An argentavis can't fit through a ceiling with one tile missing, but a pteranadon or lymantria can. Build a trap with one corner ceiling missing, aggro the argentavis, fly in one side and out the missing ceiling tile, and land. Dismount, run around, and close the entry door. Tame safely at your leisure.

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.

A great trap for these useful fools in ASE

1 stone foundation

3 stone double door wall things

1 double reinforced door

2 stone railings

1 stone hatchframe

HOW TO BUILD

place the foundation somewhere safe

then place two doorways on the opposite side where you’ll bring it from

very important- always place another doorway on the left side of the 2 doorways and place an actual DOOR and dont forget to KEEP it CLOSED

place a railing on top of step ‘s doors and another one on the opposite side

hatchframe on the top of the trap

LEAD IT IN

The traps cost-efficient and reusable and you can fit a pteradon in the gap of the two doorways or run inside to lead your argie but when you trap it: open the door to keep it stuck

Feed kibble or prime meat and when tamed, close the doors and let out one of the best tames in the ark!

if you need a video, search up CAPTAIN FATDOG as he has many tutorials for traps for both ASE and ASA

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 don't have argentavis tame now.it is easy to tame but don't do mistake like me.iam going south zone to North zone for tame and when I was reached north i see one mountain and that mountain have so many argy when I hit one with tranquiliser arrow so he get to me and hit me so my pteranodon goes for a fight and kill argy next day I found a beutiful argy and I tame it. One advise when you go to tame argy don't set your dino at passive because if you set on passive your dino will kill argy like me

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.

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 ☺️💓

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!