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.
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Species
Titanoboa exornantur
Time
Paleocene
Diet
Carnivore
Temperament
Aggressive
Wild
Typically found within the Island's caves, Titanoboa exornantur is an aggressive creature that prefers dark, rocky areas. This extremely large snake, while being a member of the Titanoboa family, does not constrict its prey as most boas do. I believe this adaptation comes from coexisting with giant insects. However, the Titanoboa's venomous bite is so potent that it is known to paralyze far larger creatures.
Titanoboa has developed a strange coexistence with other creatures of the Island's caves.
Being immune to knockout poisons, and being unable to pierce the thick chitin of the insects, the species have learned to coexist. They often hunt large prey together.
Domesticated
As they appear immune to knockout poisons, Titanoboa exornantur is basically impossible to render unconscious. Because this crucial step can't be done, I'm convinced that Titanoboa are not tameable.
Very aggressive, belligerent and relentless, the Titanoboa will pursue and attack most creatures (except other predators), which includes players who dare to approach one. Caves offer a safe location for Titanoboas to mingle with other creatures. They are also found in swamps, where they will attack whatever they can sink their fangs into. Although not amphibious like the Beelzebufo, they are adept at swimming. The attack of a Titanoboa increases Torpor, which can neutralize incoming players who are unable to fight this crippling game mechanic.
Appearance
The Titanoboa is a constrictor snake of immense size, dwarfing even the largest anacondas. Thick and bulky, they are found in sizeable numbers in the island's swamps, ambushing prey from the shallows and crushing it between its coils; they are also found in large caves, where their apparent immunity to invertebrate toxins protects them from the caves' other denizens. Their bulk precludes them from the attention of most predators, but if threatened the giant snake will flare a frill about its neck and strike out, biting with several rows of recurved, needle-like teeth.
Color Scheme and Regions
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This section displays the Titanoboa's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Titanoboa. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Titanoboa 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 Titanoboa's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Titanoboa's "body" magenta.
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.[1]
Titanoboa
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.
This attacks increases the target's Torpor x3 the Titanoboa's Melee Damage.
Can be used every 0.67s by both a rider and the AI.
Taming
To tame the Titanoboa you have to drop a fertile egg near it, while it is not distracted in any way (it doesn't work if the Titanoboa is aggroed to attacking something, including your character). The Titanoboa will "attack" the egg and eat it, gaining taming progress. The ancestry (e.g. the levels of the parents) of each fertilized egg will not affect the taming speed.
The best way is to drop the egg from above while riding a flying mount. But drop the egg from your own inventory, for when you drop the egg from the mount's inventory, the Titanoboa will ignore it.
All eggs have to be fertilized, non-fertilized eggs will not work. The eggs in the following tables are representing all egg-types of their group. The other eggs belonging to the same group are listed below the tables. All eggs in a group have the same taming-effects. Once the Titanoboa is tamed, it will only eat eggs as a source of food(similar to the Achatina with vegetable cakes), the eggs do not need to be fertilized.
Note that the values are for optimal cases, always bring extra supplies!
For a level-dependent count of resources needed, try an external taming calculator.
This section describes how to fight against the Titanoboa.
General
The Titanoboa, although it deals a low amount of damage, is deadly because of its immobilizing venom. Just a single bite increases your Torpor at an alarming rate. Their awkward bodies allow them to climb impossible slopes or stick to ceilings and drop on unsuspecting survivors, so stay wary and keep your weapons equipped. They have no genders, meaning they can't receive bonus stats from being partners.
Strategy
The best strategy is distance, stay back and take them down. If you're forced to be within striking distance, it's best to carry some Stimulant or Stimberries with you as a combatant against its venom. It should be said that many creatures in the cave can carry Stimberries on them, while this is not ideal it can prove life-saving. Furthermore, shields can prevent further Torpor increase whilst utilising Stimberries.
Weaponry
Titanoboas are slow and awkward, so you're better off keeping your distance and peppering them from afar. Their large bodies ensure that Shotguns are devastating in the caves or in the swamp and most mounts can ignore the Torpor and trounce the Titanoboa soundly. If not too encumbered, simply walking backwards and shoving a Spear or Pike in their face can usually do the trick. Since their head shot modifier is 3x it advise to bring a Bow or Crossbow for defense. As with most creatures, the hit box is larger than the collision box, so even if it does not make the "smacking sound", the attack still can hit. This tactic also works great for Sarcos.
