺️ Where to find and prepare to tame the Ossidon
- ✅ The Ossidon is found in the snowy areas of Ragnarok, Valguero, and Venta.
- ✅ In the future, it will only be available in the Lost Colony expansion.
- ⚠️ Taming the Ossidon is difficult, so it's crucial to know the correct methods.
- ✅ It is recommended to use the gene scanner to locate it more easily.
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2. 🏹 Strategies and challenges to start taming the Ossidon
- ✅ Using narcotic darts with a longneck rifle is more efficient than narcotic arrows.
- ⚠️ It is not recommended to use an Argentavis to travel, as it does not allow shooting from the mount.
- ✅ It is preferable to use a griffin or Tek armor to shoot while mounted and be able to escape quickly.
- ⚠️ The Ossidon attacks all nearby creatures, which interrupts the taming process.
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3. 🧊 Environmental dangers and how to avoid them during taming
- ⚠️ The Ossidon can easily die from attacks by other creatures due to its low initial health.
- ✅ The best opportunity to tame one is to find an Ossidon of level 150 or close to it.
- ⚠️ Avoid flying too close to the ground to avoid detonating the ice spikes that act as landmines, causing great damage.
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4. ⚽ Taming process: Collecting creatures and icicles
- ✅ After stunning the Ossidon, mount it and roll a snowball to collect small creatures.
- ✅ Collecting creatures increases the taming bar. Only creatures the size of a Carnotaurus or smaller can be collected.
- ✅ You must also collect the giant icicles to keep the taming effectiveness high.
- ⚠️ The Ossidon moves slowly while rolling the ball, which makes efficient collection difficult.
- ⚠️ If the ball breaks, the player is thrown off and must defend the Ossidon from hostile creatures.
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5. 🛡️ Keeping the Ossidon alive during and after the taming process
- ✅ It is crucial to help the Ossidon kill creatures so that it can eat the bodies and heal.
- ✅ Keeping it fed is vital to prevent it from dying during fights.
- ⚠️ Avoid flying too close to the ground to avoid detonating the icicles.
- ✅ Prioritize eliminating the biggest threats to protect the Ossidon.
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6. 🚧 Additional tips and tricks for successful taming
- ✅ After feeding it for the first time, a marker will appear showing its location.
- ✅ The yellow bar indicates the taming progress and the pink bar indicates its level of unconsciousness.
- ⚠️ Dinosaur gate walls are not high enough to block it; use Behemoth gates.
- ⚠️ Shooting additional narcotic darts at it does not extend the time it remains stunned.
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7. 🔄 Summary of taming mechanics and environmental considerations
- ✅ Eliminate large groups of creatures, leaving some for the Ossidon to attack.
- ✅ Collect small creatures and icicles to increase the taming bar and effectiveness.
- ⚠️ Avoid falling from high places or entering deep water, as this will break the ball.
- ✅ Move the Ossidon out of the snowy area to find more small creatures.
- ⚠️ Avoid wooded areas and ravines that can break the ball.
- ✅ Take it to a flat, open area with many small creatures.
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8. 🐴 Post-taming preparation: Saddling the Ossidon
- ✅ After taming the Ossidon, kill all the creatures around it.
- ✅ The saddle is unlocked at level 74 and requires the Lost Colony DLC.
- ✅ The materials needed are 200 fiber, 150 metal ingots, and 380 leather, and it is crafted in the smithy.
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9. ❄️ Ossidon abilities: Jump, snowball, attacks, and icicles
- ✅ Space to jump.
- ✅ Pressing C makes it roll its phlegm and start rolling a snowball.
- ✅ The left mouse button performs melee attacks.
- ✅ Holding down the right mouse button allows you to fire icicles that act as landmines.
- ⚠️ The Ossidon's abilities are not very good compared to the difficulty of taming.
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10. ⚙️ Ossidon controls and attributes
- ✅ Left control to toggle rotation.
- ✅ Leveling up increases its size and changes its appearance.
- ✅ Health increases the overall size and the number of victims it can carry in its ball.
- ✅ Oxygen increases the length and distance it can fire its icicles.
- ✅ Food increases the size of its stomach and the number of icicles it can fire at once.
- ✅ Weight increases its muscle size and the maximum size of a creature it can hold in the ball.
- ✅ Melee damage increases the size of its claws.
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11. 📌 Final thoughts and next steps
- ⚠️ Taming the Ossidon is very difficult and possibly not worth it in its current state.
- ✅ The author hopes that the developers improve the Ossidon.
- ✅ The next video will show how to tame it using other creatures.