Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a andrewsarchus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a andrewsarchus.
How to tame an andrewsarchus:
1. Throw honey near it.
2. Once it starts eating the honey, mount it.
3. After mounting, you will need to start steering left or right. There will be an Indicator.
4. Unmount before the red meter fills up.
5. Repeat until the andrewsarchus is tamed.
-Also their saddles protect you from radiation or lava, and gives you infinite oxygen underwater.
Hope this helped!
-Pablo27
You don't need a full set of ghillie I did it with only 3 pieces and crouched
To tame these early game, just spawn in Vardiland North. As you travel up the shore, you’ll find a shipwreck, you can get metal tools there. With a metal pick you can collect honey from the honey rocks with 200m of the shipwreck. You WILL be in andrewsarchus territory near the shipwreck. You will easily find andrewsarchus near the shipwreck too. Just throw honey, mount the little guy, and play the minigame. You can get a good andrew even if your level is sub 10. Good Luck!
If you on a cluster then use a sino to fly away
✨The easiest and fastest way to tame an Andrew :)✨~ First, you must have honey in order to lure it, or else you will be unable to ride it. You can usually find some honey crops (they look like square stones with honey combs sticking out) around the area you’ll find an Andrew (they usually spawn around certain open fields, go to google to find some spawns) once you spot a Andrew, make sure you single one out, make sure there isn’t another one near by, or a deadly predator to close either, they could distract the Andrew and/or kill you. Once you have the opportunity, put honey in your hot bar and press whatever button you need to use it, the honey will be thrown decently far from you (MAKE SURE YOU'RE CROUCHED AND NOT TO CLOSE TO IT). If it is close enough then the Andrew will slowly walk towards it, once it’s head goes down to eat it sprint up to it and ride it like you would a tamed creature, two arrows will appear on your screen, when one lights up (it will look bright white), turn your joystick or press whatever button you must to turn it in that same direction. Keep a close eye on the RED bar under the other bar with the taming progress on it, once the line is close, leap off (if you don’t, it will kick you off and attack you) then, throw out more honey and repeat the process until it is tamed! (Tip: if you get kicked off and are chased off or die but are able to spawn close, go into your tame section in your inventory (it will be one of the boxes at the very top) and click on the Andrew you’re taming, it will track it and show you its stats tame-wise!) - DJ Fox
Have honey in your hotbar, crouch behind/ near it, use honey in hotbar to throw it, ride andrewsarchus, to steer use left analog stick or A and D for PC, lastly make sure to jump off before the taming bar gets fully red to prevent it kicking you off and aggro on to you. Goodluck!
Also how does it harvest silica pearls?
Personally would HEAVILY recommend taming one of these in Asgard as opposed to Midgard. Seems like plenty more of mostly flat, large open land for you to mount them on as you’re taming.
It's a pretty easy to tame, I tamed mine on day one and all you have to do is throw down some honey back away then while it eats run up to it and start riding it then there will be arrows and you need to turn it the direction the arrow is pointing. There will be a red bar at the bottom and it will get bigger, you need to jump off before it's at full. Then repeat the process until it is tamed. I hope this was helpful.
Dumb but important tip you need to HOLD the steering nit tap. Also yes hop off right before the red meter gets full to avoid the kick to the face. Ghilie not required.
Tame it in Asgard, it’s way easier. Less creatures to interfere with the process, as well as flatter terain
Use honey to tame it first tame tip
If you put honey onto a fishing rod it stops the honey from spoiling indefinitely!!!
Do *not* bother with grapple hooks like in the nooblets vid. Just hop off before the red bar maxes out, and you can immediately do another round instead of getting attacked and waiting for it to lose aggro. A thousand times easier this way
This thing is very op if you are lucky you will find a level 150 and with one of honey you will mess it up very easily
Carry honey on fishing rods as it will have no timer . Also carry glow sticks painted white, handy for taming that special 150 in the dark. Keep a desmo in the first slot of hot bar to make quick getaway, make sure its on passive first.
When taming watch the red bar, hop off just before the bar fills up, back away from it while crouched and throw more honey. Rinse and repeat!
You don’t actually need a ghillie suit; just make a break for the creature after throwing honey without it aggroing onto you
-P3PPRMNT
It’s a passive tame you can tame it at level 1 all you need is a pick to harvest honey and then find one you want to tame and then throw the honey in your hot bar not your inventory because it will not work once you do that it will start walking to the honey and once it starts eating it SPRINT TOWARDS THE CREATURE and then hop on it but then you need to follow these arrows and if kicks you off SPRINT AWAY FROM IT and once it’s like “ight dude I forgot you” run back and repeat the process and BOOM you have a big doge
High level is worth it, Hop on, steer, no less than ten minutes. Kill everything dangerous around first as well.
1) Full Ghillie Suit
2) Put honey in hotbar slots.
3) Crouch walk 10-15m away and throw honey.
4) Ride that buckin pig!
5) dismount before red bar fills up to avoid losing taming effectiveness, the kick off will cost you dearly.
6) Put on some black sabbath and run around the map shooting everything in your path.