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5433 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 15, 2021   Report

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!

3393 points   ⚔️ Encountering   May 10, 2020   Report

Steal it’s egg, get yeeted out of orbit

0 points   🔧 Utility   1 day ago ✨ NEW   Report

If you have a problem with tress or need berries, use this big guy, I deforestated a jungle within 7 in game days.

1 point   🥚 Taming & KO   3 days ago ✨ NEW   Report

For a level 16 it takes 2 hours to wake up. For a level 2, it takes 1 hour and 30 minutes.

0 points   🥚 Taming & KO   2 days ago ✨ NEW   Report

How to tame bronto:

1- find big rock or cliff where it can't reach

2- get many narco arrows about 200

3- have full crossbow, don't use it, you'll need full durability

4- shoot it, try to aim for head if he's close enough, if not shoot body.

5- when he falls over load him with berries, use iguanadon, trike, parasaur, or other herbivores to gather berries and give them to your soon to be your big friend, always be careful for enemies, whether it's carnivores or just humans. Hope this helped.

1539 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 5, 2021   Report

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

1772 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 20, 2020   Report

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!!😁

1521 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 20, 2020   Report

If you knock it out do not let it fall on you

707 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jul 4, 2022   Report

Don’t touch giant blue eggs in the forest if you value existence

2018 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 8, 2016   Report

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!!

786 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Dec 19, 2020   Report

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.

1280 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Aug 4, 2017   Report

Warning! Legs can look like tree trunks when farming wood with a Castorides. Brontos don't like things chewing their legs.

1 point   🥚 Taming & KO   7 days ago ✨ NEW   Report

Lure it near a cliff and then go on the cliff. Start shooting tranqs at it and knock it out. Very slow torpor drain and very fast taming

643 points   🔧 Utility   Sep 24, 2020   Report

By far the best berry gathering dino that has ever existed!!

122 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 14, 2024   Report

How to tame a bronto!

This beast is imposing, and has a powerful attack. But tamed, it has many uses. First, we should tame them. Let’s prepare!

Brontos are giant, powerful herbivores, towering over the annoying diplos. They are mainly found on the many beaches, but there can be found surely on a few spawns in the southern islets and the middle of the southern jungle.

The materials:

A few hundred tranqs with a crossbow. Use Dododex, and better safe than sorry!

Some narcs, but their torpor drops slowly.

A cliff or tapejara.

Some crossbows and a mount, best be a flyer.

Method:

You need to stand on the tapejara whistled on follow. Face away from the bronto, change to the back seat, and shoot until it is sleeping.

Also, you can call the bronto’s attention from a cliff and shoot.

Remember, watch out for carnivores. These could kill you, your mount, and the bronto!

Utility:

It can gather tons of berries.

It carries a lot, and can have a platform with a small base.

It can yeet stuff into oblivion.

It has a lot of health, best for tanking.

196 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Aug 25, 2023   Report

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

461 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 27, 2020   Report

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

803 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 21, 2017   Report

Simply find a sizable cliff and get it to chase you to it, then start pumping it full of Bill Cosby's special nectar

6 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 10, 2025   Report

When taming, remember to not place wood or thatch traps.

Use stone metal or TEK.

270 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 11, 2022   Report

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 :)

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