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168 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 6, 2025   Report

Ark Survival Ultimate Mobile Edition:

Stego got three stance

1. Red/Buffed/Shield Icon: Half dmg taken from everything, good for gathering wood

2.Blue/Heavy/Mace Icon: Attack cause slow effect, good for thatch gathering

3.White/Sharpen/Sword Icon: Deal armor piercing attack, stance for berry gathering

Up for people to see (6/Feb/2025)

1091 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Dec 29, 2021   Report

Walk backwards and slingshot to tame. No trap required

Up so that the pros can see

-BorkBro75

1434 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 8, 2020   Report

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).

2212 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Jan 19, 2017   Report

78.3/79.0 = stegosaurus dossier on The Island Maps!

850 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 17, 2021   Report

If you want to tame a stego find a rock clump up and slingshot the stego until he is unconscious.

Up so the noobs can see

540 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 11, 2020   Report

If your raiding someone and they have turrets you can use this guy to drain the turrets. Hit the arrow pointing to the sky if this helped

852 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 14, 2017   Report

If you dont tame it with kibble you can catch up on some netflix shows of yours :).

7 points   🔧 Utility   May 26, 2025   Report

Incredibly underrated early game tame. Throw its spines up and enjoy reduced damage on an already bulky dino. Nothing will knock you off the saddle and your stego will eat up any hits it takes. This makes it an excellent ride dino for tranqing others off its back. Its attacks also do formidable damage while dishing out solid knockback. You can repeatedly launch alpha raptors so that they can't hardly land a hit on you. Stego also collects wood, thatch, and berries pretty well with a decent weight stat. Grab one of these guys early and you'll have a safe taxi around the map who can also gather plenty of wood and thatch for you.

459 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Mar 21, 2020   Report

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

198 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Aug 6, 2022   Report

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!

281 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Feb 8, 2021   Report

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

244 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Nov 27, 2020   Report

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

209 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 19, 2021   Report

Lol to whoever struggling to switch stances on mobile,you can't.On mobile the stego is still the old stego

423 points   ⚔️ Encountering   Oct 6, 2016   Report

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

37 points   🔧 Utility   Sep 14, 2024   Report

With the TLC, the stego is one of the most useful creatures in the game. Its high health and good damage makes it an extremely useful utility mount, only rivaled in diversity by a few other well-known creatures, like the argy and the moschops.

The stegosaurus is very easy to tame. You only need a bow, lots of tranq arrows, and a cliff. Shoot the stego from the cliff, and chase it one it is running away. Since this is a utility post, there won’t be much information on this area.

Once tamed, the stegosaurus has three back plate modes:

The hardened plate (orange): defends the stego making it tanky. It can harvest wood

Heavy plate (blue): instead of protection, it slows enemies using its primary attack. Harvests thatch

Sharp plate (yellow): gives the stego armor penetration. Harvests tons of berries

All modes prevent riders from being knocked off (microraptor proof!!)

The stego has a decent attack range and AoE. It also has a secondary (impale) attack which can hold down the enemy while draining its health. Use this against ASE forest titan on extinction.

Also, the stego is very tanky and carries a lot. The only downside being its extremely low speed. If you need anything that doesn’t have to be quick, the stego is extremely useful.

—Cerato rider

3 points   🥚 Taming & KO   May 25, 2025   Report

Found one of these bad boys and tamed it. Here's how:

You'll need 12 to 15 tranq arrows or darts with a bow, crossbow, or a rifle. Then just tranq it up. These are pretty slow so you CAN walk but I'd recommend running and stopping occasionally. Then you can feed it kibble or mejoberries. BOOM. Now you have tamed the infamous stego.

Utilities:

This dino can harvest wood, thatch, berries in targe amounts. It's slow but a major early game tame because its attacks are pretty overpowered. This dino also has a high defence and melee but its stamina and speed are TRASH.

Hope this helped...

- the gamerank

363 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 29, 2016   Report

Great dino to collect a crap ton of berries, especially narcos for narcotics

211 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 8, 2020   Report

I have a stegosaurus called Strega and she’s a GOD, can kill five giant beavers in a few swings, has very high health, doses decent damage, and helped me and my only tribe mate, my dad to tame our first giant beaver.

63 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 28, 2023   Report

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?

191 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 9, 2020   Report

At times 5 taming speed it only took me 5 potatoes to tame a stego. Up. so more people will see this

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