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ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

Tips & Strategies

More Triceratops Utility Tips
I can not stress enough to my friends how useful the trike is. Early game it makes a great pack animal. Late game in groups of three or four it can be used as a decent battle mount. Taming a trike early on can be a great way to start a large base and keep you well fed with berries.
Who thinks these should drop “trike horns” they can be made into a trike spear needing the following things and does same slightly more damage than pike but has not great durability and can be thrown. Also it + bio toxin = tranq trike spear. More than tranq arrow more than dart less than shocking dart.
1 trike horn
25 thatch
5 wood
40 fiber
Requires spear and pike engrams.
This took looong to type please read the whole way thru.
Trikes are one of the best starter tames you can have. They’re tanky and also hit pretty hard. Combined with their knockback, you can easily kill small to medium sized predators like raptors, carnos and sarcos. They also have a buff when large carnivores are in the vicinity. They’re slow but have great weight, and you can use their charge to run around the map. (Imprinted trikes are relatively fast). Trikes are also great berry and thatch harvesters.
Their slow speed also makes taming them pretty easy (just remember to kill the other trikes in the area first). For low levels, you can use slingshots to knock them.
A triceratops is a very special dinosaur in this game. It is easy enough to tame at a low level, yet powerful enough to take on raptors that could kill you easily. It can collect enough berries that you would never go hungry again, and still have some berries leftover to help tame more trikes. They are very slow but it can make up for it if you increase the weight, attack, and stamina stats. It is an extremely good pack animal because it can carry a lot, but still defend itself, especially if it is in a large group. Overall, the triceratops is one of my favorite and most versatile dinosaurs.