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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.
Use 4 dino gates and 1 large bear trap. Place the bear trap in centre of 3 dino gates in a u shape big enough for spino to get in ,not to big, When the spino is in the trap stuck in the bear trap place the las dino gat blocking the spino inside. It takes 64 tranq darts using 167 longneck rifle. And 88 trans arrows. Need 200 narcotics to keep knocked out. Do not leave it without narcotics being consumed
To knock out spino find a high place or craft a pillar that is 10 blocks high then shoot the spino(recommended longneck rifle)(tranqdart)the until it run away from if it run away just keep firing until it know down
I saw a tip saying they can't be tamed underwater because they will drown. I don't think that's true. I'm currently taming one that's fully submerged, it's at 60% and full oxygen. Only about 3ft of his dorsal spines are above water. :)
On official I tamed a 130 bye getting it in a circle of giant bear traps and repeatedly head shoting it. With a master craft long neck and tranq darts took about 5-10 head shots. Used around 700 narcotics and used exceptional kibble. Still will take 2 hours though.
to kill them easily all you have to do is be lvl 40, find a low level one (lvl 1-20) and get a shotgun with about 30 shells. you can two shot them if they are levels 1-12, so i recommend fighting low levels if your under level 50.
I just tamed a male and he has a beautiful sun set color and honestly when taming them raw prime fish does like 20% and it’s not hard to find prime fish which I thought it was including when you are near the green obelisk just find sabertooth salmon in some of the small streams
And at out of 5 two will get you raw prime meat
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I tamed it by bringing the spino next to a cliff bottom , and I recommend the tapejara because it lands on walls and I used a crossbow with some tranqs and when he tried to escape I over shot it and leaded into a hole and then again tranqed it and got it done lol,and it prefers prime fish meet.USE 15x smoothing balm costs 45 amber
Kibble Might Work Just Fine BUUT Its most EFFECTIVE Food Is....
RPFM
(Raw Prime fish meat)
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okay so I keep seeing vids that tell u a complex way to trap a spino, but I saw a low level one near me and I just said “f it” and shot some tranq arrows at it and now I have one… j go for it ig and it’s my fave tame
Have a speedy dino handy! Once the spino is almost knocked out it RUNS very fast from you. I chased it down firing tranqs while on the back of a Baryonyx. And now that spino is my best friend and ride it everywhere. Very few other dinos will mess with you. Even Alpha Raptors don't pick fights with you while riding a spino. These guys are awesome 😎
When preparing make sure to be able to do something about him running away incredibly fast if you don't use a trap
Ima give you a very easy knock out but will
Require the most prep work so first up you wanna build a ramp leading up to a 3ny 3 door frame stacked on top each other then load up you can use a raptor if your more comfortable with that once the spinosaurs is in the box fire at it once it’s down unconscious feed it fish meat if your spino wakes up don’t worry shoot it back down but feed it narcotics to keep it asleep
One of the more useful dinos in mid game once you unlock bow or crossbow and tranq arrows you need a Dino that you can mount with a saddle with a crap ton of health you spray at the spino once it’s down feed it fish meat and also if you have a thing that boosts taming use it it will do 60% of it done in just 30 seconds
If you are a starter and you want to tame one of these or kill one of these I recommend making a trap or manual saving your game in the files so if you die instead of going for your loot over and over again just load the saved file.
If you want to knock one out just make sure there are other creatures close. They get distracted easily and will ignore you if there’s other things to kill closer than you are. Just make sure nothing is angry at it I was taming a spino that was about 70% done until a turtle showed up that was angry at the spino and killed it
To perfect tame 150 on 2x tame trap it knock out feed it nothing let it wake up knock it out again give it 8 kibble it will immediately eat 4 because it was starved and 4 more bites will tame with no narc at max lvl(224)
First find one, second get a ton of tranquilizer arrows, third lead it to a cliff, fourth shoot shoot shoot.
Guys it says fifteen narcotics for a level three narcotics and I had too use thirty
In general, for an easy tame build a taming raft. Make sure to have a few large storage boxes filled with narcotics, few preserving bins with meat or kibble in it.
Lure any kind of creature into the raft with a flyer (pteras or argies works better).
Once trapped tranq it down, and move the raft away from the shore a bit. Not to much or you'll atract leedsythis (those giant fish-whales thingies lol)
Easy and happy taming