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Frustratingly Taming a Shadowmane... - ARK Fjordur [E37]
W/ SYNTAC #Dinosaurs #arkfjordur
The Fjordur Series is a Syntac Adventure on the new Nordic map in ARK Survival Evolved. In this series Syntac will journey throughout Fjordur and its many Realms (Vanaheimr, Jotunheimr and Asgard) and encounter new beasts such as the Fjordhawk, Andrewsarchus, Desmodus Draculae and the Legendary Wolf Fenrir!

[@Syntac]

I love these creatures but I hate taming them 10% Off G-Portal Servers www.g-portal.com/?ref=Syntac

[@mythicman756]

Hi

[@dapo7930]

Same

[@thesovietunion9542]

same. They’re really a pain in the asa

[@stavkous4963]

d

[@_Shinasu]

Are there any mods you could install that would help find your hawk?

[@jamieparsons8610]

TIP: Dont go from the face to a shadowmane, only go from the back/tail. If you go from the face/front it will wake up and reset the tame

[@GolfMk2Gti]

he knows lol

[@thewitchstarot6975]

@@GolfMk2Gti not everyone does

[@joshmejia4105]

@@GolfMk2Gti he's still unsure🤣

[@Itsdat1jit]

@@GolfMk2Gti clearly not

[@kiyoshi058]

@@GolfMk2Gti clearly he does now, but he didnt at the time.... sheeeesh

[@fulgurskye]

This happened to me as well when I was using this trap, I believe it has smth to do with me approaching the mane close to his head, at his back-ish rear. The solution was to not use fence gates as the mane can see you when you approach, but rather use walls, you will still be able to feed it through it

[@shadowmane8394]

This happend to me too but I wansn't using a trap

[@carsonpolitte7639]

@@shadowmane8394 wait one second

[@dino4812]

@@shadowmane8394 why are you enslaving your own kind

[@shadowmane8394]

I'm just making friends

[@tagriea]

Hey syntac did you check the ceiling of the map above your bed? The hawk may have tried to land in the water after dropping your bag and glitched upwards instead of landing

[@kits2169]

I think his 30 minutes are over.

[@paradoxreyy9556]

@@kits2169 wym?

[@mammalianmollasses4784]

@@kits2169 The hawk is missing not the bag.

[@kylemackinnon6230]

@@paradoxreyy9556 the bag despawns after 30 mins this isnt live footage its recorded and edited so theres almost no way it hasnt been 30mins since the incident

[@Manko_Panko]

Did this for a disappearing shadowmane yesterday and died, lost all my stuff and dinos in inventory. So I'd watch out.

[@CNDM]

Apparently fjordhawk sometimes (rarely) glitch when returning your bag, they can spawn at exactly 50 lat, 50 lon... Might be worth a fly by on your maewing!

[@CallenExile]

Good to know. I lost mine recently.

[@RSAMatrix]

Hint:Also check the water in the Abberation cave by the terminal. That is where I caught my fish. If you haven't killed any fish there they should be big and easy to catch sins the water is really shallow. 😁

[@Keefed]

Can't place structures in the cave :( unless you have cave building on.

[@josefenglmaier4363]

Good idea. What are the cords?

[@RSAMatrix]

@@josefenglmaier4363 it's the one syntac goes too where the 180 Karkanos was and has the 2 cave drops(red and yellow) close too the beach

[@Keefed]

It's at the megapithicus boss terminal

[@philemonzz]

@@Keefed I could place my fish baskets there and I don't think I enabled or disabled cave building

[@GTSE2005]

I'm a simple person. I see a notification from Syntac, I click.

[@SevenSmash]

Im was in bed now im having coffee, its a good life

[@blakehartel1723]

True

[@hillbillies9487]

Facts

[@yellowbear7186]

Same

[@rakanahmed4000]

Bro its the law

[@girlysoup123]

started playing on this map SP and have been raising a shadowmane army so very excited to see this video come out!!

[@parvdeepdeswal9407]

SAME i was just mutating shadowmanes when this vid came out i was so hyped!