Dangers
Their venom is extremely potent and they're capable of hiding in odd locations. Watch your corners and be ready to run or cover your allies if they are downed but not dead. It is also important to check your surroundings for more dangerous creatures such as sarcos - if you happen to get knocked out, you will be defenseless against any nearby predators.
Weakness
Their large bodies are also a hindrance as they have difficulty fitting through some small gaps. Most tames, even Dimorphodon are quite capable of ignoring the torpor effect and shredding the relatively fragile Titanoboa. They lose melee soundly to an even moderately equipped survivor, providing they beat a hasty retreat before the venom proves their end.
Utility
Roles
Knock-out: Titanoboa deals double damage than a Pulmonoscorpius, meaning it applies Torpor at twice the rate of a scorpion of equal level, and both of them are able to be carried by an Argentavis.
Egg Farm: Titanoboa has no gender, meaning that every Titanoboa can lay eggs, additionally Titanoboa has a maximum egg laying of 8, which is higher than the rest of the creatures that have a maximum of 6, If combined with a Oviraptor will result in a higher egg production to make Superior Kibble.
Pet/Trophy Tame: Despite not being the most common option to have as a pet, some players have it as a trophy pet, this players are commonly veterans who used to domesticate Titanoboa in the past to get their valuable eggs that were very useful in the old kibble system.
Collectibles
Notes/Trivia
For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Titanoboa, see the relevant Wikipedia article.
Despite being common in caves and swamps, they drop prime meat often. However, the prime meat usually spoils before you get out.
The real Carbonemys and Titanoboa were contemporaries. They both lived in the jungle rivers of what is now Colombia 60 million years ago.
On the Xbox One, the kill feed misspells Titanoboa as "Titanboa".
Information shown on the Spyglass also misspells Titanoboa as "Titanboa."
The real Titanoboa was not venomous, instead being semiaquatic, if not fully aquatic, and feeding on a piscivore diet. It was previously thought it would suffocate its prey like most modern constrictor snakes, but modern studies have deemed its skeleton not properly built for this habit. They did not have frills either, much like the Dilophosaur.
Titanoboas have the somewhat unique ability to slither over 1 (possibly 2 depending on the terrain) high walls. This is most likely not a bug, but rather a side effect of them being able to climb up and over the very uneven terrain inside caves which before patch 216.0 was the only place they could be found. Without this ability Titanoboas would quite easily become trapped on the uneven terrain due to their elongated dimensions. Keep this ability in mind if you are building a base near the swamp biome, and consider adding a Wooden Catwalk "lip" to the edge of your walls to stop them from paying an unexpected visit.
It is possible to knock out Titanoboa via using fist punch and Wooden Club. This is presumably useful to reduce its food for later taming, but too dangerous compared to its worth.
Like the Arthropluera the Titanoboa can breathe underwater.
Titanoboa do not have genders and cannot be bred by the player, possibly due to Titanoboas not being tamable in earlier versions of Ark.
Helena wrote in her dossier notes that she was convinced that Titanoboa could not be tamed. Her art in her notes also show an x over a collar.
This is due to the dossier being created before 261.0 which made Titanoboas tamable
Real Titanoboas were carnivores and ate meat just like all snakes, however Ark's Titanoboa has adapted to only eat eggs.
Real Titanoboas were able to squeeze their prey like all real constrictor snakes, however Ark's Titanoboa doesn't have that ability and instead has adapted to use venom.
Although their anatomy is incorrect compared to their real counterparts, Titanoboas did live in swamps and jungles of South America alongside Carbonemys. They didn't coexist with Sarcosuchus, one of the largest crocodylomorphs in prehistory, they did share habitat with the even larger crocodilian Purussaurus. This caiman had a thicker body and larger skull, with a size comparable to the game's Basilosaurus. They would have come to frequent conflict with Titanoboas.
All real world snakes (including Titanoboa) have nostrils to breathe, however, they use their tongues for smelling instead of their nostrils.
Despite its big size the Titanoboa is a creature that cannot be ridden.
Despite Helena saying that Titanoboas were unable to be knocked out, the player is able to do so. (Crossbow and Tranq Arrows used/ tested in Single Player) lacking any unconscious animations due to not being intended.
They are also able to be "Tamed" using their passive method while knocked out, despite this, they are unable to be tamed and will in fact go over the progress bar.
Upon waking up this will only waste any Fertilized Eggs used due to it being completely reset.
