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

These things are vicious when you steal their eggs. One time, I did so, and I just see this oversized death seagull flying at me and it pecked at me until I succumbed to my wounds. If you have the proper equipment these things are fairly easy to kill.

Be sure you whistle (follow) when riding your tame. If you accedntly jump off or get saddle jacked off your bird, he will follow you to the ground and you will have a better chance to recover your tame.

The easiest to obtain; and best, for stealing wyvern eggs. Get about 1400 stamina into a pteranodon, steal wyvern egg, and then barrel role away. They can easily outrun a wyvern this way.

68 points🔧 Utility6 years oldReport

I suggest taming a lvl 120 cuz they are really op and when tamed they are lvl 180 and they can carry decent weight and 1k stamina I tamed one and I named her Aurora and we killed 4 brontos and two spino together and tamed a lvl 95 therizino and she was the best *she's…

56 points🔧 Utility5 years oldReport

Bio Toxin is a amazing replacement for narcotic. To adds more torpor ( 80+ ) while Narcotic is half ( 40+ ) Bio toxin is easy to get and you get lots of it!

Do not underestimate these, lost a 218 rex to two guys on pteras, the barrel roll attack is super strong. Level Melee damage and stamina

If you are out of stamina, you should land on a tall rock so predators do NOT attack you while your filling stamina! (This goes for argys also)!

Pteranodons and other creatures can carry according to the poop size , pteranodons can carry small sized poop

58 points🔧 Utility6 years oldReport

These are great for traveling long distances in but make sure you level up their weight to 300 so they can easily carry you. Some lower level ones can't carry a person with any armour.

53 points🔧 Utility5 years oldReport

Upgrade their stamina and weight a LOT. This flyer is worth it, upgrade his health and melee dmg enough and it can take out raptors on its own (my lvl24 pteranodon killed a lvl20 raptor and succeeded with half of his HP). These lovely birds are easily encumbered by the weight…

For some reason, they seem to tame faster when you are not staring at them, this is not because I was excited I think it actually works! This is for mobile but it may work on other devices. Up if helpful! :)

Honestly,People are saying things about knocking it out with guns and tranquilizer arrows.What if your near the start of the game? Well,Here's my tip:

Bola it (You can make one pretty early on) and then knock it out.(You can use fists or clubs or anything like that) but…

Bola it and shooting in the body with two to three tranq arrows if it's level 50 to 100 use one tranq arrow to the Head and one to the body hope this strategy works for you guys

Essential early game tame, but they're extremely squishy and years of nerfs have curbed their usefulness. I normally only deploy pteranadons in emergencies, to quickly retrieve a body and/or tame. They have their pvp applications too of course, but the pteranadon is…

50 points🔧 Utility6 years oldReport

They are a pretty easy tame I would recommend getting a low level if you are quite new as if you put them in the roof or get them to follow you they will get heaps of exp they are really useful for a metal run if you get argues you follow you as they don’t run out of stamina…

Use a Pteranodon in the Wyvern cave in rag to get Wyvern eggs. Pteranodons are fast and if you put enough points on health, you’ll be able to survive at least one blast from a Wyvern. Just remember that you can’t unlock the saddle until level 38!

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44 points🔧 Utility5 years oldReport

Hi! This tip is about stealing wyvern eggs ( not ice) with a ptera. First you are going to level up stamina to at least 1000 or at least 700 if you upgrade speed to 190%. Upgrading speed is recommended but not necessary. Either go to the trench naked, or wear cloth armor. The…

How to tame one of these

1: Bola or trap it (optional)

2: Use a club, slingshot, or tranqs to knock it out

3. Feed it meat

4: Occasionally feed them narcos or biotoxin

5: Wait

6: Equip a saddle on it and enjoy your new ptera