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Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Spinosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.

Use a smoothing balm and give raw meat have 15 narcotics or more and your done with a low level for high levels use more narcotics and if you have prime meat so easy

Currently taking of the spine on Xbox one is currently glitched me and my two brothers tried taking about a dozen spinos and 9/12 of them hit 100% tame then woke up and turned on us like rabid animals

If you have a primitive crossbow, don't go for low levels. Use tranq darts. A level 72 spino I tamed had about 1800 health when I knocked it. And it was getting on low health with ascendant crossbow.

In my opinion, the spino is one of the best land mounts in the game. They have a high DPS and more stamina than a Rex. They can run and swim very quickly if you upgrade their movement speed. If you have a high level spino, you can easily kill alphas (might want to be careful…

To those trying to find one of these, look around in the river channels near the green obelisk. If that doesn’t work, kill all the fish in your local river. Killing the fish seriously works… I’ve done it several times. Unfortunately, the spinos were low level, so I killed…

Watch out for theris when trying to tame these things… they always killed spinos. I’ve tried to tame six spinos so far, and five out of those six times a theri has killed the spino.

Hi! If you’re a beginner and want to tame a spino without a trap, heres a tutorial

1. Look for a low level spino

2. Craft 45-50 tranq arrows, 45 narcotics, and a crossbow

3. Get up somewhere high but where you can shoot at it and not get hit

4. You might miss some…

Look up Captain Fatdog on YouTube for his Spino trap, it’s the cheapest and easiest I’ve used. Just 14 stone pillars, works like a charm.

Tranquilizer darts is the best way to knock it out. When you knock it out make sure it’s not underwater so it does not drown when you tame it.

These are so deadly mobs but if you are a little bit far from them they won't hurt you. Like gigas if you want to kill one, just go on a cliff and kill it cause it won't target you, first it's gonna kill everything around you and him then only he will target you.