If you're early game and want a cerato as early as possible but can't or won't find a baby or you can't kill the cerato just lead it to something that It will fight (I would personally go for a theri since they spawn in the same rough areas) and then collect the venom spines from its bag ;)

This Tip has 3 segments: To find one, to tame one, and to escape one.

TO FIND CERATOSAURUS:

They are found for sure on The Island, Scorched Earth, and I’ve heard The Center.

The Island: I’ve found most them to be in jungles, near or on inland rivers, and Carno Island.

I’m not sure where on the other maps.

When you encounter them:

Be prepared for a long fight, they are very fast, attack fast, have lots of health, but have weak attack.

Be on a mount because they knock you back with their headbutt attack, and it can be hard to aim. They may be relatively weak, but are still a threat when you are alone.

To escape:

They are REALLY fast. The longer they run, the faster they go, so go in the water if you have a good swimming mount, like a iguanadon, which I used to kill one because they are great swimmers and you can fire from their back.

If there is no water, try running in circles until you get help, the ceratosaurus when running has a horrible turn radius, HOWEVER, they do have a spin attack and can turn 180 degrees when standing still.

Basically, just run in water, and if you can’t, you’re cooked.

Thanks for reading my tip, hope it helps.

It has a venom DoT effect which stacks nicely with carnivores with the bleed effect. It is also very fast, so feel free to go adventuring/hunting on a thylacoleo with this guy as your backup. Most significantly, it has a healing ability, so it looks like a high level with HP and Melee would do well amongst a group of t-rexes, potentially even in a boss battle. Very nice and easy tame too.

I was just today pöaying ark when I had some annoying bisons around my base and decided to öure a rex to kill them. The rex killed them but they had a baby bison woch I imprinted and brought him to my base. What happened next was that I went to take some berries for hom and when I came back there was a cera sniffing him and didnt attack it, the system was bugged and the cera was lagging and didnt attack my babay bison but when I tried luring it away it kilöed some brontos and came bacl to the exact same place. I didnt know what to do and the second time I lured him away he went straight to attack my bison rip to bob.