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651 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 7, 2016   Report

Hey, ok so the center, coordinates 08.1 / 63.4 spinos will spawn there, if is not high enough just kill it, leave the area and come back after 3 mins. Normally works, I found a 150 and I'm taming it rn

81 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 7, 2024   Report

How to tame a spinosaurus: 1. Get a flying mount like a Pteranodon. 2.get a bow and tranq 20 arrows . 3. Find spino. 4. Shoot . 5. Cry in self pity because your lvl 45 and you need lvl 71 for its saddle.Thanks for reading!

377 points   🔧 Utility   Apr 2, 2020   Report

Spinos are not only my favorite dinosaur irl, but they are my favorite mount in the game. They are agile for their size, deal tons of damage (especially when bipedal), and are so fast. If your Spino just stand in a puddle of water, it will get the hydration buff, which increases its damage by 15 percent, movement speed by 20 percent, and health regeneration by 25 percent. In the wild, they are extremely dangerous, aggroing on almost everything. However, when low on health, they will run away from a fight as a last-ditch effort to survive. Overall, even though there are faster creatures (Direwolf), creatures with more health or damage (Rex or Giga) and better creatures for diving the ocean depths (Tuso), they are the most well rounded creature to have - especially when mutated. My mutated Spino only has one useful mutation, a health mutation, but I pumped his damage so high, he is dealing over 1500 damage. I highly recommend the Spino to every survivor. It is so worth it.

29 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jan 15, 2025   Report

If you go on a beach for a stroll and see a weird huge ass reptile, just say you don't recognise the bodies on the water and go back to your base, trust me it's for the best

18 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Mar 7, 2025   Report

Need a tek variant

It would have a giant saw blade for a fin. It could have a special attack that could do the bleed affect real saw blades hurt and make you bleed like crazy so this would be really kewl

131 points   🔧 Utility   Apr 7, 2023   Report

4 Legged gives hide the most, 2 Legged gives Raw meat the most.

161 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Oct 1, 2022   Report

Don’t mess with this unless you gonna tame it, it has high damage enough speed so you don’t get away and in the worst case a waterbuff

Which makes him do more damage and he never runs out of stamina cuz it recovers faster than it consumes it with waterbuff

173 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 24, 2022   Report

Are you considering taming a fish-eating apex predator of the amphibious (but mostly land) variety? Who am I kidding, you probably are! But for starters; in this tip is what I would recommend bringing or using! You, however can tame this beast in whatever way you think will work! However it’s also good to know what your getting into, now let’s get started! Let’s start with supplies!; Since we are dealing with a apex predator, Be sure to consider packing flak armor sets! As this is the best, cheapest armor to make! Next on the shopping list is the narcotics! When taming this beast it’s best to know that it’s torpor goes down exeedingly quick so I would suggest about 100 / 200 biotoxin to keep it asleep, next be sure to pack taming supplies! I would suggest packing kibble, It likes superior kibble I’m pretty sure, (be sure to check as I might be wrong!) if you don’t have access to kibble, the next step down will be prime fish meat! Also i suggest bringing a fast flying tame, why? For its size, do NOT underestimate its speed, it uses it to eithor run you down or, in this case run away! Now there is two stances the spinosaurus will use! The primary stance it most commonly uses

Is it’s quad-pedal stance, it will stand on all 4s and grants it with a very quick way of getting somewhere, it’s downside is it’s maneuverability to turn! It’s other stance is Bi-pedal, this stance is used primarily by the spino for a damage boost and maneuvering, it’s downside however is it moves way slower than quad pedal, quad pedal doesn’t do nearly as much damage as bipedal! I suggest using bear traps, as the net gun won’t bring this apex predator down, (chain bolas work too!) also consider bringing about 100 tranq arrows or more cut that in half will be the amount of darts you will need,! Taming is similar to that of the most renowned apex predator of the ark commonly known as the giganotasaurus! The spinos torpor goes down half of a 1/3s of that of a gigas! Taming might take a while depending on what you are useing! You now have yourself the fish eating apex predator known as the spino! A very quick and great battle mount in diffrent stances! Also makes a decent bossbattle creature! Hope this helped, and as always happy taming, and take care! :D

