Basilisk is a dangerous reptile-like creature in Ark Aberration that shares many features with the snake while being double its size. They can travel in total stealth mode by making a hole below the ground through burrowing. Their venom-spitting abilities can kill the opponent in seconds, making this creature ideal for fighting as their bodies are designed to fight.
Once a Basilisk kills its enemies, it returns to the ground to wait for another creature to be attracted by its body and ultimately kill it. If you can tame a basilisk in Ark Aberration, you can harness all the fighting powers of a Basilisk. Therefore, we have created a guide on the location and taming process.
How to Tame a Basilisk in Ark: Aberration?
Basilisks cannot be tamed traditionally, where you knock a creature out and feed it its favorite foods. Instead, The Basilisk in Aberration can only be tamed by giving it a fertilized Rock Drake Egg and allowing it to eat it. The Basilisk is an aggressive creature, so the best way to have it eat the egg is to lure it into your trap.
The trap can be made with a fence foundation with pillars and ramps. You also need to add separate base structures on the ground throughout the length of the trap, as Basilisks can escape by digging through the ground.
The gaps in the trap should be spaced so that only you can escape through it. Once the trap is made, the Basilisk should be lured into it by making it chase you. You can walk into the trap and escape from the cracks between the pillars, but the Basilisk will be trapped.
The rest of the taming process is simple: You only need to feed the fertilized Rock Drake Eggs to the Basilisk until the taming process is finished. Basilisks will not eat eggs sometimes because they might not be hungry, so the best way is to come back later.
The total time required to tame a level 30 Basilisk is around 1 hour and 27 minutes, and the feeding interval is around 10 minutes. This means that you must feed the Basilisk one fertilized Rock Drake Egg every 10 minutes.
If we do the math, we will need around 9 fertilized Rock Drake eggs to fully tame a level 30 Basilisk. Once tamed, you need to have its favorite food in your inventory. The Basilisk’s favorite foods are:
- Fertilized dinosaur eggs
- Unfertilized dinosaur eggs
- Raw Mutton
- Raw Prime Meat
- Raw Prime Fish Meat
Ark: Aberration Basilisk Drops
The Basilisk drops four items when you successfully kill it. We’ve detailed them below, along with their spawn commands:
| Item | Spawn Command |
|---|---|
| Basilisk Scale | cheat gfi ApexDrop_Basilisk 1 0 0 |
| Hide | cheat gfi Hide 1 0 0 |
| Raw Meat | cheat gfi rawmeat 1 0 0 |
| Raw Prime Meat | cheat giveitemnum 248 1 0 0 |
Basilisk Stats
The Basilisk possesses the following stats in Ark: Survival Ascended.
| Stats | Basilisk | Wild Basilisk | Tamed Basilisk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 2750 | 300 | +5.4% |
| Stamina | 650 | 715 | +10% |
| Food | 2500 | 2750 | +10% |
| Weight | 2200 | 2244 | +4% |
| Melee Damage | 55/120 | 57.75/126 | +1.7% |
| Movement Speed | 100% | +1% | |
| Torpidity | 175 | 185.5 | |
Ark Aberration Basilisk Location
The Basilisk is not hard to find in the Aberration as it spawns in the deeper areas all over the map. The lower regions of the map, such as The Ancient Device, The Lost Roads, The Spine, and Element Falls, have a higher rate of spawning the Basilisk.
Location #1
- LAT: 44
- LON: 16
The Ancient Device, found in the western corner of the map, is a great place to find Basilisks in Ark: Aberration.
Location #2
- LAT: 75
- LON: 35
Moving north to 75 Latitude and 35 Longitude, The Halls of the Reaper area is another great location to find this dino.
Location #3
- LAT: 83
- LON: 70
Finally, many basilisks tend to spawn at Element Falls in the extreme north of the map. The coordinates are given above.
Basilisk Spawn Command in Ark: Survival Ascended
If you’re having trouble finding a Basilisk, you can use a spawn command to summon it. To do this, first open the console command box by pressing TAB, if you’re playing on a PC, if you’re playing on PlayStation, you’ll need to hold down L1, R1, Square, and Triangle at once, and similarly, on Xbox, hold down, LB, RB, X, and Y at once.
Once the console opens, simply type in: “cheat summon Basilisk_Character_BP_C” and press enter.
