Thread: Giganto

Anyone tame one of these yet? One of my guys tried a few times last night, but kept taking too much aggro and dying.

When you say too much aggro and dying, you mean the Ape was easily able to kill him?

The ape killed him i think once, but he also died to other things trying to run from the ape, lol. We will try again tonight, but have support to keep ants and dilos from killing him.

Got 'er.

I tamed one, walk up to it when it is walking and make sure it doesn't take any damage.

We got one. Pretty low level, and we already have more fiber than we can use, but fun to have anyway.

I think it gets a decent amount of wood compared to a trike.

So I got one yesterday. It was mid level 50-ish. It took a long time. You can aggro it as many times as you want. The only thing that causes it to lose tame is hitting it.

Tips:

1) Don't do any damage to it.

2) Feel free to purposefully aggro it to keep it in a particular area. As soon as it exhausts its stamina it loses interest. The Ape will wander all over the place and if you don't do this every once and awhile it will lead you all over the place.

3) As you tame more it feeds faster but the feeding is fairly predictable. (At least this is my impression of it)

4) If you can't feed it make sure you have mejoberry on the last slot of your hot bar (slot 0). If it is still not working, remove them and add them again.

5) It is very time consuming to do this tame and the worst part of it is that it requires constant input. If you can, find something else to tame close by that is useful to you and takes awhile. If you can setup some protection for your traditional tame and can keep it within a 15-20 second run you can feed a berry and run back to check on your other tame, turn around and feed another berry .

I know this thread is old but I've only been playing about a week.

Vis and I tried taming one last night, it was awful! We watched a video on how to, it seemed easy enough. We found one on a nice open stretch of beach, no predators. Everything was fine, quite boring in fact so we tamed a pteranodon simultaneously.

The video I watched said give a mejoberry every 30 seconds or so, but really it was more like a minute or longer (she wouldn't take one if she wasn't hungry). Also, the taming bar barely moved, we were out there over an hour and it was barely 30%. We tried feeding it less than recommended in the video and the taming effective % went down! So we went back to popping a berry as soon as it was hungry again and it went up but never any higher than 43% effective. It moved soooo slowly. I am not sure if it's because she was level 76? (we're still new). But the video I watched made it sound like this could all be done in 30 minutes so were not fully prepared.

Anyway night came, carno appeared so we had to deal with that, and randomly the giantopethecus decided to attack our bird (who was passively sitting this whole time), since bird wouldn't fight back it attempted to flee and she followed it...it was pitch black (no moon) and she disappeared across the river and we lost her (when she was like 70% tamed too). We did find her about 5 minutes later when sun was rising but her taming bar was back to 0. Night wasted! ><

Does the taming bar always go this slowly? I am wondering if we did something wrong.

- Meena