243 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 22, 2020   Report

I had 3 Raptors and 1 Rex. I HAD. Until this mf thought he would fight us

56 points   🔧 Utility   May 28, 2024   Report

To be honest, I feel like the spino SHOULD be better than the Rex. Heard these were nerfed in ASA. I’m glad I play mobile, cause it would be sad if my spino couldn’t kill a Rex like I do a plate of well cooked steak. Peace ya’ll. I vote keep spinos up there. 👆

216 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jan 6, 2021   Report

If you see a weird coloured sail in the water, run...

387 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 8, 2016   Report

You can easily take out an alpha rex with the spino. Just lure the rex into the ocean and go to town on it.

227 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 21, 2020   Report

RIP Bubbles!

You’ll be my mentor on ARK

3 points   🔧 Utility   May 28, 2025   Report

Spinos are the kings of versatility their decently fast and extremely strong and they also excel in gathering meat and hide

49 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 10, 2024   Report

So, I’m level forty in the new game I just started, and I found a lvl 145 by my base and knew I needed to tame it. I used six stone Dino gates and got it trapped by leading it on my lvl 125 pteranodon. The freaking spino kills my flyer and I presume to tranq it. Dododex says only 53 tranqs for a level 145, but it took me close to 65… no misses. My crossbow legit broke on the last shot. Being a low level, I couldn’t really get my hands on prime meat, so I’m camped out next to this spino with my trike, feeding it hundreds of biotoxin and narcs as it slowly eats the fish meat I got ahold of. I’ve got a long three and a half hours ahead.

-Love&Power

71 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Oct 27, 2023   Report

Beware at least one spino ALWAYS spawns dangerously close if you pick south zone 3

4 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 17, 2025   Report

If you plan on taming this, bring ALLOT extra narcotics, and when I say extra, I mean like, 100, because I had 30 bio toxin and I lost it and died because of it.

363 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 8, 2016   Report

When in water, the spino can move without using stamina, this means that in a fight, if you run into a deep water source, you don't need to worry about stamina if you need to retreat. Has an oxygen bar so you can't dive forever sadly, very fast in water though.

80 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jul 18, 2023   Report

As a beginner they’re your worst nightmare they will destroy your base and all your tames BUT as a tame your everyone else’s worst nightmare

82 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 24, 2023   Report

Hello survivor, if your reading this then you want to learn about the spino and how to tame it! So welcome to the ARK taming and egg stealing guide on all ark creatures

To tame a spino you will need: four Dino gateways and gates preferably stone because they can damage wood. A lot of tranqs, for a 150 I suggest around 100-135 arrows and if your using darts grab a few less, And a large bear trap or two.

Finding the spino

Finding spinos on the island is pretty easy when they spawn, but they share spawns with fish so the fish might make it so spinos cannot spawn, if this happens just run up and down the river killing fish, once most are dead leave render distance and come back, there should be 1-2 spinos now. On abberation (the map I mostly play on) finding them is easy but it’s more the avoiding them that sucks for abb players. On most maps they spawn in small lakes or rivers and sometimes streams.

Taming the spino

Taming a spino seems like a hard task but it’s really not, all you need to do is make a square out of the Dino gates and it’s one wall missing, that wall should be where you lead the spino in, once you have the square place large bear traps in it and take a flyer or shoot the spino from behind the trap to get it in. Once it is stuck in the bear traps that you put in the trap go up behind it and put the last door and gate. Congratulations! You have trapped a spino!

Knocking it out

I know your wondering why I did a section on this but it’s to warn you, spinos need a ton of narcotics and you will need to be constantly monitoring the area for threats like a Rex or ravagers and you will also need to be constant monitoring it’s torpidity so it does not wake up. I suggest eliminating al hostile creatures around and have you creature out on neutral and set it somewhere to protect the spino and then you can watch it (neutral makes it attck anything that attacks you or the Dino itself).

You now have your very own spino!!

Hope this was helpful

Good luck in your adventures

-lunar

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