Brontosaurus

The Brontosaurus is one of the Dinosaurs in ARK Survival Evolved.

Basic Info

Dossier

Wild: Among the largest creatures I've seen on the island, Brontosaurus lazarus is larger than any sauropod I've read about. In fact, the dinosaur is so massive that it ignores most other creatures.

Domesticated: Because of how docile it is, Brontosaurus makes the ideal pack-animal. Peaceful tribes use it to carry incredible quantities of resources, while warring tribes use it to mobilize their army. Unfortunately, its enormity means that most attempts to tame Brontosaurs can take longer than almost any other creature on the island.

Known Information: I've seen a pack of Raptors tear apart smaller Dinosaurs while Brontosaurus continues eating, seemingly oblivious to the hunting pack. The Brontosaurus is extremely protective of its eggs however, and will attack if provoked. Some may think this is an Apatosaurus, Dreadnoughtus, Argentinosaurus, or other sauropod - but this is a strange island and I'm the one doing the research. I'm convinced that this genus is Brontosaurus and no one can tell me otherwise. My study, my rules.

Behavior

Brontosaurus is not aggressive, but can deal damage to players or dinosaurs by stepping on them if provoked. Another attack that they do is a tail swipe, which for low to mid-level characters can be a 1 or 2 hit death. The tail swipe does more damage than the stomping, has a long reach, and will fling you in the direction the swipe traveled. If you want to kill one, either tranquilize it and hit it when it is down or use long range weapons, such as bows, to deal damage. Be warned that this beast has an unknown amount of health and has taken more than 30 fully-charged bow shots!

Appearence

Drops

Base Stats and Growth

Attribute	Amount at Level 1	Increase per point
Health	1200.0	+324.0
Stamina	200.0	+20.0
Oxygen	150.0	+15.0
Food	10000.0	+1000.0
Weight	900.0	+36.0
Melee Damage	60.0^(*)	+21.0%
Movement Speed	100.0%	+2.5%
Torpor	1600.0	+96

^(*)The absolute Base Damage is shown here instead of the percentage (always 100% at Level 1).

Taming

Level 1 - Level 30
Animals above level 30 will require additional resources to tame.

Time

Taming a Brontosaurus can take between 2 - 5 hours depending on the animal's level and your taming strategy.

Resources

400 - 1000 Narcoberry
100 - 250 Narcotic

Preferred Food

350-840 Mejoberries

Note these are approximations, always bring extra supplies!
Resources vary depending on animal's level and your taming strategy!
Updated as of Patch v180.42

KO Strategy

The best method would be using a Scorpion and/or Tranquilizer Arrows, but if neither are available to you, then a simple Slingshot will do the trick [100+ stone]. Aim at the head for best results (good luck haha).

20 - 40 Tranquilizer Arrows

Utility

Roles

Tank: Decent tank due to its high HP.
Damage: Very good AOE and base damage. Too slow to chase down prey.
Transport: While slow, has the best base carrying capacity in-game. Good for local transport.
Gatherer: Excellent for gathering materials.

Collectibles

Efficiency

	Bronto	Metal Tools
Berries	✔
Thatch	✔
Wood	✔
Stone		✔
Flint		✔
Metal		✔

Highest yielding technique marked with ✔.

Notes/Trivia

One of the endgame-berry farming machines you wish to have. Use his attack agains large groups of bushes to gather more than a hundred of berries. Depending on your location you're able to farm more than 1500 narcotic-berries in one, single, ingame night. Just take a good look on the weight! Thanks to the new feature from 175.0 to clear remote inventorys, you're able to pick up the things you want to have and just throw all other berries away.
It deals more damage to larger dinosaurs? Found out by accidentally attacking it with a friend, i was using a stego with 30.6 saddle armor my friend was using a raptor with 30.2 saddle armor and my stego has 1.4k hp,i was attacking the bronto for a while and found out i was taking a lot of damage while my friend said that the damage done to him was minimal(raptor had around 500 hp).