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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for deinonychus? Tips and strategies for deinonychus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
To clear the area around the nests, I’ve found a good leveled Argentavis is perfect. The healing buff from eating largely negates the bleed effect.
A baby Deinonychus CAN fit inside a Procoptodon’s pouch.
Take their babies then tell their babies that they are adopted
Definitely a very good tame to have mid game and can kill big dinos fast. Definitely pump a lot of health, stamina and you won’t really need to pump much melee damage if you have more than one. It is very fast, doesn’t take any fall damage and it can climb walls ( only if being ridden) so it is very good for exploring the new aberration biome too.
You can’t tame this Dino you have to steal their eggs like a wyvern or a rockdrake
They are super easy to get do not fear to just get them right away all you need is a bird. They nest bottom right and they take one standing torch to incubate be ready with food because they get hungry quick when they hatch. They are really fast and i think they might turn around this disgusting mana meta.
These feathered raptors can seem daunting to tame, but here’s a guide to help you.
1. stealing the eggs is nearly impossible without dying if you don’t have a flyer. Pteranodons work great and are quite early game so I recommend them. Argys can be good though, because they have more health and so are less likely to die to the deinonychus
2. fly over to the place the eggs are in valguero (they are found around) the giant white cliffs and land on a ledge above the nest you want to raid. This is the hardest part, dart in and bite one, then lure the pack off a cliff or far enough away from the nest that they won’t aggro when you grab the eggs. It’s even better if you can get them aggrod on something else like a bronto that will distract or even kill them
3. Go back and grab the egg(s)and immediately fly to a place the deinonychus can’t get to. (in case they aren’t far enough away) and scan for deinonychus. You can either fly back to base or go for more eggs at this point
4. Once at base make several torches or campfires to incubate the egg. Once hatched they will eat raw meat, and it is a normal baby raise. I highly recommend imprinting if it’s a high level to boost its stats.
Happy taming!
A really easy way to get one of these bad boys are on a just wait till they are gone out of the radius then check the level and grab if you need it and if it's a low level always take it you can use it for kibble and then you can get higher level eggs spawning (hopefully) hope you find this helpful
I agree w the person that said you don’t need an argie. I got a moth and stole 24 eggs and came out alive without dieing as a lv 23. No need for better creatures, just recommended. Good luck, survivors.
-Aliyah
I’d suggest getting 15-30 eggs at a time. Reason is because u can find anything from lvl 1-150. I’ve been searching for some decent eggs for a few hours, and found a few 40s some 20-25s and one 95. My difficulty is at 1 (I’d go harder but my game won’t let me.) and I can find lvl 150 deinonychus by just roaming around. Just explore and you’ll find something. Look in white cliffs. They’re everywhere there.
Go to Deinonychus nesting site with high level Argi. Go find nest, kill off deinonychus in area. Get eggs and leave.
I would take a pteranodon with my brother being carried by it. I would drop him of, and he would Bola the closest deinonychus, snatch an egg, and we would fly back to our base
Just lure them away from their nest using a flyer and take the egg.