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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a giganotosaurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a giganotosaurus.
I recommend using the hunt giga pursuit to find one and tame it, without using the pursuit I had looked around for about a week and wasn’t able to find one. So if you don't want to spend forever trying to find one, use the pursuit
The babies need a ridiculous amount of food. Had to commit genocide to make my little bastard a snack.
I got every thing to tame a giga but I found no giga and I'm scared to do it
For people who can’t find gigas (mobile), go on the grass plain between griffin mountain and frozen tooth, tidy save and add it in your backup data.After that, roam around frozen tooth and you should see the giga.If you aren’t satisfied with the level/gender then go back to the backup and restore the save.When you go back to the spot where you find your first giga you should see a different one.Repeat until you find the right one
Materials -
4-8 metal billboards
2-4 bear traps
Design - you want to put the bill boards in a square so one infront of the giga, to its right, left, and behind. Place 3 bill boards like this |_| and 2 bear traps in the trap, then lead the giga to the trap and put one billboard behind it. Then just knock it out and tame it.
If you want this weapon of mass destruction I’ll give tips:
You’ll need:
-A trap bc this thing is actually hard to hit without a trap.( I used 4 metal gates but any trap that’s big enough works)
-Your KO weapon(it doesn’t have to be a longneck, crossbow worked fine)
Now you know what you’ll need, let’s get to taming.
1. find a giga.
Gigas are basically ONLY found in mountains or snow and you’ll know it when you see one.(they are bronto-sized rexes)
2. Set up the trap.
A preferred place to set the trap is on any sort of flat ground, lead the giga in. If it doesn’t get stuck, the trap doesn’t work or you’re just skill issue.
3. KO the giga.
This should be easy but will take awhile. Don’t stop shooting because it’s torpor drops fast.
4. Feed it.
You can starve it or give it prime(don’t ask where raw meat went)it’s up to you, give it 100 biotoxin when it’s on low torpor and you’re set.
Now you have machine of death. It wasn’t that hard wasn’t it?
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I love how this actually tells you how many fist hits or club hits it takes as if anyone would be dumb enough to try to knock out a wild giga with bare fists or a melee weapon. If someone shows prrof they knocked it out with their fists and no god mode/cheats on then id give them 100$ cash.
I wasted like 450 metal for gates and 60 tranq darts. I misread and brought 1100 narcotics with me needing only 86. I then tame the giga and feel proud of myself. I then check the stats to find that it has 17080 health and 20% melee damage.
Pro tip:
Gigas can't swim well or breathe underwater. Knowing this may well save your life one day.
DON'T TRY TO TRAP THEM WITH STONE DINO GATE WAY!!!! IT JUST GIVE 20 SHOTS AND BROKE IT!!!!
(Learned from exprience)
I just got a slingshot and used 4942 rocks
For people trying to tame this thing, Make a trap, if u dont u will possibly miss some shots, and with the long reload time, when ur done reloading this thing will already have 0 torpor again, they drop around 600 torpor per second if you dont hit them with tranqs within 6 seconds per shot, if u wait more than 6 secs per shot ur basically making absolutely no progress
If you tried to tame a lv 9999 giga with cooked fish meat and 0.01 taming, you would need 4012100 cooked fish, and it would take 3761343 hours, 51 minutes and 49 seconds, not to mention the UNGODLY amount of narcotics.
At 0.1 consumption speed and 0.1 taming with a level 9999 gigs it will take 7522687 days to tame, along with 576830857 narcotics.
When you think a high level rock elemental can kill a low level giga think again
Rip Rock Elemental
Hatching a giga egg in an incubator with full boost is simple. Use 44 heat. IT WILL WORK.
Bring friends to help with flying while you dangle from the argy
I have actually tried using a slingshot on a giga to knock it out. It broke, so I had to repair it many times. It took over 1k rocks-
I see way to meany people use narcotics to keep things asleep,USE FLIPPING BIOTOXIN! It gives 80 torpor and doesn’t do damage, narcotics do 40
With the proper technique, it's a long, but easy tame ;
1rst step : tame a scorpion, or arthropleura from within the caves (really important)
Imprint the MD as much as possible, until you'd find the gigano
Use the not-an-insect-even-though-every-one-say-they're-bugs, to attack the big one (he won't agro on you, unless you dismount)
Between each attacks, wait few seconds, until he'd recove 1hp
After a long while, he's knocked out, just bring him food... & Narcotics 👍