
What is a triceratops used for? triceratops utility tips and strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
It actually pretty easy to tame, you just need tranq arrows, berries, and narcotics. When tamed, gathers wood decently well with charge ability, and should be your general berry collector. You can also use it’s insane knockback and charge to easily juggle enemies. (Watch them try to fight you, lol!) 8 out of 10. Very good.
Trike is the first good tame you gonna do.
Farmer: Its the best early tame for berries, thatch, wood.
Fighter: Can kill everything smaller than rex-allosaurus with the knockback, so when you get trike the only fear is bronto (dont try fight bronto with it) . And much important, it is one of the few tames that dmg almost in every side of it, front-left-right and UP, doing it a decent fighter against birds too, if i could bring it on caves that no jump needed i wouldn't ask for another tame ever (killing bats)
The downside: its difficult to tame. 1) on hit and run he's gonna outrun you (and other trikes help him too), 2) On 'find a spot and throw him rocks (slingshot) seems good but after he got much torpidity it will run away fast on forest or sea and never see him again 3) Trapping him between wood walls-doorframes would work only if you play on 0-30 levels of creatures, in other case it will fck the wooden building immediately. And stone buildings are very far away when you start game
To sum up, no matter the difficulty of taming, its the best early game you gonna get and i mean it.
You can use this as a raid tool in mobile because it can instantly break wood/thatch structures with a specific attack. You know the charge? The structure hitbox will always be there, so when the triceratops does the charge, it will deal (kind of) infinite damage because structures take no knockback. After the walls are broken, you can send out many raptors to take out the people, another trike to destroy the containers, and optionally a carno to also help with killing the players and cleaning up, because it is fast and does decent damage, and also eats meat, ensuring the enemies won’t find their bodies again.
Up if this helped with your early-game raids!
Triceratops is a very strong tame in early game, they can kill an Allo, Carno, Sarco, A pack of Argentavis, Megalodon, and anything that is strong, but only when you mount it. But Trike is very slow, so always upgrade their movement, make them follow you, and when you encounter a strong dino, mount the Trike and kill the dino.
What I recommend doing is getting at least two trikes (preferably one Male and one female to get a mate boost), then setting them at your base to serve as defense. If you do this, be sure to invest in melee damage and health. Don't forget to pick up a third trike for exploration purposes!