[@bostonarchie3194]

@@parvdeepdeswal9407 how do you mutate animals do you just keep breeding them because I spent ages breeding ravagers and got no mutations

[@zoerogers7426]

Any suggestions on where to find good fish?

[@parvdeepdeswal9407]

@@zoerogers7426 everywhere, look everywhere

[@parvdeepdeswal9407]

@@bostonarchie3194 yeah i have high breeding rates and i use soul ball mod so just turn them on breeding and in a little while ill get like 200 babies of the dino in the terminal, at least one has the mutation im looking for

[@laurenwallis3553]

The best place I’ve found for fish is the aberration cave with the big purple crystals. There’s always big sabertooth salmon by the boss terminal in the back, and if there isn’t, kill them all, and when you leave the cave and come back there’s a whole new pool of them. Also, the water is so shallow it’s super easy to catch them.

[@pfhantom7804]

Where exactly is it? Cords or smthing?

[@laurenwallis3553]

56.9 lat, 85 long. Back of the cave, just look out for karkinos

[@bunglesii9204]

Theres a really simple trap that i use all the time, its literally just a 2x2 of stone foundations surrounded by 2 high walls. Lead the shadow mane in with the teleport while grappled above the trap, and it will fall in. You can then feed it through the walls (including elixer)

[@wereshnefer]

You can pick fish baskets back up, even if there's a fish next to it. On PS4, just hold triangle to get the options instead of tapping triangle to trap the fish.

[@Syntac]

Yep I know :)

[@ツナマヨ5]

​@@Syntac this map is amazing I literally found male spino 140 and female 140 both next to eachother I tamed them and breed them

[@bbaumsworld1719]

Your Shadowmane woke up for the night. They will reset when it becomes night. You have to watch the time. Best time to start the tame is 6am in Asgard. Hope this helps.

[@roby6287]

Cap

[@bbaumsworld1719]

@@roby6287 ???

[@wrtrext]

I used the Dino Fix mod to make the fish breedable. I bred 2 fish that were 1.5 or 1.6 and the baby came out below 1. So, even if you could breed them, you still have to get lucky with the size

[@josheh_.]

TIP: You can refresh the spoil timer on the baskets by going underwater with them on your hot bar

[@joschawallraff9090]

„Sanguine elixir straight off the BAT“

[@gen8901]

"They're the worst thing to try to tame" Ice Titan: *shows up*

[@nicholasmorris3067]

Yes, but have you ever tried to tame an x rock golem on official

[@notstazzmann9429]

Amargasaurus on official without a trap

[@arkplayer22]

I really love seeing shadowmanes just jumping out of the water it's just magical I I think is worth it to tame these creatures

[@Jakatak-eg2kp]

Just tamed some last week…what an absolute pain. Definitely worth though!

[@ccLorie]

This was the very first video of yours I saw, just because I love shadowmanes and wanted to see how people tame them. I've watched the series from ep 1 since then and now am back to this episode - you're amazing dude I love your content

[@kennithbob]

Hello Syntac, I've been going through and watching a bunch of your videos and just wanted to say I love your outro music. I like staying all the way to the end just to hear it! Thanks for the great vids and entertainment!

[@DeadlyNancy]

The fish grind is real. I spent about a month hunting enough fish to tame the 3 max level shadowmanes I found on my map. Just tamed them on sunday though!

[@kleinesL]

19:35 "I don't knooow maaaaaaan" "You've been seeming sus lately, you sussy baka!"

[@glaciel4769]

Really the hardest part in taming shadowmanes is finding those big fishes, usually takes me a couple of hours just for a single shadowmane. Of course that is if you're into high levels and stats.

[@Keefed]

You can leave them in a cage and when the spoil timer gets low just put the cage on your hotbar and submerge yourself under water. That refreshes the spoil timer to max.

[@Killface177]

He stated this in the video...

[@Keefed]

@@Killface177 I know but he didn't explain that you need to put the fish on your hotbar.

