Beginner’s Guide To Pteranodon – How To Tame It In Ark: Survival Evolved

Pteranodons are beloved by ARK gamers as a result of they’re comparatively straightforward to tame and since they’re one of many first flyers you possibly can fairly acquire entry to. They’re appropriate for a wide range of issues past flying, too.

Once you’ve realized how to lure, tame, and look after Pteranodon, you’ll have a speedy pal who might help you progress from one a part of the map to a different.

What is a Pteranodon?

A Pteranodon is a big, flying dinosaur with a slender physique and enormous wingspan. Equipped with the appropriate saddle, it could actually ferry you throughout the map, decide up some creatures, and retailer gadgets for you in its stock. 

The Pteranodon is a carnivore, which implies that you have to keep it provided with meat after you tame it. You can retailer the meat in its stock, and it’ll eat as required. Be positive to examine it often, although, as a result of the meat can go dangerous and go away it and not using a supply of recent meals.

This flying reptile can be a bit scared of individuals approaching it. It may land close to you or tolerate your presence, however there’s additionally an opportunity it’ll take to the skies the second you step too close to. When you’re able to tame one, you should account for its nervous temperament.

Pteranodon Stats and Breeding

As with all creatures in ARK, your Pteranodon will improve in stats because it beneficial properties ranges. If you need to assign every stage to a specific stat to have your tame proficient in a particular talent – like carry weight or well being – look to tame a low-level one who will rapidly acquire ranges.

However, wild Pteranodons acquire a base stat whereas tamed ones acquire a proportion. So whereas the bottom worth of well being for a Pteranodon is 210, a wild Pteranodon will earn 42 factors per stage whereas tamed ones acquire 3 p.c of the full well being per stage. So that’s one thing to consider. 

You can breed Pteranodons as nicely. You need to set them to wander and guarantee mating is enabled. However, they will fly away once they’re set to wander. You ought to construct an aviary for them earlier than making an attempt to breed your Pteranodons, or you could find yourself looking for them and convey them residence.

When Pteranodons breed, they lay an egg, and you must keep it on the proper temperature to hatch it.  You can imprint on the infant Pteranodons and develop them into maturity, usually with very sturdy tames. 

How to Tame a Pteranodon

To tame and journey your very personal Pteranodon, comply with these tips.

Crafting a Regular Kibble

To tame a Pteranodon with the very best doable bonuses within the shortest time, use Regular Kibble. While you may as well feed it meat, you’ll get the most effective taming outcomes from using Kibble.

Regular Kibble may be crafted within the Cooking Pot or the Industrial Cooker. Add the next gadgets to the device to supply one Regular Kibble.

• 5 Fibers
• 2 Longrass
• 2 Savoroot
• 1 Medium Egg
• 1 Cooked Beef Jerky
• 1 Water Container

A medium egg is any egg that comes from a medium creature. For instance, you need to use an Ankylo egg, a Pelgornis egg, a Stego egg, or a Diplo egg.

It might take a number of Regular Kibbles to tame a Pteranodon. The quantity of meals wanted to finish a tame varies relying on the extent of the creature you’re taming.

Catching the Pteranodon

The next and probably most difficult step is trapping the Pteranodon and knocking it out. It needs to be unconscious with taming meals in its stock to tame it. Always do that on land and away from water as a result of an unconscious air-breathing creature can drown.

To catch the Pteranodon, you want an immobilization technique. There are a couple of to think about.

• The bola is likely one of the best gadgets to have when attempting to tame a Pteranodon. You throw it on the creature, and it tangles round its legs, making it unable to maneuver. You solely have a small period of time earlier than it frees itself and flies away. Prepare to knock it out instantly.
• An electrical prod or a tranquilizer arrow is one of the simplest ways to ship it into unconsciousness. Aim for the top. The objective is to boost the torpor with out killing it because the Pteranodon has comparatively little well being. It ought to solely take one hit from both for many of them, so long as they aren’t very excessive stage.

