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.

Their saddle has a built in smithy in it

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.

For ark mobile: traps are not required for low levelled argies, just keep a friend or two with you and tranq it when it's attacking you, using toxicant arrows is better, it will go down in just 4-5 toxicant arrows.

They double as a smith( yes you can craft stuff with the BIRD!!)

Catch them in an argentavis trap. Get a magnifying glass. Shoot them with narc arrows until it is just about to go unconscious (Use the magnifying glass to inspect the torpor) feed the argentavis a body. Imediately after it consumes the body shoot it with narc arrows to finish knocking it out (*if it does not have the green effect around it's head do not knock it out! If the effect is gone feed it another body) Purpose when the argentavis gets knocked out with the effect his hunger will already by very low. Super fast taming!

I found mine stuck in a rock so I shot it with tranqs with a crossbow in the head then broke the rock..so yeah

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

Probably the best thing when starting out in order to grind metal. Arges have high carry weight meaning you get the biggest bang for you buck when flying to a mountain and back.

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.

They are a absolute pain to take if your getting a high level one but it is worth it. A level 200 argie can easily take on a Rex

Can pick up things in it’s talons, AND it’s beak

Me and my tribe of 3 used 20 arrows each and it didn’t knock.But our aim isn’t the best lol

My argy died to a bunch of high level raptors can’t we get some f’s in chat pls

Always make sure you know the level of your argy cause I was gonna take a lvl 65 and I lost it and found it and when I knocked it put it was not the level 65 but a level 13 so I ended up taming a different argy

-Duke

This one of the best all around creature in the game, it carries a lot and has a weight reduction on most mineral resources and polymer, it can have great damage, and can also have high health and lots of stamina, this creature is a must tame and is a great traveler and harvester even into late game.

Hi! It's astro again, leaving tips on dinos that you may want to tame.

The easy way on taming an argy/Agrentavis is to build a trap with dinosaur gates (Mostly stone regular dinosaur gates, not behemoth.) You place the gates in a row leaving you enough space to run out of the side. you put 2 doors on either side of the trap !!NOT ALL THE GATES. JUTS THE 2 ON THE ENDS!!, You will open the side with the argy, and keep the other side closed. You agro the argy, and run into the trap, and as it follows you, you're going to run out in one of the side cracks, loop around to the open door, and shut it.

Then you tranq the argy and hope for it to knock out. Then you feed it Prime meat, raw meat, mutton, or kibble (best ones)

If you run out of tranq arrows, do not panic, the argentavis' torpor is very low and will not drain a lot. Go back to your base, make more, the go back and keep tranqing. If your base is far away, ask a friend to keep come over with arrows and bring them to you.

Why is the argy good? Whats its purpose?

Well the argy is very good for carrying items. It has a reduced weight thing with stone, metal, metal ingots, and more. It will split it in half, making the difference by carrying twice as more to your base than needed

Don’t tame this thing while it flies over the forest.. Its unconscious body will be mauled by 10 raptors