[@jense7906]

Somebody already said it probably but... abberation cave man. Good fish in there

[@SteveFisher0571]

You made hard work of that, use a 2x2 box with 2 high walls (not doorframes) and a ramp to kite it in or you can drop it in with a quetz, once it's in leave render for a bit so it loses aggro then all you need to do is wait for it to fall asleep and feed it wherever it's head clips through the wall, can wear any armour and don't need bug repellent, very easy tame

[@fulgurskye]

Agreed, very well worded, I hope he sees this for the future

[@PreRollit]

I remember using that tent trick to tames vultures back in the day

[@LordSwettYT]

Hey Syntac you can use the Admin dino recover from soulBall mod to find your birb and place him in your inventory. It will work if your hawk was Soulballed. Not sure if you want to do that.

[@Kaiju-Driver]

OMG that tent trick was perfect I was having such a hard time

[@CrowofJudgement461]

I still think you should be able to craft a large fish tank in the fabricator to be able to farm coelacanth and salmon. They could have big round ones like real life in the regular industrial tier and then they could make a tall rectangular one that you can see through the side of in the Tek tier

[@georgebrode8357]

I don’t know what I would do without this series

[@ProbablyMartin]

I went into the purple zone on Asgard twice, once at my house and once at a friends, and I got my drake eggs, and I’m never going back.

[@shanesears750]

Hey Syntac enjoy your commentary but I got a couple questions for you. 1. Have you ever freeze raised a wyvern any type? 2. What is the easiest way to keep nameless venom from decaying to quickly? Enjoy the videos keep on doing what your doing

[@Manko_Panko]

Taming shadowmanes was the closest I've been to frustration crying in a while.

[@Matty-sk9ge]

Finally god has answered our prayers

[@Infamous-xb4kj]

You should use cactus broth along with the ghillie suit it makes you almost invisible

[@Infamous-xb4kj]

Oh and use a snow owl to look for fish

[@novelgigax9877]

Get ready syntac making shadowmanes mutated in series soon!(everytime syn make a series that had shadowmanes he proceed make a overpowered freaking super saiyan version of it) Anyways they are so fustraiting tames.

[@testerwulf3357]

To tame a shadowmane you approach from behind (being too close to the head wakes it up) sneaking whilst wearing ghillie, cactus broth can help too but isn't normally needed! They're a little tricky/tedious to tame but are well worth it for how great they are; plus they have such a cool design I love them

[@gotyam]

Going for 1.4 fish or above is generally good enough for official, for quick taming without losing much taming at all. I tend to just go 1.3, as I can tell the difference between a "small" and "large" 1.3 fish. The elixir helps so much as well, and I tend to catch a surplus of fish each time (and then just use the surplus at some time for a "free" tame).

[@iDiamond3]

For taming speed of 3x and above every fish above 1x is good enough u won't lose any levels if ur using the elixir, if not u'll lose 1level. In terms of fish locations i strongly suggest going for the ferox cave put 5-7 baskets in a row and aggro the salmon and go in a straight line spamming E. The easiest way i found to actually tame them is to make a 2x2 trap with solid walls and a ramp to get the Shadowmane in or u can try to make it tp to u while ur above the trap, once it's in the trap leave the render distance and pray that it will lose aggro since these things are really buggy. With solid walls u don't need ghillie anymore and using the elixir is way more consistent, i had a lot of problems with the trapping method Syntac is using in this video, it took me 3 real days to realize that the Shadowmane was aggroed to the fence foundation and it wouldn't go to sleep and sometimes they escaped the trap, maybe it's just user error but the 2x2 trap with 2high walls had the most consistent results for me. Hopefully this comment helped somebody and save their time and mental heath.

[@TheDarrell530]

Hey Syntac! Use Walls instead of doorframes xD You can feed through the walls and less chance of it seeing you. However, if its like a thing that you prefer to use door frames for the thrill. Love your videos :D

[@Nigolasy]

I honestly find it harder to see if I'm approaching from the back with walls

[@TheDarrell530]

@@Nigolasy so far, would not matter if approaching from front or back if use wall. Since the mane can't see through it haha. But main part that could cause big issue is the breaking of the walls to access the shadowmane to give the elixir 👍. Because you can't give elixir through the wall. So have to make sure to approach by its back for that last one.

