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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a sinomacrops? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a sinomacrops.
The Standing Torches and Sign technique will not work on console. The proximity radius restrictions are slightly higher making it easy for it to get out of the gaps.
They eat chitin and only chitin. Even after tamed. They do not like water so you cannot tame it if you’re in water or it will fly away fast and lose taming effectiveness. You also have to make sure your other tames with you are on passive or the wild sinomacrops will know and fly away scared. When you find one, get near it and it will get hearts around it and fly down to you. When it lands at your feet equip chitin in your end quick slot and feed it. Unequip the chitin from your quick slot. Then activate the taming tracker so you don’t lose it as they’re small. Follow it and wait until it gets hearts around it again and lands at your feet. Repeat process until tamed.
Idont know if anyone mantioned it but babies eat chitin
1.Make sure you have chitin in your last item slot and make sure you have a decent amount of it. 2.When you find one you should get as close as possible while in regular walk mode and crouch and slowly walk toward them until you get about 18-22 feet away from it or until you see the hearts sprite. (never sprint or jump while near it or you may scare it, resetting the taming timer each time) 3. once you see the hearts pop up slowly back up while in crouch mode and the sino will follow you when it lands it will either slowly crawl to you or jump when it gets close enough simply feet it the chitin when prompted. Once you have the sino in the taming process be sure to track it in the taming log so you know where it is. 4. It will be ready to eat another chitin every 16 seconds. Repeat step “2-3” until tamed. Make sure to clear out all hostile and big Dino’s before you do this big Dino’s and your own tames like wyverns can scare Sino’s if they come to close while taming.
Spawn on the beach middle left of lost islands, find some bugs, kill them, harvest, puff in last item slot and crouch walk to sinoma crops feed passively.
Careful while flying because if you run out of stamina you will fall and die but any item you put into its inventory the weight is halved
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Crouch within 60-50m from it, when it reaches 19m it will have hearts to you, have the chitin in the last slot for it then feed it with your corresponding button or key, it will eat it, fly up and fly away, you can chase it, just chase it while crouched unless it's 60+ meters away, then repeat
Like if this helps
To tame get one out to the water if possible then follow it with a raft bc they can only land if on your raft like if this helped
This Is How To Spawn In The Sinomacrops First Pawse The Game And Open The Admin Command So I Only Know How To Do It On The Xbox So If Your Doing This On Xbox Your In Luck So You Have To Press LB And RB And X Y All At The Same Time Then Press A On The Admin Command Bar And Type In Sdf Sino 1 And After The One Put Whatever Number You Want Becuse That’s The Level Of The Sinomacrops Then Press A On The Blue Bar That Says ADMIN COMMAND Then Press B Or The Blue Bar That Says RESUME To Get Out And That’s It.
dont chase them they will fly away from you. instead once u see one stay a little bit away from it and wait it will come to you. feed them chitin in last item slot. dont wear chitin armor they will aggro on you. also put on the taming tracker go see where it is. but once u feed it once just stay still till it comes to u again for more food.
A semi-easy way to tame one is to wear chitin armor and go to the jungle on Lost Island. When you find one they will attack but when you see hearts and if they land, put chitin in the last slot of ur hotbar and hand feed them.
Good luck yall... your gonna need it.
There supposed to be a passive tame probity with chitin
--FEED THE BABIES CHITIN-- When raising, they need chitin in either their inventories, maewing or trough.
I’m not sure if it’s a bug or what but it’s happened a few times for me that if I’m too close to a mount or tame I brought with me looking for these that they will get scared and fly away even after showing hearts emote at beginning of taming process.
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Theres a lot of them in this trench in the jungle with a river and waterfalls down below not far from green oblisk.
super useful early game tame that can be found pretty commonly around the map. check jungles and forests, also the swampy falls area on the southern coast of the island (spirit falls I believe is the official name)
You cannot tame one in a cave. I found one and he went into a small resource cave in the swamp behind a waterfall and he would not come to me. When he landed he ignored me. so do not chase them into a cave. he was a high level to 😢
Trapping it in a cage doesn’t work it will tell you “must be out of cage to tame” if you leave it in a cage it will just try to fly away it won’t land
Since caging and the stranding torch trap doesnt work anymore, here's a Suggestion how i tamed quite a few of them:
As someone already mentioned above the best Spot to find and tame them is at about 20/35 - 20/50.
Make sure you bring around one piece of chitin armor and a raft.
As soon as you get to see one place your raft, put on your chitin armor and let it aggro you. Jump on the raft and lure it away from the Coast (this way you can spot and track it far easier and it can see you better as well!!). Now take of your piece of chitin armor and wait for it to calm down.
When it calmed down, get your raft near it and place yourself in a corner of the raft. As soon as it got the hearts it will Land on your raft and let you feed it. Rinse and repeat.
Congratulations on taking yourself a sinomacrops!
Guys if you are wearing ghillie they will not see you and come back for more chitin, so take it off and you can tame em.
All I can say is: RAFT
These silly birds kept flying out into the ocean and a raft is your best friend as you can follow it and as soon as it changes direction dismount the raft and crouch and it should come to you and land on the raft to be fed some more. Oh and I went to the scorched earth area in the bottom right of the map to find the ones I tamed.
I hope this helps some of you