Whether you’re new to the game or if you’ve been playing for years, coming across the Phiomia in ARK: Survival Evolved for the first time can seem like a bit of a shock. Indeed, this vaguely pig-like creature is relatively common in the game, traveling in herds and largely keeping itself to itself.

However, there’s plenty of potential to make the most of this creature’s presence, and it’s definitely helpful to know how to tame it and the creature’s stats in line with this. Well, if this is something you’ve been wondering about, we’ve outlined everything you need to know about the Phiomia in today’s guide to help.

What is the Phiomia in ARK: Survival Evolved?

The Phiomia in ARK: Survival Evolved is a medium-sized, herbivorous mammal that resembles a prehistoric pig, elephant, or tapir, looking rather amusingly like a mix between a boar and a small mammoth. The Phiomia is actually based on the real-life extinct basal member of the elephantiform family.

The wild Phiomia in ARK: Survival Evolved is completely passive, and when attacked, the herd will simply scatter, fleeing at high speeds. This flighty behavior makes the species tricky to keep up with, although luckily, it’s an easy creature to kill, even for early-game players, if you’ve been looking for hides and meat. As such, after setting up your game on a private Valheim server, this is one of the first things to look for.

Base Stats and Growth Rates for the ARK Phiomia

With a basic idea of what the Phiomia is in mind, it’s now time for us to begin exploring the creature’s base stats and growth rate. Interestingly, the Phiomia is actually a pretty weak creature; however, its impressive carrying capacity lends to its value as a “pack mule” type creature when tamed.

Wild, Level 1 Phiomia have the following base stats:

• Health: 300
• Stamina: 200
• Oxygen: 150
• Food: 3000
• Weight Capacity: 200

Interestingly, one unique feature of the Phiomia is that it gives a huge amount of feces, which can be used as an incredibly effective fertilizer for growing crops. As a result, if you’re looking to build up a farm, catching a Phiomia could be the ideal solution to consider for your fledgling farm.

How to Tame a Phiomia in ARK: Survival Evolved

As we’ve already mentioned, Phiomia are excellent species to tame thanks to their value for farming applications and as an excellent pack mule to help with transporting goods and resources. Given this thought, you may well want to tame a Phiomia in your game - and luckily, this is incredibly easy to do, and these creatures won’t usually put up too much of a fight to tame. In fact, the biggest challenge in taming them is simply getting close enough, since they are prone to run away and are incredibly skittish.

Given this thought, the most effective way to tame a phiomia in ARK is to use the knockout approach. Once you have done so, you can speed up the process of taming the animal using simple kibble ideally, which is the Phiomia’s favorite food; however, berries also work well for taming this creature.

Once tamed, a Phiomia can be ridden using a Phiomia saddle, which can be crafted from Level 5 - making it a good early game mount, albeit not a particularly fast one. In addition, if you feed your newly tamed Phiomia stimberries, it’ll produce far more feces - a great way for harvesting fertilizer in large quantities if you need it in a hurry!

How to Fight the Phiomia in ARK: Survival Evolved

If you decide you’d rather fight a Phiomia you come across than tame it, the good news is that this is incredibly simple. In fact, Phiomia will also be one of the main sources of early game hides for many players. Since Phiomia will run away immediately once attacked, it’s generally a good idea to use ranged weapons, such as a slingshot or bow, to hunt Phiomia in ARK: Survival Evolved. However, you can potentially also use regular melee weapons if you’re able to trap the Phiomia in between rocks, trees, or in a corral, or otherwise attack from all sides with several players.

The latter option here is much trickier, but if you’re playing multiplayer with friends, it could be worth trying. Of course, this does require very precise timing, so ensuring your game is running on a lag-free, 24/7 uptime private server could prove helpful in pulling off the maneuver.

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Final Thoughts

If you’ve been looking to tame or tackle a Phiomia in ARK: Survival Evolved, it’s worth considering the tips in today’s guide to help. Indeed, Phiomia are an incredibly common species and often present a major source of early-game meat and hide; they’re also great pack mules and sources of fertilizer.