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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.
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!
Prime fish actually tames quicker, but takes more than kibble, but you can easily kill some salmon and get tons of prime fish. A leveled up moschops might help.
Make sure to bring lots of biotoxin
If u want to tame it,just set trap,they did run form my wood spike,i was go to check my second base(that not complete yet),the spino try to break the wood fence,bu it ended with him running away after a few sec
Use soothing balm and put fish meat in its inventory
If u are on the lost island u can just camp above the spine and tame it with no problem.
I just knocked out a level 200 spino each prime he eats is 1.6
His a dimon
The 10-column strategy doesn’t work; it runs away and you can’t shoot. RIP to my two pterosaurs that were following me when I fell off.
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.
Make ten ston pillar and ten ladders, go on top then tranq it, easiest than ever. Try getting it to the shores coz there is less raptors to interrupt, got my first spino but gotta wait a lot of time before i get a saddle ahh pain. Stay out of cniderias in water coz theyll bum you off the saddle which us worst, also in low lvl, you can tame a baryonyx whome is brother of spino and can be unstoppable in water with stun
For all of you saying a spino is better than a rex, each is good at its own things: rexes are tanks and decent mutations make them pipular for boss fights. They are easier to tame a breed than a spino. A spino can swim and gets buffs easier. It is also faster and can gather fish meat in lareger amounts. Both tames are awesome so when debating between the two just tame them both.
So I have both a spino and a Rex and I think that the spino is the best is faster, in both land and water, and more maneuverable and more beautiful
I will say that the spino is my favorite dinosaur so use a lot of narchs to not die By:Aiden
\_/<-stone gate
\°/ large beartrap middle
trap spino
put stone gate behind spino
tranq
feed
done
4 stone gate
1beartrap
Real easy to knock out. Use stone dinosaur gates to create a semi circle. With a fast mount agro the spino and run through the gates. Tranq spinos from the safety. Advanced players will have a door closed behind the spino so it can not run when near being downed
Cheesesy
Fırsat at least get a crossbow and narco arrows
Second get high ground or build a tower that is at least 9 walls tall
Third arrow it until it start to run away if its stuck you good but if it has free ground and runs aday start chasing it with a sarco
or any fast mount
Last Tamer it
Forget traps I have tamed 2 with a cliff. Get on top snipe with crossbow and stone arwow then move to tranq arows and boom he is down
If you play on mobile just use soothing balm and you won’t need any narcotics / bio toxins
Extremely easy tame (for low levels)
Saw a lvl 10 near my base whilst travelling with my raptor to go sarco hunting. It was fighting an iguanodon and didn’t notice me. I decided to try shooting it with tranq arrows, not expecting it to pass out second arrow. 10x soothing balm, only took 2 pieces of prime meat. And now I have a lvl 10 spino. Only 50 more levels for its saddle.
(Don’t waste your time planning traps, just shoot and run)
However much narcotic you plan on bringing, bring more. I'm talking like 400 - 500 narcotic if you're taming with prime meat. These guys' torpor goes down almost as fast as a beavers, so be prepared!