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GIGANOTOSAURUS
The Giganotosaurus is a carnivore found on 9 maps, with a drag weight of 950. Tamed, it harvests Raw Prime Meat and Raw Meat better than most creatures. It is rideable once you have the level 96 saddle.
Stat Calculator
point distribution & extractionRoll Quality
how lucky these wild points areKnock Out
Giganotosaurus at a glance
the game's own base values — the calculator above levels them| Stat | Base (level 1, wild) | Per wild level | Per tamed level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 80,000 | 40 | 0.0% |
| Stamina | 400 | 0.2 | 1.0% |
| Oxygen | 150 | 0.4 | 2.5% |
| Food | 4,000 | 10 | 2.5% |
| Weight | 700 | 7 | 1.0% |
| Melee Damage | 100% | 5% | 0.9% |
| Movement Speed | 100% | — | 0.3% |
| Torpidity | 10,000 | 600 | — |
A wild Giganotosaurus starts at 80,000 health and 100% melee damage. Its drag weight is 950, which decides what can carry it. The saddle engram unlocks at level 96. Killing one gives 200 base XP.
Taming food: Exceptional Kibble, Raw Mutton, Raw Prime Meat, Cooked Lamb Chop, Cooked Prime Meat, Raw Prime Fish Meat, Raw Meat, Cooked Prime Fish Meat. Torpor drains at 120 per second once it is unconscious.
Breeding: lays an egg, incubating in 2d 1h 59m, and the baby matures in 10d 3h 59m with 30 imprints available. The egg needs 43–44°C to incubate . Mating cooldown runs 18h to 2d.
Immobilised by: Large Bear Trap.
Best at gathering: Raw Prime Meat, Raw Meat, Chitin, Keratin, Hide.
Drops on death: Giganotosaurus Heart, Raw Prime Meat, Raw Meat, Hide.
Taming Calculator
Lv 150 · knockoutHow You Get One
method, in orderQuirks
- 🏹 Tip: The Giganotosaurus' torpor rate is significantly higher than any other creature. This means that if you miss a shot or wait too long between shots, the Giganotosaurus' torpor will quickly start depleting, canceling out a shot per second or even more, resulting in more total shots required. Like all dinos, aim your shots for every 5 seconds (not slower or faster).
Holding it still
Large Bear TrapSame idea as the 
Bear Trap, sized for the big stuff. Bait it into walking over one.That's the full list — nothing else immobilizes a Giganotosaurus, per the game's own immobilizer table (drag weight 950).
Taming at a glance
a level 150, at official 1× rates| Level | Exceptional Kibble | Time | Effectiveness | Bonus levels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 7 | 26m 51s | 99.5% | +14 |
| 60 | 10 | 38m 22s | 99.2% | +29 |
| 90 | 13 | 49m 52s | 99.0% | +44 |
| 120 | 16 | 1h 01m | 98.8% | +59 |
| 150 | 19 | 1h 12m | 98.5% | +73 |
Every number in this card is at official 1× rates, with the fastest food. Taming speed and food consumption multipliers change all of it, and most servers are not on official — the calculator at the top of this tab takes your rates, a Sanguine Elixir, and every other food this creature will eat.
Effectiveness is what decides the bonus levels: every unit of food eaten costs a slice of it, so the food that needs the fewest units finishes at the highest level. That is why kibble is worth the trouble — not that it is much faster, but that it is fewer feedings.
Torpor drains at 120 per second while it is unconscious, so on a long tame you will need Narcotic to keep it down. The calculator works out how much.
Timers
start them when you knock it outServer Rates
every number on this tab is calculated at these ratesTame Guide
traps, methods & egg runs
KO Strategy
When it comes to knocking out a Giga, there is one major argument to consider; should you use a 
Longneck Rifle or 
Crossbow? This largely depends on the quality of your weaponry and the number of resources at your disposal. If using engram-grade weaponry (or if the weapon damage of your best crossbow and longneck rifle are similar), the crossbow is more efficient in terms of narcotics spent on ammunition per tame in comparison to using a longneck rifle with 
Tranquilizer Darts. If using 
Shocking Tranquilizer Darts, you will still be spending slightly more narcotics (about 7% more) on top of the 
Bio Toxin needed. This makes the crossbow the most resource-efficient method. You will also not need to worry about the crossbow's higher Health:Torpidity damage ratio, given the gargantuan base Health of a wild Giga. However, when using Shocking Tranquilizer Darts, a longneck rifle will knock out the Giga much faster than a crossbow (as long as you keep shooting and don't miss). To sum up, if resources are your main concern, use a crossbow. If you just want to knock out the Giga as fast as possible, use a longneck rifle with shocking darts.
