How To Tame A Hyaenodon

The best, most infallible style to passively tame a Hyaenodon in ARK: Survival Evolved PC Patch 258.

ARK: Survival Evolved PC Patch 258 introduced a new tamable canine called the Hyaenodon. They're often institute roaming in stat-additional packs around mountainous and redwood regions of the Island, tearing their sharp fangs into whatever prey they tin overwhelm. If y'all're hoping to tame a pack of your own, even so, y'all should know that they don't take also kindly to being knocked out and force fed.

Rather, the only way to tame a Hyaenodon is to coax it away from the leader of the pack and shower it with love and affection until it turns cloaks -- merely like that puppy in your local pet store. The only issue is these pups are skittish and will take off if yous try to get too cozy.

So if petting information technology is the simply style to tame it and it runs away when you go too close, then how are you supposed to tame it? Information technology's unproblematic, actually, with a bit of prep piece of work.

How to Tame the Haeynodon in ARK SE

There are 2 ways y'all tin realistically become nigh your preparations for taming a Haeynodon:

1. Build a taming room to keep them from running away.

Either opt to use walls or build the fences high, since the Hyaenodon is capable of jumping low-fenced enclosures. Make sure you besides have at least a Pteranodon tamed, saddled, and ready to fly in order to pick up the little rascals and drop them in your taming room. You may even want a spyglass so that y'all don't have to dismount if y'all want to exist picky nigh which one you lot're taking home.

2. Sneak upwards on 'em

Alternatively, you lot could craft the Ghillie Armor gear up to more than easily sneak upward on the Hyaenodon without spooking it. Even with this method, though, a saddled Pteranodon is still recommended to conduct it abroad from the pack leader and any potential predators.

Once you're skillful and fix, information technology's time to locate the Hyaenodon you lot'll be taming.

Where to Find Hyaenodon in ARK

It goes without saying that spawn locations will vary from map to map. All the same, there are a few good spots on the Island, the Heart, and Scorched Earth that we can point y'all towards.

The Island has a couple of locations where Hyaenodon usually spawn:
- Around the Redwood Wood area near the center of the map, at the base of the Cerise Acme
- Upwards in the mountains on the Due north-Eastward corner of the map
Check the Middle on the Center map. You lot know how the map is named after a fantastical landmark off in the West? Aye, go there.
On theScorched Earth DLC map, check the Low Desert in the South-Eastern corner of the map.

If you lot're on a custom or procedurally generated map, simply hop on your Pteranodon and border out the map until you spot some. Hyaenodon tend to travel in packs, so they shouldn't be too difficult to locate. Once you've found the one you lot want, clutch it in your flying mount'southward talons and bring it back to a prophylactic spot for taming.

Set up. Prepare. Tame!

ARK Survival Evolved Hyaenodon Taming Location Guide

The trick to taming a Hyaenodon is to sneak up to it, pet it, and back away earlier yous spook it -- then repeating this every 30 seconds until it trusts yous. Still, this tin can exist a huge pain in the rear since information technology's easily spooked.

If you took the fourth dimension to prepare, though, you should be all set. Drop it in the taming room to completely trivialize the entire process. Otherwise, the Ghillie Suit works just fine, so long equally you hunker to arroyo and back away immediately after yous pet information technology.

If you're running into issues while taming, bank check to make sure you didn't choice upwards the pack leader. If yous did, go find a new i -- because wild alphas cannot be tamed.

Congratulations on taming your first Hyaenodon -- don't forget to requite it enough of affection! Be sure to bank check back with GameSkinny for more guides on Patch 258 and all thingsARK: Survival Evolved .

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