My absolute favorite creature in the whole game. I always get an argy as soon as I’m able. High health and damage, great carrying weight (especially for metal/crystal/etc.), looks regal af, and it gets a regen boost from eating corpses (which can restore its stamina in mid air, I’m not kidding, I’ve had it happen). Can carry a good few bigger dinos, too.

My argy is named Bloodwing and I love her to death. Highly recommend.

Encounter this in the snow biome. Found these bad boys in west zone 3 I assume, just chillin up north. If you find a pack, run. Run FAST. Make breaks behind a large creature like a bronto or diplo. Head to your base. If it still follows you, get the tranqs and it will run away.

A good level one is basically a sky Rex.

Scrolled for a bit and didn’t see this but if you want to tame these amazing flyers wait for them to enter rapid regen (eat a corpse) from there tranq it out and if it’s still in rapid regen when unconscious it will eat food and tame incredibly fast (under a minute for most)

EZ tame just get tranq darts then knock it out feed it raw meat or raw prime meat and done you have argentavis

How crafting argentavis saddle

Argentavis

Temper: Distractive to Aggressive

Animal Temper: Docile (Passive, but if an animal attacks it, Aggressive.)

Info:

Argentavis has the second largest wingspan. Only few flying creatures rival it. Argentavis was a carrion-eater, meaning that it was a giant vulture crossed with a eagle and eats corpses with delight. It can be known for it’s massive wings and eagle like body. Argentavis can regenerate lots of health when eating a corpse, and has lots of weight. Lots of weight meant that it could carrie a lot of creatures.

Taming:

Recommended Knockout Choice: Tranquilizer Darts

Recommended Food: Raw Prime Meat

Recommended Narcotic: Narcotics

Traps: 4 Wooden or Stone Dinosaur Gateways and 2 Dinosaur Gateways. Make a gap between the gateways that are large enough for a human but not an Argentavis. Place 2 Dinosaur Gateways on the sides of the trap.

Knockout:

Find an Argentavis, usually with a flyer. Then, kill off any other Argentavis that you don’t want or any other carnivore that could interfere with the taming. After, get the Argentavis’ attention. Land your flyer at a distance between the Argentavis. Then, start shooting it with your knockout method. Really, it only takes a few Tranq Darts to knock it out. Now, feed it with your choice of food. It takes time, but it’s worth it.

Or,

Lure the Argentavis into the trap, then close the gateways. Knock it out, then feed it.

Recommended: Minor Soothing Balm, Narcotic, Flyer.

Their saddle has a built in smithy in it

Since an argy doesn't do that much dmg I lured the argy all the way back to my base from redwood mountain then I just tranqed it and saved my save file and went to get some narcs.

If you type hawk they show up in the search bar

My argie named John flap Kennedy could take down a Rex then a griffin came and both of us note to self griffins are stronger than rexes R.I.P John flap Kennedy.

The jumpscarer when you hunt down a creature for meat.

I thought ark was a survival game?

The Argentavis has weight reduction for metal and stone only. Although! No one mentioned that it's a mobile smithy! Just pop in your broken metal hatchet and viola! You have now moved on to a higher plane on ark;)

This is for the guy up top with his how to tame guide. (No, I’m not trying to diss you.) You don’t actually need a stone gate. You can just use wooden ones, so long as you don’t leave him in there. Also, you only need three. That’s pretty much all, sport if I came off as kind of a jerk, but I don’t want people to waste their supplies. Good luck!

Killed an Alfa rex with a level 415, risky move but did the job! The rapid regeneration is super helpful.

-Venatrix.

If you have one of these get a raft, build a taming pen on top and a space for landing and you have yourself a good portable taming base for anything it can pick up. I've tamed loads with this. It's easier than flying all the way to base or making several taming pens at different locations.

op for picking up so many things a big power player for taming

These guys are so great! Every survival i have created was made 40% easier when tamed. They get weight reductions in most things besides wood, they also have great weight. They can do so much damage and if you get too damaged you can just fly away. They are also great at killing bugs. Hope you found this helpful!

If you are taming one and it is trapped in dino gateways, I would recommend killing another dino and let the argy harvest the body. It will get the rapid regen buff and that also uses there food stat very quickly. So do this if you want it to tame a little bit faster.

This fearsome predator can easily rip you to shreds, assuming you don’t just causally stroll underneath it as it tries to dramatically swoop down and murder you. You can get it awkwardly flapping in circles by doing this.