[@Nigolasy]

@@TheDarrell530 I tried the wall thing a few times, accidently approached from the front and it woke up and attacked me, sooo :D

[@TheDarrell530]

@@Nigolasy 2 walls high? It can see you? Hmmm you must have a huge presence 😂 Sorry I do not know why as well haha

[@Nigolasy]

@@TheDarrell530 Yeah it was weird lol but it's also ARK. Something always breaks. I just stick with things I can see through now :D More chance of failure but at least I know the it's me

[@bathtubmeggee7751]

“I’m like the general grievous of fish”

[@jazza4369]

With the shadowmane taming, you can't approach it from in front of them where they can see you. I think the trap works so well because when it's sleeping and its head pokes through, the doorframe bugs it out and prevents it from actually seeing you. But if its head goes through the actual doorway, it can, like what happened in the vid. I've done my fair share of shadowmane testing but never used a trap, maybe I should give the Syntac special a whirl.

[@antiisolation4]

I’ve tamed like 40 shadowmanes without using a trap idk why it’s people do it literally just treat it like a hyenadon crouch up behind it with gillie feed walk back it it goes back to sleep in like 10 secs and then repeat.

[@testerwulf3357]

@@antiisolation4 People use traps because shadowmanes attack almost anything which could get them killed before you're done taming them, trapping them ensures they won't wonder off and die trying to fight stuff

[@DreamEater007]

Schwable when he sees the shadow mine of syntac Schwable : The trash

[@MrJoemathis]

Keep up the good work syntac

[@loadedzune]

My hawk always runs away. I usually find him by checking in the smallest nooks and cranny corners of my base. For some reason even with their names turned on and the arrows the Hawks are very sneaky

[@ElkinsEric]

Gosh, I wish I had a 2.6. that’d be great… 😂That’s what Syntac said!😂

[@godzillatv-jp3fb]

Taming shadowmanes was the closest I've been to frustration crying in a while. sdfsd

[@Daethbane]

Syntac, you should really use Krakens for the fish and turn everything else off. I specifically use Krakens for the fish breeding. It's so much less of a headache with Shadowmaines.

[@Kidnapjondavis94]

Syntac video?? My day has improved

[@shawnbybee85]

I don't know the stipulations behind transfering dinos in cryos but with soul balls it is 100% doable and easy. I recently went through the ringer of going to each map to find the best fish quality and Lost Island was by far the winner. Abberation was good because most fish are confined to small rivers and all that, but the ammount of high quality fish I found in the same time goes to Lost Island easy. There was never a reason to hunt fish on Lost Island so it may not be well known.

[@shawnbybee85]

Guess I should mention I have not played Genisis yet.

[@ProbablyMartin]

“I’m the general Grievous of fish” -Syn, 2022

[@thegamingraptor9113]

My favorite skin with the ghillie is the inflatable rex costume because its supposed to allow you to sneak around dinosaurs, basically a quiet armor set but the skin makes the most noise, thats what gets me.

[@olibc4794]

The fjord hawk is likely under the map. Reason being is I have lost my hawk several times and every time it’s been In the same place which is directly under the bed but under the map. Go in ghost mode and have a look

[@almightykitten6355]

How do you go in ghost mode. I think that's where one of mine is too

[@CallenExile]

Orbital Camera should be enough to look.

[@olibc4794]

@@almightykitten6355 console commands. Just type in ‘Ghost’

[@olibc4794]

@@CallenExile wasn’t for me

[@foxyblonde16]

i usually find lots of Alpha behind the Swamp island :D in the deep water! along with the Mosa underwater cave lol

[@TheLivingBacon]

Kraken's Better Dinos mod allows you to breed sabertooth salmon. The chance of getting a 2.0 fish though is still very low so it takes a lot of time (I use identical rates as you, literally copy pasted your .ini file). You probably don't want to add another mod mid series but maybe another time.

