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Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a spinosaurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a spinosaurus.
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I am not joking.
I play mobile, single player, and I have one named Butch, tamed him when I was at level 20 something and him level 17 I believe, he’s now level 43 and the only place he doesn’t go with me is underwater and caves.
Do no be scared grabbing one, I was terrified taming Butch, but in all honesty he wasn’t that bad, I was just paranoid. While narcotics are good to use, I find biotoxin even better and it easily knocks a spino nearly back to full tempor.
I used a crossbow and stood on a sharp cliff face, letting butch run around and kill the other animals in the water, which did actually distract him long enough to knock him right out. I highly suggest trying to grab one in the easier areas, mine being from the Long: 40 Lat: 80 area. Here you can easily get biotoxin too, as the jellies spawn in the area pretty frequently, it being a low level area and they’re easy to get to with a crossbow!
Happy taming fellow survivors, good luck!
They drown if knocked out in water :(
If you don’t see a spino to tame kill all the fish in a river.
Make ten ston pillar and ten ladders, go on top then tranq it, easiest than ever. Try getting it to the shores coz there is less raptors to interrupt, got my first spino but gotta wait a lot of time before i get a saddle ahh pain. Stay out of cniderias in water coz theyll bum you off the saddle which us worst, also in low lvl, you can tame a baryonyx whome is brother of spino and can be unstoppable in water with stun
Taming a spino might seem hard at lvl 29, but it ain’t. Get 20-40 tranq arrows, a bow that doesn’t deal too much damage, and a butt load of fish meat. Shoot the spino at a long range, then when it closes in shoot it more, that will minimize how much damage you take. Once you have it down, keep a very close watch on it cuz spinos are very fast at losing torpor, use bio toxin as a narcotic, it won’t do damage and its effective.
This method had me tame 3 spinos in a day at lvl 29-31
I play on PC so I’m going to tame one on extinction today, so I think that I’ll use the method of a couple stone floors, doorframe’s, and a ramp. I think that that trap will work perfectly cause it is good on Rexes and other larger Dino’s.
How to place:
It’s really east honestly, just place a 5-5 foundation, 3 doorframe long square with ramps on the side for it to go in. I’ve tried and it works on pretty much everything to a Rex. (maybe make it bigger with a Dino gate too ) also, you can run and make it follow you and then just run out of the door frame to tranq it. This is honestly the most OP trap. Wish me luck!
I read all the tips, and even though I'm a newbie to ark the methods of taming the spino I've seen are pretty.. Inefficient
I just downloaded dododex
I tamed a spino at lvl 26 using a raft, wooden structures such as wall, foundation, roof and door etc on the raft.
You can find spinos, (on mobile as far as I know) between 40-50 LON, and 70-80 LAT, just look on your map.
Now taming them is relatively easier and less resource consuming than the other methods. I used this method as an uncultured and unknowledged swine and it worked. Spinos often spawn near water so build a raft and house on top of the raft, build a bow or crossbow, or the bow you get from dilo hunt persuit, once you see a spino position the raft so that you can peek out your door and shoot arrows, agro it with an arrow then drive the raft again luring it to land so that you don't tame it in water.. Lol
Stay inside the house you built on the raft while spamming tranq arrows on it (they will often circle the raft so just wait for them to pass by the Door, when they run just chase and keep shooting tranq arrows till they knock down) make sure to have at least 15-20 narcotics. Normal meat works even though it will take time. If you need more narcotics just make some more, if you have the soothing balm use it.
And then voila, you have a spino
I love these guys! I have two at my base (a male and female) and can’t wait to breed them once I unlock ac engram ( I know I’m a noob). I tamed them on mobile using the soothing balm free gift, which is kind of cheating I guess. They still give me so much peace of mind knowing that whenever I run into some tickle chicken or something, I can just call in my big guns, Spadoodle and Spinerete.
Taming one solo.
I had a level 15 hanging too close to my base for comfort. I have never tamed one before so I am happy with this.
I made 10 stone pillars and had ladders up to the top and I used tranq darts with a longneck rifle. It took 23 darts to knock out. If you use arrows I advise making 50 for a level 15 or lower. Be aware that it’s torpidity runs out very quickly. I had 100 narcotics with me and loads more at base if needed but 100 was plenty for this level. I am still learning about kibble and things so I fed it raw fish meat which did take a lot longer.
I hope this helps!
If you are trying to tame a Spinosaurus and you can’t do don’t want to build a trap try using green obelisk it worked well for me. But of course when I do it I hit my level 120 right after it goes down
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one ☝️ means one spino fan
They easily get distracted I was trying to get one into a trap but it had to dispose of the wildlife first
Um so I found lvl 2 male spino like legit really close to my base
I think I should tame him, I will hv to KO him in the water according to Dododex, it takes 2 mins to tame using 10x Soothing balm, and fish meat, I only need 2 apparently. Should I trust Dododex? Or should I do a tidy save?
Make sure to take lots of narcs/bio toxin
How to tame a spino
Step 1 get tranqs lots if your trying to tame a high level
Step 2 get prime meat or prime fish meat and naracotics these guys topper drains fast
Step 4 if your the right level give it the saddle
Step 5 wait for it to tame and surround him in spike walls for protection
Step 6 name him
And boom if you want for me too do rex 20 likes for rex hope it helped
This is for every Ark Mobile player:
1. Make a trap.
2. Knock it out with the ascendant bow from the “Kill Dilophosaurus Persuit.
Get soothing balm. Tame.
Done.
People say ‘build stone pillars’ but all you have to do is get up high. Now take a rifle, use drank darts (I had 24 and maybe more, but I had some leftover and some shots I missed). Also, if you are on a hill shooting the spino, make sure it can’t climb it. Start shooting, and once successfully knocked out, feed it. Raw fish meat, prime fish meat, and I believe even raw meat, and raw prime meat work (I used fish meat, so I can’t be sure about the raw meat). I used bio toxin, with does +80 torpidity, while a normal narcotic does +40. It says the bio toxin does 30 damage, but it actually doesn’t do any (I believe it only hurts humans). Once you tame the spino, I must warn you, once you are able to ride it (after crafting the saddle on a smithy), if you run over small creatures you kill them. But other than that, they are a amazing, strong, swift creature. And I really suggest taming, I was scared the first time I tried, but you’ll feel the sweet triumph after a while. Hope you tame a spino! Up for noobs to see! Have a nice day!
Knocked this out using loads of tranq arrows and even more narcotics, started taming it on raw meat but it took ages, so swapped the food to fish and it flew through..
Use the elixir from desmodus to get a 30% taming buff
Two ways to tame spino (especially on aberration)
Make a basic stone trap, 3x3 or 3x4 foundation, at least 3 door frames high and a wooden ramp.
Aggro him and run him up ramp
Make a bed near by if not fast enough
(I have 190% movement speed on official for reference so you might need to be close to trap to run him in)
Then knock him out, cryo him or demo door frames and enjoy your spino!
Another way to do it is(but not as reusable) is 3-4 stone dino gates and a bear trap.
For 3 gates, position the first two in kind of a wide triangle, put the bear trap right between them, run spino in and trap him in with last gate
For 4 gates, position them in a square, put bear trap, run spino in and trap him in with last gate