Unrelated, but in ark today I had a "only on ark" moment. I lost a high level spino in a fight 3 days ago. I set it to aggressive and it chased away an attacker into the wild blue yonder. I tried to find it, but gave it up for lost after hours searching. Anyways, 3 days go by and suddenly I start getting kill notices on some bobs. On the opposite side of the island. Turns out this absolute unit rampages its way across the entire map before totally wiping some thatch beach boxes and the terrified newbies cowering within. I showed up, whistled him off, and gave them the contents of his inventory for accidentally helping me find him. He had a lot of metal tools and resources when he ran off so it made thier day (after very definitively ruining it) and mine cuz I hadn't expected to ever see him again.

Tip: use cryopods to take dinos out of the non exit traps

I've been binging your videos trying to learn more about Ark, the only thing ive tamed so far is a dodo and a parasuar lol.

I made my own modification of the classic argy trap, all you need to do is replace the back gate (not gate frame) and replace it with 3-4 double door frames on a fence foundation inside the final gate frame, and it's small enough that griffins and argies can't fly through, but snow owls, pteranodons, and pelegornis can. So all you do when trapping the animal have the first gate open, then fly through on your owl/pt/pelegornis and dismount and close the gate, trapping the griffin/argy.

Hey great tutorial ! I mainly use the gate and pitfall traps myself. The only problem I've had is by the time I build the trap the dinos have all left the area so word of advise "have all your trap materials on hand before you begin to build". Here is another tip concerning traps utilizing gates. After you build the trap don't install the gate but put some pillars in the center of the end gate frame. Now put the gate on your hot bar. When you agro your target into the trap run past the pillars and turn, select the gate and snap it in behind the creature. This way you don't have to worry about the animal following you out of the trap when you try to run around to shut the door. When building a gate frame trap I like to use 6 or 8 frames with the pillars between the center gates. I have successfully trapped multiple Dinos at the same time using the hot bar method on several occasions.

For basically all medium sized dinos I use a 2x2 stone foundation with stone door frames 2 high, stone stairs leading up one side and I add an extra 2 door frames to the side opposite from the stairs to prevent it from overshooting the pit. This trap has worked all the time for things like Theris, Megatheriums, Baryonyxs, Carnos, Allos, etc. Really cheap to make as well. Additionally, you can tame Rexs with a 16 pillar trap, though it’s hard to describe you can find videos of it here on yt.

Thank you for posting! I can't wait to try these out. I've always been a shoot-and-run tamer and let me tell you, the success rate sucks. Its time for me to... evolve 😉

Just reminding everyone using the first trap, I believe raptors can get through wood door frames.

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Man your videos are clutch bro 🙌 keep up the work I just started ark nd when the boys aren't around it gets hard seems how I'm new hopefully I can get new dinos with this

1 min into the video was all i needed! Nice

Thank you so much! I am a long-time Ark player but took a break for a year b/c of corona and forgot pretty much every beginner thing ever! So this helps alot

As always, exceptional video and extremely helpful!

I like the ol "4 gates in a U shape, a bear trap lure the dino with a flier then while its stuck on the bear trap BAM place a dinosaur gateway behind it"

Also for the raft trap you can lower the foundations so you don't have a weird gap in the middle

You’re my favorite KZfaqr on the 2nd video. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME! 👏🏻

Note: giga can climb the 3 wall high

thank you for the vid, I just started playing and your vid really helped me

Im 100% an Ark noob, I have less than 100hrs played and just started 3 weeks ago, your videos have been the only ones that have made a lick of sense lol Thanks man!

Most valuable video of the series, IMO.

with the raft trap, you can lower foundations to make it near flush with raft, and its easy to snap a dino gate using a fence foundation to make it more reusable

I like to mesh together some of your designs. Put a ramp on one side, put a behemoth gate on the other and you can easily lead any dino in but also get them out through the gate afterwards. It's a bit more expensive up front, but absolutely reusable apart from the ramps that will have to be replaced every now and then. An added benefit is that they can't fly over the ramp because they'll bump into the massively high door.

