Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
If an Argy you’re trying to tame is spawned in a dangerous spot (A place where lots of predators also spawn and could possibly kill the creature you’re trying to taming) Set up spiked walk around the area, so predators get killed or hurt when they walk too close to the spiked walk) This usually works for most predators.
These are literally the best tames in the whole game.
50% weight reduction on metal, crystal, and obsidian
Good health, weight, stamina, and attack damage
Their saddle is a smithy
Good at gathering meat and hide
Quick to knock out and tame
Gets a health and stamina regeneration boost when you eat a body
Can pick up two creatures at a time, one in the beak and one in the claws
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if someone found out they can shapeshift into a giga
TAME AN ARGY WHEN U CAN BECAUSE THEY ARE AWESOME! They're great war birds (having overall great stats and a regen buff eating corpses) and transport birds (having stamina and weight at star levels and weight reduction for almost every heavy resource in the game). Easy to tame, the only downside is that u need 13 degrees to hatch their eggs.
If you want to tame a Argy and you’re at the volcano, then you can lure the Argy that you want to tame to in the volcano and when it lands just shoot it with tranq arrows or something. This is how I tried to tame my first Argy and it succeeded. But! This is in Mobile, the volcano might be different in Xbox or others.
I just tamed my first Argy and I'm wanting to go to the snow biome does anyone know if agrys loose control when Yutys roar?
To that one dude who used ancient Amber's to buy soothing balms. Tip for you dude just go for the artifacts and do the save trick to manipulate the reward that the artifact tribute will give you to get 10x soothing balms
They reduce metal, crystal, obsidian, etc. weight by 50%, and the saddle also duals as a smithy. Eating corpses give them very good health Regen, and they don’t take much to knock out. They can also carry a lot of creatures up to a parasaur, and can attack the creatures while holding them. The only real disadvantage is they don’t fly fast.
Level 45+, if you ever get raided and are wondering what the best dinosaur to start with to help you build up, this is the one.
If you need an argy and don’t have time to tame one with a trap, just go to carno island, kill a Dino in front of an argy and let it harvest its body. When the green health icon shows up on top of it, knock it out with tranq arrows and the argy is instantly yours.
Don't forget to build a taming hut / room and lure the bird in. They fly off and don't come back if you start tranqing them in the wild.
Build an argy cage with 6 foundationd, 1 dino gate, 24 or 32 doorframes, then ceiling. You have to lure the argy inside so you can shoot it down safely cause they fly away when almost down.
There is a working glitch right now that allows you to (almost) instant tame these things. First, trap the Argy in a simple trap you can walk out of but the Argy cant fly out of. Second, put all of your items in a box next to a sleeping bag next to the trap and then commit die. Respawn at your bag, shoot the argy with lots of tranqs and use dododex to make sure you dont knock it out. Third, take your dead body and drag it within reach of the Argy, once the Argy consumes it its head will glow green, now knock the Argy out the rest of the way and its food bar will be drained heavily.
This allows for a near instant tame and works best on the lower levels. Using this method on an Argy makes it a faster name than a Pteranadon.
I used this on Thanksgiving day 2019.
If you are on mobile or the island.
Climb the mountain in the redwood forest
Reccomend a journeyman bow with tranq arrows or something else with high torpor and a long range but a basic bow should work
Stand fairly far away from the argy it should look about as big as a flying pteradon.
Shoot the argy continuously as it flies towards you dodge if it gets too close otherwise keep shooting it until it faints. Very easy and pretty safe if you time it correctly the argy flees before it gets to hit you.
These big birds are one of the greatest dinos in all of ark they are great for obsidian, metal and crystal runs on the biggest mountains. Try to tame a high level as you can get better stats (that’s pretty obvious I know). The main stats you should upgrade mainly for material runs is weight to carry for things, stamina so you don’t have to keep stopping for rest, and movement speed so you can have multiple runs of materials if you don’t want to upgrade weight.
Thanks for reading hope this is helpful