Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for argentavis? Tips and strategies for argentavis in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Found mostly in north zone
I just tamed a lvl 40 argy with 30 narcotic arrows 8 narcoberries and 60 raw fish meat! It was crazy easy…
Fun fact about argy: when they are knocked out they snore very loudly and ugly. They sound like snoring zombies
F*ck traps, here's the raw way of how to tame the Argent:
1: find a preferably empty spot of land, kill and destroy nearby obstructions (creatures, trees, etc)
2: find your Argentavis: Argy's are rarely found on the ground, so that's one thing. (B); they have a kinda small aggro range, so damaging it to lure is highly recommended.
3: "so anyway I started blastin'" (oh and btw K.O'd creatures do not take fall damage)
4: the real horde survival begins, things here and there may smell you and try to kill you, and if you're dead, so is your tame, and if you're really resourceful, harvest the bodies of your enemies for meat/prime meat to feed your new pawn of your army.
I’m about to try to tame my first argentavis but first I need to make the trap with dino gates and I need to make a saddle for my pteranodon! Any tips on how to make the trap? -Blizzard
Using it is underrated and good and need darts to noked out
The Argentavis is THE metal run creature. It's high weight, plus the ability to pick up ankylosaurus, make it one of, if not THE best at what it does. If you find yourself in need of transporting large amounts of material, an argentavis is usually your go-to. They aren't very good at travel, as they are rather slow. However, their high base weight, stamina, and their reduction in weight on many materials, make them some of the best haulers and farmers you can find.
There is this island that us close to the outer artic area were these guys spawn
they can carry
Human
Dodo
Dilophosaurus
Kairuku
Oviraptor
Lystrosaurus
Compsognathus
Mesopithecus
Jerboa
Titanomyrma
Dung Beetle
Araneomorphus
Titanoboa
Phiomia
Pachycephalosaurus
Raptor
Terror Bird
Castoroides
Pulmonoscorpius
Beelzebufo
Megaloceros
Direwolf
Sabertooth
Arthropluera
Procoptodon
Diplocaulus
Kaprosuchus
Check captain fatdog for the best argy trap
If you taming an argie of any level doing bother using a trap.
I just use any fast mount like a raptor, iguanodon and even a Sarco could do the job and I blast it with arrows. Hit and run, hit and run.
By the way I got a 150 argie with this method on a sarco so it works quite well.
Dododex Says you can't knock it out with fists cause 100% chance of death but they are wrong. I just did it on official ASA with a level 90. The trick is you have to let the argy periodically eat your body to regen health. I had to die like 10+ times but it is doable. Some of those deaths were not intentional tho.
Anyway the method is simple (ASA)
Build
-one stone foundation
-three stone walls
-one slanted stone roof
Drop foundation. Put 2 walls down next 2 eachother as double wide doorways. And the 3rd as a secret door. Attach the roof to the middle wall extending out toward the unused opening acting as a funnel. Find low argy. Lure into opening. Go out thru secret door as it follows you in. Viola. Trapped argy. Now position yourself behind the secret door so that your punches hit but his attacks don't and Bam. You k.o. an argy beach Bob style day 1 with limited supplies. You may however want a few beds tho because as I stated. You will be dying a lot and feeding it your own body to keep its health up.
There is however one caveat. Flyers do not like staying in traps with no players in render distance. So you do need somebody to stay nearby to ensure he doesn't fly away when you die.