How to capture big dinos in single player?

[bort]

What is the most optimal way to tame a rex or a spino? I have the longneck rifle, 30 darts and 1 argentavis. Is it enough to give a try? I dont have any large trap, is it worth to learn the engram an craft some? Give me tips please.

[zerassar]

Get way more darts and get a trap...

[bort]

How many darts? One single trap is enough to inmovilize him until is down?

[Super_Tatonka]

I would get a stack of 100 to be safe and a stack narcotics to put in his inventory to give it to keep it down. I take those on most every tame though. And yes the trap will hold it but place a roof 4 high for Spinos. They will crawl out other wise.

[zerassar]

Dododex gives reasonable calculators for this stuff. Always bring more than it suggests though.

By trap i mean a taming pen... Lure him in and trap it.

[Lordbufu]

The most optimal way, would be to build a taming pen with a b-gate and or door to get in and out, or a taming trap out of gate's. So you can lure the big dino in, shoot it in peace to knock it out, and also kind of protect it while its down.

How many darts you need depends on the creature its level, same goes for how many narcotics your going to need. Though Spino's tend to wake up rather quickly, so pack a boat load of both.

You can get a spino stuck behind regular stone gates, a common way to also trap crabs, 5 regular stone gates without doors and 1 b-gate should do the tricks if the terrain is flat enough.
Not sure if that works for rexes though, they tend to get over rather high obstacles sometimes.

[ulroth]

Fly your argentavis to a cliff or high rock...shoot rex until it runs...chase rex and shoot till it drops... Lay spike walls all around it...let it starve for a long time...use argentavis to kill anything that drops raw prime...feed a bunch of raw prime to starved rex and wham...a high lvl tamed rex.

works on spino as well..except spino will require tons of narco to keep asleep until you starve it down halfway..then feed a bunch of raw prime and wham...tamed!

easy

[HALO_run]

Originally posted by bort:

How many darts? One single trap is enough to inmovilize him until is down?

like a good 200
also try for lower levels i always go for max level 10 if i can find a rare level 2 im happy

[Migromul]

If you've found a good crossbow, this could be more effective than the primitive longneck. The ammo is much cheaper and can be craftet "on the fly" in the inventory. Since torpor gained scales with damage dealt. Rex and Spino should be no problem with a crossbow.

I would try to tame a raptor first and then tame the Rex form the back of this. (You can use weapons on a raptor. Or you can use a speed-trained Parasaur. (they're much easier and less dangerous to tame. Although both can trapped with bolas.)

But trapping a potential tame-target in a taming-pen is always a good idea. You don't need to starve-tame. The only use of this method, is to lessen the risk of loosing taming-food and narcos. You don't get any time-advantage and you will loose taming-effectiveness, if your unconscios tame is attacked, regardless of starving or not. (Although you only will see this, after the creature ate the first food.)

If you play with single-player-settings. prime-meat will be enough for a 99%-tame. You won't need kibble.

DON'T flee into water, if something goes wrong, while trying to tame the spino. They get huge buffs there. You CAN flee intto water, if somthing goes wrong while trying to tame the rex, though. They're much slower there. But beware of the dangers, the water have on its own... (Prianhas and sharks.)

[L3wt]

I've done lots of spino and big tames using the grappling hook on a passing tree or cliff. Just hang inches from their face to hold their attention and pump it full of darts. When they run you descend safely and chase em on foot with the last few darts. Leave your mount somewhere close by within whistle range on passive.

You can also use many mounts to hover in mid air and do like a heli drop with grappling hook, makes it faster to reel back in and mount up too. But if you aren't that great at aiming while falling I'd suggest a mount that doesn't kick you off mid air. This is also one of the few ways to tame a quetz solo.

[Bulborb87]

a trap is very handy to make sure you keep unwanted pests away from your large tame...but when it comes to the Spinosaurus you will need more narcotic's for those guys as their topor does drop fairly quickly (well a 150 does wake up in 20 minutes), and in case you are new a word of warning when it comes to Spinosaurus is that they are relatively frail unlike T-Rex who is more bulky. (T-Rex generally has more power & bulk but less atk speed and mobility while the Spino favours mobility and atk speed over power & bulk)


But word of advice IF you ever plan on going after a Giga: build a trap before hand and make sure it's made out of metal tier structures