By far, the simplest way to tame Giganotosaurus is to build a room out of 
Metal Dinosaur Gateway (no gates needed), leaving one side open, and put a Large Bear Trap in the middle. Do not use the snap points, as this will make the room too small to place the fourth wall and allow the Giganotosaurus to escape. Instead, leave a small gap between each gateway. You then lure the Giganotosaurus in so that it'll get stuck in the bear trap, then fill in the remaining wall with another Metal Dinosaur Gateway. The Giga will be unable to escape the enclosure, and you can shoot at it until it's down (If you leave a diplodocus in the trap, it might buy you a few extra seconds to close the gate without the Giga escaping.). Settle in; it may take a while. It is advised to use this method as the methods that involve fliers are much harder and much more annoying, especially the 
Quetzal method, which is also potentially quite dangerous due to the flier nerf. (Make sure the trap is rendered at all times or the Giganotosaurus might escape)
This strategy is SUPER simple though it has questionable morals, but requires an extra player or two. On a single-player map, have the host get a little higher than the Giga and shoot it with Tranq arrows or darts. At the same time, the other player(s) keep sacrificing themselves to distract the Giga. Since the other player(s) can respawn at the host, it's easy for them to keep killing themselves. (Just make sure everybody is OK with it)
Another strategy (which is much harder) is to use a Quetzal with a 
platform saddle and a shooting platform built on it and to simply follow the Giga around and shoot it with tranq arrows until it falls down. This method is very time-consuming and difficult due to the tendency of wild dinos to pick a direction and sprint flat out away from you when they realize they are being tranquilized. Couple this with the surprising speed of a wild Giga, and you're in for a long chase. The addition of Griffins gives you another option—no need to dismount but remember they don't have as much stamina. Don't over-focus and wind up coming to a forced landing right in front of your Giga.
Once knocked out, it's rather simple to keep the beast down for the duration of the tame. Simply let its torpor get low (not too low) and then spam a few hundred narcotics into it. It is highly recommended to learn how narcotic works before taming a Giga. For quick reference, 100 narcotics restore 4000 torpor, so base your math on that if needed. Due to the incredibly high amount of torpor Gigas have, though, you will usually be able to feed it enough or almost enough narcotics to last the entire tame in one shot. This allows for the player(s) to simply set a timer to come back when it's ready to feed or when it will need more narcotics since no land animal or dinosaur will attack a wild Giga. However, it can be hit by collateral damage from feuding non-apex creatures nearby, so be cautious of this.
Another strategy a player can utilize is using any type of flyer (preferably fast) with enough stamina to keep it in the air and flying for 1 and a half minutes. To tame the Giganotosaurus, the player should have at the very least 1 Metal 
Behemoth Gateway along with a Metal 
Behemoth Gate. Then, the player can have at least 3-4 Metal Dinosaur Gateways and place the 
Dinosaur Gateways down so that it looks like a semi-circle. The straight line would be the behemoth gate, and the curved areas would be the Dinosaur Gateways. After the gates have been placed, put some Large Bear Traps (use as many as you want!) in the semi-circle. Then kite the Giganotosaurus into the trap (makes sure the Behemoth Gate is open). Once the Giganotosaurus is halted by the Large Bear Traps, quickly close the gate and then tranq the Giganotosaurus to your heart's desire.
With the release of the 
Araneo new TLC, it is possible to knock out a Giganotosaurus using a well-bred Araneo. Build a box around a Quetzal equipped with a Platform Saddle, hang upside-down on the box and shoot the Giganotosaurus with torpor webs until it is unconscious. Multiple Araneo can be fitted on one Quetzal as well to knock out the Giganotosaurus quicker. Be sure to hover high up in the air, otherwise the Giganotosaurus may be able to attack you.
Breeding
egg → adultDrops & Harvest
On death
Abilities
what it does and how you trigger it 
- Bite Primary attack
The Giganotosaurus bites the target for 1000 damage. Wild Giganotosaurus applies Gnashed effect to the target, reducing 5% of its total Health over 10 seconds and reducing its Movement Speed by 90% during the duration of the effect.
5 stamina · 0.67s cooldown - Roar Secondary attack
The Giganotosaurus roars without any effect.
5 stamina
- Armor Ignorance
The Giganotosaurus attacks ignores natural armor of creatures like
Rock Elemental.
Passive
After the Giganotosaurus loses a lot of Health in a short time it will be on rage mode for some seconds, on this mode the Giga doubles its Melee Damage and starts attacking everything, including the allied players and tames.
Details
everything else the game files recordKnockout by level
every level, as a tableA level 150 Giganotosaurus has 99,400 torpor and takes 452 Tranquilizer Darts or 1110 Tranq Arrows to knock out — 302 darts with head shots.
Full Giganotosaurus knockout table → — every level from 1 to 450, across seven weapons.
Where it turns up
pages that mention this one2- Tek Cavecave guide · The Island
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