Electrophorus

Electrophorus

Creature

Group

Fish

Diet

Carnivore

Temperament

Extremely Territorial

Release Versions

255.0
Feb 26, 2017

751.0
Mar 17, 2017

505.0
Mar 17, 2017

521.0
Nov 30, 2018

311.74
Jun 11, 2020

1.0
May 24, 2018

Variants

 Aberrant Electrophorus

Spawn Command

cheat summon Eel_Character_BP_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Eel/Eel_Character_BP.Eel_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Aberrant Electrophorus

cheat summon Eel_Character_BP_Aberrant_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Eel/Eel_Character_BP_Aberrant.Eel_Character_BP_Aberrant'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Electrophorus (Escort)

cheat summon Eel_Character_BP_Escort_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Escort/Ocean/Eel_Character_BP_Escort.Eel_Character_BP_Escort'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Electrophorus (Hunt)

cheat summon Eel_Character_BP_Hunt_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Hunt/Ocean/Eel_Character_BP_Hunt.Eel_Character_BP_Hunt'" 500 0 0 35

Variant Electrophorus (Retrieve)

cheat summon Eel_Character_BP_Retrieve_C
or
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Retrieve/Ocean/Eel_Character_BP_Retrieve.Eel_Character_BP_Retrieve'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

No

Yes

Torpor Immune

No

Taming Method

 Passive

Preferred Food

 Bio Toxin

Data

XP for kill

32 XP

Special Loot Chance

100%

Feces

None

Drag Weight

250

Radiation Immune

No

Carryable By

 Tusoteuthis

Can Damage

 Thatch
 Greenhouse
 Wood

Reproduction

Egg

 Eel Egg

Incubation Range

0 - 50 °C / 32 - 122 °F
 Egg Incubator: 25 °C / 77 °F

Incubation Time

4h 59m 58.561s

Baby Time

4h 37m 46.666s

Juvenile Time

18h 31m 6.662s

Adolescent Time

23h 8m 53.328s

Total Maturation Time

1d 22h 17m 46.656s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

Common        Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Electrophorus (eh-lek-trof-er-uhs) or Eel is carnivorous fish, mostly known for its dangerous ability to stun players and most of creatures with its electrical attack. It was first added in  ARK: Survival Evolved on the 26th of February, 2017.

Basic Info

Dossier

This section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena Walker, the author of the dossiers, has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creature.

“

Species

Electrophorus beluadomito

Time

Holocene

Diet

Carnivore

Temperament

Reactive

Wild

Occupying a space in the low-to-middle end of the food chain, Electrophorus beluadomito is a carnivorous swimmer that feeds mostly off of shellfish and small fish. Despite its common name, it is actually a very long Knifefish, and not an Eel. It does not provide much meat, so many predators simply leave it be. Unlike most predators, it does not use brute strength to bring down its prey, but instead releases an electrical charge around itself to knock its prey unconscious. Alone, this can take out a small creature. When attacking together, Electrophorus can even bring down the larger ocean lifeforms, and then feed as a group.

Domesticated

By far, the most common use of Electrophorus is to subdue large ocean creatures. Knocking out a Plesiosaur or other giant deep-sea leviathan can be incredibly difficult... ...thus many tribes employ small schools of Electrophorus to shock them into submission!

„

~ Helena

Behavior

Electrophorus will attack if within view of the creature. Once within its aggro distance, Electrophorus will follow the player, even upon swimming to the surface of the water. It can be found at middle deep-sea and is faster than the Cnidaria. Due to their disabling shock attacks and fast swimming speeds it is best to steer well clear of these creatures without proper preparation. Electrophorus will ignore wild dinos if there is a player or tamed dino in the area. They will chase their prey at very fast speeds and only let go if the prey is very far away, or the prey moves out of the water. If the electrophorus reaches its target, it will zap them. This will slow and reduce the damage output of any creature except for Basilosaurus and Tusoteuthis for 8–10 seconds, rendering them less effective at fighting and possibly ensuring they will not be able to run away. After the prey is zapped, the Electrophorus and any nearby wild dinos such as Megalodons will start to feast on the helpless meal.

Appearance

Electrophorus is a long eel like fish with a fin running from the back of its head to its abdomen. Its mouth is packed with sharp teeth to attack the small fish and shellfish that make up its diet.

Color Scheme and Regions

Region 0:Body

Natural colors:

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Region 1:Fins

Natural colors:

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Region 2:Spots

Natural colors:None.

Region 3:Fin Highlight

Natural colors:None.

Region 4:Unused

This region does not show on the body.

Region 5:Belly

Natural colors:

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Regions #2 and #3 are not randomized when an Electrophorus spawns, but may be rolled during a breeding mutation or changed through admin commands.

