Fish Basket

Fish Basket

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Trap certain fish in this basket to tame and transport them!

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DLCs

Aberration, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Genesis: Part 2, Lost Island, Fjordur

Structure

Type

Structure

Health

300

Decay time

4d

Item

Weight

4.0

Stack size

5

Added in

v275.0

Spawn Command

cheat gfi FishBasket 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Wooden/PrimalItemStructure_FishBasket.PrimalItemStructure_FishBasket'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 13

Engram points

6 EP

Crafting XP

2 XP

Crafting time

5s

Crafted in

•  Inventory

Ingredients

60 × Fungal Wood

120 × Fiber

40 × Thatch

The Fish Basket is a structure introduced in Aberration and also available on Valguero, Crystal Isles, Genesis: Part 2, Lost Island and Fjordur. It can be used as a trap to capture and tame smaller aquatic creatures.

The Fish Basket can be placed anywhere on the ground, both above and under water.

Usage

To capture aquatic creatures, the Fish Basket has to be placed near them on the ground. The trap will be initializing the capture for a few seconds. When it's ready, you can capture the desired creature by quickly pressing E while looking at the Fish Basket.

Doing so will capture the creature and you will obtain a Filled Fish Basket, which spoils after 40 minutes but can be replenished by standing inside the water source while the basket is in your hotbar. Placing the Filled Fish Basket down will release the captured creature. Some of the creatures that can be caught in the trap will be tamed upon release. Unlike most tameable creatures, their level is fixed from their spawn level, and as such, they can not obtain any experience.

Fish Baskets can also capture already tamed creatures, which will allow them to gain experience and it is also useful for carrying them to a different body of water.

Normal untameable fishes can be fed to a  Shadowmane in the Genesis Ship as food for taming but has to weigh over 0.5x.

Creatures

The following creatures can be tamed with the trap:

•  Coelacanth
•  Piranha
•  Sabertooth Salmon
•  Trilobite*

_{* = May appear to eat  Berries, but the food bar will not change, making it difficult to predict. It will eventually starve to death despite appearing to be full.}

The following creatures are considered a one-time use. Once they have latched themselves onto someone or something, they disappear forever from the tame limit of the tribe:

•  Leech
•  Diseased Leech
•  Lamprey

In addition to the above few, the following tamed creatures can be trapped inside the trap for transportation:

•  Anglerfish
•  Ichthyosaurus
•  Manta

Notes/Bugs

• Caged fish can be safely carried anywhere, but releasing them outside of water will instantly kill them.
• When trying to catch a fish it’s a good idea to use a tent to trap the fish first, as it won’t be able to escape from the tent, and then open it, placing the fish basket and catching the fish.
• The Fish Basket can be used to reset breed timer on Anglerfish, Manta and Ichthyosaurus.

• The Fish Basket is treated as a thatch structure and can be damaged by anything except non-explosive ranged attacks.

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
275.0 Aberration Expansion Release	Fish Basket is added to the game.
305.12	Fixed a bug where the Fish Basket wasn't returning creatures properly
329.51	Fish Baskets no longer check for nearby enemy structures in PVE.