Scarier as a nugget but a nugget you can kill by diping it in ketchup and biting its head of
Stegosaurus

Player-written tips for taming, using, and fighting the Stegosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Sharpened plate mode is fantastic at getting biotoxin from red mushrooms, don't even need to be close enough to endanger yourself. Also gets great weight reduction on berries and all the Abberation mushrooms except aggeravic.
Theyre great starter tames on aberration. They help you farm berries and can deal with ravagers, they’re fairly tanky with a few levels into health and the saddle is accessible early game.
Stego is a great way to get narcoberrys for tranq arrows or narcotics. It’s a great tame for beginners to help get an easy food source. :)
Use some tranq arrows or darts then just move back slowly, when it gets close just un equip and run far then shoot repeat until knocked out, they are also passive so if you think about getting one grind some narco berries for arrows (that’s also pretty easy)they eat berries to.
I used one of these guys to gather trees and berries, never have to run around and gather fiber or wood anymore 😅
I knocked him out with a Scorpion just stab him and if he gets to bloody let him be once he heals up repeat
Lvl up their weight there very slow
Best early game wood gatherer, can be easily trapped with billboards.
Bring Perry or raptor and tranqs I hope I am being helpful
Like if helping me just start and me good first time
Ree
In short terms. Stegos have three modes, heavy plate, sharp plate, and hard plate.
Heavy plate gathers more thatch
Sharp plates gather berries and attacks with more power
Hard plate gathers more wood.
Also note that only pc and console can do this so Srry mobile.
One fantastic trait of the stego is that you cannot be dismounted while riding one. This makes it a safe (albeit very slow) mount for exploring swamps and the Redwoods as thylas and kapros become far more manageable.
When encountering a stego, think twice before taking one down as ALL stegos(including corrupted)are set to Hardened Plate. Hope this somewhat helps you all
There are multiple stegos on herbivore island in the bottom right of the map (But probably in the top right because I always mix up the location of herbivore island and dead island)
Great for gathering wood and thatch in low resource areas. Way better than the trike although it isn't nearly as strong.
The stegosaurus is great for wood gathering if you need a bunch and don’t have a lot of time because of their massive weight capacity. Even though it’s a pretty slow tame it is great for gathering resources in abundance.
Don’t just walk back unless you are that fast go on top of a rock to make it easier and use sling shot
Remember to have plenty of berries
Really good tanks if you level up health
Huge damage soakers, I’ve used them for almost every boss fight In the game, be sure to tame the tek variant to get those better stats
In Ragnarok, very common in the griffon area (ravine from about 40/30 to 40/50 and surrounding area) and the woods in top left (about 30/20 to 30/30 and up), tek ones too.