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Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Oviraptor in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

How to tame:

Step 1: FIND IT

Step 2: STEAL ITS CRAPPED OUT EGG

Step 3: BEAT THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF IT

Step 4: FEED IT ITS OWN EGG

Step 5: CONGRATS, NOW CHUCK IT IN THE SEAAAAA

So their easy to knock out, taming it.....not that easy, they eat eggs. The larger the egg, the more efficient it tames. You can tell the size by the weight of the egg. These guys are very useful, put them on wander in your base, and they'll collect all your creatures eggs.

In ASA, the Oviraptor has a setting for egg collection, and a the egg laying buff is turned on while wondering is activated. So over weight them till they the eggs weigh them down. PS they eat meat once tamed. Just keep meat in troughs or eggs will become lunch.

The higher the level, the larger the range of egg pickup. Stats don’t seem to matter, only the level it’s at.

For those who don’t know, this thing is a secret prime meat harvesting GOD! While I’ve been breeding argy for stats and mutations, I tend to get a lot of bad one, so I just kill them. This little guy (who’s making everything lay some more eggs) would run up to the dead…

137 points🔧 Utility5 years oldReport

The higher the melee on the oviraptor the farther away it

Can collect eggs. 700 melee will cover a 25×30 barn and then some

First off, if you're on official rates and you don't have access to a giga egg, get comfy cuz you're taming dodos for the next 2 hours. One male and as many females as you can. They have a chance of laying an egg every time they poop so even though you literally…

You'll read a lot online that says the weight of the egg determines the taming effectiveness gain. That is B.S.

An argent egg and a carno egg weigh exactly the same but the carno egg is worth about twice the tame percentage.

Oviraptor running in fear = Danger

Nothing attacks these guys, but they do run flee from corpses, so it means a creature's been killed near it by something dangerous.

Note that oviraptors do NOT collect the eggs of your (tribe's) tames. Oviraptors are useful because they will collect wild eggs and will allow you to pick them up without aggro-ing any nearby dinos.

To use them, set them to passive and following you/your flyer, drop them…

160 points🔧 Utility9 years oldReport

higher levels increase range. NOT melee

you do not need to increase weight, it will pick up all eggs in its range.

make sure it has food in the trough or it will eat eggs. and yes, it prefers the big eggs over the small when it gets hungry.

the egg buff does work. load with…

These will NOT collect eggs laid by tamed dinos. It increases the rate at which they are laid but are still required to be manually picked up. I was under the impression they collected tamed Dino eggs if set to wander in a Dino pen. THEY DO NOT

For beginners or people who don't want to risk getting eggs from bigger dinos, just use dodo eggs since dodo's lay eggs so much.