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

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

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

My all time most used tame.

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.

When breeding, it is possible to breed without air conditioning by only having the egg out at night and staring at it with a torch. Gets kinda dull but works! I did this in the footpaw area and it worked just fine I got triplets :)

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.

These giant birds are AMAZING. If you don’t have one, get one NOW. They can carry tons of metal, and if you have a decent one they can carry a lot of metal. and they aren’t very hard to tame either! I recommend taming them with a trap though.

Argies are REALLY good midgame and somewhat end game every meduim size dino u need to tame can be picked up and knoked out with a friend and it is also a great material dino that helps do quick material runs

ON MOBILE: They can't carry dimetrodon

Use this to carry an anky to metal mountain then you have a metal making machine

You all really complaining about the argy speed, wanting thrusters on the d*mn thing. Literally it is one of the most OP dinosaurs in the whole game!

TLC update 2 allows Argents to pick up doeds and anky. The way I found out my buddy was harvesting flint and a giga appears. I was trying to save my tribe mate ended up picking up the anky by accident. Lol

The argentavis has a weight reduction of metal, so these would be good for metal trips, they are pretty slow though and picking up creatures can add weight.

I use mine to carry my ank back from the metal deposits with only metal in its inventory

Then the same with my dodidicoris with stone

Also works with parasaurs with berry's unfortunately you need to walk the mammoth back with wood but use the beaver to fill it !

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

favorite pvp mount easily, wit decent stats in good hands you can easily wipe out a large number of players. Good weight Stam and hp. depending on the type your aiming for, a farming argy I recommend around 5-10 levels into speed, 40-ish into weight and the rest whatever you want (melee, more speed, hp and stam.) A pvp argy you want to max its speed, you can do this by getting notes or killing alphas, (they give the most xp) next you should work on its health and melee damage. Like I said this bird can be unstoppable givin good stats and pilot. Hope this helps <3

Arguably the best tame you get for everything.

Half weight for metal, obsidian and crystal

Can pick up anky’s

Can chomp with the best of them

For anyone that just got or is going to get one I shall add you should find a completely white Argy, then use paint an mix it with potent dust (2-3 dust or it won’t show) then put it into the inventory, remote feed a few times and then you’ve got yourself a colorful argy (you can make potent dust at the Morter and Tesle using amber)