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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for gigantoraptor? Tips and strategies for gigantoraptor in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Through an annoying amount of frustration, I believe I have figured out the best way to tame these stupid things currently. (Until they patch it again...)
First thing first you will need:
1. 4 dinosaur gates and frames that can't be damaged by the gigantoraptor. (I used metal)
2. Ghillie or Flak, you can use either, I used ascendant Ghillie with a decent armor rating.
3. 1 fertilized egg, I used a fertilized wyvern egg.
4. Medical Brews I brought a stack of 100 and left with 89. I also had custom recipie food and drinks that passive healed me as well.
Now for how I set it up and tamed the baby...
About 60m from the nest, I setup the metal dinosaur gates and doors snapped together in a square. (Used a waypoint to measure rough distances) Then about 45m from the nest I dropped the wyvern egg.
After I had it all set up, I snuck around the nest off to the side. When the adult went for the egg, I hopped in the nest. You have enough time to do 2 mini games. Right after the 2nd mini game, I would jump up and run over and grab the egg from the parent. If you have Ghillie there is a good chance it won't even agro. Just keep running and pick up the egg as you run past, do not stop to get the egg. Cactus broth might help as well, however I did not have any and after getting the hang of it I stopped agroing the parent all together. If you do agro the parent, just run circles around the box, keep the box between you and it until it looses agro and wanders back to the nest. Sometimes it can trick you and circle back after the battle music stops. So keep an eye on her and be on your toes until she walks back to the nest and is no longer running. Then drop the egg and repeat until tamed.
Now for the baby glitch...
At one point the baby seemed to get stuck on the nest. At first I got frustrated and tried whipping it. This only agrod the parent, The baby didn't budge. After a few minutes it got itself unstuck, however it would no longer activate the mini game. It would walk over and stand there staring at me like it wanted to for a minute, then just wander off. After some questioning and a server reset, which did nothing. I was close to giving up, I tried picking up my box but still nothing. I then questioned weather it being seemingly stuck in the nest was actually it sleeping, because it had just turned 00:00 in game time. So I decided to wait until day time. At 05:00 in game time I gave it another go, and boom working again. It seems like in their infinite wisdom wildcard/snail has fixed the Ghillie only taming method by removing the ability to tame them at night, and not mentioning it anywhere that i have seen. So they can only be tamed during the day, hopefully this helps save others my frustration...
A must have for aberration
Has the terror bird ability to jump gaps
I hope the osd taming method gets added it’s my favorite part
Use a firtilized Rex egg and do one interaction with the baby pick up the Rex egg and repeat I did this and only used 1 egg for a lvl 150
If you have an adult giga raptor depending on the lvl of baby you can kill parent and tame baby using the baby call with ur current one.
1) Bring Fertilized eggs with you try for a bigger Dino egg to be safe, you might need about 2-4
2) Drop egg close to nest but make sure its far enough away so that the Gigantoraptor will come out and won't aggro you while you are in the nest
3) Run into nest and "hide" in the nest and wait for baby to come into the nest
4) Mirror the movements of the baby
5) Repeat until tamed
Another thing you can do is bring a friend to pick up the mom with a Rhynio and you can the baby with no issues, I just wouldn't kill the mom as it might affect the taming process.
Last tip: Once tamed pluck feathers as they can be used in breeding to get higher Stat of parents
Find them around green ob, beware if danger
I saw a gigantoraptor in ark ascended the center. They prob didn’t add it to the center Dododex
Ive been able to remove saddle and re-equip it in order to drop out eggs. However, I tried this with a 404 fire aaa Carchie egg and a gorgeous color prospect Carchie egg and it wouldn't let me pull them out. I figured since they weren't in the saddle I might as well cryo it right? Nopeeeeee eggs were gone, no bags or anything even on the lower floors of my base. ~ MachaMisae
They share spawns with therezinos, if you don't find one, mass murder theries
If you already have an adult g-raptor, go kill the wild parent and then run up to the orphaned baby while you’re on your g-raptor, until you’re close enough to imprint on it, just like a normal wild orphaned Dino. The g-raptor allows you to imprint on wild dinos and also gives a small tame boost
Somehow was able to tame a baby by aggroing the mom and lure it to fall from cliff. But the minigame was already begun before that. I ran out of eggs and tried just out of curiosity and it worked. Baby kept coming back to play despite of mom not able to come back to nest anymore. Nest wasn’t too far from edge and drop wasn’t too high either so maybe mom was still near or the taming process couldn’t turn off anymore after it was going on.
Taming 3x already without ghillie and eggs,, just use ptera to lure it somewhere nearby, make it busy like fighting with dilo or something. Just make sure it won't die, after that run to the nest and hide in it, if the battle music still on then it still chasing you but if the music are off then it's successful and it won't hunt ya again, ah and no need to get out from the nest each time you succeed on copying the baby movements, momy won't disturb ya either 👍
Found one near the river enterence in the bottom left of the island
To tame:
- Give eggs to mother Gigantoraptor to distract her
- Sneak into nest
- Repeat baby emotes to earn trust
- Run for your life
Use Cases:
- Incubate eggs
- Baby feeding (like Maewing)
- Run around 🤣
Uhh.. just glad to be here :)
Trust me on this, ur gonna wanna use diplo eggs. The tame went bey in under four eggs eaten