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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a spinosaurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a spinosaurus.
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.
Wild Spinos love Raw Prime Fish Meat so much they eat one per 25 hunger instead of 50 when taming!
Trap the spino by making cage i don't know how to build it but see on youtube he it in the cage and then sleep and then tranq it it's food level will be 0
Trapping it with bear traps or a trap that holds it forever is essential bc when these guys are about to go down they run like hell, and fast.
kibble takes more time to tame then prime fish meat?
Always have higround on him on him when you are shooting trancets
I tamed a lvl 55 on Valguero. Took about 30-40 Darts and 20 Arrows.
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!!😎).
Get on your gali and have someone in the back seat shoot at the spino.
I’ve seen people say these are easier to tame than a Rex… forgive me for saying that is wrong. They do take less tranqs, but they run away way faster, and if doing it trapless, the Rex is way way easier to do, because they are so slow. Spinos also need a lot of narcotics or biotoxin, no matter what meat you feed them. Rexes don’t need any if you can keep them supplied with at least prime meat. Not to mention kibble😂 I hope this helped! It’s definitely not to be discouraging, and if using a trap and preparing plenty of narcs, the spino can be easier. Happy taming, everyone!
First make sure u have a major soothing balm the feed it fish meat then boom u have a spino (tho mine died getting back home long story short never bring a spino with 870 Ho and no saddle into the ocean)
It make long taming process but it is very power full and speed also
For noobs just get to high ground and spam tranq arrows with a bow recommendation-acendant and make sure you have sooving balm x10-15 done and then make sure you have a pertodon.
And congratulations you have a spino (but to bad you don't have a saddle unless you got it from a advent)
Signed - dragonii
I tamed this guy using tranq arrows and bio toxins. If you use narcotics you must also have to you prime meat or smoothing balm but with bio toxins you can you fish meat and raw meat. About 35 bio toxins should be a enough
Looking to tame one? Head to aberration or the ab cave on Valguero. Aberrant Spinos are everywhere in there, and they’re always very nice to look at because of that glow
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! ^^
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!!
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
Use soothing balm and put fish meat in its inventory