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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.
Dont go craggs island on mobile. Unless u have a rex, raptors will shred ur Spinosaurus and leave ur armor damaged. Thank goodness that for some reason pteranadons can take on high level raptors when u are taming the Spinosaurus. Ugh. Actually, dont tame on craggs island period. Unless its something that raptors dont agro on.
Guys it says fifteen narcotics for a level three narcotics and I had too use thirty
If you wanna tame one early on, get a safe distance and stand on a cliff ledge. Then shoot your little pebbles at it with a slingshot. I’ve done this. It’s a long wait, but worth it. :3
To tame get kibble PLEASE YOU KINDA NEED IT at least 5 pieces bring prime just in case soothing balm works best and no narcotics get bio toxin around 40 pieces get the spino stuck in a mountain a snipe it with arrows or darts at least 40 once its down its easy
Use metal battlements and prime fish meat to tame it . Use tranq arrows and a Crossbow
How I tamed spino
Get metal armour and bird (argentavis) and crossbowed it with tranq arrows and my bird distracts it then it get KO then I put argentavis kibble and one fish meat and I got it
A tip is that if you live on the cliff on the south next to the metal spawns and on the other side of the river, there could be a lot of spinos so maybe you can take one by shooting down at it. There is a small little area on the the cliff where you can jump down and you can be on the perfect area where you can shoot at its head without getting bit. You are right above it. Just don’t fall, can work with Rexes too. I did it on mobile idk if it works on pc.
If you want to kill it,or knock it out low levels make a bow get 40-50 arrows if you want to kill it or 50-60 tranq arrows if you want to tame it then find a tall cliff then shoot like crazy and if it tries to runaway then lay a large bear trap or stone walls, if you are trying to kill put wooden or metal spike walls.Then boom look at you, you get bragging rights good luck!
Tapejara on a cliff face is better than a pteranodon; there’s much less of a risk of falling off the top of the cliff, and once the spino starts running you can chase it easily. Take a tribe mate in the passenger seat to shoot in the air
To tame I took my fastest Sarco and while swimming where I can along with the Spinos aggro I just hip fired with my crossbow. To prevent the Spino from drowning it will always begin to run away before being knocked so while it is booken it time your last few shots for when the Spino is on the land when it is time to be tamed.
If you only have tranq arrows and taming over le 60 give up it will be to fast
Find 450 shit yourself and fill full of tranqs
Can’t break stone but one did attack me inside a stone tower watch out!
Alright I was in front of one with no stuff at the time I was a noob I thought it was a stegosaurus but no it was a big crocodile so I started to punch it but it did not die my point is it is possible but go ham on him at a higher place then he can climb or Rech and go ham on it with all you long range weapons with trank darts or arrows to ok him sorry about typos
As others have already pointed out, the values for raw mutton are off. You need more mutton & narcotics!
I now tamed a 112 Spino on Aberration with 2x taming multiplier. I used mutton only and it ate 30-40 raw mutton (opposed to the 27 calculated). Each piece gave ~3% taming progress, so it finished with ~92% Taming effectiveness. I got 51 bonus levels (calculator said 53).
What you should take away from this: raw prime fish is faster than mutton and as it seems (needs confirmation) produces atleast as many bonus levels as mutton.
Make a 2x2 pen with dino gates but leave one of the sides open, shoot the spino and wait for It to get in the pen. Close the open side with one dino gate and you have a knocked out spinosaurus
I'm taking a lvl 17 spino rn I used a argy to get on a high rocks with tranq arrows to knock it out and bio toxins to keep it asleep so I don't have to farm for narcotics
I believe Spinos May be bugged right now. Tried to tame two today, both level 280. First one, drew it on to land, knocked it out and put Argie kibble on it and it sank through the ground and out of my reach. I stuck around to see if it might tame anyway and I might be able to recover it. It died due to “drowning” under ground. :(. It took one bite before drowning and got to 1% tame. Second one, pulled it up a hill, knocked it out and put kibble on it as well. Supposedly takes 4 bites of Argie kibble on our sever (15x taming). Each bite gave 1% taming. Fed it a few drugs to keep it asleep and after 4 bites, I stopped drugging it and it woke up. :/
Knocked out a level 15 with 30-40 tranq arrows. Taming it now! WAR MACHINE I TELL YA. ITS BEEN 10 MINS. STILL NOT FULLY HEALED.
I tamed a lvl 12 spino and used normal meat.
It almost woke up so be sure to use prime meat