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.
Thank you guys again for so many ups to tame spinos. Still haven’t lol. There was a….insedent…. Well found one wile looking for equis. So excited to tame!
-Sarco master
When taming there oxygen doesn’t deplete so don’t let that stop you from knocking one out near water.
Me and my friend where taming a 120 spino and dododex said it would take 44 tranqs but it took 80 tranqs and 20 darts
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I want to tame a spino and here is two ideas on how I think I can (I’m on level 24 btw)
1. Tame trap
It will take two sarcos, one parasaur, and a ichy (can do rn)
I will hop on my icy and park him right across from herbi island. Then I will go back and take my two sarcos to escort me and my VERY fast (but disposable) para to around that area then find a spino. (They spawn around there) once I find one I will park my sarcos somewhere safe and put on neutral and put a fence around them. Then I will ride on my para and shoot the spino with tranqu darts with a journeyman bow. I will get to chase then will run to water hop on ichy and set my para to neutral. Then I will get the spino to chase me to herbi island. I think I can outswim so I will get there first and run to the top of the cliff that the spino can’t climb. I know it will prob arggo the strong herbs on the island but I will arggo first and get it to not pay attention to them. Then I shoot till nocked and feed meat. I will have plenty of narcotics and meat.
2. Bear trapped
Will take 5 bear traps, two sarcos, one para (I need to get more levels first)
I will bring my trio of pets to a spino area and then put my pets on neutral and fence them when I find spino. I will place the large bear trap in front of me and get the spino to get stuck. Then I will use my journeyman bow to tranqu. If sarco gets out I will put another trap and shoot again. I will repeat until tranqed and feed meat.
These are both flawed please please give insight. I will look every day until Christmas (and even a little after) help me not get killed
-sarco master
Takes over 160 darts for a 140 spino*
Without friends go up a cliff and have a flyer and start shooting it and when it rains go after it but don't go the ground and find a aother cliff closeer to it and ko it . With friends have you or your friend to pick you up and follow it until it's down it easy with friends
Never see the taming tip of spino on youtube and other always make your own trap to tame the spino today motive only down😁😅
Just FYI. Watch where you tranq these guys. They have high Oxygen levels but they can drown. KO it outside water before taming as taming can take a while even on low levels. Learnt this the hard way after clearing all piranhas, salmon and raptors in the area.
I have 7 spinos. One is level 39 and 84% imprinted. Even though it isn’t fully imprinted and not too high-leveled, it has the ability to mow down the Dead Island like an industrial size lawn mower on someone’s puny little backyard. Especially if it has the Hydration buff. It’s so fast I used it to tame my giga by leading it into a trap. Do not underestimate spinos. With plenty of hard work and patience, you can destroy everything except gigas, Titans, and bosses. Everything else gets creamed.
Do you know how a giga trap looks like? Well using 4 stone gates and 2 giant bear traps works just as well. Doing this however pushed the spino into the ground and with it bitting the gate makes it a tiny bit harder to hit its head but once tames it will stand normaly after you demolish the gates.
1. Make a U shape out of gates and place 2 giant bear traps inside it
2. Lure the Spino into the opening
3. Once its stuck on the trap run behind it and put the gate as close as you can to the trap, Spino is long so dont wory if theres a big gap it will still work
4. Enjoy tranqing it. Try to kill a few Sabertooth salmons and harvesting them with a sickle for prime fish meat
I tamed a level 50 with cooked mutton on 3x and it only took 5, hope this helps!
These are a beast of a Dino but I would not recommend taking any under the level of 100 they have terrible stats at lower levels even with max taming effectiveness
It is dangerous just knock it unconscious and try to tame it this app tells you how to do it one live beside my house and I could not go out my door so I tamed it
Cliff, no one can top this taming method Cliff, Cliff,
+Flyer to get down cliff
I just knocked him out with tranq arrows then gave him fish meat normal fish meat and bio toxin waited 30 min and tamed
when i tamed my spinosaurs i didn’t have any narcos at the time, but i was lucky enough to find tons of nearby berries and to also have my friend on me. it ended up working out fine, but tldr make sure you have narcotics. these bad boys (and girls) wake up pretty fast
For the love of God, make a trap to keep it contained and keep it away from the water as much as possible so the dumb thing doesn’t drown itself when you knock it out. These dudes are an absolute nightmare to tame if you aren’t prepared enough. At the very least, bring 50 narcotics to be on the safe side because that torpor drops FAST. Also, use darts, arrows can be risky since a Spino’s health is usually pretty low to begin with. Kibble, prime meat or mutton is the best and quickest way to tame them and you won’t use as many narcotics to keep them down. They are insanely fast and frustrating and I hate taming them but they are pretty powerful and are handy water mounts to have. Good luck and don’t be like me where one of the buggers ran off into the ocean and was never found again.
I tamed two of these in one day (male and female)! They are so awesome and very easy to tame. Haven’t ridden one yet as I haven’t got all the ingredients to make a saddle but nonetheless, still an amazing beast! Very fast on land. When I speed fly on my Argy, it’s easily as fast. Get one! Or two! Or more!!!
So I knocked one ( lvl 3) out with my 20 narc. arrows ( crossbow). And than I just tamed it with fish meat and like 50? narco. And it did go well for me. Now I just need to wait for the saddel ( lvl72) ( I am lvl 52)
?great for getting me meat. Tackle small dinosaurs.