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.
Bring atleast 140 narcotics
If it’s your first time taming one be aware that it’s unconscious bar goes down quick
They don’t need that many tranq arrows if your going for one that’s a low level
Why making traps when cliffs exist? Use grapples to grapples the side of the cliffs then switch to your bow and shoot it if you want to tame it you can,he will never catch you because they cant climb,yes. Im talking about taming/kill the spino its easier,safer,and doesnt waste a lot of resource
How to Tame the Spinosaur on Mobile:
The Spino you want to tame must be between levels 1 - 150.
1 - 2 Argentavis Kibble (1 Argy Egg, 1 Citronal, 1 Prime Meat Jerky, 2 Mejoberries, 3 Fiber, 1 Water)
1 Soothing Balm (Normal)
3 x 3 Trap
20 - 30 Tranq Darts
How to get Argentavis Kibble and Soothing Balm:
To get Argentavis Kibble, you need an egg. Luckily, at this point of the game, you should have a lot of Argentavis. If you don’t have them, search the mountains. The egg is fairly common. For soothing balm, farm The Cave in The South.
How to trap:
You may have a prebuilt taming pen. If not, build one, preferably out of stone although it is expensive. Make sure the trap is 3 x 3 and you have your dinos away from it. Use a flyer to lead it in, preferably the Quetzal or the Pteranodon. The Quetzal can tank hits and can almost out-fly a Spino, and the Pteranodon is just too fast for it.
How to knockout:
Have your dinos away, then shoot it. Make sure the next shot won’t be delayed for long.
How to tame:
Get your balm and kibble and tame it. Self-explanatory.
Hit the arrow pointing to the sky if this helped with taming!
How to easily knock out this spino first get an level 157 equus and get complete equus quest you will get master equus saddle it has high defense now next find a spino and knock it out with its kick and get 100 narcotics or 40 bio toxin and get raw prime fish meat (raw prime fish meat is from the sabertooth salmon) (up if this is helpful!)
Fluffy THE LEVEL 15 SPINO IS NOW LEVEL 18 AND GODLY.
On aberration are many cliffs and rocks overlooking rivers that a Spino cannot reach. Stand atop these and fire down (crossbows or bows with tranq arrows are optimal, but if you want tranq darts that’s fine) and then kill drop down with a parachute or a Zipline (bring a ravager in case there are Karkinos in the river) and tame it up. Boom, you now have the strongest creature in the green zone. You’re welcome losers.
If you are in south zone 2 and one spawns go to the cliff at the end of the river and start shooting it this could work both if you want to kill it at a low level or just trying to tame it.
I recommend using a tapajera and landing on a cliff, or if you're in the redwoods, a tree, and shooting down at it. Super effective, and it can't get you as long as you're up high enough. Just make sure you bring a heck ton of narcotics with you
Best taming method In my opinion is using a quetzal and shooting rifle tranqs at it then after knock balm it and starve it for awhile and feed kibble
(Not too long ppl, read this it'll help ya)
He's found at inland waters mainly,and shores too but prolly less.
U need Dino gateways ,Tranq arrows, narcotics or biotoxin(loads of 'em coz high torpor drain)
For lower levels(1-30) u can use wooden dino gateways, but it's upto you to decide what kind of gateways to use depending on the number of gateways u use. If u use 6 ,u can box him with no spaces left for movement, make sure they're not arranged symmetrically. This way i don't think u need stone or metal gateways. If u use 7 dino gates u need to leave regular spaces between them but the spino can rotate in it, prolly bite the gateways.
If u use 6 gateways u could use the starve method without stress,then feed him.
IMPORTANT: You get a Free Soothing Balm after completing the "Kill 5 Megapiranha" pursuit.
If found helpful smack the arrow that points towards the sky 🙈
Trick into water and shoot tranqs from below
Easy take strategy: you will need 4 stone Dino gates, large bear trap, and tranqs. Simply place 3 gates at 90 degree angles and it’s the opening facing the spino. Put a large bear trap in your he middle. Aggro the spino and have it run into the gate trap. When it is caught in the bear trap, walk around the other side and place the last gate where the spino came in from and tranq it. Boom, spino tamed.
All of y'all using traps to tame these, I mean its smart and all but it's way more fun to get a fast mount like a raptor or a sabertooth and run it in circles. The only problem is if you're near water, they'll start swimming, which could be bad if their torpor is already way down. In that case, baryonyx is your best mount for that, but just make sure to try and get it running inland and not towards the water. I'd also recommend a ravager for this since they jump super high and run fast.
To the guy who said a level 2 spino was really near your base: Same thing happened to me! I say trust Dododex. If you’d like a tip from me, climb up very high and tranq it. Or if you want to kill it, bows and normal arrows work (really, I almost did it once, when it was down a cliff and couldn’t climb up to attack, and then I accidentally jumped... R.I.P.). When I knocked mine out, it was in water. But where it was when standing, it could breath. Even when I knocked it out (with it’s head now underwater), it’s oxygen didn’t drop. I had lots of bio toxin and used around 30. Also, again, about the bow-and-arrow killing, I suggest 80 arrows (or 70, maybe, just around there). Well, I hope this helped!
Make sure not to leave it alone unconscious for too long
I was taming one and left to go make more narcotics but it was awake once I got back to it and then my raptor killed it :(
i dont know if this works on all devices, but it does on nintendo!
how to tame very fast:
you dont need many narcotics, id say like 10. up to 75 narcotics should be good.
but bring a lot of raw FISH meat. raw fish meat tames it real fast. just go kill some pirranah cealocanth or salmon. or any other fish.
i tamed mine in about 1 min [including knocking out time] just make sure you got a good perch or a flyer to chase it once it runs. also please do this if its in the water- it will tame before it drowns.
Why do people use traps when taming animals so much? If there's not a good rock or cliff around then I guess you have to use a trap but that's so rare.
Great creature for assisting you in battle. I tamed one at level 28 and it can now kill any other spinos. Extremely powerful if health leveled up. Does take a good amount of narcotics to tame though. If you can get up on a cliff and let the tranq arrows rain down.👍😄
Hilariously and I’m not joking these are great beginner tames on mobile do dilo pursuit and get a good bow and then get tranqs and do megapirahna pursuit. I did this as a level 25 then I just shot it and put fish meat and balm in it and it tamed but I got the saddle at level 71 so…. Overall great tame way better than Rex.
I got two level twenty’s that made a baby and when I tranqed these guys they took 5 raw meat but I tranqed another and it took so long I used smoothing balm just tranq from the high ground there in beaches and swamps for a level 10-20 it will take 5-20 tranqs use smoothing balm or kibble to tame prefers kibble regular kibble and argentavis kibble easy to kill and they might kill your weaker pets so defend like to bless the baby also it takes 5 campfires to warm the egg