[@raphaelmitph]

The Shadowmane can only be Tamed between 08:00 and 18:00 or 20:00 and after this time It wake up constantly and annoying you😂🫶

[@user-ef3pf9ko4h]

"Im drowning! Very good!" - 33:22

[@justanbiccum3407]

Your hawk is probably stuck to the ceiling/wall of the map you left. As they're all "below" Midgard, they try to get home the shortest route possible.

[@EstellammaSS]

I’m not sure if I’m missing something but just clear the area and full sprint away after every feed seems to work perfectly fine for me. They won’t aggro for quite a few seconds after feed and crouching while maintaining ~50meters is close enough to feed in time and far enough to crouch walk away when they decide to wander in my direction.I tamed about 10 shadowmanes like this and the only time I got attacked was when it went to sleep when I got distracted and approached too late it woke up on my face. They’re pretty broken too, got myself a batch of imprinted 43/46 manes and they absolutely shredded alpha Broodmother and Alpha monkey,

[@ariusxander2684]

It happened to me as well when taming these fish cats,they just alert for no reason and reset a whole taming process twice

[@disstro4392]

Syn, if u have trouble finding fish, go to the ferox cave. itll be a little difficult to clear the cave, but the little lake at the middle of the cave has tons of sabertooth salmons. i usually get 1 per every cave clear

[@_____8632]

Isn't this the one he went in 31:40

[@rloomis4884]

I can’t wait to see the problems that arise.

[@jaylego8785]

I love watching synthetic entertain me so much

[@sp_ce.]

I live in the purple lagunes and boy is it a challenge with all those shadowmanes...

[@ItmeHampter]

You can use piranha aswell, much easier to catch, place a fishtrap on the edge of the water, then use your body to lure them to the Traps and body block it so they don't break the traps, so so easy

[@Skyripa_28]

My hawk was below the floor when something like that happened and I couldn’t see it until the base was slowly rendering in. Try under the foundations near your bed. Love your videos btw. Thank you for making them.

[@nikitaalouker9328]

The ferox cave was patched very recently tamed some 280 on official rates like 1 or 2 weeks ago

[@772minitrucker]

Good to know, Ive had 4 150s fall into the map, 4 different times.

[@Wolvish]

There is a trap that can be used that you don't need to wear ghillie armor or move away from it more than once to tame. It does use more structures tho. The one move away is just to remove the aggro.

[@jdjudson2000]

That first 180 was cool lookin. Like dude come on. That amber color and black? So good. Also yes you should not tame the shadowmanes in a trap. It’s just…..idk less risky.

[@Tezonx]

Depends on settings i guess. 0.5 works too.. We used mainly 1.2 - 1.3. 15ish % per. Also the easy abbererant cave with the one karkinos has some good fish.

[@AriLovesAdam]

Your a genius with the tent idea ty

[@urnan7330]

34:01 “you killed a polar bear” IM SORRY SINCE WHEN ARE THERE PLOAR BEARS IN ARK?? WHAT DID I MISS?

[@Syntac]

They came with Ragnarok I believe. They are just a white version of direbear that cannot get any colours from mutations. No other difference besides that. You can tame them in the murder snow on rag too

[@blakehartel1723]

I was in bed cuz I had the day off work and I got a notification and clicked

[@faultedboat143]

Syntac you should join the monarch series with Raasclark, solo, ark guide… etc

[@rachelwest7438]

Hip hip hooray for new video- I live for these.

[@mercphoeniXXX]

The thing with your fjord hawk happened with my maewing. Hopped off for a sec to get water, turned back around and he was gone.

[@Seanqxc]

Love your content keep it up!

[@wrtrext]

If you want crystal, take a plant harvesting creature into the aberrant cave, where you get the 2 drops from. The plants in there give crystal. I was gathering crystal with my megatherium. You can even gathering with an empty hand.

