Dododex
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.
wait until you unlock tranq darts, anything else might kill it.
Use the mini taming balm it’s only 10 amber and it is worth it
You need it it’s practically a +upgraded moschops it gathers fiber berries meat and takes like no damage and dose a lot of it’s damage let peps know it’s a must tame or your lost
Use crosbow with tranq arrow if u still on low level. 5 hits on me lv 34. Ah yeah, if there is no trap, dont forget about high cliff too, and chase them if they want to start running, with keep shooting on them of course
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!
A Large Bear trap will work on him.
Large bear trap doesent work... why you lie? I almost died jumping around the bear trap trying to get a level 140. Plez fix
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.
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 :)
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
Use red crossbow for primitive servers, red crossbow have 0% of chances to die ;)
Get your mastercraft crossbow and shoot it, wait 10 sec (so it regains health in that waiting time) and then shoot again.. Make sure you wait 10 seconds, I tested a lot of options and this one works perfectly fine.
Currently have a 250 Direbear with 5k health and 400% Damage putting it at nearly 700 dmg per bite/swipe. Ive murdered Alpha Tribe Dragons and Solod All Alphas up to a Level 80 Alpha Rex. I still have 30ish Levels to go before shes maxed ;)
KIBBLE DOES 80 FOOD NOT 140
To tame build a cage with one stone dinodoor on the front and normal stone doors frames (without the door) on the other sides. Aggro one run by the dinodoor an than go out the cage by the small door frames. Close the dinodoor and you have trap a bear easy. Now shoot from out side the bear with DARTS not arrows. The bear want run out but he can not dont worry
Use Quetz and ranged atackssssss
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Hunny spoils much slower in there inventory. Makes it much easier.
Really need to change the tranq dart for higher levels I put 80 into a 150 before it started to even flee