Instead of shooting in the face with tranq arrows, go for the tail. Will take practice or if you managed to lure into a trap of yours it will swing its tail. If on foot just walk backwards and close enough to trigger a swing at you to get shots to the tail. In a trap just time it when it swings. Avoids it from taking too much damage from heatshots and balling up.

tranq arrow with a crossbow or a tranq bullet with a gun but be careful cuz they can curl up in a ball and shield your attacks so make sure to do it fast.

Don't try to tame these things with crossbow , their health drains very fast and then they get themselves baled

If your going to tame this guy then you would like something to move to a passive area as if it is in the redwoods, it is very scary when a Rex just spawns right next to you and kills you and the doedicurus!!!!

If useful to you, I just found out these guys are pretty quick swimmers. Check it out, it blew my mind.

Very easy to KO, just walk backwards while firing at its head with a tranq weapon. Don’t shoot when they ball up or else you will waste ammo (even if you hit its head while its balled up it won’t give torpor)

I have two methods of knoking it out

If you are a solo you need trank darts

If you have a friend and a argy one of you picks it up while the other shots it in the stomach

Just me or if it’s on lowest follow distance it’s adorable when it chases you about

I once knocked one out with a sling shot in the red woods

Pair with beaver or thorny dragon I prefer thorny dragon because of better stats and damage speed ext. doe can get stone thatch dragon can get wood stone base I’m seconds hope this helps please 🆙

The Regular Kibble restores 85 entities of the hunger not 50

The bola does actually effect it, it makes it to where it cannot go into its shell and you can shoot it in the head with tranqs

Pretty much the only option that is both cheap and viable to get stone. Yeah there's the metal hatchet, but it's slow as hell. Essential tame, if you don't like getting your walls wrecked by trike charges. Also big weight reduction on stone, so it's even better with an argentavis or something like that

Press the jump button while rolling on mobile to make a continuous roll which means you can’t turn but you move faster

If you deal too much damage to them while knocking them out and they turn into a ball, you can use a yutyrannus to fear roar them and they will run away, forgetting they’re supposed to stay in the ball, and you can continue knocking them out without the resistance.

Still no way for it to gather its own berries/ food

Man this is must need for stone gatherings it also make a good traveling dino since i just know he have a rolling skill 😂 im having fun rolling down a mountain and cliff they can be quite fast in water too

Do not use bolas because they are immune to them so just tranq it and give it crops mostly carrots or meoberries if you dont have any crops.

Gathers CHITIN like a boss on Crystal Isles! Hit the ant hills in the Savannah!

On ark mobile it’s not listed but it’s the best obsidian grinder better than anky