 

This section displays the Electrophorus's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Electrophorus. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Electrophorus will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.

This information can be used to alter the Electrophorus's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Electrophorus's "body" magenta.

Region 0:
Body

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Region 1:
Fins

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Region 2:
Spots
No natural colors

Region 3:
Fin Highlight
No natural colors

Region 4 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 5:
Belly

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Drops

•  Raw Fish Meat
•  Raw Prime Fish Meat

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Tamed	Additive	Multiplicative
Health	180	+36	+5.4%	-0.2
Stamina	165	+16.5	+10%
Oxygen	1050	+105	+10%
Food	1500	+150	+10%
Weight	150	+3	+4%
Melee Damage	3 / 5	+0.15 / +0.25	+1.7%	-25%	11%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A	+1%
Torpidity	175	+10.5	N/A	0.5

Movement [u/s]	Base Speed			Sprinting Speed			Stamina
	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2	Wild	Tamed1	Tamed2
Walking	400	?	?	?	?	?	4
Swimming	330	?	?	759	1518	1518	3

• For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, see Base Creature Statistics.
• For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, see Creature Stats Calculation.
• ¹These are the base speeds of the tamed creature at 100% Movement Speed, i.e. without a possible taming bonus.
• ²These are the speeds of the creature once tamed including a possible taming bonus and no imprinting bonus.
• For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.

Wild Stats Level-up

Type in values of a wild creature to see on which stats it's emphasized. Green values on a high-level creature are very good for breeding. If you have already tamed your creature you can try to recover the breeding stats with an external tool.

Electrophorus

The stat-calculator does not work in the mobile-view, see here for alternatives: Apps

Note that after the creature is tamed it gets bonuses on some stats depending on the taming effectiveness. This makes it hard to retrieve the levels on a tamed creature, so this tool is only for wild ones, but gives a first impression, how well the stats are distributed.

Abilities

Active

Bite 5	The Electrophorus bites the target for 15 damage (Wild) or 3 damage (Tamed). Can be used every 0.67s by both a rider and the AI.

Electric Shock 25	The Electrophorus shocks the target for 35 damage (Wild) or 5 damage (Tamed) three times. This attacks increases its power with more allied Electrophorus nearby. This attacks gives  Electrocuted effect to the target, Reducing its  Melee Damage and  Movement Speed for a few seconds. Can be used every 10s by both a rider and the AI.

Passive

Torpor Inflictor

All the Electrophorus' attacks inflicts  Torpor, it applies torpor x3 of the damage dealt over 10 seconds, it stacks indefinitely.

Pack Boost

The Electrophorus receives the Pack Boost whenever it is near to another allied Electrophorus. A "pack" of two Electrophorus will receive a +1 Bonus, which will go up to +6 in a Group of 7 or more eels, they receive +3% extra  Melee Damage and +1% damage resistance per extra pack member up to 6 members.

Taming

Level 1		Feeding Interval	Time
Raw Mutton	2	05:26	0:05:26
Cooked Lamb Chop	4	03:36	0:10:50
Bio Toxin	2	04:53	0:04:53
Raw Prime Meat	3	04:04	0:08:08
Cooked Prime Meat	5	03:23	0:13:32
Raw Prime Fish Meat	7	01:35	0:09:30
Raw Meat	8	03:05	0:21:41
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	13	01:30	0:18:06
Cooked Meat	15	01:27	0:20:20
Raw Fish Meat	19	01:25	0:25:45
Cooked Fish Meat	37	00:41	0:25:04

Level 30		Feeding Interval	Time
Raw Mutton	5	03:23	0:13:33
Cooked Lamb Chop	8	03:05	0:21:40
Bio Toxin	4	03:15	0:09:46
Raw Prime Meat	6	03:15	0:16:16
Cooked Prime Meat	11	02:58	0:29:47
Raw Prime Fish Meat	13	01:28	0:17:37
Raw Meat	16	02:53	0:43:22
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	26	01:26	0:36:12
Cooked Meat	31	01:24	0:42:00
Raw Fish Meat	39	01:23	0:52:51
Cooked Fish Meat	78	00:41	0:52:51

Level 60		Feeding Interval	Time
Raw Mutton	7	03:09	0:18:59
Cooked Lamb Chop	12	02:57	0:32:29
Bio Toxin	6	02:55	0:14:38
Raw Prime Meat	8	03:05	0:21:41
Cooked Prime Meat	16	02:53	0:43:19
Raw Prime Fish Meat	20	01:25	0:27:06
Raw Meat	24	02:49	1:05:02
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	40	01:25	0:55:41
Cooked Meat	48	01:23	1:05:02
Raw Fish Meat	60	01:22	1:21:18
Cooked Fish Meat	120	00:40	1:21:18

