Argies are hands down one of the most best tames in game. They are on every map except Abberation and can do everything! They good war birds, transport, metal assistant, mobile smithy, can regenerate health and stam on the go, and so much more!

This is very useful since it carries helpful dinosaurs like an anklo

So you wanna tame one of these flyers and cant be asked to do anything sorta complicated? my friend, its as easy as it gets, just do these and you shall be flying a portable smithy in no time.

1. prepare a longneck rifle with tranq darts. to be safe, over 20 for accidental misses.

2 . after you find a high level one (mountains and near the arctic biome on the island), make sure it doesnt have a family. if they do? they will all swarm you and it isn't too deadly, but not nice to deal with. you may want to have atleast raw meat, but very very preferably prime meat to make it much more faster, and easy going. just scout some baby dinos and wipe em with a good tame. 15+ prime meat is safe enough for any situation.

3. if it is all alone, high level, make sure you just have a clear-ish area, to see the skies and not have any hostile dinos near you, such as raptors etc. it will be annoying to get swarmed by them.

4. do your part by shooting quite a few tranq darts at it when ready, and just wait for it to knock out while shooting. be aware, it does fly quite a bit, so you may want a tame that is faster than a heavier dino like a trike etc to catch up easily. so a preferably OK speed dino.

5. Now that it is knocked and snoozing, you really shouldnt require narcotics, but if you want to be just extremely safe, do so. now with (preferably) prime meat, feed it just like any other and let the rest unfold. i really recommend prime, as it is only 20 to 30 min. max compared to raw meat, about an hour's worth taming. Yes, i tested. it wasnt fun.

6. you should have your argy! if you do and have the saddle (unlocked at 61 to 62 if sure), you will have a great early game flyer!

Extra uses: it has a built in smithy, usable with resources inside. It has an effect that allows it to consume other corpses for quick health regen. It has a buff that makes any metal, obsidian, and crystal, half of the original weight, making a great material hoarder for your metal runs, and other early materials you need for most of your items. it can also pick up medium animals, including humans! you can transport tribemates easier if you really want to.

Thats all, i spent not too long writing this. I hope that the tips i gave helped, have a nice time with your argy if so!

Please note: the Argentavis can now fit through one tile spaces, good to know if you are using a ptera (which can also fit through one tile spaces) and trap method to tame.

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.

Half the weight for Crystal, Meth & Obsidian.

Argies are great for attack from above to easly kill rexs but remember to still pump health becuase if you get stuck under your dead

Very good dino, it's eggs are very tasty and it can carry most of my dinos. I use it to carry doedicus or ankylo to cliffs to collect stone / metal. Btw when it's carrying a dino the attack button does not make the argy hit something it makes the carried dino hit.

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

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

Can be found all throughout the snow, many parts of the desert, and even on the volcano. Very powerful flyers, don’t make them mad without a good weapon and mount

Eggs hold for 3x as long in the Argy’s Inventory!

Can’t wait to YEET a raptor off a cliff.

Y'all,

Please God, TAME THIS THING!!!

All of you ptera users need to fly your butts over to the ice biome and tame this boy. He only needs tranq arrow for knockout tame too. He has weight reduction of obsidian and I think metal, and since I got a good health one I'm rocking 16 health and 650% melee. You can literally just fly up to the top of the map or even let it tank while you shoot something. This was by far my most useful tame on island and scorched. I just take this guy and he Carry's my ankylo and go to the mountain area, and we bring back like 1200 metal each time. So please please please use an Archie 🙏🙏🙏

How to tame a argy easy

-a good tame (something can easily make a kill)

-harpoon launcher with net projectiles

-a carcass

- and any form of tranquilizers (I use a compound bow towards end game, but darts work as well!)

1. Find the argy or argys you want

2.kill something near or below (argys will come down to scavenge it!)

3. Net it while it’s harvesting the kill

4.shoot it till it drops

5. Put the food in the inventory

6.voila you have an argy

I don't see this anywhere to the point I am thinking my game is glitching...I tamed an argy and when I go into his inventory I find the smithy menu and I can craft stuff 🤣 ... Wtf am I trippin or this is a new update ?

ON MOBILE THEY CAN PICK UP BARYS PASS THE WORD

You should at least bring a cross bow and 5 tranq arrows for low level and about 30 for a high level and about 100 narcotics just in case and feed it prime meat or regular meat or kibble it likes then wait for it to tame then you have your self a arg press the arrow pointing up if it was helpful thanks if you do ☺️💓

Cypher's Tip

An Argentavis is a portable Smithy as well as a transporter. They have many weight reduction bonuses that will help you, should you ever need to move around and require a Smithy or you just need to transport some items.

They can pick up most creatures provided that they are not twice it's size. They are one of the most useful tames of all time. They are not a great creature for speed but they are efficient at transporting.

Taming one will be difficult. Having a Longneck Rifle with a Tranq Darts is best. The kibble is great but Mutton and Prime Meat works best. Be prepared to give it a chase once it runs off after it's Torpo is on above 50%. They tend to fly off very high.

If you plan on giving it a chase, make suee you have a mount that can outrun it first. A Direwolf or any other land mounts that can shoot while mounted is minimum.

Good luck and happy hunting.

Pumping the health stat on them creates arguably one of the highest damage taker and giver when fighting big Dinos. A high level argy can easily take down an allosaurus, Rex, Diplo, bronto, and many many more. I usually like to get a high level one and go eliminate a few big dunks in the chalk hills on Valguero