How many arrows for an Alpha Raptor?

[Apoca]

Title says it all really. Got an Alpha Raptor (Lvl.1) near my base. Trapped it in a bear trap, and put about 60 tranqs into it to no avail. It then got free and killed me.

How do I put this thing down?

[KitsuneShiro]

How many arrows registered as hits? Damage numbers help with this.

[KippenKaasBaas]

Tranq arrows? You know you can't knock it out right?

[skyguard]

Was this a regular vanilla Alpha ?
if it is, you cannot tranq Alphas.

[KippenKaasBaas]

You can kill them with tranq arrows but it takes a very long time. Learned that lesson the hard way. Trust me.

[margalus]

Don't waste tranq arrows on alphas. You cannot tame them.

[Husker_85]

If you have a flyer or a run speed higher than 112% you can just lead them to an enemy base.
NOTE: This is frowned upon on most unofficial servers

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by FallenCat:

If you have a flyer or a run speed higher than 112% you can just lead them to an enemy base.
NOTE: This is frowned upon on most unofficial servers

Or just pick it up and use it as a very deadly airdrop lol.

[Apoca]

I used tranqs because I only had tranqs (I was trying to start a farm at the time) and didn't know if they do more or less damage so thought to specify. As far as I'm aware, all hit (red markers on all shots), as i said it was in a bear trap, hard to miss. I'm playing single player so I'd presume all registered. I'll try the flying thing as a last resort, but I really want at least some of my stuff back.

[KitsuneShiro]

Red hit markers and even arrows sticking out don't guarantee the hit actually registered. Turn on damage numbers, if you want to be sure.

Early game, trikes with their knockback ability are very powerful. Get a mate boosted pair for even more bonus. Or a whole army of trikes to guard your base.

[KippenKaasBaas]

Stone arrows fired from a normal bow do 55 damage. Tranq arrows fired from a normal bow do only 20 damage. Never use tranq arrows if you want something dead.

[KippenKaasBaas]

Another thing to take in mind: an alpha raptor of lvl 1 has 3600HP so killing it with tranq arrows would take about 180 shots....

[Dragon]

Alphas have huge hit point pools and based off of its level. I've fires hundred of arrows at raptors and Carlos. It's almost better to pike him to death outside of his melee range

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Apoca:

Title says it all really. Got an Alpha Raptor (Lvl.1) near my base. Trapped it in a bear trap, and put about 60 tranqs into it to no avail. It then got free and killed me.

How do I put this thing down?

You cannot (as other said) knock out an Alpha raptor. The number of arrows to kill a level one is quite alot as they're going to have thousands of hitpoints.

If the alpha is a problem then your better options are:

1. Make your character empty of important armor weapons etc and lure it away via corpse hopping.

2. Lure it away in a similar fashion with a flyer(warning: there's a chance your flyer can get trapped and both of you die so be careful).


Where to lure it:

1. Into deep water. If there is nothing to aggro once in deep water, they'll sink and eventually despawn. They will not drown though(used to be able to drawn them this way in the past).

2. Down a canyon or other area where they cannot easily come back to where you are.

3. Into a kill zone by someone else's base's turrets or similar.

[RaptorNatho]

head shot bow spamming is effective,or with something like at least a carno or even a high lvl trike if you knock it back so it cant hit you

[RaptorNatho]

alpha raptor normal bow headshot is 165 damage