If you are going to tame one of these with no dinos, be sure to upgrade your movement speed and get tranqs. When you see it whip its tail forwards move to the right you will dodge the shots. This worked for me.

Completely irrelevant but I think it looks kinda cute.

Thorny dragon can act as a turret, set tange to high, fill it up with stone so it cant move and set to aggressive. It is beaver version in desert,doesnt collect berries thoe.

It's a simple KO tame, the Thorny Dragon will shoot its needles at you in all directions, the needles deal damage and will make your torpidity go up.

They're commonly are in a group of 2 so you have to kill one or knock both.

Traps are not needed if your fast enough or on a cliff next to the dragon(s).

If you have a flyer carry one to a taming pen, it's gonna aggro and start throwing spines at everything it sees the minute it lands. Plan accordingly, and use solid walls so it can't shoot through them.

Be sure and name your first Thorny Dragon "Me So Thorny." Epic.

Best at gathering wood and thatch and knocking creatures with a handy Smithy

A good thing to do for a lot of creatures is build a cage out of door frames and ramps once the creature is in just shoot it with tranq arrows or darts but the creature has to be big enough to not walk through the door frame

If your play scorched earth and you see one follow these 3 steps to survive first they are like the troodon in day it takes around 8 to 12 seconds to aggro and has a small Aggro range which means you can run right pass them. Next if you want to tame them at a starter level around 12-21 climb on a rock that you have to jump on like do parcore