Level 90		Feeding Interval	Time
Raw Mutton	9	03:03	0:24:24
Cooked Lamb Chop	16	02:53	0:43:19
Bio Toxin	9	02:44	0:21:57
Raw Prime Meat	11	02:58	0:29:49
Cooked Prime Meat	22	02:50	0:59:33
Raw Prime Fish Meat	27	01:24	0:36:35
Raw Meat	33	02:47	1:29:26
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	54	01:25	1:15:11
Cooked Meat	65	01:22	1:28:04
Raw Fish Meat	81	01:22	1:49:45
Cooked Fish Meat	162	00:40	1:49:45

Level 120		Feeding Interval	Time
Raw Mutton	11	02:58	0:29:49
Cooked Lamb Chop	21	02:50	0:56:51
Bio Toxin	11	02:41	0:26:50
Raw Prime Meat	14	02:55	0:37:57
Cooked Prime Meat	28	02:48	1:15:48
Raw Prime Fish Meat	34	01:23	0:46:04
Raw Meat	41	02:46	1:51:06
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	68	01:24	1:34:40
Cooked Meat	82	01:22	1:51:06
Raw Fish Meat	102	01:22	2:18:12
Cooked Fish Meat	204	00:40	2:18:12

Level 150		Feeding Interval	Time
Raw Mutton	14	02:55	0:37:57
Cooked Lamb Chop	25	02:49	1:07:40
Bio Toxin	13	02:38	0:31:43
Raw Prime Meat	17	02:52	0:46:04
Cooked Prime Meat	33	02:47	1:29:20
Raw Prime Fish Meat	42	01:23	0:56:55
Raw Meat	50	02:45	2:15:29
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	83	01:24	1:55:33
Cooked Meat	99	01:22	2:14:08
Raw Fish Meat	124	01:21	2:48:00
Cooked Fish Meat	247	00:40	2:47:20

Preferred Food

•  Bio Toxin
•  Cooked Lamb Chop
•  Raw Mutton

Strategy

• Passive tame, it is very aggressive with a wide aggro radius. Stay clear if not prepared.
• Riot Armor / high fortitude for Torpor reduction recommended.
• High oxygen to chase them down and feed them bait/taming feed.
• Mount Basilosaurus and allow the Electrophorus to shock your creature, while mounted. The Basilo will not take any damage and its movement will not be impaired. While the Electrophorus is recharging its electrical attack, quickly dismount your Basilo and passively feed your attempted tame. Remount, rinse and repeat.
• It is possible, but difficult to tame Electrophorus one-on-one without using a trap. Clear out any threats nearby; Have at least bio toxin ready, and lure one out into shallow water. From there, it is a matter of time and caution. Make sure to bring either health tonics or blood packs along with stimulants for a quick recovery between feeding attempts.
• Electrophorus are found at the very bottom of the South East Trench on The Center.
• You can easily tame Electrophorus while it's inside one of the bubbles in the Eldritch Isle of Crystal Isles just by luring them to the edge of the bubbles and passively taming them from outside the bubble. Make sure you have a Cryopod ready to freeze it after taming or else it will fight the Cnidaria and the wild Piranha inside.

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Electrophorus.

General

Eels can be seen in deep sea or underwater caverns, wandering in pack, and attack players and their mounts on sight. A chained-shock is not only more than enough to eliminate a player, but also deadly to their mounts.

Like most abyssal terror, wild eels refuse to surface, so don't swim deep if you are not prepared.

Strategy

Basil or bust

Use a  Basilosaurus -- it is immune to the movement and damage debuffs, and Eels do very little damage with their regular bite. Their shock does nothing to the  Basilosaurus, even when multiple Eels chain a huge shock. You, the rider, will be completely unharmed as well, with no  Torpor gain. Any other mount will need a good amount of  Health and damage to overcome both the burst damage of their shock and to fight through the damage debuff.

Weaponry

Scuba flippers or a fast swimming mount are required. Distance weapons are the best choice (spears, crossbow, Harpoon gun,  Tek Rifle). Note that Eels are faster than a player with flippers, but flippers will still provide you extra time to kill the Eels before they contact you.

Dangers

• Swims very fast - over 5 times faster than Cnidaria, and dinos may appear farther than they actually are when underwater.
• Shock attack will slow movement and reduce damage output of victim. (except for Basilosaurus)
• They can chain their electric shock to other eels to unleash even more powerful attacks.
• One shock is often enough to kill you outright even in flak armor if there are enough grouped up.
• Average aggro radius.
• Tend to be in packs of 2 or more.
• Often are inside of rocks or behind walls, and can swim through them to surprise you when you least expect it, and not only in the sea caves but even large rocks at the bottom of the ocean.
• Harder to see in daytime because their glow is less obvious.
• In a pack they have high burst damage as their shock chains together. Make sure your mount has enough health not to be immediately killed.
• The range of the shock is much larger than any other creature.

