Hey, it seems that the food only goes down from chain bola'ing it because the chain bola does a small amount of damage. Once it reaches full health again, that's when the food starts ticking down by 1 again. So, it's not so much the bola itself, but the damage you're doing to it. Imo method #2 is the best for that reason. Upvote so he can see. Edit: in fact you can probably skip the first bola altogether. Just start shooting it until its food drops enough, then chain bola and feed it. It's likely that this could even be done with arrows or a spear for minimal resource expenditure.

As of yesterday, you can still shoot them with a regular bola to trap them. After that you have to use the chain. It took me three hours to tame a max level on our servers (300) before I found out about the food. Also - if you start the taming process and it picks you up and you damage it, you have to start again.

Quetzal be like: "Really, another relative to replace me?"

Nooblets: “here we trapped the tapejara I mean tropeognathus” Tropeognathus: am I a joke to you

The second one was the fastest, just gotta be careful not to kill it and also scout out the area for any other harmful creatures. All of the methods were essentially the same though. Damage it either with bolas or arrows/bullets and it starts to heal and then food goes down quick. The second one could probably be even a lil faster if you bola it twice in a row.

LOL 😂 The photo 📷 bomb 2:06

Thanks mate, gonna tame one of these sometime when i begin my crystal isle solo *Looks at 9 months ago and looks at my severe lack of tropeo*

Thank you so much, my friend. I've watched so many vids about taming tropeo, but only this help me to understand what should I do)

Thank you Steve you make my life easier every time ;)

Brilliant! For method 3 you don't even need a trap! I was just about to try to get another one as well thank you nooblets for consistent, awesome and helpful videos!

You're videos have always been a huge help for my friends and i thanks a lot!

Great vid bro

Thanks man, you did me tame it in like 10 minutes I stead of like 5 hours on my singleplayer

Thank you very much for the guide. I considered to just never tame that thing because of how time consuming it was!

Hilarious, is just me or did anyone else notice the horse’s nosey head pop into view while nooblets was quacking the Trop’s stats? 😂😂😂

"You can see where this is going."

Your best bet seems to be to either damage it a little before you trap it or damage it after you've chain bolad it, it's food will drop pretty rapidly to heal. Managed to tame a 140 in a few minutes on a 2x taming server. Just had to punch it a few times after the first chain bola hit then wait a bit, chain bola it again.. then check it's food.. should be dropping fairly quickly.

Brilliant 👌🏻 Trying my 1st one later 👍🏻 Taming #2 is most cost effective, but I like #3 best... Never used a ballista yet, so don't exactly know how much grinding goes into it 🤔

I just finally tamed mine, thank you for this video!

2ed method is the best hands down it's a bit risky due to it being heavily damaged but it's the cheapest and fastest way to do this thank you for this amazing video.

I like taming method 2 best, not gonna lie. Very satisfying

Your vids are the best mate

Yet again Nooblets to the rescue finally tamed one opted for taking method 2. Cheers 👍

Thanks nooblets, I played solo on genesis and used all your videos for help , you have a sub from me. :)

It helped me so good thank you

"lets shoot a few more times just to be safe" shoots it 12 times

8:25 I see the Paracer's stats there.

I love ur content Steve.

The old beat it and feed it trick lol love it.

I found a 145 tried taming it for 3 hr and then watched this vid and tamed it in few minutes thanks A lot

I gona use the second thank you!

Been subbed for years Steve and will continue too

Love how the Para just jumps into frame

you are awesome today i discovered you ;)

Thanks mate

love your traps!!!

It appears to start ticking 1 food at a time once it's health reaches full again (from when the chain bola did damage to it)

I love how he calls the paraceratherium a horse I mean it’s a part of the same family genus that horses are but it’s actually a large rhino lol

I found after bola Steve that making a tunnel with gates and little gaps worked best for me

salute to you sir you make ark so easy

This works with regular bola for the trap and to damage it, saving on chains.

I just shoot at it and it's hunger goes down to 0 basically. It does not affect the taming effectiveness either. Your demonstration was also a very useful one as well.

Omg i love this channel so much 😍 that intro, your voice 😂😍 (no homo) 😂❤️ Helping me so much

Have no fear nooblets is here :)

Method 3 is the same as method 1 since it stops rapidly losing food after bola is released. Great video though.

