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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Taming & KO Tips
How do I tame a tropeognathus? Tips and strategies on taming and knocking out a tropeognathus.
Spawn anywhere with tappys, usually walking about.
Walk up to it, set your balista turret & bola it.
Then put few dino gates over and cage it👌🏽 do not go near unless bolad, it will grab you and butcher your armour😂😂
Passive tame prompt will NOT show up unless it is hit with a Chain Bola. Tested flying next to Tropeo in wild, and using regular bolas. Lure it to a Balista and use Chain Bolas. But be careful of it's grab! It will absolutely shred your armor.
The saddle is unlocked at lvl 65 and shoots grenades also it uses gasoline
Hurt it a bit so it’s good stat will go down a ton and you can almost insta tame it
In case you find one on a wyvern or something else that is faster than a tropeo. If it refuse to land and you don’t have a whip on Hand, simply attack it once and it will follow you. Fly fast to the ground Place your ballista and there you go
DO NOT KNOCK ONE OUT you cannot access the inventory there fore you cannot use stimulant to wake it... i have been sitting here for about and hour now
When you are taming it you should trap it first and inflict damage and let it heal for a minute or so(it will drain food while healing). And start tame this thing
Regular bolas do work to trap it. You can't feed it til you use a chain bola but it gives you enough time to place gates & set up the ballista turret.
Don't go out of render when it's trapped it will escape.
You can use Extraordinary Kibble to tame it, works far better than Exceptional Kibble. Tamed a 120 female with 3 Extraordinary on the Island map on the PS4, gaining 59 levels after the process. Currently unlevels at 179.
A lvl 135 takes 40min between the 1st and 2nd feed (on x4). 2nd to 3rd feed 35min.
Any attack makes it aggressive. Doesn't appear to lose aggression once you start taming it. Official servers took 35 minute feeding intervals. It will pick you up and shred your armor. Any damage resets tame so protect it like sweet baby Jesus in his golden fleece diaper. Bola-Feed-Protect
If he flies in front of you your speed increases due to him blocking the wind so use that to chase him
This will probably be a very op creature
I used this dino to feed my Pterandons 1 Pterandon died though the others ate it
The tropeognathus spawns near the desert on raganarok just past the dragons around the 70/50 mark for me. Also for those working to build kibble. I found a lvl 150 tropeognathus, properly trapped it and it only required 2 exceptional kibble.
As far as trapping goes the behemoth gates work the best, id also suggest pillar/ceiling trapping once they are in there because they will fly out of the gates.
Go on extinction in the city. There are a lot of them.
The best way to tame one is to bola it cage it in stone dinosaur gates with ceilings over the top, or a standard arge trap with a stone pillars at the end, when it escapes. Bola it again and wait in 5 mins it'll starve and then you can insta tame a 150 like I did.
To quickly tame this thing shoot it with chain bola and don’t feed it right away. Watch it’s food and take your best guess when to feed it based on food stat. I did this with a 130 and tamed it with kibble in 2 minutes
Just tamed a 135 on Ragnarok (Xbox) in the desert around 56, 61. Tip: shoot it a couple of times initially to lower its health then when you bola it it’ll start healing so it’s food drops really fast, I was able to get all of the feeds done and fully tamed it within about 30 seconds (using just one bola)