This one of the best all around creature in the game, it carries a lot and has a weight reduction on most mineral resources and polymer, it can have great damage, and can also have high health and lots of stamina, this creature is a must tame and is a great traveler and harvester even into late game.

They double as a smith( yes you can craft stuff with the BIRD!!)

If collecting metal, stone, and wood. Get a farming team that consists of a anky, beaver, and a doedicurus. Collect materials with them and keep designated materials in the inventory as the have weight reduction on them. Pick this dinos up with an arge and you can carry more of these materials then you would with just the arge. I know a lot of people already know this but just had a buddy who didn’t so figured I would say something just incase others don’t.

Probably the best thing when starting out in order to grind metal. Arges have high carry weight meaning you get the biggest bang for you buck when flying to a mountain and back.

Put a Compy in its mouth and it looks like it’s eating it

Great for Wight until u get a Quetzal or Wyvern

Do not let your argy attack another flying creature they will fly up and ascend to heaven they don’t die but you’ll never see them again

If You don’t have one I suggest you try to get one it’s really useful and it cuts down weight on metal, crystal and obsidian

Get their health and damage up for a great meat farmer. I've taken out same level rexes with ease just circling and pecking.

Put a saddle on one of these, they become a smithy.

Utility of the argentavis:

Jack of all trades: decent stat distribution, good attack, utility, and stamina.

Weight/long distance travel: high stamina, high stamina efficiency, and high weight stat

Material carrying: weight reduction on many materials like metal

Taming: has good attack to clear area and good health in case of getting assaulted by carnivores. Has weight to carry traps. Can also fly away in case of danger.

Regen: heals astoundingly fast after eating a corpse

Carrying dinos: able to grab mid-sized Dino’s like ankys and parasaurs.

Disadvantage:

Speed: much slower than other flyers like pteranodons

Difficulty to tame: found in dangerous areas (redwoods, snow, mountains, carno island)

Saddle: unlocked at a fairly high level of 62, and requires a lot of chitin/keratin

They can almost carry every creature in ark get your friends and dominate the server 👆if this is helpful thx.

I use in pair with anky... Invest into weight for the argy and melee in anky (anky already has a busted reduced carry wait). Get over (at least) 1k weight in argy to carry the anky to metal nodes. You just need to drop them on the nodes ride them destroy node drop any stone/flint gathered and repeat. No moving on the anky required. Leave when 80% of argy weight is full for fast flight back to base with large collection. I got ~3300 metal with this (boosted rates/ single player)

These guys can pick up large juvenile dinos. I accidently picked a baby carno from a crowd of raptors while doing supply drop runs

Would recommend use with a anky and go long distances to find metal if the metal veins near you are not respawning

ON MOBILE: They can't carry dimetrodon

Argentavis is hands down one of the most important tames you or your tribe will need early game. It’s an amazing workhorse tame. They have:

1.) Huge carrying capacity. weigh scales insanely allowing it to carry well over 10k with a balanced build and easily double to triple that if you min-max.

2.) Stamina for days. Easily fly corner to corner in one go as long as they aren’t encumbered.

3.) can lift and carry smaller Dino’s. Anything smaller than a Carno, basically can be lifted by an Argy. Most notably, Anky and Doeds for mining. Allowing for easy solo/duo mining.

4.) Also allows you to transport smaller Dino’s to a safe spot your taming. Especially stuff like snails.

5.) good for combat and harvesting primes early on.

6.) You can use it to solo tame a quetzal.

Biggest drawback to an Argy is it’s slower than other flyers, like Ptera and Wyverns. But, still faster than a Quetz. But for what you get it’s an easy trade off.

To the newest persons post, what health/melee Argentavis did you use

My all time most used tame.

If you do not have a quetzal than this is the best bird for metal runs.