Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Tips & Strategies

Just found out something really useful about Brontos! You can use them to transport goods a long way, but sometimes you have more than the bronto can carry, so, if you pack your resources on something like a high level parasaur or iguanodon, and put it on the platform saddle, it only takes the Dinos drag weight, not resource weight, allowing you to carry tons of materials at half the weight!
Steal it’s egg, get yeeted out of orbit
It’s actually really easy to tame all you need to do is climb on a tall cliff then
Shoot it around 300 times with a slingshot or
30-50 times with a tranq arrow
Once it’s knocked out feed it a bunch of berries and within an hour or so it should be tamed
1. Get at least 50 tranq arrows with a bow/crossbow
2. Find a cliff and find a bronto near you (MAKE SURE THERES NONE NEXT TO HIM)
3. Prepare for battle, also make sure he won’t run into the water cause he will drown if he gets knocked out there.
4. ATTACK! Try for the head, it’s most useful.
5. Soon enough the giant beast will fall to the ground! Hop down off the cliff and admire the lump on the sand
6. Now fill him up with berries by the hundreds (I used 1500) But I didn’t need that much.
7. Now wait, get rid of all threats to your friend and protect him!
8. After maybe 20-30 minutes you’ll have a big ol’ protecter.
9. Bring him home and introduce him to your friends!
10. You can do it! Level 20 can do it. Flyers are useful if he gets to close. PLEASE READ
-Squirrely
If you are getting chased by some dangerous dino then bronto could be your defender..just run under his legs fast as possible and watch the free battle against bronto vs the one you were chased by!!😁
Don’t touch giant blue eggs in the forest if you value existence
If you knock it out do not let it fall on you
Who else suffers fall damage from getting down a bronto? If you do I found a good way to get off the bronto : go to the tip of its head then feed it a berry, once it lowers its head just casually walk off and sleep good tonight knowing you didn’t break your legs getting off a bronto(hope this tip helped and have a good day :)
Narcotic Making Machine...build a Chemistry bench on your bronto and carry spoiled meat on it. Go berry gathering and get all narco berries. Start crafting for thousands of narcotics!!
Tip : Don't put wooden / metal spike walls near your base if you live in an area with a lot of sauropods.
this is why : since they like to wander around, There's a chance that they will get stabbed by the spikes when they wander near your base. And they will get mad at you, kill your tames, and wreck your base.
so please be careful and think twice before setting up spikes near your base.
thank you for reading.
when you knock it out just starve tame it! it’s so much easier and way faster especially since torpor drop isn’t to fast and hunger drains pretty quick.
: (Starve taming is just leaving it for a bit i’d say til it’s down to 6K-ISH food depending on the level and then put berries in its inventory, it shouldn’t take long to get not including the wait for hunger drain.)
1.find a brontosaurus
2. Get a few 100 or more berries
3. Get 40-60 tranq arrows
4. Get 2-3 large bear trap that traps them for 20 seconds
5. Place the traps Get it angered rum behind the traps let
Walk in to them and start pelting it with arrows until it is knockout and if it starts running away make sure that you stay away there's a chance it might come back almost died because of that once it's knocked out wait about 20 minutes or so and you have a giant beast
Warning! Legs can look like tree trunks when farming wood with a Castorides. Brontos don't like things chewing their legs.
Idk how in the world I managed to tame one of these this way but here’s how I did it
- hit the bronto to get its attention
- go up on cliff where it can’t reach you
- shoot it with a sling shot till it runs away from you
- chase it down hitting its legs with a club (and dying a few times in the process)
- once knocked out give it soothing balm and some berries
- be amazed how fast it tames (around 1 minute, normally takes 20-30 minutes but depends on the level)
Now you have a big buddy :)
1. Get at least 50 tranq arrows with a bow/crossbow
2. Find a cliff and find a bronto near you (MAKE SURE THERES NONE NEXT TO HIM)
3. Prepare for battle, also make sure he won’t run into the water cause he will drown if he gets knocked out there.
4. ATTACK! Try for the head, it’s most useful.
5. Soon enough the giant beast will fall to the ground! Hop down off the cliff and admire the lump on the sand
6. Now fill him up with berries by the hundreds (I used 1500) But I didn’t need that much.
7. Now wait, get rid of all threats to your friend and protect him!
8. After maybe 20-30 minutes you’ll have a big ol’ protecter.
9. Bring him home and introduce him to your friends!
10. You can do it! Level 20 can do it. Flyers are useful if he gets to close. PLEASE READ
Simply find a sizable cliff and get it to chase you to it, then start pumping it full of Bill Cosby's special nectar
Don’t tranq it when it is near water
If it runs in and faints it will die from drowning or if it runs into deep water megs will kill it