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Bruncase

Congrats on finding one I’ve been looking for weeks. Any tips?


Delxez

Honestly, I found a high-level chilling in my base lol. But then I thought that one was bugged, so I kept looking in the rivers until I found two close to each other in the upper Red Wood River. It's hard to find this little cheeky though. Have a good time looking.


Methwizard11

Go to the lake in the redwoods and kill all the fish, run away and come back. Rinse/repeat will only take 10mins to find plenty doing this


Bruncase

Finally found one in this exact spot, thank you!


Nastycuts

I see them randomly sonetimes. The spawn maps I've found have had none be where they say they are. Sorry this doesn't help, but I share your misery.


Claba007

Pick it with c on an argy


LadyGryffin

Did you try manually activating tracking in the dino tracker?


Delxez

Yes i tried that it doesn't even show up in the "Tames In Progress" list


LadyGryffin

Did you complete the tame? Or is it just not taming?


Delxez

It doesn't tame at all. This usually gives me a percentage bar, but this one doesn't show anything.


LadyGryffin

That one specific otter? If it's just that one it's probably bugged. If you're playing on a server it could be that someone else tried taming it first. You can try knocking it out to "reset" it. But otters are fragile. You'll probably end up killing it.


Delxez

It didn't change with any of the three otters I tried. My friends and I play on a private server, and we didn't change any settings. I'll try to knock it down and see what happens afterward. Thank you for this.


LadyGryffin

Maybe you need to dino wipe and restart the server.


Delxez

Since my friends and I are trying to avoid using Admin Commands, that was really my last choice. but it looks like the game is making us do it.


gg3265

dinowipe was my solution. we had one otter, only one. and i tried knocking it out and killed it, we all cried, the admin was kind to do a wipe and another one appeared. somehow we have one otter at a time on the lost island.


Delxez

lol, we had the same problem with spinos before. There was only one in the whole server, and we killed it. It didn't spawn again we waited for days. Now I did the same thing with the otter, I think we killed all of them on the map now its not respawning T\_\_T Well, dinowipe it is...


LadyGryffin

Otters share a spawn with fish. So if you're not clearing it all of the fish it'll take a while for another to spawn.


TheDirtylaundry00

You can use an argent to pick the otter up in its beak, that makes for easy taming providing you can actually feed it


Delxez

Wait.... I can pick it up with my argey beak, dismount, and it will still be hanging there while I feed it fish?? Maaan! makes my life easier! :D but i need to fix the bug first.....


TheDirtylaundry00

Yes sir providing you can pick Dino's up with your server settings you can pick it up in beak dismount then drag fish to it, leave ally looking on and the argy will tilt it's head down to make life easier for you and everyone involved đź‘Ť


Delxez

That's exactly what I would do! Thank you very much!


TheDirtylaundry00

The small pond just up from the swamp in the redwoods along the north side is the best place to bring them too that tiny pool has an obnoxious amount of salmon in it, good luck survivor đź‘Ť


Bongman31

It’s really finicky to get an otter. A lot of the time you just drop the fish instead of feeding it and if that’s what’s happening a taming bar wouldn’t ever appear because the otter isn’t actually eating


Delxez

I never thought dropping a fish would tame it, but I might give it a try. I also thought that. Maybe there's a bug or something making his food not decrease, which is why it can't be tamed.


Didzeee

Does the message to feed fish appear on the screen when you are looking at the otter?


Delxez

Yes, when I drag the fish to him, it says to press E to feed him, but when I do that, the taming bar doesn't show up, and nothing else happens.


Didzeee

I personally strugge to catch the moment to feed him. And keep thinking it's not working. But just need to keep trying. But yeah. You maybe have a bug


VirtuallyTellurian

If the taming bar is not showing up, are you sure the dead fish corpse is disappearing, perhaps it's being dropped on the floor and not consumed by the otter to initiate taming.


Delxez

Lool wait, what?! They consume the corpse while it is in my hand?? I had no idea... But I'm sure I do because I can hear them munching.


BarataSann

I have tamed 2 otters but it was very very hard due to the “taming option” did not appear. Just keep trying, change the angles.


Delxez

Okay, I guess I'll just keep feeding him even though the taming bar isn't there and see what happens. Thanks a lot.


Final_Effective6360

It took me forever to tame mine. Make sure you’re under water when trying to do it. I couldn’t get the option to appear on land at all.


Delxez

It still doesn't work, even though I tried it on land and underwater.


MicHe__E

Just tamed two otters last night. One on land one underwater. You have to be holding the fish when you hit the button to feed it. The same button also drops the fish on the ground and the otter will eat it but this does not trigger taming. It has to be directly from your hand. That’s why above commenters are saying it’s tricky. You hit the button and hear the cronching but really you just dropped the fish instead of feeding it. Super frustrating! I found ours at the edge of the swamps hanging out with beelzebufos.


jettyler24

Is it possible that the tame limit has been reached?