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.
They drown if knocked out in water :(
If you don’t see a spino to tame kill all the fish in a river.
Taming a spino might seem hard at lvl 29, but it ain’t. Get 20-40 tranq arrows, a bow that doesn’t deal too much damage, and a butt load of fish meat. Shoot the spino at a long range, then when it closes in shoot it more, that will minimize how much damage you take. Once you have it down, keep a very close watch on it cuz spinos are very fast at losing torpor, use bio toxin as a narcotic, it won’t do damage and its effective.
This method had me tame 3 spinos in a day at lvl 29-31
I play on PC so I’m going to tame one on extinction today, so I think that I’ll use the method of a couple stone floors, doorframe’s, and a ramp. I think that that trap will work perfectly cause it is good on Rexes and other larger Dino’s.
How to place:
It’s really east honestly, just place a 5-5 foundation, 3 doorframe long square with ramps on the side for it to go in. I’ve tried and it works on pretty much everything to a Rex. (maybe make it bigger with a Dino gate too ) also, you can run and make it follow you and then just run out of the door frame to tranq it. This is honestly the most OP trap. Wish me luck!
I love these guys! I have two at my base (a male and female) and can’t wait to breed them once I unlock ac engram ( I know I’m a noob). I tamed them on mobile using the soothing balm free gift, which is kind of cheating I guess. They still give me so much peace of mind knowing that whenever I run into some tickle chicken or something, I can just call in my big guns, Spadoodle and Spinerete.
Taming one solo.
I had a level 15 hanging too close to my base for comfort. I have never tamed one before so I am happy with this.
I made 10 stone pillars and had ladders up to the top and I used tranq darts with a longneck rifle. It took 23 darts to knock out. If you use arrows I advise making 50 for a level 15 or lower. Be aware that it’s torpidity runs out very quickly. I had 100 narcotics with me and loads more at base if needed but 100 was plenty for this level. I am still learning about kibble and things so I fed it raw fish meat which did take a lot longer.
I hope this helps!
If you are trying to tame a Spinosaurus and you can’t do don’t want to build a trap try using green obelisk it worked well for me. But of course when I do it I hit my level 120 right after it goes down
Make sure to take lots of narcs/bio toxin
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one ☝️ means one spino fan
They easily get distracted I was trying to get one into a trap but it had to dispose of the wildlife first
Um so I found lvl 2 male spino like legit really close to my base
I think I should tame him, I will hv to KO him in the water according to Dododex, it takes 2 mins to tame using 10x Soothing balm, and fish meat, I only need 2 apparently. Should I trust Dododex? Or should I do a tidy save?
How to tame a spino
Step 1 get tranqs lots if your trying to tame a high level
Step 2 get prime meat or prime fish meat and naracotics these guys topper drains fast
Step 4 if your the right level give it the saddle
Step 5 wait for it to tame and surround him in spike walls for protection
Step 6 name him
And boom if you want for me too do rex 20 likes for rex hope it helped
This is for every Ark Mobile player:
1. Make a trap.
2. Knock it out with the ascendant bow from the “Kill Dilophosaurus Persuit.
Get soothing balm. Tame.
Done.
People say ‘build stone pillars’ but all you have to do is get up high. Now take a rifle, use drank darts (I had 24 and maybe more, but I had some leftover and some shots I missed). Also, if you are on a hill shooting the spino, make sure it can’t climb it. Start shooting, and once successfully knocked out, feed it. Raw fish meat, prime fish meat, and I believe even raw meat, and raw prime meat work (I used fish meat, so I can’t be sure about the raw meat). I used bio toxin, with does +80 torpidity, while a normal narcotic does +40. It says the bio toxin does 30 damage, but it actually doesn’t do any (I believe it only hurts humans). Once you tame the spino, I must warn you, once you are able to ride it (after crafting the saddle on a smithy), if you run over small creatures you kill them. But other than that, they are a amazing, strong, swift creature. And I really suggest taming, I was scared the first time I tried, but you’ll feel the sweet triumph after a while. Hope you tame a spino! Up for noobs to see! Have a nice day!
Two ways to tame spino (especially on aberration)
Make a basic stone trap, 3x3 or 3x4 foundation, at least 3 door frames high and a wooden ramp.
Aggro him and run him up ramp
Make a bed near by if not fast enough
(I have 190% movement speed on official for reference so you might need to be close to trap to run him in)
Then knock him out, cryo him or demo door frames and enjoy your spino!
Another way to do it is(but not as reusable) is 3-4 stone dino gates and a bear trap.
For 3 gates, position the first two in kind of a wide triangle, put the bear trap right between them, run spino in and trap him in with last gate
For 4 gates, position them in a square, put bear trap, run spino in and trap him in with last gate
Knocked this out using loads of tranq arrows and even more narcotics, started taming it on raw meat but it took ages, so swapped the food to fish and it flew through..
Use the elixir from desmodus to get a 30% taming buff
So if you want to tame it and your low level, go up high. If you can't go high (like for me lol) then get flak armor. Full set is 500 armor (even alpha raptor and therizino can't deal a lot of dmg to you with that armor)! So I see one and I went on a rock (I was scared and was far away so I often use rocks as extra range not safety). It came to me and kept moving to the point I kept missing my shots! I called mine dodger (you know why now lol). Since I had my armor though I was safe. I'm gonna test chitin armor and see how that goes wish me luck lol.
I've tamed two of these and to knock it out shoot on land from a far distance. Best all around dino I've found
Most think u can not take larger Dino's till higher levels but this is wrong if u lead a spino towards a beach it has high agro range so it will attack anything while u make ur way to a cliff then us a bow with tranq arrows to nock it out and prime meat it