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BASILISK
The Basilisk is a carnivore found on 5 maps, with a drag weight of 425. Tamed, it harvests Raw Meat and Raw Prime Meat better than most creatures. It is rideable once you have the level 85 saddle.
Stat Calculator
point distribution & extractionRoll Quality
how lucky these wild points areBasilisk at a glance
the game's own base values — the calculator above levels them| Stat | Base (level 1, wild) | Per wild level | Per tamed level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 2,750 | 550 | 5.4% |
| Stamina | 650 | 65 | 10.0% |
| Oxygen | 150 | 15 | 10.0% |
| Food | 2,500 | 250 | 10.0% |
| Weight | 2,200 | 44 | 4.0% |
| Melee Damage | 100% | 5% | 1.7% |
| Movement Speed | 100% | — | 1.0% |
| Torpidity | 175 | 10.5 | — |
A wild Basilisk starts at 2,750 health and 100% melee damage. Its drag weight is 425, which decides what can carry it. The saddle engram unlocks at level 85. Killing one gives 4 base XP.
Taming food: Fertilized Voidwyrm Egg, Fertilized Rock Drake Egg, Fertilized Magmasaur Egg, Fertilized Wyvern Egg. Torpor drains at 0.3 per second once it is unconscious.
Best at gathering: Raw Meat, Raw Prime Meat, Chitin, Keratin, Hide.
Drops on death: Raw Meat, Raw Prime Meat, Hide, Basilisk Scale.
Taming Calculator
Lv 150 · knockoutHow You Get One
method, in orderStep by step
- Get a
Fertilized Rock Drake Egg — or on maps where they exist, a Fertilized 
Magmasaur or 
Voidwyrm Egg. - Drop the egg near the Basilisk. You do not hand-feed it; it has to be on the ground.
- Back off and let it eat, then drop the next one.
Also true
- Torpor-immune, so the knockout numbers on this page do not lead anywhere.
- It burrows and ambushes; the eggs are the cheap part of this tame and the safe approach is the expensive part.
Torpor
- This creature is torpor-immune to conventional tranquilisers. Darts, arrows and Narcotics will not drop it, so the torpor figures elsewhere on this page describe its stat, not a route to taming it.
Holding it still
Nothing throwable immobilizes a Basilisk (drag weight 425).
Taming at a glance
a level 150, at official 1× rates| Level | Fertilized Voidwyrm Egg | Time | Effectiveness | Bonus levels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 7 | 58m 22s | 93.7% | +14 |
| 60 | 9 | 1h 15m | 92.1% | +27 |
| 90 | 11 | 1h 31m | 90.5% | +40 |
| 120 | 13 | 1h 48m | 88.9% | +53 |
| 150 | 15 | 2h 05m | 87.4% | +65 |
Every number in this card is at official 1× rates, with the fastest food. Taming speed and food consumption multipliers change all of it, and most servers are not on official — the calculator at the top of this tab takes your rates, a Sanguine Elixir, and every other food this creature will eat.
Effectiveness is what decides the bonus levels: every unit of food eaten costs a slice of it, so the food that needs the fewest units finishes at the highest level. That is why kibble is worth the trouble — not that it is much faster, but that it is fewer feedings.
Timers
start them when you knock it outServer Rates
every number on this tab is calculated at these ratesTame Guide
traps, methods & egg runsThe Basilisk is tamed non-violently, rather than through the use of tranquilizers.
To tame one, the player must use fertilized 
Rock Drake Eggs on Aberration or fertilized 
Magmasaur Egg on Genesis: Part 1. Drop them on the ground at or near the Basilisk while it is not burrowed (while it will still eat egg even when aggro'd, chances of it eating are very low even when brought close in its path, and it is best to kite it close and make it lose interest in the player). The Basilisk will "attack" the egg when it is nearby one of them 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.
If more eggs are required, retreat to a safe location for a long duration, as the rate at which the Basilisk returns to being feedable is very low.
As flying mounts are not available in the maps it exists in, one of such strategy is to utilize a swift mount such as a 
Raptor with high movement speed and lure it over to the fertilized egg as it moves relatively quick once aggravated. If dropping while running, ensure the egg are dropped from your own inventory, for when you drop the egg from the mount's inventory, the Basilisk will still eat the egg when it is not aggravated, but no taming progress will be made.
Another method would be to utilize mounts the Basilisk are not aggravated by, such as 
Rock Drake, 
Rex or Magmasaur. Dismount nearby and mount after getting its attention, then kite it into a circle. Do not hit it. Pay close attention to it-the moment it turns its head away from your tame, dismount to the other side and remount to hold aggro.
