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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a giganotosaurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a giganotosaurus.
Step 1: Take 100 rare mushrooms
Step 2: charge giga with 2 clubs (1 backup)
Step 3: Tame giga
It’s simple people.
When you look for one... you don’t find one.
You dont look for one... you find loads
Moral of the story. Always look for Gigas!!!
Here is a pearl of wisdom that I wish I was given when I tamed a giga:
Don't use three metal dino-gates, use four!
You make a U shape with three and put a large bear trap in the middle.
You then lure the giga onto the bear trap and place the final Dino-gate behind it to trap it.
Everyone says that you can use three metal Dino-gates but you really want to use four when you are being chased by the most terrifying creature on the island.
When wild Gigas are tamed they lose about 80% of their stats.
It takes me a long time to tame them
Legends uses fists to knock one out.
Help me with tameing the gigs I got knocked out right now it need help!
The numbers they give you are way off. If it says 500 dart's take 1000 or 1500 just to be sure.
Since someone else said how to tame a giga, I will try to give another option if you don’t have some of those things and how you can get them :)
1. Get any flier (choose one with quite a bit of health, speed, and stamina)
2. Get your taming gear including 4 metal gateways, and a bear trap (maybe a spare just in case)
3. Find the giga you want and fly away a bit till you find a flat spot to lay your trap
4. Make a square with one side open (you should of only used 3 gateways), and put a bear trap right in the middle
5. Lure your giga in (this might take a while since it’s a small trap, so that’s why you need good stamina)
6. As soon as it’s in the trap, dismount your creature and run behind the giga to the open side of the square
7. Quickly place the last metal gateway so it seals off the giga from escaping (you will probably take quite a bit of damage so bring good armor)
8. Get far away and shoot your ammo at it till it hits the floor!
9. I would recommend using a 10x soothing balm (you can get this easily by tributing the artifact of the hunter (easy to get with a good gun and if you go around smartly, but please remember you don’t always get a soothing balm, so it may take 2 or 3 tries)
10. Feed it prime meat (it saves you lots of time)
11. Make sure it’s safe and make sure it stays asleep
12. Enjoy your giga!
Found mine around LAT 22.9 LON 48.9
Lvl 125 female tamed it with about 2*40 pieces of reg meat 10% per bite with with about 1000 -3000 bio toxin
Took about 100 darts and 100 arrows to knock hope this helps (and one 10% soothing balm)
There is a cheap way to trap and knock out a giga
What you need:
1.) Find a flat surface (so that the trap works well)
2.) Get 4-5 metal billboards
3.) Get a flyer that can carry some creatures (e.x. argy, quetzal)
5.)A small creature that can place the billboard while mounted (e.x. dire wolf or raptor)
6.) Soothing balm X10 (if you are on mobile)
7.) Prime meat and Quetzal Kibble/Exceptional Kibble
8.) LOTS OF NARCOTICS/BIO TOXIN
And 9.) Lots of tranq arrows/tranq darts
Setting up the trap:
Find a flat surface with no creature in it then place 3 metal billboards at this shape \_/, after that go and pick up a creature so that the giga chase you then once its in the trap go and far away and ride the small creature (get far away so that the giga doesnt aggro to you) then place the billboard on the back and voila you have trapped the giga [Test if the giga is really trapped by making it chase you], lasty knock out the giga and maintain its torpor.
(Hope this helps)
On mobile you just need this a compound bow can get it with arthro and 4 metal gate 1 large bear trap and when you trapped it spam it with tranq arrows give it some soothing balm 10x and make sure you pack a good amount of bio toxin and now you have a trash giga with 18000 hp instead of 80000 hp
*pachy and giga knockout jokes*
cantex: and i took that personally
*makes video of lvl 1000 pachy vs giga*
you need 200 biotoxic minimum to tame giga
Since the calc doesn’t show darts for some reason... A 150 took 200 darts from a 177 longneck. Hope this helps someone
I recommend using a trap, I learnt the hard way
When taming a Giga it's torpor drops in 2min so wait til it's torpor is at about 4,000 then pump a several hundred Narcotics all at once. 100 Narc = 4,000 torpor. It takes longer for the torpor to rise than it does to drop. Took mine 30min to go from 4,000 torpor back to max.
I knocked out A GIGA with horses
I had to tame 100 of them
Bug on official right now the torpor will drop even if your slamming narcotics. Fix to this is starve tame and it will be nice and easy to keep asleep.
Giga are strong because are strong