Thank u for the tips really use ful

Hey love ur vids last time i chenked u had 1 k subscribers wow ur growing fast!

You forgot about the giga trap, I used 4 metal dino gates and about 10 giant bear traps and I would lure the giga into the trap afterwards. It'd take me several times and several sets of armor for when it went around the trap or when the bear trap broke before I placed the gate down.

Dude thanks so much for the well explained and well thought out guides. They are so great because they make sure to explain everything well but they are also succinct. Not 17 minutes talking about useless information lol.

Solid my dude

I just started playing ark 3 or 4 days ago now, I just started watching your videos today and have learned a lot of info. Thanks dude!

By the way, I never said thank you for being so very wholesome and helpful and supportive. It's not really something youd expect from what you hear about this game. You're the best

hey Pterafier! i absolutely love your vids and this is by far the best one, but, im about to start a brand new pvp server on Crystal Isles, sooo maybe you could do a video covering crystal isles pvp eventually?idk up to you obviously, Love your content, keep up the great work!

Hay man im sorry I haven’t been able to catch the streams i have been real busy with school and other activities. Just keep up the amazing work you are doing amazing and are the best streamer and content creator for ark hands down keep up the grind!😃

There are only 2 traps I use, just a simple 2x2 with doorframes either 1 tall or 2 tall with ramps, or the argy trap you showed. The argy trap works for pretty much anything up to as big as a yutyrannus. Both of the traps are relatively cheap and don’t weight much, so they’re perfect for carrying around

Very good tips for beginners. The 4th, cheap trap, was pretty much my goto for all dino taming. They just fall down inside the trap and cant get out, I always found the need to close gates to be not always 100% working. Plus, argy trap works with all fliers including wyvern. One thing I would have liked to see are advanced traps for creatures like Karkinos, reapers and Gate spaming for Magna's. Oh, and, you make me want to play on the center again.

Thanks so much this’s so helpful...💜🙏🏼

I never thought of building little buildings to tame dinos! I just thought you had to be super fast or something. No wonder I was having 0 luck and kept getting straight up murdered lol. Thanks for the guides man.

The argy and Griffin trap I like to use most of the time is one Dino gate, four stone foundations, four stone ceilings, twelve stone double door frames, and of course the stone gateway.The double doors are wide enough for a pteradon to fly through, but small enough not to let an argy or Griffin through, so kite the flyer of your choice into the trap through the Dino gate, fly through the back of the cage on your pteradon, land and dismount and quickly run around the cage to close the Dino gate.

Yo pterafier, just wanted to tell you your my favorite ark KZfaqr. You've actually made me a lot better at the game. So thank you for all that!

This is so helpful

I really don’t know how I got here, lol. But, I’m sure glad I did. I just finished a second video and sub’d. Excellent content, great delivery! I have to go back and start from the first video and catch up. This should be fun!

Hey you are the best, I now have a really good understanding of the game, but it would be nice if you would do a video about mutatiations . 👍KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK👍

I usually use the argi traps on griffins too, works very well. You can capture owls there too but you need some ceilings on top because they somehow fit through the top

Thank You for the help!🙂

Man I am 100% new to ark and I have been doing nothing but watching your how to vids and I tell ya what I am teaching my experienced friends things. Thank you man a serious help.

The raft design is pretty good because you can move the dino back to your base, but captain fatdog has made much cheaper and more efficient traps for the argy and griffin

Got that 1k like! Nice trap tutorial thanks

With the argentavis trap, put down 3 - 4 fence foundations snapped to each other in a strait line, then snap one side of the dino gates to the foundations. The spacing allows a pteranodon to pass through the gaps, but not an argentavis. You can build door ways 3 high on one side of the back end of the trap as they are cheaper then the 2nd dino gate.

Oh my gosh thank you! All of these traps were so helpful!

I just started replaying Ark couple days ago. I love raft base, so I made one with dino pen(2x3). Then a Spino spawned near my raft. Then some how it climbed on my raft then got itself trap partially in the raft's dino pen. I hit it with some tranqs, when it got out of pen, it ran for couple of steps before got knocked out. Now I have a Spino to protect my other dinos lol.