[@wrtrext]

@@jessebclimbs Dododex says Ravagers reduce crystal weight by 50%. Could tame some up in that cave and have them follow whatever is used to gather to offload the weight. Also according to Dododex, the therizino is one of the best berry/fiber gatherers. If the crystal from those plants acts like one of those drops, it might be the best utility creature on Fjordur.

[@frozenspirits4342]

Hey Syntac,the first time I went into the aberration cave below your castle base,I found a 2.5x Salmon. That cave can give you some pretty decent fish

[@joemcnap5347]

not sure if this is well known but: if you place a fish basket in your hotbar than the timer will reset every time you enter a body of water deep enough for you to swim in.

[@bigboichan2298]

I laughed so hard when the shadowmanss and the car now fought you

[@silverreaper0_09]

Harrison Fjourd be back at 50 50 there used to be a glitch on island a while back where Dino’s would teleport there so yeah

[@raytzone3696]

How to get a lot of fungal woods ? -Just go in Asgard in the purple forests(there are Shadowmanes) and harvest de blue bubble at the ground.

[@PurpleFlame46]

Yesss ive been waiting for you to tame some shadowmanes

[@lightningcraig7436]

Love your videos

[@shanemccain236]

Hey syn, in the future, go to the abberrent cave down by where the karkinos spawns, easier too trap and it is only abberrent salmon spawn, there is lampreys tho

[@cuffe01]

Pond in red woods seem to always have huge fish in it

[@nickynoo8014]

I like to use the fence support things and solid walls on uneven ground so they can't see me at all

[@Zackson_O.Connor]

"They try to trick you with their size" - Syntac 2022

[@kits2169]

Personally I cactus broth then feed the shadowmane, then launch straight into the air by tek suit with the tek punch and map trick, you can get away with ghillie mask, legs, and boots if you can control your fall safely but can confirm it is effective with just the broth and full tek suit. But I like your method much more than the "play basketball till the mane falls into your trap after bolting at you" method or the multiplayer method of trapping it with hatch frames and doorways and ramps since they dont bolt in PvE. I don't like trapping, it takes away all of the fun and most of the risk. But to do it my way you need to clear the area of creatures and bodies.

[@vexydara]

If you net them right after feeding them as they go stealth and leave render distance, come back and they will be sleeping again. Makes taming process go faster instead of waiting around for them to give up looking for you

[@valkyriempress8224]

When I "fast travel" with my Fjordhawk, it will just fly to the edge of my base somewhere. I try to spawn somewhere with walls now so I can catch it.

[@DEAFfreyDahmer]

You can also net the fish and put the basket over it to catch them when they’re moving around.

[@flashlightning6742]

You woke the 180 up by going to close to the head. When you said it messed you up once, that's because that wakes them up, even with ghillie and sneaking. You have to approach from behind or it will reset the tame. You can walk around from a distance but in the situation you were in, I would just wait for it to get up and go to sleep in a better position. No harm waiting for a few cycles of waking up and sleeping before feeding again, it won't drop for a few minutes. I messed my first one up by taking a risk and approaching towards its upper back (was behind it but its head was still close, rest of the body was in a tree), and I have learned not to risk it, just isn't worth the potential minute saved.

[@Viceroy_95]

I tamed up a fjordhawk once. Commanded it to attack a target, so that it went out fighting instead of me shooting it. I didnt even try taming it, I had killed a pack of raptors with my berry harvester and suddenly I had a fjordhawk. Anyway, it flew toward the target, passed the target, and just kept going out of render distance. The red arrow showed up as well, signaling the attack. But nope, I never saw that fjordhawk again.

[@testerwulf3357]

Yea they're bugged...they sometimes just fly away for no reason

[@DreCargill93]

You can breed sabertooth salmon. I caught a bunch to tame a shadow mane. But ended up just letting them wonder around in the pond my base. Eggs started showing up and baby sabes were hatching lol.

[@dannys_wrld]

painful tame but worth it lol

[@alexmercer7946]

There is a small pond of water near a small waterfall where there is alot of sabertooth salmons in fjordur

[@spectralparadisegaming7506]

Best spot I've found to gather fish is the ferox cave. Sooooooo many big salmon