We all know how to tame a ptera by now, bola and pop it in the head with either a club for low levels or tranq arrows for high ones; but the real tip here is to use chitin for the saddle instead of keratin. 75 keratin is difficult to find quickly, but chitin is available via just about any bugs or other invertibrates, and they tend to drop a lot of it. One trilobite could probably net you all of the chitin you need, especially when carved by something like a moschops.

How to tame one

1: Get 40 bio toxin (read my tip on how to harvest bio toxin on Cinidaria)

2: harvest 30 fish meat

3: get a bola and some tranq arrows (better to use tranq arrows)

4: bola and shoot (5 times should KO them)

5: give fish meat and bio toxin

6: give 2 bio toxin every time it’s torpor gets halfway

7: it’s tamed

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How to tame a pteranodon:

1. Grab some bolas

2. After finding a pteranodon, throw a bola at it

3. You can shoot at it with a tranquilizing ammo like tranq arrows or certain darts. Or use clubs and slingshots.

4. After it's knocked out, you can feed it meat. But I highly recommend feeding it dodo kibble as it's easy to make and speeds up the taming process.

5. I always forget to mention this, but you might need some narcotics.

Hope this helped!

-Pablo27

Advice, If your pteranadon flies into a small space (eg, any cave enterance designed for you to go through with no mount) Please either put it into a cryopod, or request it if you’re on mobile, I lost my best pteranadon because it flew into a cave enterance, Then got stuck, I tried to lead it out, But ark insta-killed it for clipping into a wall(?) Don’t make my mistake.

Pteranodon are incredible useful and can be a really good first flyer. Here is why:

-very easy creatures to tame. You just need a bunch of raw prime fish meat ( you can collect a lot by killing sabertooth salmons with sickle and collect their meat ) and 3 tranqs ( or 1 with a X-bow ). I should recommend taking 4 raw prime fish meat and 2 narcs also for the taming.

-They take quiet fast level up after taming and can fast get to 400-500 health.

-They do quiet a lot of damages ( I managed to kill a low level Rex with a lvl 5 pteranodon and a spike ).

- They are quiet fast and even tough not the best for collect and harvesting, they are incredibly useful for exploration of the map.

-When out of energy, their stamina reloads fast.

BUT: To not loose every ptera you tame, here are some tips:

-When they are out of stamina, they will land and you can’t really control where. So make sure there are not carnivors or any aggressive dinos around when you’re low on energy, or you might die very fast ( especially Rex, Allo, Spino and of course gigas ). Since they are flyers and quiet small, you can easily land on rocks that carnivores can’t access ( and you can regain stamina safely )

-Make sure to always have some food to feed them ( as they starve quiet fast when out of food ).

-When you want to tame a dino, land with them on a rock and set them on « passive » so they will be safe waiting for you and they will not attack and kill ( or get killed by ) the dino you’re trying to tame.

-When you land, make sure they will not fall ( especially when exploring the big mountains ), bcs they will take a lot of fall damages.

You will make these mistakes, even tough you think about it, you will make them. ( I lost 10 pteras ). So I should recommend you to tame 5,6 of them to have some more if you come to die with one of them.

By the way sorry if my English is not the best, I’m Belgian.

I hope this was useful 😀

Official server: don’t try to club or fist knock out. Just gather the stupid narco berries, make the stupid tranq arrows, bola one, start firing. Hopefully this will knock it out before the bola wears off and it flies away. Have had them fall asleep mid take off.

You will need to tranq it some more if you’re using raw meat.

Narcoberries work, but i usually just stick em in the wing with another tranq arrow. Check its health first.

Also, it won’t pick up a raptor, but it will pickup a baby raptor.

God I love survival ascended.

Really it’s just because you can find plenty of babies to imprint on. Kill or take the parents and press imprint on the baby

How to Tame a Pt

1) Grab Meats Or Prime Meat It Most Preffered of Prime and Normal Meat.

2) Grab A Bow And Tranq arrows And Also Grab 5 Bolas u might Miss.

3) its Torpidy is fast So Grab A Biotoxin(By Killing Cnidaria) Or Narco Berrys Or Narcotics.

4) After Tamed Enjoy Ur Pt :).

Well prime meat can be used but if you don’t have its kinda not okay because it takes a long time for it to get tamed and another thing please protect it when it’s unconscious because a Dilo killed mine when I wa seaming it 🥲 anyway soothing balm still works for it (if you have one) and it eats raw meat also don’t forget to bring narcotic because the unconscious meter gets low fast. That’s it have fun with it when you unlock its saddle and tame it when you are low level so he can be level up along with you so when you unlock its saddle it’s will be better for you

Thanks

If you want to tame a pteranodon really fast your gonna want some dodo kibble to make it you need a cooking pot wood or thatch to lite it then fill up your water skin and put it in the pot full with water then get 3 fiber 2 mejoberry (purple berries) obviously a dodo egg cooked meat and a rockarrot then you don't need engrams or anything for it you just put it in your cooking pot and lite the thing and it cooks in about 30 seconds WARNING ROCKARROTS SPOIL REALLY FAST SO GRAB THEM LAST