Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for spinosaurus? Tips and strategies for spinosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Where he's found? He would be found at shores (INLAND WATERS most commonly)
•You should have a crossbow or a high lvl bow with tranq arrows. ALSO A HELLA NARCOTICS, since its got High Torpor Drain.
•Make 7 wooden Dino Gates before going to tame him, carry it with you.
•Before going to attack him clear the area of any obstacles such as rocks,trees etc. coz our spino boy shows crazy psycho movements . Once you clear the area you're gonna place 6 dino gates with little spaces between them(place them kind of circular). The last dino gate will be placed after luring him inside.
•Go provoke him somehow, lure him into the gates. He'll try to eat you and prolly you'll lose health coz his head comes outta the gate and bites ya. Now go place the 7th gate fast and voila!!! He's caged in. Slightly move away from the gates and aim the tranq arrows at his head and shoot. After he's knocked feed him preferred Raw Prime meat or Kibble.Also put a lotta narcotics into his inventory.
You could also give him the normal Raw meat[ IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU HAVE A SOOTHING BALM.i got a normal one when i finished a mission(sry i don't remember which) YOU CAN BUY SUPER SOOTHING BALM AS WELL AS MINOR SOOTHING BALM from the store if you have a couple of amber]
--You can check out his lvl and health by using a spyglass
This worked for me.
UP THIS If this tip worked for you guys.
All I did to tame mine was:
Get my sarco boi
Get narco, meat and tranqs
Find spiney boi and take them to a river
Swim around in circles on your sarco
When you are far away, shoot them with tranqs
Repeat until their knocked out,
Feed them food and use your sarco to fight off any dinos
Then go back home
You need a high level sarco bc mine 44 and can kill Anything ;-;
Hope this helps! ^^
WARNING: DO NOT LEAVE UNATTENDED ITS TORPOR DRAIN IS MONSTROUS I LOOKED AWAY FOR A SECOND AND MORE THAN 1/4 WAS GONE I HAD TO FEED IT LIKE 60 BIOTOXIN
I nearly died to one of these but the fish killed me instead
Get a flyer and get the spino argro, land on a cliff and shoot it with tranqs when it runs away chase it on ur flyer get near it and land then shoot it again repeat if needed!!
So, I live in the footpaw, which is supposed to be relatively safe if I'm correct. (I haven't actually seen any of the other spawnable areas :/ ) And for some reason these are spawning left and right, figuratively and literally. I managed to tame one, but I almost died. Anyway I heard they're great for getting prime fish meat.
-VerdantWyvern
Spine taming is very easy. Just shoot it in the face like it killed your family and keep running for a few seconds. Then repeat. Worked for me.(Btw, I also got one by tricking my friend! I simply lured him to a spino, bola to the feet and used him as man-bait!!😎).
Here's how I tamed my first spino, I used a diplodocus with a health of about 3000 and used it as a distraction for the spino, so while it was hitting my diplo, I was shooting tranq arrows at it. Keep in mind that the diplo will also push away the spino, so it won't get hit much.
Use soothing balm and put fish meat in its inventory
If you see one and it’s a low level, and your a low level, then kill it because it can level you up, if you can’t kill it then run before it see’s you
If u are on the lost island u can just camp above the spine and tame it with no problem.
These guys are great I had one lvl 20 though and it died to some bears I play on aberration mainly so beats a super common but it died it also drowns when knocked out in the water I have a new one now lvl 30 and life is good
If you’re on a mid-level, ( much like me, I’m on lvl42. ) I recommend using a crossbow and bringing at least 30 tranq arrows, at least 40 narcotics and 2 stacks of fish meat ( if you don’t have prime fish meat or kibble. ) then, just find a far distance and shoot at it. When I tamed mine earlier today, I died once but then I managed to get my things back and finish it off until it knocked out. Once the unconscious metre reached half, I fed her some narcotics and she was fine when I kept on doing it. You might want to bring extra narcotics just incase. My taking time took about 15-30 minutes and was actually okay. My spino that I tamed was just hogging the river near my base so I decided to tame her. Now, I’m free to fish!