My favourite Dino is a Tapejara- I love them. My friend’s favourite Dino is a Spino. I convinced him to tame a Tapejara with me, so we did- and he doesn’t regret it. On our way back I spotted a mid-level Spino, and as my friend’s new he didn’t know about level stuff, so I knew he wouldn’t care. I stocked up on loads of narcotics for both of us and during our shenanigans I tranqed him and snuck them into his inventory. After I said that we were going on a ‘field trip’ on the Tapejara and flew him too the Spino- you could hear his face light up.

Now, Spinos LOVE big bodies of water with cliffs and one or two beaches, and the Tapejara can latch onto cliffs- so I latched us to a wall and we started firing. After a while it knocked and I spent the rest of my time hunting for prime as my friend admired the Spino- I put it in its inventory and it began to tame. When it woke he loved it- playing about, killing fish, grinning, all that kinda stuff. He still has the Spino now and loves it to death. I make sure it’s fed and he just kills stuff.

What too take from this:

•Spinos love big bodies of water with a few beaches and a lot of cliffs

•Tapejara are perfectly suited to taming Spinos as they can latch onto the cliffs to help you Tranq the Spino

•It took us 200-275 Tranqs for a mid-level: for a high or max level you need even more

•Bring taming food before hand- it took me 30 minutes of hunting then coming back to feed it narcotics again and again and again

•Bring narcotics- even if you don’t need them, just in case

-Two guns are better than one: it took the both of us shooting it to actually knock it within 20-30 minutes- either have some high level Tranq gear or bring more than one person to do the job

•My friend lost sight of the Spino at one point and almost ran off the cliff- LEARN FROM THIS: The over-eager will not think about consequences when making decisions: if you have a goofy tribe mate or someone who loves Spinos a lot consider: would they let their excitement get them and their tames killed? Although they might love the Dino, would it be safer to have them sit one out?

I hope my tale helped you- learn from my experiences

-Nightafall

Male a trap out of 4 stone or metal dinosaur gateways and a Bear 🐻 trap

I was just doing my exploring with my raptor then I went back to my base there is a spino like twenty steps away from my hous and I have no idea what to do because the only things I have are low lvl with like 200 health so I’m probably gonna die a million times

Don’t tame if your new to ark but kibble is the best thing to tame with

Make a 4 x 4 stone foundation with stone doorframes surrounding it three walls high. Next make a stone ramp up one side. Keep in mind I will likely not have enough foundation support. But a simple solution would be to replace the middle ramp with a ceiling and build stone pillars down. And finally if you’re not fast enough to outrun it. Agro it with an argie and lead it up the ramp and into the trap. Now that is trapped you can knock it out fairly easy with a dart rifle and tranquilizing darts.

When tamed, walk up to a fish filled lake and spam attack. Perfect for harvesting fish meat.

One time I was in my base making narcotics ... when I hear fight music start playing.... I look outside and the body of a level 34 spino was laying on the ground infront of me... my dinos killed it almost instantly.

Me and my alpha tribe have a breed army of these beast. They are better than a Rex for many reasons

1. They have a water buff like a crystal wyvern

2. They have two modes one let’s them go faster the other makes them do more damage

3. They are very fast in water and if imprinted they are very fast on land

Highly recommend

I have about 9 or 10 of these bad boys. I started with 2 and breed them now I have unstoppable war party. I was killed a yuti and his carno posse rolled up with my war party and it was over in seconds.

There is one right outside of my house. He destroyed my bed. Now I lost everything.

A great way to tame these early if you have a megalodon is to get the trap you have chosen and load it into the megalodon(you may need to upgrade weight some) then get the trap set up and take your megalodon and get some prime fish meat. Where nice you have done this keep the meat in your megalodon because it lasts longer in tames. Then trap the spino and knock it out and feed it the prime fish meat. I would encourage the use of prime fish meat to normal prime meat because it is slightly more and effective ad with the proper setup easier to get.

If you think a hundred narcotics are enough to tame this thing, you are sorely mistaken

I recommend using a longneck rifle with tranqdarts. Headshots do more physical damage and less torpor. Aim for the sail and the neck. Use argent kibble. Second prime fish, third mutton. When tamed, use a quetzal with a platform saddle to transport it to base.

Once tamed they are an absolute beast. I've talked down countless therizinos and rexes with my 130 perfect tame. If you attack and back up constantly, the knock back will protect you from almost anything besides maybe a giga.

I dont know if this was a spawning error or not for me, but on Astraeos at lat 40.5 long 56.4, on that area there was just an absurd amount of spinos (like over 25) and that was the main area they were staying in, I didn't really see any on any other part of the island

I'm a average ark player but I just used 4 stone gateways and that's it I tried doing it on a cliff but it was to fast to try run and tranq so the trap is definitely easier but I do play single player with settings boosted a little so I don't know how hard stone gateways are to get normally.

Use this to protect your meg from other mega the best guard dino in my opinion

Killed one in .3 seconds Three trikes one carno one stego

And a dilo

Everything you should now about the spino

1. Taming. To tame a spino I would recommend getting a flying mount. Make a trap that allows you to fly through it and let's the spino get trapped. The just shoot with arrows or darts

2. Stats. The spinosaurus is a good all around tame thanks to its amazing speed on land and in water. And it being stronger than a rex. It is a really good mid-late game tame.

3. Stance. The spino has 2 different stances which allow for strategic battling. Bipedal mode is when the spino stands on 2 legs and does a slash attack with its arms which is its stronger attack. Quadropedal mode is when the spino stands on all four. Quad mode might have less attack strength but is much faster than the bipedal mode.

4. Buff. When the spino is halfway submerged in water, it gets a water buff which can help in fights.

P.S. don't let your spino attack jellyfish. It will die.

-Randomly Good Ark Player

I think spinos are better than rexes in every way

but one they lay superior eggs and rexes lay exceptional eggs.