No creature in Ark Survival Evolved is useless, and having a diverse roster greatly benefits your survival. Desmodus, a bat and one of the newly added creatures to the game in the Ark Fjordur expansion, is one such example.
Desmodus can turn on night vision and steal life from the creature in its claws. Moreover, if you attack any creature from your Desmodus, it will steal blood packs. Once you have blood packs, head inside the Desmodus inventory, and you will get a special ability to craft Sanguine Elixer, a special consumable that boosts the taming process by 30%. Two more major benefits of taming this creature are its screech ability, which helps you ping and track similar dinos, and its ability to go invisible.
Taming Desmodus gives you large benefits, and this guide will pinpoint its location and help you tame, breed, and spawn the creature in Ark Fjordur.
How to Tame a Desmodus?
The first thing you need to do before starting the taming process is to take out all the bats you don’t want to keep, lure the not-required ones out, and hide in the water till they eventually fly away or trap the one you want to tame. Once you have the required Desmodus isolated, add blood packs in your hot bar and let the creature pick you up as it will begin sucking on the packs.
The creature will drop you between the process but again aggro on you to start the taming process again. But remember to keep moving around as if you stand still in one spot. It will attack and kill you. If your effectiveness is decreasing, you must feed small dinos to Desmodus. The best dino to feed is Moschops, but it must be tamed, and you must pump in extra health; one single Moschop with maxed health can speed up the taming process with increased effectiveness.
Keep checking on the creature, as it might sometimes get stuck in the cave walls, dropping the Moschop; this is when you head forward and jump to let Desmodus grab you. You will again notice the effectiveness decreasing, so before the taming bar hits 100%, get some distance and allow it to have one more run with the Moschops, and then jump right near the Desmodus, and you will get the creature tamed.
Desmodus Saddle
The Desmodus Saddle can be crafted at Level 74 for 45 Engram Points and 88.8 Crafting XP. To craft the saddle, you will require the following ingredients:
- 260x Hide
- 180x Fiber
- 120x Wood
- 45x Metal Ingot
Desmodus Locations in Ark Fjordur
Desmodus is found in cave areas on the Fjordur map, and their best spawn locations are marked on the map below.
Desmodus Stats in Ark Fjordur
The Desmodus possesses the following stats in Ark Fjordur:
| Stats | Base Value | Wild Value |
|---|---|---|
| Health | 325 | 390 |
| Stamina | 500 | 550 |
| Oxygen | 150 | 165 |
| Food | 1600 | 1760 |
| Weight | 350 | 378 |
| Melee Damage | 100 | 105 |
| Movement Speed | 100% | |
| Torpidity | 450 | 477 |
How to Breed Desmodus in Ark Fjordur?
Once you get a pair of Desmodus, set their behavior radial to enable mating. After the mating period ends, the female will have a gestation period; when this period ends, the baby Desmodus will be dropped. The baby will consume meat and blood packs to mature.
Desmodus Spawn Command
If you’re finding it hard to locate the Desmodus in Ark Fjordur, open up the console command box by pressing TAB key if you’re playing on a PC, but 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. After the console opens, type “admincheat Summon Desmodus_Character_BP_C” and press enter.