If you want that the food droops very quickly, you need to hit him... The food will droop very quickly because he heals

Hey, great vid! Which Spyglass mod ist this?

Can you stack chain bolas on other creatures or only the trop? Karkinos comes to mind.

Hey boo let's don't k ow if this is the best way to ask but any way you can make a video on you ARK keybinds/how you have you Belkin set up. Just started playing mouse and keyboard and curious what you set up is I know you play on a Belkin I could only find a Razer taurus pro, but I'll just have to make sure with what I got lol. Any help would be awesome keep up the content my dude

It's expensive but if there's a trap you're going to use often have the entrance as a Tek gate. Then when they come in it auto closes.

What if i tried kicking it with an Equus to damage it and raise its torpor causing it to keep running away, would that still cause it starve faster from the damage or does it only lose food while in a bola?

2 years later and im still using this trap. I just make the trap, agro buckbeak, and when its in the trap i net it and close the doors.

It doesn’t lose more food just because it’s in a bola it’s losing food because the bola damages it a little bit so really the best way to tame it would be the second way because your not using bolas just to damage it

9:12 "... still dropping ..." (Tropogenathus poops) ... - so yes - obviously ... 😂

Definitely like method 2 the best

I am curious. Is a mod being used to make the chain bola last 30 seconds? I thought it should only be 15

What if you knock it out and force feed it stim berries?

I mean, it's been a hot minute since I tamed my Tropeos, but I'm pretty sure I had to tranq it? Did they change it since this?

Surely a combination of the second and third is best? However I'm yet to find one on crystal isles on xbox.

Isn't it possible to combine all 3 methods ? Bola once, build the trap, bola a second time, drop its health, and when ready to give kibble bola it multiple times so as to be able to give all kibble in one go?

I tamed 2 used I chain bola for each one with the second method I instead used the lr bola and I hit it a couple of times did did twice and took me 5 mins to tame each one once they were hungry chain bola they ases and feed them the kibble

Can you obtain the spy glass in official in console if any one knows? Would be handy...

Can you use normal bola's as well??

Does the net projectile work?

Can you use normal bolas to starve it?

Why are you giving it Extraordinary Kibbles? Dododex says Exceptionnal Kibbles is his favorite? Am I not understanding something?

do you HAVE to use a chain bola?

I liked 2 the best

Hello Steve. Where do they spawn at scorched earth and Valgeuro? Any info is helpful. Thank you.

i was thinking cuz i found so much rare flowers i would use it

cool

How do you know when the food is down enough when you don't have that spyglass mod, though? Any rough time estimates maybe?

Method 3 was best in my opinion chain bolas are pretty easy to make.

Ok my next tame after a shadow mane coming up

Anyone know the spyglass mod he’s using?

Imagine bringing this back then it gets rained by turrets...

the only ones i have ever found are way high up in the air, does not give me time to build a trap because I do not know where it will land. It forces me to chain bola on a quetz to get them down, but in all of these youtube videos, they are just walking on the ground. I only have ever found them way high in the sky. Still have yet to actually tame one though

How do you get that stats bar

can I use a net for this?

the second was the fastest, so in my opinion the best

Method 3 by far seems the best.

i love that we all collectivialy call the paracersaurus a penissaur

Never new they were in the game

Test 2 is the best in my opinion

can you pod paracer with ballista and not lose ballista? I don't know how podding affects those structures.

Do these bad boys fly in the space zone in Gen2?

I love u Steve

i liked 2

i really have to get to downloding crystal isles

I prefer the third method. Less mounting / dismounting the paracer than the first method, and less 'violent' than the second.

what I wanna know is what spyglass is he using? Cuz the normal one certainly doesn't show all that.

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can you use net projectile instead of the chain bola?

For test 3, you actually don't need a trap. Just keep shooting..

I was playing extinction and in the desert biome I saw one a these I though it was exclusive to crystal isle I'm on console too can someone tell me if this is intentional or a bug

Number 2

How did you get the Tropeognathus’s Unleveled movement speed stat to be zero?

With the second method couldn't you bola it two times in a row and not have to bola it again

Does the Tropeo not lose Effectivness, when u shoot it? Or is that just not the case in passive taming?

As an update this doesn't seem to work anymore. Hitting it with a chain bola doesn't drain it's food faster than normal. Neither does damaging it.