Here’s a recommendation for easy mode players.

1. Find a good argy

2. Shoot near 15 tranq arrows at it

3. Put a stack or two of cooked or raw meat inside

4. Sleep in a sleeping bag and give the argy some narcotics

5. Wait a few more minutes

Congratulate yourself

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.

Give it a corpse before it gets knocked. Then finish the tranqing process while it has regen buff it’s good will drop to zero. Up for others to see.

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.

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.

Only tested this on mobile, but if you knock them out when they have the healing buff from eating a corpse, almost all of their food will be gone, making for a quick and easy tame if you know what you’re doing.

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.

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!

CAN BE LASSO'D

That just made everything MUCH easier.

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.

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.

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

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.

So i was looking for a rex for trex arms for my wall mount then i saw a LEVEL 110 ARGENTAVIS up if i should tame it down to murder it without mercy

1-2 tranq darts in head and he’s knocked, go get some meat and kill some of those jellyfish and get bio toxin then put the bio toxin in it and feed it until the argies hunger is on 1000 or less then put all your meat in it

Fly Safe

Found commonly on the dead island to the far northeast of the map me and my tribemate crafted a raft and set sail to the dead island from the southern islets it only took a few minutes before we got there my tribemate ran of to get some red treasure while I tamed the argy it was super easy I just shot it with my gg tranq arrow (mod easy taming) fed it some meat and boom bada boom it was tamed unfortunately our raft got destroyed so we had to make another one after that we had our argy! More about easy taming adds gg tranq arrow rapidly increases torpor and drains food available at level 1 for 0 engram points!

They can’t be bola and they also don’t have call damage so if you knock it out in the air it won’t damage the argentavis

If you build I trap with four Dino gateways and on both sides put door you can trap them as long as you lead them in a close the door behind them. After that search up how many tranqs it’s gonna take to knock it out then do like 3 less then that amount. Afterwards bring a dead body to it and let it eat it. Once it’s done eating it should have a green aura then you knock it out. This makes it so it’s food drains faster.

If you want to tame one in a safe area, aggro it with a pteranodon (because they are faster fliers than argents) and lure them to a safer area

ex. Empty Beach area. Be sure the argent is close behind you by flying slowly and when it gets a little too close, speed fly a bit then slow down, this also saves stamina. The argent might lose interest every so often but then just turn back and aggro them again. Once you reach the area, land the pteranodon, let the argent get close and tranq it