Remember to at all times wait a second earlier than firing the following arrow if you happen to’re using tranq arrows. It can take time for a creature’s torpor to rise sufficiently to ship it into unconsciousness. If you strike once more too quickly, you may by chance kill it. 

The Taming Process

Once the Pteranodon is unconscious, you possibly can place the taming meals in its stock together with some Narcotic. Then you simply anticipate it to eat the meals unconsciously.

Keep an eye fixed on its torpor ranges. You don’t need them to rise too excessive and have the Pteranodon awaken. When essential, right-click on the Narcotic and feed it one other to boost the torpor.

Once you’ve tamed the creature, you will note a notification pop up that it’s tamed the place you possibly can identify it. When the naming is finished, begin altering its settings so that you simply don’t lose it.

Settings for a Tamed Pteranodon

There are a couple of settings to think about. Which you select is as much as you and situational, however these are those I take advantage of for a newly tamed Pteranodon away from the bottom.

• Set its aggression stage to passive flee. Pteranodons can get away from most enemies by merely flying out of melee vary. However, generally even that doesn’t work. In a semi-enclosed cave on The Center, a Megalosaurus grabbed my Pteranodon set to passive flee in midair and killed it.
  However, it does give it a preventing likelihood, and you’ll at all times discover it later when it escapes.
• Set its following stage to no matter you favor. I prefer to keep it at medium as a result of I don’t prefer it interfering with my actions, and it usually will get very shut at decrease distances. 

Pteranodon Saddles

Choosing a saddle to your Pteranodon isn’t onerous. The most essential factor is the standard of the saddle, which varies relying on what you could have entry to on the crafting bench. You can loot saddles of varied qualities and kinds from drops, in addition to blueprints to make your higher-level gear.

You can’t journey the creature till you unlock the engram for the Pteranodon saddle at stage 38. However, examine Supply Drops to get your palms on one earlier than that probably. It can present a lift and swift motion early within the recreation.

As the standard of the saddle will increase, so does the quantity of armor. Ideally, you’d wait to take your Pteranodon into harmful circumstances till you possibly can craft an upgraded one. However, since they’re straightforward and comparatively low cost to tame, many gamers use these fliers as cannon fodder when wanted.

Uses for Pteranodons

You can do many issues after getting a tamed Pteranodon, although most individuals primarily use them as fliers.

Their low carry weight makes them lower than ultimate for the transport of heavy gadgets. Many individuals favor to tame an Argentavis or higher-level flier for these functions. However, if you happen to don’t have a protracted distance to go or a lot to hold, their velocity is good. 

Pteranodons are comparatively fast in comparison with different fliers, although, so that they’re usually used for transferring gamers from one place to a different.

The Pteranodon also can decide up different gamers. You can roll dodge in fights with its rollability. Many individuals use them in PVP servers due to their low barrier to tame, skill to choose gamers up, and fast motion velocity.

I’ve at all times appreciated to make use of Pteranodons to choose up small creatures and transfer them right into a secure pen for taming. It lowers the danger of a creature attacking what I’m attempting to tame and helps to make sure I can full the method. It can carry a stunning variety of creatures, together with:

• Leech
• Otter
• Troodon
• Oviraptor
• Shinehorn
• Jerboa
• Kairuku
• Enforcer
• Achatina

So at all times examine to see whether or not your Pteranodon might help you tame others earlier than you start.

Painting a Pteranodon 

You can customise your tamed Pteranodon by including paint to 6 completely different areas on its physique.

• The first area is the sample on the Pteranodon itself.
• The second area is the bottom of the wing.
• The third area is the highest of its head, face, and palms.
• The fourth area is the interior crest.
• The fifth area is the biggest a part of the wingspan.
• The final area is the physique.

Using these areas as guides, you possibly can paint every Pteranodon you tame to look completely different or create a military of tames with the identical colour scheme.