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 largely just an early stepping stone on your way to bigger and better fliers. Set your sights for the argentavis next.

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 if they follow you

If you are on mobile and you are a beginner trying to tame a pteranodon. I recommend using dodo kibble if the pteranodon is on a high level as meat can make taming take ages. And remember to use plenty of narcotic.

On ARK Ultimate mobile my pter needed 20% of the food dododex told me (default hard settings except difficulty)

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

If one were to tame a low level pteradon, it should be put to use as a travel bird, nothing more, for it is too weak for anything else. However. High level pteradons are excellent for fighting, kibble tamed 100+ can be used to kill alphas, in packs, or alone in niche cases.

When using the barrel roll watch the pteradons torpidity it could go unconscious mid flight

Bola it. Tranq it out. Have Narco berries or narcotic already prepared to be force fed to it (the torpor drains relatively fast and it is easier to have it already than panic berry picking). When I first started playing I didn’t know you select an item in your inventory and it highlights. Now if you hold down the selection it will transfer the item into the tame’s inventory. Now you can force feed Narco berries or narcotics to the Dino to keep it asleep (right trigger on console). If you have a LOT of a particular thing you want transferred in bulk (like prime meat singles) type “prime” into the little search bar at the top of the inventory containing the prime and hit the criss/cross arrow button next to it and all the prime will select and transfer all at once. Happy hunting.

I feel like the saddle should be unlocked earlier, like level 20 or 25. 38 just seams to much cuz they are soooo easy to tame.

Taming one is fairly easy wait for it to come down then use a bola and a club or any kind of ko tools

USE MEAT NOT BERRIES WAS CONFUSED AND ALMOST LOST IT

turns out they only tamed slowly

Best way to knock them out is to bola it, then fire 2-4 tranq arrows. Kibble is godly for taming high levels

Starfall (my pt) max level tame

He can’t carry anything (all pts suck at carrying)

He does tons of dmg

He has lots of stamina

Doesn’t have ton of health but his speed and agility always saves him (and me, I am worst ark player ever)

Overall these things are great as first flyer

If you want to get Xp on these it can trap anything smaller than a moschops in between its wings when it is on the ground. Moshchops give a lot of Xp for how easy they are to kill. Happy leveling!

They are fast for flying across long distances, and not getting attacked or killed. although, they are horrible for carrying lots of materials, over a long distance, if you need to do that, get an argy.

A spino just killed my pteranodon rip Ramble you will be missed

Also ty my lovely saber that killed the spino you avenged Ramble well

You use a Bola and then hit it with a club or slingshot then you feed it raw meat dodo kibble or raw prime or mutton and just in case grab some cooked prime meat

WARNING~

dont send your ptera to fight another one cause they will continue to spiral upwards and fly super far in the sky, and you'll lose them. I thought I lost mine, then I found you can summon them so I got him back. He was tamed at level 150😁

Bola it, 2 tranq arrows into its head and its down.

Do it preferably on ragnarok in the highlands and use mutton off the sheep.

Don’t forget to starve tame it ie. ( keep it asleep and let it starve before adding the food )

HOW TO TAME A PTERANODON:

Step 1. Gather around 20 meat.

Step 2. Craft one bola.

Step 3. Make around two Narcotics.

Step 3. Bola a Pteranodon that is on the ground and use your FIST to knock it out.

Step 4. Feed it meat.

Step 5. If it gets close to waking up, exchange the meat for a narcotic.

Step 6. Protect it from other animals until it’s tamed.

Step 7. ENJOY YOUR NEW PTERANODON!

(P.s you might not get it the first time but that’s okay!)

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How to level UP pteros faster and Farm prime meat in The process tô tame more!!!

First, find some brontos and a safe high spot close tô recovery stamina.

Then, fly over The brontos neck or Head and start attacking útil he dies. Simple. Fast. Non dangerous. He wont even agro on you because he wont see you. Just remember tô keep high and watch out your stamina. 10 levels in 5 minutes! (If you kill high level brontos, maybe 15-20 levels in 5 minutes.) UP This só more people can level UP their pteros super fast!!! Help This get tô more people!!!