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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a dire bear? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a dire bear.
Normally, I'd never tame a Direbear, but now I am trying to find them because they are amazing for collecting Fiber. They are usually rare, and don't have enough HP, so use Tranq Darts and even Shock Darts if you have them, and then feed it a bit of Prime Meat, Fish or Normal. It works!
Use darts every time I have tried to knock it out it dies
This is a T-rex in disguise. Lure into taming pin and light up with tranq.
The dire bear is amazing hands down best land mount high weight high melee and there speed is amazing just tamed a 145 out to 216 with kib
Onr thing to note id it says they gathet eood and thatch but they dont
Easy tame, 4×4 stone pen with stone windows and a ramp on one side....use bird to kite it in and dart it....great tames
Use Tranq Darts and get it stuck up against the wall, if you want block it in with walls so it can't run then put spikes around it when it's down to deter predators
Wgen you want to tame a low level bear arrows with a crossbow are ok. But when you want a 100+ bear take darts and in primitive you need a good crosbow (200% melee or higher) to get him down. When you dont have this he will die all the time.
Use like 10 darts at first the u can use arrows but wait 5 seconds in between
Just don't get within 10 foundations of it and u will be ok.
If using a taming pen, be mindful of how much punishment your pen can take if made out of wood, its large aoe can hit above it as well.
These guys are super underrated. If you can get an imprinted one, in my experience they’re as good as an unimprinted spino.
Really easy way to trap them:
Build a stone foundation, put stone doorways on all sides, and then put a ramp on one of the doorways. Get close to get them to draw their aggro, then run up the ramp and run through the trap. Traps them really well.
DONT USE NARCOTIC ARROWS! They have pretty bad health to torpor ratio so they need tranq darts.
Mutton or honey is best, but prime can be good too.
Make sure to keep them asleep. They wake up pretty fast.
If you don't have tranq darts you can use toxicant arrow
When taming build a trap terror birds always kill them just make sure the bear is safe
In mobile, the Direbear can break a Metal Sign
Easy enough to tame, find ing one is the difficult part. I suggest bringing a bigger and bulkier animal to take hits from this thing while the other player just tranquilizers it. If only one player, grabber onto tree without anything in it and shoot tranquilizers. They either take honey or prime meat. When it’s down PROTECT IT!!
It cannot damage stone, so try to build stone trap and shoot darts, trank arrows kill it before knockout, have it tamed and be disappointed.
Does anybody know if you can Tame a polar bear on fjordur
Just use an average trap to get these it will work believe me.
These things usually in the red woods so it’s dangerous and they will die by things attacking it while nocked out so
Step 1. Make a little house with one wall gone
2. Lure it into little house (put a door for easy escape
3. Place wall on other side quickly
4. Open door, window, trapped door ex. (Make sure to place one)
5. Shoot with tranq darts and wait for it to tame
6. Take it home (or be safe and put it in cryo pod if you can)
I use this strat on valguro
When taming dire bears, or ANYTHING in Redwood Forest, lead it away. I tamed more than 6 dire bears, and I'm only left with 3, because the rest died to terror birds.
And to actually tame one, in one hit, they will nearly kill you, so what I do is get on a rock, and tranq it, and feed it raw prime meat.