Titanoboas in ARK are not given any genders which prevents them from being bred by players.
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Jerboa, 
Titanosaur, 
Titanomyrma, or 
Titans
Beelzebufo, they are adept at swimming. The attack of a Titanoboa increases 
Torpor, which can neutralize incoming players who are unable to fight this crippling game mechanic.
Health
Stamina
Oxygen
Food
Weight
Melee Damage
Movement Speed
Torpidity
Level 1
Fertilized Giganotosaurus Egg
Fertilized Bronto Egg
Fertilized Dimetrodon Egg
Fertilized Allosaurus Egg
Fertilized Camelsaurus Egg
Fertilized Baryonyx Egg
Fertilized Oviraptor Egg
Fertilized Ankylo Egg
Fertilized Archaeopteryx Egg
Fertilized Giganotosaurus Egg
Fertilized Bronto Egg
Fertilized Dimetrodon Egg
Fertilized Dimetrodon Egg
Fertilized Glowtail Egg
Fertilized Quetzal Egg
Fertilized Rex Egg
Fertilized Sarco Egg
Fertilized Yutyrannus Egg
Fertilized Allosaurus Egg
Fertilized Allosaurus Egg
Fertilized Argentavis Egg
Fertilized Carno Egg
Fertilized Kentro Egg
Fertilized Megalosaurus Egg
Fertilized Spino Egg
Fertilized Stego Egg
Fertilized Therizino Egg
Fertilized Camelsaurus Egg
Fertilized Camelsaurus Egg
Fertilized Pachyrhino Egg
Fertilized Thorny Dragon Egg
Fertilized Trike Egg
Fertilized Baryonyx Egg
Fertilized Baryonyx Egg
Fertilized Featherlight Egg
Fertilized Ichthyornis Egg
Fertilized Kaprosuchus Egg
Fertilized Megalania Egg
Fertilized Pachycephalosaurus Egg
Fertilized Pelagornis Egg
Fertilized Pteranodon Egg
Fertilized Raptor Egg
Fertilized Rock Drake Egg
Fertilized Tapejara Egg
Fertilized Terror Bird Egg
Fertilized Wyvern Egg
Fertilized Oviraptor Egg
Fertilized Ankylo Egg
Fertilized Ankylo Egg
Fertilized Dimorph Egg
Fertilized Gallimimus Egg
Fertilized Iguanodon Egg
Fertilized Moschops Egg
Fertilized Moth Egg
Fertilized Parasaur Egg
Fertilized Vulture Egg
Fertilized Archaeopteryx Egg
Fertilized Archaeopteryx Egg
Fertilized Compy Egg
Fertilized Dilo Egg
Fertilized Dodo Egg
Fertilized Hesperornis Egg
Fertilized Kairuku Egg
Fertilized Lystro Egg
Fertilized Microraptor Egg
Fertilized Pegomastax Egg
Fertilized Troodon Egg
Fertilized Turtle Egg
Stimulant or 
Stimberries with you as a combatant against its venom. It should be said that many creatures in the cave can carry 
Shotguns are devastating in the caves or in the swamp and most mounts can ignore the 
Spear or 
Pike in their face can usually do the trick. Since their head shot modifier is 3x it advise to bring a 
Bow or 
Crossbow for defense. As with most creatures, the hit box is larger than the collision box, so even if it does not make the "smacking sound", the attack still can hit. This tactic also works great for 
Sarcos.
Dimorphodon are quite capable of ignoring the torpor effect and shredding the relatively fragile Titanoboa. They lose melee soundly to an even moderately equipped survivor, providing they beat a hasty retreat before the venom proves their end.
Pulmonoscorpius, meaning it applies 
Argentavis.
Oviraptor will result in a higher egg production to make 
Superior Kibble.
Onycs or 
Carbonemys and Titanoboa were contemporaries. They both lived in the jungle rivers of what is now Colombia 60 million years ago.
Dilophosaur.
Wooden Catwalk "lip" to the edge of your walls to stop them from paying an unexpected visit.
Wooden Club. This is presumably useful to reduce its food for later taming, but too dangerous compared to its worth.
Arthropluera the Titanoboa can breathe underwater.
Feces.
Basilosaurus. They would have come to frequent conflict with Titanoboas.
ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
Titanoboa Egg, and can be made into kibble for the 
Gigantopithecus
Aberrant Titanoboa
ARK: Survival Ascended Changes
