ARK: Survival Evolved: Bloodstalker - How to Tame, Feed and Breed! (2024)

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Find out everything you need to know about the Bloodstalker in our ARK: Survival Evolved guide. But also how to catch it, tame it, feed it, and breed offspring too.

The Bloodstalker was added to Ark within the Genesis Part: 1 DLC for which reason you can only find it there and in Genesis Part: 2.

This is the Bloodstalker in ARK: Survival Evolved

Appearance: The Bloodstalker looks a bit like a giant six-legged spider, which has a proboscis as a mouth, similar to that of a mosquito, with which it sucks the blood out of its victims. He has four fly-like eyes, which stand out due to their red color. On its back, it has four bony, blunt, spikes.

Wild:The Bloodstalker hangs beneath a branch, waiting until its victims are close enough to grab, and starts dragging them to itself. If it has them in its clutches, it starts sucking their blood to satisfy its hunger. Bloodstalkers can also pull you off a mount with no chance of escaping.

Domesticated: Have you managed to tame your Bloodstalker, you'll have a mount that allows you to swing from tree to tree like Tarzan, pull yourself towards things, or even grab other creatures to drag them around behind you.

All Bloodstalker Locations in ARK

The Bloodstalker is discoverable in these spots:

How to tame a Bloodstalker in ARK

The Bloodstalker is relatively easy to tame, if you compare it to other creatures, as long as you are well-prepared so that you won't die in the process. For taming it, you have to get caught by the Bloodstalker and let yourself be drained of blood. This drains your health out unless you have enough Blood Packs prepared.

For creating a Blood Pack, you need the Blood Extraction Syringe, which you can unlock with level 6 and 6 engram points. To craft it, you need the following materials:

• 10x Hide
• 1x Chitin, Keratin, or Shell Fragment

With the Blood Extraction Syringe, you can draw blood from yourself for 25 health, with 1x Blood Pack as a result. Depending on the level of the Bloodstalker and the server settings, you need at least a minimum of 500x Blood Packs to tame it. But it is better and safer if you have, around, 1000x Packs prepared.

Since you find Bloodstalkers in the swamps, where other insects often roam, it is best to apply Bug Repellant, to keep the insects away and won't harm you or the Bloodstalker during the taming process. If they attack you while taming, the Bloodstalker will fall down with you. The taming progress remains, however you have to continue taming on the ground where it is much more dangerous due to a lot of other hungry creatures.

How to feed an Bloodstalker in ARK

Once you have tamed your Bloodstalker, it is important to know what they like to eat. Bloodstalkers are sanguine, meaning they only eat blood. So you should have enough blood infusions so that he doesn't starve to death.

Info: If the Bloodstalker is injured and falls below 40% of his health, he tries to heal himself by eating blood. If you're currently riding him, and you don't have any blood infusions with you in this situation, he will eat your blood, which in turn will drain your health.

How to breed the Arthropluera 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 breeding interval for an Arthropluera is 18 to 48 hours.

How to Hatch Eggs: When you get a fertilized Bloodstalker Egg from a successful mating, the hatching begins. For this, the ambient temperature of the egg should be between 27 °C and 30 °C and within the Egg-Incubator at 29 °C. According to standard settings, the little Bloodstalker baby hatches after about 3 hours. After that, it needs about 5.5 hours of your attention, during which you have to keep putting Blood Packs in its inventory.

Once it gains juvenile status, it is able to feed itself through troughs. The entire ripening time takes about 2 days and 6.5 hours.

Beginner tips on breeding in ARK can be found here:

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