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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for argentavis? Tips and strategies for argentavis in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Use a trap but be aware that it can damage wood and Thatch.
Dont listen to what they say about the tranqur arrows needed to nock it out, they are VERY wrong, it says 9 to the head, WHY DID IT TAKE 17 WITH HIT MARKERS
Try a turtle and level up health as much as possible and shoot the arg and let the turtle take the hits
so ive noticed that most argys i find go down in like 2-4 tranques even though some ask for more than that
But i dont recomed you try it out because it may just be that i get them from the mountain near the center off the island and the one just above that. I do recomed geting them from there because i found it so easy. I suggest bring mabye 20 tranques just in case.
I hoped this helped in the slightest
Ps. They tend to eat raw normal meat thats how i tamed mine
Make a trap with wood or stone Dino gates
There’s a trap on Youtube by “captainfatdog”, using his trap + the argy starve tame method is one of the most efficient ways in taming this creature!
You can use this to tame everything that walks with the argie. You can also do it on singleplayer but is a lot harder
Make your tribemate fly the argie while you use a grappling hook on the argie then you can tranq everything on land now (I recommend that you have at least 4 grappling hooks) you don’t need to hold the crossbow while grappling
If u need a flyer to carry stuff. This u guy
Pretty easy tame. Best to build a gaming box of stone with a roof (4x5x4 is my preference on dimensions) and surround it with a wide ring of wooden spikes. Fly out on a high health Ptera and find your Argy of choice. Fly into Argy aggro range and lure it back. It’ll loose interest easy so let it hit your bird every so often to keep interest. Once you have it in the box slam shut the doors then shoot it with tranq. Darts or Shock Darts from a long rifle. Tame with Superior Kibble, Raw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat for best results. Slap a saddle on the baddy and hit the skys to start leveling. Pump it full of weight, stamina and a little health and damage if you wanna up it’s defenses.
if you have an ascended bow or rifle with tranq, it so much easier for low and high level. After taking it down feed it raw meat or prime meat. (in a small island (north-east) there's many argentavis there and there's big predators which you can get prime meat easier.)
BIG TIP IF U KNOCK OUT ARGY WHILE ITS HEALING ITS HUNGER WILL DROP SO MUCH AND U CAN TAME IT UNDER A MINUTE PROBALY
Make sure your using boosted stats if u play solo because if u don’t then you will need a trap
An easy trap that works like a charm for Argentavis, as well as other fliers, is a set of 5 Stone Gateways placed in a straight line(with a bit enough gap in between for your character to walk through, with a Reinforced Gate places on the two ending Gateways. Close the gate opposite of them direction the Argentavis will be entering from, and lead the Argentavis into the trap. Crouching helps sometimes, but normally you can just wait for the Argent to fly in, walk around it, and close the open gate the Argent flew in from. After that, just knock out like any other KO tame
The best tame to get on single-player. Here's why:
- They can carry a lot of creatures so it's easy to put them in a trap to tame them.
- They are very powerful: with some points into hp and a lot of points into melee damage they can easily kill alphas.
- They have a lot of weight and weight reduction on some resources so you can carry your ankylo/doedic up to a mountain and easily harvest and carry hundreds of stone and metal back to base.
- They aren't the fastest mount but they do have a lot of stamina so they're pretty good scouts.
For a Quick and easy tame make a trap with three stone gate frames and two door and place them in a row and leave a space between the gate frames where you’re character can fit through and the argi can’t. Then lure the argi in to the trap and place the gates (you can also place the gates before and open them but personally I think it’s easier to place them when the argi is in the trap). Once it’s trapped use some sort of tranquilliser to almost knock it out, when it’s one or two shots from knocking out feed it a dead body so it gets the green healing effect and then knock it out. If done correctly it should be drained of food and insta tame with any sort of food but I recommend kibble or mutton.
It is easier than you think to tame. But it is costly. You are going to need to build a trap with four stone Dino gateways with a big enough gap for u to fit through lined up parallel creating a tunnel. On the two outside gateways are the only ones which you will need to place doors on. Open one of gateWay doors And lead the argie inside and run out the gap if you do not have tribe mates to help you close the door behind you you are going to quickly run out and around to shut the doors.
Argys are aggressive birld you need to be careful but luckily they aren't as fast a ptranadons so you should be able to out run... As a tip if you can't fight it is run to a stego and use it for cover if it trys to attack you it will hit the stego once it hits the stego run.