Lost Colony brings some of the most powerful, unique, and useful creatures. From deadly cave flyers to support pets and mythical mounts, choosing the right tames can completely change how you play the game. In this ARK: Lost Colony Best Creatures Guide, we will show you the top creatures you should focus on and tame them.
Best Creatures to Tame in ARK: Lost Colony
Below, we have listed ten of the best creatures that you should consider taming in ARK: Lost Colony.
#10 – Giga Desmodus
- Location: Boss Reward Only
More of a trophy than a necessity. It deals extremely heavy damage, steals health when attacking, and can fire blood-spitting torpor attacks. It gains speed at night and can act as a flying fortress with a platform saddle.
#9 – Snow Owl
- Location: Mountains across the map
The best healing creature in the game. It can freeze allies to heal them quickly, stun enemies with dive attacks, scout using infrared vision, and produce high-quality fertilizer pellets.
#8 – Argentavis
- Location: Mountain regions & northeast lowlands
The ultimate transport/cargo flyer. It carries heavy loads with weight reduction, heals fast after kills, works as a portable smithy, and is perfect for gathering and early to mid-game progression.
#7 – Cryolophosaurus
- Location: East & North snow regions
A fast and agile combat mount. It uses freezing attacks and torpor ice spit, can dodge enemy hits, and works very well for travel, fighting, and knocking out creatures.
#6 – Reaper King
- Location: Aberrant Red Zone – 19.0 LAT, 66.3 LON
The end-game combat monster. It needs no saddle, can burrow underground, perform long charge jumps, and use devastating tail attacks. Extremely effective in boss fights.
#5 – Veilwyn / Soulwyn / Malwyn
Veilwyn:
- Location: Flat open areas across the map
Veilwyn starts as an immortal companion pet that follows you and provides buffs, healing, and combat support.
- Soulwyn (Light Path):
- Location: Near mountain bases (Top-left & Bottom-right map areas)
- Best land traversal mount. Focuses on speed and movement, with wall climbing, ice bridges, and powerful freeze stacking damage. Also have built-in cryopod ability.
- Malwyn (Dark Path)
- Location: Evolved from Veilwyn via Blood Forge (Corrupted Vulpit)
- More combat-oriented, using ranged beam attacks that slow enemies, reduce healing, increase damage taken, even ground flyers, lifesteals on bite, and has stealth bio-camouflage vs large creatures.
#4 – Drakeling (Winter Variant)
- Location: South & West regions, snowy mountains
One of the best shoulder pets in the game. It stores XP, creates loot keys, reduces fall damage, works as a portable fridge, grants strong biome-based buffs, and opens dragon horde chests.
#3 – Gloon
- Location: Purple irradiated water & Rockwell gardens
A top-tier utility and stealth king. It can turn you nearly invisible, protect against charge light, detect enemies, slow your fall, control or distract hostile creatures, and provide Reaper synergy.
#2 – Aureliax
- Location: Very high mountain peaks (near sky barrier) – Gene Scanner recommended
A mythical dragon flyer with two stances. One focuses on healing and support, while the other focuses on damage and control. It has strong stamina recovery, smoke effects, ice pillars, can carry creatures, and even transport passengers.
#1 – Desmodus
- Location: Caves (hanging from ceilings)
The most versatile creature on Lost Colony. It can fly inside caves, turn invisible, use night vision, harvest blood packs, allow weapon use while mounted, and craft the Sanguine Elixir, which instantly boosts taming or imprinting by 30%.
That is all for this guide. If you need additional help with the game, check out the additional guides linked below:
- ARK: Lost Colony Outposts Guide – All Outposts, Missions
- ARK: Lost Colony Items Guide – All New Items and Consumables Detailed
- ARK: Lost Colony Thralls Guide – How to Get, Use
- ARK: Lost Colony Loot and Blueprints Farming Guide – Best Spots to Farm Loot and Blueprints
- ARK: Lost Colony Cryolophosaurus Guide – Where to Find, How to Tame
- ARK: Lost Colony Gigadesmodus Guide – Where to Find, How to Tame
- ARK: Lost Colony PvE Base Locations Guide – Best Locations for PVE
This concludes our ARK: Lost Colony Best Creatures Guide. If you have some tips for us on how to tame these creatures, let us know in the comments section below.
