Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Walk backwards and slingshot to tame. No trap required
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With the new TLC the stego can easily become a must-tame early game dino for many players. It has 3 stances when ridden you can change between pressing C (crouch):
Heavy plate, boosting thatch gather rates and applying a heavy slow on hit targets.
Sharp plate, boosting berry gathering and attacks penetrate armour (useful for PvP).
Hardened plate, boosting wood gather and halves damage taken.
For combat, heavy plate is great for effectively rooting enemy and wild dinos in place, whilst hardened plate is to tank everything that comes at you. Sharpened plate shines together with allies that can slow and/or tank whilst you focus on dealing good dmg.
The alternate attack of the stego can impale creatures up to the size of roughly a parasaur, dealing damage based on attack damage. In order to do so the target must have a certain amount of health left, which is highlighted with the crosshair turning red when looking at the target (unsure how it is shown without crosshairs).
78.3/79.0 = stegosaurus dossier on The Island Maps!
If you want to tame a stego find a rock clump up and slingshot the stego until he is unconscious.
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From experience: You can tame it without a trap if you're fast enough, just make sure it's alone first. I used tranq arrows in a crossbow and just ran from it, turning around every few seconds to shoot. Not too hard to hit the head, to be honest. Of course I can't guarantee this will work for everyone, but it worked for me :)
Knock stego out and feeed
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If you dont tame it with kibble you can catch up on some netflix shows of yours :).
Just use 93 tranquil arrows for a level 150
Not hard
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I remember spawning in the swamps and having a wild one of these kill 2 titanaboas, a raptor and a kapro for me. Respected them ever since
This is a tip on how to tame a stego. First find a one they commonly spawn in jungles, mountains and plains. They will occasionally spawn on beaches. Second, you must preferably knock out with slingshot or tranq bow. I would recommend using a slingshot if you make a trap or on a high rock. Third proceed to knock it out. - quick tip: if you pump enough levels in health and melee damage on a pulmoscorpius (scorpion thing) you can knock it out with that. They prefer vegetables or berries (mejoberries).
Single player uses:
1. Gatherer: Stegosaurus is among the best wood and thatch gatherers, and is also a good berry gatherer.
2. Early game power dino: Stegos are slower than a sloth on melatonin, but they are tanky for their size.
3. Redwood mount: You can't get dismounted while riding it, need I say more?
1 u climb high rock
2 make sure there’s no other stegosaurus
3 fire tranq darts until unconscious
4 make sure no dinos charging at u
5 feed it berries
Do NOT listen to the people saying to use a slingshot and tame from atop of stones Stegos can and will use their tail to take you out!
So just find low level it took me like five tranq arrows and crossbow to K.O. then hundred rockaroot and a little bio toxin and now I have a stego! Plz up people must see
Just grab some tranq arrows, a crossbow, stand on a rock and shoot. Then feed it berries and give it a saddle.
There are many good places to find and kill stegos and those places are beaches with lots of trees and jungles because due to its large body it can easily get stuck.
P.S. Works for taming too
At times 5 taming speed it only took me 5 potatoes to tame a stego. Up. so more people will see this