I would say tame one it can even take on rex but the only downside is that even Raptors

will agro on you while ridding them where on the other hand the if you are on a rex even carnes don't agro on. I almost lost my bear to a alpha raptor while testing whether it will come after me or not.

One time I was going pelt hunting in the redwoods ( I’m to lazy to fly to the cold biome) and I went to attack 2 bears and I noticed I was out of stam so I was like “oh I’ll just land and I’ll let the bears beat on me for a bit” And then the two mate boosted max level bears said “ say hi to the purlovia on your walk home!” Don’t mess with boosted max bears

Almost tamed a lvl140 in redwoods but a lvl 15 carno came out of nowhere and killed it in 2 hits. It was at a 95% tame, took an hour and a half. 🙃 If you are taming a dino in redwoods wipe every other creature in redwoods off the face of the earth!

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A Large Bear trap will work on him.

Because of its ability to gather all that it can it is easily the second best utility mount behind the theri

Large bear trap doesent work... why you lie? I almost died jumping around the bear trap trying to get a level 140. Plez fix

The dire bear pursuit can give you a REALLY good shot gun, mine is 1500 damage, but they are super expensive, around 8000 metal to make, so save up your metal for this.

you’ll need the large bear trap to work, and then be ready bc it can actually break it!

You can find it in thé redwood biome

Use 50 scorpions if you have to

Only use arrows if it’s lvl 130+ or you will most likely kill it

Do not run from it it will hunt you down an they get faster the more they run to tame get it in a small pin or stand on a tall rock they have good aoe so try to find a rock or cliff that is tall so it can’t hit

Save your kibble, use honey! Just as good as the kibble. Just keep an eye on spoil timers of honey though.

The most insane thing just happened to me! I was up the entire ark night defending my dire bear while taming it with my tappy and then I had to take out an Anky that was trying to kill it and then the raptors I lost started attacking the bear then I killed one of them and then the other pounded on me and then the anky swung and hit it off! Then I used the tappy to kill it. Thanks anky lol.

Their torpor is pretty managable. I was able to knock mine out and multi task, but do make sure to check in every once and a while. Dodoex says no narcos needed, but you should never do a tame without some narcos :)

the direbear can easily take on rexes and can harvest meat and berries effectively oh and don't forget to make him go on wander when you have your walls he will auto collect berries

Be warned these guys CAN wreck stone walls I learned the hard way when I tried tossing him into a taming pen with quetzal🤭 even Dododex doesn't say it can. This might be due to last patch

I had tamed a level 145 direbear using raw prime and raw meat. It went up to a 196 after taming. It was killing everything It came up against, except for gigas and all alphas that were level 50+. Really good killing machine.

It seems that increasing movement speed has no impact on its sprint. Bumped the move spew to 1000% on a private server and there was no noticeable difference in sprinting.

Use red crossbow for primitive servers, red crossbow have 0% of chances to die ;)