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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a rex? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a rex.
If you have a flyer then you should go a small distance of the Rex shoot it with your trancs get on your flyer and repeat. Once you have it knocked you are going to want to remember where it is, kill a Dino that gives prime meat like a bronto or a allo wait till its hunger is very low give it the prime meat. Ps bring lots of narcotics.
Do not look away from a T.rex when your trying to tame it because when your offline in multiplayer servers it keeps going so my T.rex woke up and killed me
Lure it in with hopes of food then wake it on the head with a club it will submit to you forever
Once tamed are great and with a saddle better but they can’t swim well and here’s the big one they take huge fall damage so don’t go thinking jump off a mountain because he can’t it will Die but believe me I tried
Look for CaptainFatdog on YouTube, he makes super cheap traps that are accessible way earlier than all these overpriced versions. You can tame pretty much anything as soon as you get access to stone, aswell as rexes! His rex trap is literally 14 pillars, its cheap and easy to put up 👍
real men knock it out with pachys
Now let me tell you about the time I used a sharpened clam shell to turn a T-Rex into a T-Rachel
You can find these bad boys in the mountains, snowy parts, and in the red woods. Use around 30 tranq arrows/darts to knock them out. Feed them raw prime meat or raw meat if you have the courage to wait and boom got the king of the dinosaurs.
If you fly to where the beach touches the snow biome on the west coast of the island there's a huge rock you can tame them easily from. Nothing naturally attacks them when they're KO'd so you can just leave it there
Do basically you can tame it within 20 second just make a trap and trap it after that don't shoot him after traping rex just place bed and sleep after you sleep then shoot him with tranq arrow and when it unconscious you will See it's food is 0 now put couple of meat in it's inventry it will tame within 20-25 sec as per level of rex. I tame 10 level rex in 7 sec
Rex is an easy tame if you can get a beezlebufo the gaint frog just hit and run with tranqs while on the frog rex will never be able to touch the frog coz you'll be able to jump real far and shoot the tranq when the rex get close jump again to keep distance then shoot the rex to sleep by continuing the process the frog can be used to tame almost any creature whether land or water
You do not need to tame it with a soothing balm just tame it with prime meat. It will be done in some minutes.
as u can see darts are the most effective. load up, have a friend pick u up in a bird, and fire away. i suggest the spike wall tactic just to be safe if you want a perfect tame! we got ourselves a 150 female earlier today and woke up at a lv 220!!
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tamping a rex isn’t easy…
from my experience, here is how to do it:
1) PREPARATION
assuming you found one, there is a bit of preparation to be done, you need at least 30 tranq arrows (give or take a few, due to levels).
- get a crossbow, if not get a bow, the important thing is that the weapon you chose is compatible with tranq arrows.
-next, for tameing, you will need to harvest bio toxin from mitocondrias (blue belly fish found in the sea). this will raise the torpor level if it is running low, and it will avoid losing the rex after having knocked it out.
-get a lot of meat (3 stacks should do the trick, but it really depends on the level), this will allow the tameing bar to fill up: as you have probably guessed, it is not vegetarian…
2) K.O (knock the rex out)
-get the ranged weapon you are using and put it in your hot bar, then open your inventory, and drag the tranq arrow to the same slot as the ranged weapon. This will select the tranq arrow as the ammo for that weapon. If you hold the weapon in your hand, it should say something along the lines of
(weapon name)(tranq arrows loaded/number of tranq arrows)(tranq arrows)
eg, if you had a crossbow with 30 tranq arrows, it would say
crossbow (0/30) tranq arrow, unless if the arrow is loaded.
To knock out the rex, you want to find a cliff near it, and get to the top (a flying mount may be helpful). Now, just wait until it is close enough to shoot accurately, then fire away with your tranq arrows. If it starts running away, hop down the cliff, and continue shooting it (only do this if it runs out of range!!). repeat until it gets knocked out.
3) TAMEING:
careful not to hit it again, get to the rex and open its inventory, then put all the meat and bio toxin in its inventory.
from this point on, patience is required…
If you notice that the torpor level is dangerously low, feed it the bio toxin, it will raise the torpor level by 80, but, oddly enough, won’t harm the rex in any way. If the remaining meat spoils, or you run out of it, you might want to harvest more before it wakes up. when it wakes up, if you managed to tame it, it will tell you in a prompt, otherwise, you didn’t manage, and you should run as fast as possible in the other direction.
NOTES:
-tranq arrows need the mortar and pestle to craft, since you need to create narcotic (narcoberrys + spoiled meat), then combine it with stone arrows.
-a primitive bow may break before you can fully K.O the rex, so bringing two or three might be a good idea
-avoid tameing it near water, because it is defenceless against sea creatures like mitochondria or rays.
-find a solo rex, unless you want to tame two at the same time, which would be considerably harder.
Im level 33 in my offline world and trapped a rex in a cliff and tamed it
Some say no creature attacks one which is knocked out, welp hyaenas killed my 140
I tame rexes by making a trap three stone dino gate ways lure it in with a flyer then place a fourth one in the back once it’s in then knock it out with your preferred method stuff it’s face with prime and boom you have a Rex this also works for spinos and other large carnivores
If you sink a ton of tranqs into it and it runs away and suddenly turns on you, its not trying to eat you. Their AI isnt the best and they get stuck on everything. They are just struggling on a nonexistant wall and are taking the long way around. Continue tranqing.
Low key just grapple to a ledge that it can’t reach, shoot it with tranqs (I use darts but I suppose arrows or shocking darts work to) and then when it gets to a high torpor and starts running chase it down either by yourself or on a dino while shooting it still.