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

How do I tame a archaeopteryx? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a archaeopteryx.
“Prefers to eat rare insect matter.” Well dang I guess chitin is rare
Tell me, tell me will it eat berries after tamed or they are chitin eaters? I want to tame one so i need to know
Up for chitin
Down for berries
This may seem obvious but if you see an egg TAKE IT! Once taken the female will agro you, knock it out with tranqs and then badaboom it's yours! These guys are a pain in the ass to find and/or tame so taking an egg is probably the easiest way to get em (especially on mobile since they glitch out)
Can occasionally be found on the ground. If so, bola and knock out with fists, I fear that anything else might kill it. Feed a little chitin and boom an adorable feathered parachute!
On mobile next to impossible to tame the normal way, I just tamed one by grabbing it from the top of a tree and bringing it very far away from redwoods, then tranq it then tame it. Lots of work, but I love them so it’s worth it.
Whoever said that archaeopteryx is not technically a dinosaur and that no dinosaurs have been discovered with feathers, you are dead wrong. Archaeopteryx is the closest link to both birds and dinosaurs, and modern birds today are technically classified as dinosaurs, scientifically speaking. Also, modern birds did not exist long before dinosaurs. Archaeopteryx was the earliest known creature that could be classified as a bird. Dinosaurs had been around for about 80 million years before archaeopteryx. Also, many dinosaurs have been discovered or theorized to have feathers. Humans didn’t “put them on,” many theropod Dinos had feathers, proving that they are related to birds. The many feathered dinosaurs found at that site in China were not “made.” They we’re well preserved by volcanic ash in the area. It has been scientifically proven that dinosaurs had feathers, and evolved into birds. Don’t lie.
I found this thing near the redwoods and I fell in love-so cute.
How to tame this living parachute:
1. Find one and knock out
2. Put 4-5 Chitin and wait (feed Narcoberries or Narcotics to keep it asleep)
3. When tamed, CAREFULLY bring back home because it spawns in areas with Carnos and Terror Birds
4. Enjoy!
Been playing mobile since 2018(give or take) and never seen a female. Why?
ShoulderPetLover
can be grabbed by an argentavis only on the ground
if you have a lot of chitin easy tame ( except if your playing brutal bc they torpor drain fast)
Just wait until they get down from the tree and Bola them
Ok these are the best. I have one named Fluffy and here is how to tame one.
Get tranq arrows (I only had darts on me and it took me one dart)
Get bola
Find archy. This takes a while! Look in the redwoods.
Bola one and shoot. If there is two then you can tame both or live it free and in the wild (I watch Wild Kratts)
Feed it chitin. Bring more then the game tells you need. Always do this in case you need more.
Feed it narcotics if needed
Enjoy your fluffy ball of cute!
You can only find these in the redwoods. Have fun keeping an eye on them as they are high up in the trees. If they see you, they will flee. Bola the archaeopteryx so it doesn’t escape and knock it out, feed it chitin, and you have it tamed. Can be used as a parachute.
These guys are really fast (bring bola's), they are really hard to find they usually spawn near the medium sized trees with the spiky leaves.
If you dont have any tranq arrows then just use a club but only for low levels though
Just pick them up with an argie and toss em into a taming pen or enclosed area, easy tame.
Use this with a gigantopithecus’s throw ability and you can get some serious speed and distance.
Archy was a good bird but he was killed by a tek raptor and now I have Alduin his brother and archy would be proud of his brother.
PS. Archie's wre the very first bird and make sentient believe that birds are closer to dinosaurs than crocodiles snakes and lizards even turtles. I'm an Australian and im 12 years old from Georgia.
you need a bola to tame him/her, because when it see you, then it run to the trees.I mean on the trees.
Little hint if you are on pc press R to deactivate and reactivate then you can have more fun with archierapterix