Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a amargasaurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a amargasaurus.
Make sure to use the right berries
I recommend waiting until you can use the net gun and them having a decent weapon as bad net gun can really help with keeping the armargo safe while you hunt with it and then you can kill the creature while it is netted preventing the armargo from taking damage
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Day 1: Amargasauraus
Information:
Amargasauraus is the most powerful sauropod in the game(aside from the titanasaur) and has one of the highest movement speeds in the game, especially for its size. It has the ability to shoot three different medium ranges spikes that all have their own aura that they make around them. The first is the ice spikes, which, as the name implies, make an aura of ice around them that slows everything inside of it and anything that is in there for long enough becomes temporarily frozen for 20 seconds or until hit. The second type is armor piercing which negates all armor effects of anything inside of its aura range, however it doesn’t reduce Dino’s natural defenses or any kind of shield that anything might have. The third type is focused completely on damage and DOT(Damage over time) and it is fire. Its aura does damage to anything inside of it and after a short amount of time catches them on fire and does DOT for a short time.
Stats:
The Amargasauraus’s base health is 1250 which is really putting it at the 27th place for highest base health out of 149 dinos. It has 425 base stamina, putting it at 28th place. It’s only other notable star is its torpor at 2250 putting it at 11th place. All of its other important stats are relatively average with 475 weight and, of course, 100% melee.
Taming:
This creature is an absolute pain in the ass to tame and it is almost impossible to do on your own so it is strongly advised that you do this in multiplayer. The only sound method to do this in single player is to kite it to the plains just outside of the snow area where they are found. Some supplies you will definitely need will be either flak or fur armor, as good as you can get it, a fabricated shotgun, a longneck rifle with a scope, a spyglass(not required but very useful), fria curry, medical brews, veggie cakes, calen soup(recipes can be found on Dododex), and any taming food you can get, preferably exceptional kibble but any kind of plant will work, however the second best thing is rockarrot which in some maps can only be found by getting the seeds from gathering bushes and then farming them in crop plots. What you need to do is eat your fria curry and calien soup while you are far away from the Amargasauraus and then approach it carefully and press the synch temperature button and it will start following you around. Your first objective needs to be to get it to the grass plains outside of the snow area. Once you are there, run around until you find carnivores that will be auto aggrod by the Amargasauraus and it will run towards them and start attacking. The Amargasauraus’s aggro range is massive so make sure you keep your eyes on it and be careful. Once it spots something you will need to do as much damage to the thing it’s fighting as possible without dying or damaging the Amargasauraus. The most common things to find in the grasslands will be raptors, sabertooths, megalania, and the occasional Rex. The more things you kill, the higher the taming bar goes, but along with that the more damage the Amargasauraus will take. This is what the veggie cakes are for. You will need to put them in the last slot of your hotbar and go up to the dino and then feed them to it. Veggie cakes are very useful in many situations as they will heal any herbivores that you feed them to. Every once in a while the Amargasauraus will get hungry, and, as with all passive tames, you will need to feed it. Taming effectiveness will not drop at all if it takes damage, nor if you damage it. The only way for it to lose taming effectiveness is if you don’t kill anything for an extended period of time(roughly 10 minutes). The medical brews are for you to heal if you take damage, and the weapons are to help kill the stuff. Make sure that you don’t bring any tames with you as the Amargasauraus will automatically attack your tame, even if you are already taming the Amargasauraus. The best way is to just bring a flier and a cryopod and just cryopod your flier once you land and just start taming the Amargasauraus from there.
If you want to tame one just don’t.
If it could at least damage wood that would be sick
It isn’t out yet so no one knows yet
After you start the taming process uncryo a giga and go after Rex megatheriums and Yuty mostly. Make sure giga is on passive so it doesn’t hit the amargasaur when you hop off to feed kibble. Oh and avoid Agro range of any other wild amargasaur. Pretty easy tame with this method.
The number of kibble needed was way off said during 3x need 20something used 10
Not realesed yet.......................
IMPORTANT TIP: bring tanky ish dinos, don’t be on a Dino when fighting for amarga, use a pistol. Every shot you take the percent goes up! Yes you can trap them. I used stone foundations and door frames 3 high to keep it in. Good luck !
Taming one can be very hard all to know if you are a beginner
You need to do a total of around 100,000 damage to tame it
This dinosaur has giant spikes it can knock you out quick
This is a real dino Though ……..
They also eat sweet cake, along side kibble, veg and berries. And failer to give them what they want they stop following and taming goes down.
Also be aware when taiming theses psyco dinos there is a high probability they will die. I suggest a trap for their own safty, because they will attack everything regardless of their health.
Tamed two level 150’s this week for the first time. I did it without using a trap or veggie cakes as they are resource heavy.
Bring a mastercraft or Ascendent shotgun or assault rifle, a cryo podded snow owl, 10-15 extraordinary kibble depending on your taming rates, 5-10 soups to sync temp and 200 - 300 shotgun ammo atleast. It’s really helpful to have a sinomacrops so you can scout ahead easily as well. (You don’t wanna run into a large group of carnivores).
Now go to the desert biome and find a high level, run around with it on foot shotgunning wolves, scorpions, and Carnos etc as you go. You want to find Daedons, they make it so much easier, shoot them then run in a circle with your amarg taking pot shots at the daedons, because they are Tanky you get lots of taming percentage. Rinse repeat. Use the snow owl if your amarg takes damage.
Dinosauria>> Sauropodomorpha>> Sauropoda>> Diplodicoidreia
No one has said this that I can see, but you need to bring veggie cakes to heal them if they get hurt.
I built a trap and then had a tribe mate fly an Argy carrying Dire Wolves and Daedons and dropping them in the trap. You have to be careful not to hit the Amargasaurus, because it will agro on your tribe.