Find out everything you need to know about the cave-dwelling carnivore in our ARK: Survival Evolved Megalania guide. But also how to catch him, tame him, feed him, and breed offspring too.
You can find the Megalania mainly in the many caves of the Arks, but also in the Highland Sands of Ragnarok, in the volcanic biome of Genesis, and in The Trench from the Extinction DLC.
This is the Megalania in ARK: Survival Evolved
Appearance: The Megalania looks like a common but large monitor lizard and is a direct ancestor of the Komodo dragon that survives today.
Wild: The Megalania is territorial and will not be aggressive until you invade its territory. If you get too close, he will attack you, which can result in him poisoning you and giving you damage over time.
Domesticated: A tamed Megalania has the special feature that when you ride it, you can run up the walls of caves or cliffs. In addition, neither you nor he will take any damage if you jump down the wall or fall.
How to tame the Megalania in ARK
How to hunt a Megalania: Megalania is relatively quick on their feet, so you should use a bola or bear trap to snare them first. Once you’ve done that, shoot him with tranquilizer darts until he’s unconscious.
How to tame him: Once he’s unconscious, it’s best to put the kibble or meat in his inventory and feed him that. To keep the Megalania down and the Stun value up, it’s best to use the Narcotic or Narcoberries
How to feed a Megalania in ARK
Once you have tamed your Megalania, it is important to know what it likes to eat. Megalanias are carnivores, which of course makes the choice of food easier.
- Extraordinary-Kibble:
- Ingredients: 1x Special Egg, 5x Fiber, 10x Mejoberries, 1x Lazarus Chowder, 1x Giant Bee Honey, 1x Water
- Ingredients for Lazarus Chowder: 9x Cooked Meet (or Cooked Fish Meat or Cooked Meat Jerky), 5x Savoroot, 5x Longrass, 10x Mejoberries, 2x Narcotic, 1x Water
- Raw Mutton:
- Received by gutting Ovis.
- Cooking turns it into the Cooked Lamb Chop
- Raw Prime Meat:
- Gained when gutting larger creatures
- Cooking turns it into Cooked Prime Meat
- Raw Prime Fish Meat:
- Obtained from Alpha Mosasaurus, Dunkleosteus, Electrophorus, Leedsichtys, Megalodon, and Sabertooth Salmon
- Cooking turns it into the Cooked Prime Fish Meat
- Raw Meat:
- Earned by gutting a creature
- Cooking turns it into Cooked Meat
- Raw Fish Meat:
- Received from gutting fish
- Cooking turns it into Cooked Fish Meat
How to breed the Megalania in ARK
This is how you prepare the breeding: If you have a male and female specimen, you build an enclosure that is large enough at best. Put both dinos in the pen and set them to “wander” via the command menu. Alternatively, you can also switch directly to “Pair”, but then there must always be a player nearby, otherwise the pairing will stop due to the rendering.
The mating interval of a Megalanias is between 18 and 48 hours.
How to Hatch Eggs: If you have obtained a fertilized Megalania egg from a successful mating, hatching begins. For this, the ambient temperature of the egg should be between 29 °C and 35 °C and in the egg incubator at 32 °C. According to standard settings, the little Megalania baby hatches after about 2 hours. After that, it takes about 4 hours of your attention, during which you keep putting food in its inventory.
Once it gains juvenile status, it can feed on its own. The total maturation time is about 1 day and 13 hours.
Beginner tips on breeding in ARK can be found here:
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