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The first trap: you can do those without a door on the other side. drop a couple of pillars just outside the doorways on one side of the trap, and place ramps. wooden ones are fine. aggro the dino from the top of the ramp and when it comes for you, walk backwards off it. the dino chases you up the ramp, you back out of the door, and the dino falls into the pen. it does mean replacing two of the walls each time, but if you're on public server, you don't want to be leaving your taming pens up anyway... Edit: I usually make the smaller pens with fence foundations instead of full sized ones.

Tip for the cheap carnivore trap You could put a behemoth gate on the opposite side of where the ramps are. You can't fly off and you can walk the dinos out once tamed. You still don't need to open it to get the dino in if you have ramps.

It’s just what I needed. Hello from Argentina!

If you use ceiling on the wall you can walk Rex's right out cheaper than breaking the wall and rebuilding it. 2-3 should do. Basically make stairs. Remember to remove them for the next tame. Can be built on the fly most locations.

perfect video

Thanks, this helped me a lot with taming

For the argy trap I only use 3 gates and works perfectly fine as well as with gryffins, wyverns, and managarmr

great video like usual, could u do an advanced tips video? Like idk, processes an advanced player should use (pve or solo) for taming, hunting, finding dinos, advanced bases, etc.

Ah, I still remember when I started to play ark, I used to watch all these videos in the internet of how to build a trap for whichever dino I was about to tame. Nowadays I just use the 4 gateway 2 gate trap for anything that can fit inside, even griffins. It's super easy to use with tapejaras because you can fly in the trap, let the griffin (or any flyier really) follow you in, then just pull back with reverse, fly to the other side of the trap, land and run and close the gate. If it's something big I'm taming, I just make U shape out of 3 stone gateways (metal if it's giga), leave a large bear trap in the middle to make it look like a mousetrap. It holds even a giga in place just long enough so you can run behind it and set 4th metal gateway there, and you got yourself a helpless dino. Special mention should go to baryonyx, as I usually just bola them and then build a cage around it during the 30 second timer. 4 foundations and 8 doorframes. This always causes the barys eyes to turn cold and lifeless, like a dead fish, all the while the poor dinos soul is leaving it's body and slipping into oblivion, as it realises what is happening.

I have a yuty trap that always works for me. Put 4 stone dinosaur gateways in a square with enough space to walk through. Lead the yuty through and close the gate. It also helps if one of the gates is s+ so it closes automatically.

You can also do a quetzal trap on the back of another quetzal by making a small box on the platform saddle

You know, when you are tired of your job, go for radio speaker or dubbing, you got the voice for it... 😍 As for content, you are among the best, too, IMO. 1) info : noise ratio is superb 2) solid info as stepping stone for southern beach folks. Keep up the good work! Love your vids... That said, I cover my rudder with a hatch frame, and even trap door at times as long as it is wooden raft. And ramps for critters are out of stone with me... maybe I am the only one that manages to get them stuck on the ramp, clobbering away at it.... 😅 My trapper raft is by far my most used trap, so it is worth the investment, IMO. Therefore, it has the basic crafting stations, and a bed, too.

I am a pro at this game I know just about everything about this awesome game but I just still like to look at survival hand books they make me feel new

Hey dude can u do a youtube ark series becuz I can tune on Twitch 😭

Will there be a guide how to make the most efficient/cheap custom recipes? I think i will use traps more often, i hate it when a thery runs away but then randomly attacks. Whats also good for middle sized creatures are large signs to surround them, for rexes/gigas etc the metal dino gates with a bear trap. You could also do another trap video in the future, maybe for specific dinos like managarmr or wyverns. Again, great video as always, continue! (I changed my name from P.P. to Pepone)

I really needed the Rex trap thanks so much dude

You can tame almost anything with wooden billboards and a bear trap. 3 billboards shaped as a U and bear trap in the middle, lead it into the bear trap and once caught put the billboard behind to trap

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For the trap at 4:50, you can get them out without destroying it. You just need to place ramps to the top. (It worked for me)

awesome traps

Just used the arge trap. It was só easy. Thanks

You can make a working argentavis trap with only two dino gates and gate frames, you just need good placement, but its not hard.

