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How ARK players tame and knock out the Giganotosaurus: what to feed it, what to knock it out with, and how to keep it safe.

Pro tip:

Gigas can't swim well or breathe underwater. Knowing this may well save your life one day.

312 points9 years oldReport

I have tamed my first Giga. Two of my eagles died in the process and I died several times myself. However, after two hours I was finally redeemed and my very first giga was tamed. I have never been so happy in this game. (700h)

I didn't have a name right after taming.…

Fully imprinting a giga will NOT cause its health to be doubled but instead gain 16000 extra health, this is because when it is tamed the giga gets -63000 health and -80% melee damage but when it is imprinted the giga gets a 20% increase of every base stat of a normal giga.

If you bait the giga into rocks it can get stuck I wasted my tame making a trap but it didn't work so I tried to do it again when I bait the giga near the rock it just got stuck so tranq it in the front because it is stuck I use 500+ arrow but I carry 1000 arrow of tranq …

Don’t waste your time trying to farm up narcotics to feed your giga while it’s out! Just kill a bunch of jellyfish and get biotoxin and feed the giga. I believe it does more torpor anyway.

I wasted like 450 metal for gates and 60 tranq darts. I misread and brought 1100 narcotics with me needing only 86. I then tame the giga and feel proud of myself. I then check the stats to find that it has 17080 health and 20% melee damage.

TAMING THIS THING IS A NIGHTMARE, I MEAN IT!

I tried taming one once and I got killed, note that I was max level and using compound bow, I suggest you (if you want one) to constantly shoot it with toxicant arrows not darts, it stacks more, and always shoot the head, Do not I…

For people trying to tame this thing, Make a trap, if u dont u will possibly miss some shots, and with the long reload time, when ur done reloading this thing will already have 0 torpor again, they drop around 600 torpor per second if you dont hit them with tranqs within 6…

123 points5 years oldReport

For people who can’t find gigas (mobile), go on the grass plain between griffin mountain and frozen tooth, tidy save and add it in your backup data.After that, roam around frozen tooth and you should see the giga.If you aren’t satisfied with the level/gender then go back to…

At 0.1 consumption speed and 0.1 taming with a level 9999 gigs it will take 7522687 days to tame, along with 576830857 narcotics.

129 points6 years oldReport

When you think a high level rock elemental can kill a low level giga think again

Rip Rock Elemental

123 points6 years oldReport

I see way to meany people use narcotics to keep things asleep,USE FLIPPING BIOTOXIN! It gives 80 torpor and doesn’t do damage, narcotics do 40

120 points6 years oldReport

If you fly an argy near it, fly around the shattered ice for a while he will sometimes get stuck between 2 floats and since he is so big he can't move. Then sit nearby with plenty of prime meat or mutton and 125-150 narcotics, you can blast him with darts... He's…

I have actually tried using a slingshot on a giga to knock it out. It broke, so I had to repair it many times. It took over 1k rocks-

117 points6 years oldReport

When you've found a suitable level Giga, find a tall cliff/ledge to shoot from. If stuck on flat land, turn to a platformed Quetz or th backseat of a Tapejara to shoot off of. I recommend to have two or more tribe mates on this tame.

182 points10 years oldReport

If you tried to tame a lv 9999 giga with cooked fish meat and 0.01 taming, you would need 4012100 cooked fish, and it would take 3761343 hours, 51 minutes and 49 seconds, not to mention the UNGODLY amount of narcotics.

Remember in the island thay can spawn in the volcano so you can just block the entrance and traq it down carcha to