After the creatures replaced this many considered it useless now.to re-new this it would be nice if it had a full power climb,like megalania,maybe hav it be able to spin webs to trap creatures no-larger than a carno,to top it all off hav it spin webs around your base that produce silk and when wild dinos try to attack they get caught in the web.thumbs up if u agree.

Everyone thinks they're useless. But fill your inner base with about 4 on aggressive. Your enemies will be stuck in a Web. Literally.

They should make the araneos R3 ability to be able to shoot a straight stream of web and act as a grappling hook.

Taming a spider as a battle mount is quite useless but its ability to spray web at a target and severally slow them is ideal when taking on fast enemy's or large highly resistant creatures

Don't underestimate this creature in PvP. A webbed player is effectively blind. You can also use the webs for taming, similarly to the moth in Scorched Earth, by shooting webs onto a Dino and blasting them with tranq arrows and darts before they can run away/fight back.

Not exactly the best combat mount, slow, stamina isn't the best, a little squishy. But a few high levels of these on base defence are pretty good. Put a few in the inner parts of your base (along with the centipedes to wreck enemies armour) and the will have your enemies tangled up in seconds!

Could be a glitch, but while riding on one in the caves on the center map enemies ignored me like i had bug repellant on. Left caves and came back same thing.

The Araneo is definitely not a battle mount but has the potential to be. Pumping points into melee damage and health plus the projectile cobwebs to slow your target will allow you and your mount to be proven a worthy adversary.

Kinda wish these guys had a turret mode for the webs. Prettyuch be free plants you don't have to fertilize. To compensate though I just tamed a few high level dimorphodons to follow it, waited it down with stone so it couldn't move, and set it on aggressive with the highest radius. Set dimorphodons on attack my target and boom. Free turret.

These guys, when killed, give you lots of chitin. On Ragnarok there's a castle near the swamp at the top of the map full of these guys. Grab a high lvl argie and you'll have stacks of chitin very quickly.

You can collect alot of chitin from araneos, especially with a sabertooth or direwolf. It's cool but a rather useless tame.

When tamed they can help tame other creatures by webbing them

Would be cool if devs added ability to create temporary zip lines, climb walls, and use ziplines.

I Think the best way to use this ugly mofo is to have like 3-5 on aggressive outside of your base and 3-5 inside of your base. The ones outside I like to put stone in there inv so they can't move but act as turrets instead and my other dinos would obliterate anyone on the outside, and the ones inside would protect yur base from intruders. Probably best to have 5 spiders w/ 2-4 troodons inside to make sure nobody is left alive >:)

Might be useful as I just noticed that you can ride them through doorways

If you really must use one in combat then take a good pike and use that while mounted instead. You can still use the webs but can do considerably more damage. (And don't put any levels into melee, a high level spider still only does about 20 damage per bite. Useless.)

These guys will suck in the beginning when tamed but pump a good bit into stam and speed they could be pretty neat tame to tame others and attack people

Araneo needs spider web grappling hook ability. Reeling up and down consumes Araneo stamina. TLC 3 please Wildcard.

The kibble there egg makes is the most useful item on the ark.

Overall just a bad designed creature.
Maybe, the devs could add the ability to set up some sort of trap by making a spider web between two trees or something and you could check it once in a while and see if anything ran in.
Also, they should be able to climb walls and ceilings like the Megalania as they are spiders.