Top 10 TAMES You NEED for ARK: The Island (Community Voted)

TOP 10 Creatures you Need to Tame for The Island ARK Survival Evolved. The very best dinos for surviving the map!

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[feralcyborggaming]

People always forget the iguanadon. They're fast, have a bipedal stance they can jump in and can get the seeds from fruits. A farmer's best friend and all around work horse.

[barthelms]

Need a mount to pack around anky for metal/crystal runs? Get an argy. Need someone to pick up and drop soon to be tames of smallish size? Get an argy. Need to pack an insane amount of weight a long distance? (If a bit slow) get an argy. Need to kill alpha raptors and carnos? Get an argy. They are friggin wicked

[michaelweitzel]

I think the early game tames get overlooked. It's really hard to build momentum without something like a trike or raptor. The good foundation allows the rest to stand tall

[rl]

I love the island for being one of the only maps alongside the Center to be dominated by just prehistoric creatures. I really like the fantasy creatures on the dlc maps, but I like the primal feel the island has. What I also like is how diverse this list is, we got 3 mammals, 2 birds and a bunch of dinos. I hope species diversity is an even bigger thing in Ark 2. I hope everything on this list gets and overhaul or appearance update of some kind in the sequel, all such iconic extinct creatures that really deserve to play as big a role as they can in Ark 2.

[busterbeef]

For any of you wondering, Joshua Trees are the trees that look like they have hair or something (youll know them when you see them) that provide sap that, to my knowledge, only spawn of Scorched Earth at least when it comes to story maps.

[keremylmaz]

7:59
I actually tamed a therizinosaur with berries :)

Edit: I actually tamed three more of them with only berries and veggies. I even bred them and now I have around ten therizinosaurs that collect wood, thatch and berries for me :D

[gepard-]

The bit about the spino being "a great choice if you can find one" hitting hard considering I recently replayed and beat the Island and trying to farm it's apex drop drove me a bit insane with how rare it spawned. The skit about the mammoth's drums got me pretty good as well haha. Good list as always. I'm curious whether the carcharodontosaurus will shake up the island's meta once it releases and become a new top tier tame. Wouldn't mind another good boss runner, assuming it will even be able to go into the arena's

[Hiimdave]

ngl, sarcos are underrated, great early choice for silica pearl harvests, good movement speed, not to mention its damage, and its pretty cheap to tame, especially the saddle part

[accidentpronewes]

This was very true! The Argy is almost irreplaceable for it's utility. The Thyla is one of my favorite creatures for running caves and over all mobility. Can't wait for the next one, Raas!

[mochiboot]

"There's more fun to be had with the dodo than meets the eye."

Stunning and brave of you to say that! Been thinking this in private for years myself! Glad to see a major content creator feels the same.

[gamerghxst]

I’ve been saying that the Quetzal needs a fabricator jet saddle forever. That would’ve definitely put it in the top 10 if it had it.

[RazielSchnitzel]

I'd place the Baryonyx higher personally. I usually take 4 high level Barys and ride one, have the other 3 follow me. This is great for cross-map travel and spelunking. Especially since they're an all-terrian dino (for ark that means Land, Sea and Caves).

[Joisey]

I'm surprised the humble Trike didn't even get an Honorable Mention. Consider that:

1) The Trike is ubiquitous on every map and easy to find on the beach areas that Players start out on.
2) The Trike saddle is one of the earliest you can make....AND without a Smithy or Fabricator!
3) The Trike's ability to gather berries, including Narco and Mejo berries, makes it the Gateway Dino to taming all other Dinos.
4) Leveling up a Trike makes it a decent multi-purpose tame, able to haul lots of weight with the ability to defend itself.

[ramonalavigne]

Yay! Already have one of these! I found a low level Spino swimming around a river near my starting base. Was still a nightmare to take down though. My personal favorite so far is the Sarco though. I just think that they are so cool :)

[ssaribay]

The Otter should have been on this list. Both the bary and the thylo are cave divers. Meaning, you should only focus your energy on one of them to get the maximum benefit of the tame. Therefore, you'd have to throw one of them out of the top-10 and include the Otter. Although the Otter's ability to keep you warm and incubate eggs are valuable, holding more artifacts makes it the king for caves (especially for those who want to clear all 3 levels of the bosses).

[ashgcy]

Joshua trees are the trees with lots of overlapping dried leaves along their trunks on scorched earth. Kinda funny that lots of creatures gather sap from them well, but don’t live on that map!

[altairmiles]

00:26 Mammoth
01:53 Megatherium
03:27 Dodo
04:21 Spino SOTF
05:46 Baryonyx
06:52 T-Rex SOTF
07:48 Therizinosaur
09:26 Yutyrannus and Daeodon SOTF
10:40 Thylacoleo SOTF
12:00 Giganotosaurus SOTF
12:07 Pteranodon
12:15 Moschop
12:21 Argentavis

[NBTXC]

Surprised I didn’t see Direwolfs. Get a pack of 4-6 of them (all over lvl 175+) and you can beat just about anything on the island. They also don’t require a saddle to ride.

[MidnightDarkness]

Thylas are the go to for the Artifact of the Devourer cave. Rock up to Carno Island on a boat, park it just off shore, check the coast is clear, run inside the cave entrance, swim through the short underwater section, jump straight down to the bottom, grab artifact, fight your way back up to the top and congrats.

Maybe you should do a ranked list of the hardest caves on The Island?

[LeoTheYuty]

Man, I just wish the spino got a ghost skin during Fear Evolved. It's just so disappointing that the rex gets an alpha, a skeletal, a tek, and a ghost variant while the spino gets like Aberrant and that's it.