6:30 off topic THAT SARCO IS GORGEOUS

On the traps with a dino gate, set gate to open outwards not in to the trap. Way easier to shut from the outside and your less likely to get hit.

Dude this really helped me out to tame some swamp creatures i was scared at first

My brain is GAINING SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE. seriously this series is great

I use 4 metal dino gateways/gates (if needed) for literally everything on this game. It's the universal pen. Trap anything from a raptor up to a giga with it.

For the first trap, I usually have the Dino gate frame already placed down and the Dino gate in my quick bar . That way as soon as the Dino runs in, I place the gate down quickly and don’t have to worry about the Dino escaping as the door’s closing

When you already tame a griffin with a different trap: 👁👄👁

That sarco was badass

PuMPin this the entire PUMP session!

Awesome! can you make a video on building tricks? like I was yesterday-years-old when I found out I could make a bridge with pillars that dont need to reach all the way to the ceilings, but just along the ground beneath said ceilings, also could you do a breakdown on the weight distribution on platform saddles? I had an anky and a dodec, farming metal, but it seems that their weight reduction is less than normal while on the platform (their total weight in their inventory screen is not reflect what my quetz is carrying). Just some ideas, keep up the great work!

For the Griffin you can also use double door frames instead of pillars if you want to je can’t fly trough that but a pte can

The Ramp Traps are the best and you dont have to destroy the doorframes as you said you can just cryopod the Dino after taming. This is by far the Best way. Its an total waste of resources to build traps with Behemoth Gates.

For the argy instead of closing the gate just put the doors on ur horbar and place it itll close the gap a lot faster so nothing will get out while ur gate is closing

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This is perfect just like your vids

Have you tried taming a spino using the carno trap with the ramp? I found a level 150 and want to try using that

The argy the ramp and the raft traps are the only ones you need and cryo pods make the ramp method reusable

I like to craft multiple bolas. Raptors usually travel in pairs. Bola both of em and tranq em before they get out. But it is risky 😬 I'm just lazy to gather the stone to make a trap lol

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I got 2 griffins and an argy from that trap, thanks ptera

4:18 you can have this trap only be a 3by3 and it still works fine, you just need to be a bit more precise

Tbh, you don't need traps too big, i always use the 2x2 foundations + 2 floors of door gateways + 4 stairs. Just hit the dino for the agro, run to your trap, get over the stairs then jump over the trap (always on the middle), the dino is going to follow you falling inside the trap then is fully traped, it works for almost with any dino. (except gigas, brontos, titanos and flyers), you can use it for gigas, but build all of it with metal, or try to build it and a partner can hit and agro the giga, so it wont hit your building.

Am I the only one that when playing PVP I go on the island do the note run then upload my survivor and go on a different the island and do the same note run again😂

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What i do with triks stegos ankeys and sarcos is just hit and run but the biger dnos i do trap

Talking about cheap trap, I remember AdmiralBulldog videos

3:10 for spinos you should go 4 high cause spinos can climb 3 or less

I would suggest if you want to tame a trike or creatures like a trike I would at least lvl up your speed to 130% or more and get a crossbow and get at least 70 tranq arrows and just shoot your trike and run back a bit and reload and shoot and repeat and when you knock it out id use mejoberrys to tame because at is easy to collect and quick to get and it’s a good herbivore taming food hope this is helpful and have a good day❤️

For all of your traps,regarding larger creatures,the solution to having to break it down,to let them out,is admittedly expensive,yet eloquently simple. Simply use a large Dino gate and door. That way,no need to break anything down,only to rebuild it later. Another adaptation I use is to have a regular sized door in all traps leading down a tunnel to a centralized hub. The hub is just big enough,for a motar and pestle,a cooking station,a storage box,a bed, and myself. Lastly The "Hub", is connected to all of my traps,including my modified passive tame trap. It works for me and ensures that I can easily access,and allow my tames out.