Weakness

High damage burst but lower sustained damage. If you can survive the initial shock, you will have an opening to retaliate. Basilosaurus doesn't get shocked, so use that.

Low damage individually. Picking a few of them off with ranged weaponry first will greatly weaken the attacks of the remaining Electrophorus.

Is extremely easy to spot and identify from a distance.

Utility

Roles

• Stun: For underwater PvP or when fighting against underwater Alpha Creatures, their stun attack in large groups is insanely dangerous as the enemy doesn't do as much damage, and cannot escape. Only the  Basilosaurus is immune to this, and the only downside is that they have low Health. (Level up Health and Damage)
  • Hunter/Taming Assistant: The Electrophorus reduces the  Movement Speed and  Melee Damage of their targets after hitting them with the shock attack, this is a good way to track and hunt/tame a creature. However the Electrophorus by its own its not going to do a lot in terms of damage and/or torpor, its just a tool.
• Base Defender: The Electrophorus in groups is a good option to use it as defense for underwater caves entrances, in combination with turrets the attackers see their  Movement Speed reduced due to the attack of the eels and receive a lot of damage from the turrets while they might be unable to move back to their cover.
• River Access: Despite their large size the Electrophorus is smaller than many of the other creatures found in the ocean. It's smaller size allows Electrophorus to move through rivers and shallow water that the large sea animals can't access. Although it can move through rivers and shallow water it's size does limit what shallow areas it can and can't enter.

Notes/Trivia

For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Electrophorus, see the relevant Wikipedia article.

• This dossier was revealed on 07/27/2015 on Steam.
• Electrophorus is one of the only creatures in ARK with a genus that still exists today, such as the Coelacanth, Lamprey or Achatina. The real electric eel, as its name implies, is also capable of producing electric discharges to kill prey and deter predators.
• Unlike in the real world, Electrophorus does not look like a knifefish, an order of fish that Electrophorus belongs to; but like the unrelated moray eels.
• The Electrophorus is a simple capacitive generator. A first version of it was invented in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Carl Wilcke. It's name, meaning Electricity Bearer, was coined more than ten years after that by Alessandro Volta.
• Prior to patch v262.16, eels were much more powerful. In addition to being more common and having a larger aggro radius, their shock would stun their prey for the duration, preventing any action and dismounting riders. As the shock has a shorter recharge than the debuff duration, this meant a single level 1 eel could potentially stunlock and kill a level 300 tamed Mosasaurus given enough time. This rendered almost every mount except the Basilosaurus nonviable for deep sea exploration as a single encounter would often spell doom for any other mount. And due to the Basil's inability to go too deep in the water, many tribes considered the ocean floor to be completely inaccessible.
• Oddly enough, Electrophorus's electricity shock does not inducing torpor, its bite does.
• Electrophorus don't produce  Feces.
• After releasing an electric shock, the power lines (highlighted parts) on their body will become dim, revealing they cannot shock again immediately.
• Accordingly, The electrophorus is one of the most aggressive creatures in the game. They will aggro from extremely far ranges, and will continue to follow you for a good while.
• Like other fish the electrophorus can get beached in shallow water or close to the shore. If they get beached they will either get stuck or instantly die.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
255.0	Electrophorus is added to the game.
256.0	Eel  Electrocuted immunity time increased to 5 seconds.
260.0	Fixed issue where eels would push the player out of the water.
261.0	More Eels in underwater overworld. Eels in the hard cave now spawn in groups of 2, not 6
262.0	Added more eels to the underwater overworld. Reduced AI targeting range of eels in the The Caverns of Lost Faith and The Caverns of Lost Hope caves by 50%. Reduced spawn quantity of eels in The Caverns of Lost Hope by 33% and reduced the number that spawn with each group from 6 to 2 eels.
262.16	Chance of Eel spawns reduced by 33%. Wild Eel aggro range reduced by 33%. Wild and Tamed Eel shock no longer causes stun lock or dismount and instead applies a temporary  Movement Speed and  Melee Damage reduction.
263.0	Decreased the amount of eels in Procedurally Generated Maps.
275.0	Aberrant Electrophorus is added to the game.
303.1	Reduced  Electrocuted duration by 20%, from 7 seconds to 5.6 seconds from Wild Eels and 1.5 seconds to 1.2 seconds from Tamed Eels.
318.9	Fixed a bug which caused non-aggressive Eels to wander in circles.

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