Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips

How do I tame a spinosaurus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a spinosaurus.
When making the trap make a 4x4 base with 3 height made of doorframes and keep a line of space beetween doorframes to make economy on materials.
After doing this add the ramps and opposite to the ramps raise by one more thatch doorframe so that the spino won't jump out.
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Spinos are easy to find most of the time they spawn at Area 1 in the Island that’s just have a find him to knock him out just shoot 31/100 times With tranq arows
Whenever you tame a spino make sure you have narcotics and or biotoxion I used biotoxin and I only used one also tame with prime meat instead of normal raw meat it tames much faster I tamed mine with two prime meat
So just make a bunch of bear trap about 2-4. I would recommend 3 tho. So you shoot your spino with a long neck rifle (if your using tranq arrows then do the same thing you would use for a theizno trap because you don’t have a Time limit like you do bear traps, AND PEOPLE MAKE A THEIZNO TRAP OUT OF METAL IF YOUR GOING TO TAME A GIGA!!!) and once he gets through the bear traps he should be running away so then just follow but keep you distance just in case he turns around or if you have more bear traps place them down and spy glass em to make sure he gets knocked out just place thos bear traps just in case he comes back around.
When taming a spino make sure you bring at least a 100 or 200 norcotics because they tend to wake up quickly and also make sure you are on a higher ground because spinos can't climb steep hills..then you can knock it out with tranq arrows....
For a low level spino get full chitin armour and tank with a crossbow.
Multiple tranq arrows...try around 20 and a mastercraft bow or along the lines...Taming Balm, prime meat, and at least 10 narcotics just in case...(It was done on a lev 1 spino...so...)
If your using a cage use a turtle to attack it then whistle back the spino will attack the turtle but the turtle should lure it close enough to knock it. Used this method to get a male spino to make a high level breading pair raising child right now
Watch the torpor level when taming!!! Dodoex can be wrong sometimes!!!
3 metal Dino gates placed before hand (no doors on them) with 3 bear traps in the middle aggro the spino then lead it through the gates place a 4th gate while it's stuck then you're free to tranq , wait till the "tranq used" notification disappears to tranq again to perfect tame
These guys are op.Pratically nothing stands in its way(almost) getting these early game is incredible.these guys are way to fast for a giant lizard which makes it extremely hard to shoot at.If one starts to run away do not chase it down, unless you know it's running away because of torpor.In my opinion these are better than the rex but harder to tame BC of movement speed.
you can just get 3 stone dinosaur gate and an trap to tame it i finded an 300 lvl one when i was taming an 270 lvl rex im only lvl 62 so i killed spino and his implant i gotted my darts and now gonna revive and tame it wish me luck he is so beautiful
Tamed one in a trap *they don't fit through regular dinosaur gateways* it was level 1 so it was not the best spino tame but if you guys want the recipe it'd be:
16 stone foundation (spinos cannot damage stone)
8 tall stone walls *or 32 regular stone walls*
Place wall every other space, to gat a slotted trap with a foundation length space between each
Make 1 stone wall as short as a regular one
Lead through trap and enjoy tame!
*Lvl.1 spino requires about 10-15 tranq darts
Okay so it was actually such a easy tame for me, I just stood on top of a cliff and showered it with tranq arrows so it didn’t get to hit me
Butttttt then again it was only a level 10 so it’s usually harder than that
I find that they always spawn by freaking Carnos so be careful!!!
Trap one in 3 Dino gateways and 2 gates.use tranq darts to knock out and feed it. Hope you enjoy your new friend
So when u wanna tame these guys u get on a very tall rock near them and shoot them very fast with tranq arrows until they run away and u follow it and keep shooting it till it go sleep and u put fish meat in inventory to tame, and if anything come to kill it u smack then so hard that their teeth fall out until it dies. (BRING SO MUCH NARCOTICS)
The rex has a tek saddle where is the spinos
If you tranq it in water it will take a while for it to drown so you can tame it in the water unlike other dinosaurs
They take a lot of darts and rub around like crazy so you do need a pen probably the giga trap
To the person who said use a 3x3 stone trap, I used a 4x4 and it didn’t work.