One can also use a 
Karkinos. Hold a passive wild dino, such as a 
Parasaur, and aggro the Basilisk. Keep turning in a circle to keep the unfortunate held creature safe, and drop the eggs from your survivor's inventory.
Keep in mind that every time the Basilisk goes to burrow, it will lose taming effectiveness and while holding aggro can suffice, an easier way to prevent this from happening is by building a trap of sorts.
Using structures can involve using 
Dinosaur Gates and/or Walls with Fence Foundations while leaving a corner gap small enough for the player to escape, but not for the Basilisk to escape. However, it will try to attack the structure to get to the character, so moving around to get its attention of your location and losing it after is required for this strategy to work. Be mindful for its poison spit, however.
By far the easiest way to tame a Basilisk is creating a taming pen with pillars and foundations. The Basilisk can't burrow through foundations so you will never lose taming effectiveness.
The Basilisk loses about 7-8% taming effectiveness every time it burrows. (Needs further testing)
Be careful while taming a Basilisk, as if it is heavily damaged, it will refuse to eat, only when its nearly full health before it will accept the food.
Even when not burrowed, the Basilisk will gradually lose both taming progress and taming effectiveness. One way to prevent this is to continuously keep it aggro either on you, or on a creature(tested on PC version 322.6).
Preferred Food
Once tamed, the Basilisk will consume a standard carnivore diet of 
Raw Meat, as well as both fertilized and unfertilized Eggs.
Basilisks will also eat 
Fertilized Voidwyrm Eggs, allowing taming on Genesis: Part 2 without having to upload Magmasaur or Rock Drake Eggs
Breeding
egg → adultDrops & Harvest
On death
Abilities
what it does and how you trigger it 
- Bite Primary attack
The Basilisk bites the target for 44 damage. This attack applies Torpor x3 of the damage dealt over 10 seconds, does not stack.
10 stamina · 0.67s cooldown - Shoot Poison Secondary attack
The Basilisk shoots a single projectile of poisonous gas, which explodes upon impact, or disappears after 5 seconds if it does not hit anything The projectile deals 96 immediate damage to a directly hit target. The explosion deals 80 immediate damage and this falls off over 5 meters. A 5 meter gas cloud appears for 5 seconds at the place the projectile hits, and deals 10 damage every 0.4 seconds. All damage dealt by this attack ignores armor, but can be mitigated with a
Gas Mask or 
Tek Helmet. Only direct impact damage scales by Melee Damage stat.65 stamina - Bury Jump
The Basilisk burries itself under the ground. On this state the Basilisk can freely move under the ground, the rider's Oxygen will be drain unless they have a
SCUBA Tank or Tek Helmet equiped. To go above the surface use the same button.65/s stamina · 8.5s cooldown - Roar special c
The Basilisk roars.
50 stamina · 1.75s cooldown - Bite Primary attack
The Basilisk bites the target for 55 damage. This attack applies Torpor x3 of the damage dealt over 10 seconds, does not stack.
10 stamina · 0.67s cooldown - Shoot Poison Secondary attack
The Basilisk shoots a single projectile of poisonous gas, which explodes upon impact, or disappears after 5 seconds if it does not hit anything The projectile deals 120 immediate damage to a directly hit target. The explosion deals 80 immediate damage and this falls off over 5 meters. A 5 meter gas cloud appears for 5 seconds at the place the projectile hits, and deals 10 damage every 0.4 seconds. All damage dealt by this attack ignores armor, but can be mitigated with a Gas Mask or Tek Helmet. Only direct impact damage scales by Melee Damage stat.
65 stamina - Bury Jump
The Basilisk burries itself under the ground. On this state the Basilisk can freely move under the ground, the rider's Oxygen will be drain unless they have a SCUBA Tank or Tek Helmet equiped. To go above the surface use the same button.
65/s stamina · 8.5s cooldown - Roar special c
The Basilisk roars.
50 stamina · 1.75s cooldown
- Bury
The Basilisk has a bury option on its wheel menu, after ordering this action the Basilisk buries itself, though buried wild Basilisks are visible through their forked tail, tamed Basilisks are invisible to non-allied players.
- Weight Reduction
The Basilisk reduces the weight of the following resources by the listed amount while they are in its inventory:
- Bury
The Basilisk has a bury option on its wheel menu, after ordering this action the Basilisk buries itself, though buried wild Basilisks are visible through their forked tail, tamed Basilisks are invisible to non-allied players.
- Weight Reduction
The Basilisk reduces the weight of the following resources by the listed amount while they are in its inventory:
Details
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