The Gigantoraptor is the 5th Creature Vote Winner[1]. While submitted to the vote for ARK: Survival Ascended's release of the Ragnarok DLC, it was later brought forward with intentions to release alongside The Center instead. It was initially created as a standalone mod before being integrated into the main game in 2024 and is accessible on The Island, found within the jungles.
Unless you're planning to raid its nest, you shouldn't let this creatures imposing size worry you. Gigantoraptor may be fiercely protective of its brood, but it's much more a caregiver than a fighter. Don't get me wrong -- this theropod will use its sharp claws and surprising speed to defend its young when threatened. But Gigantoraptor has a soft heart for young ones -- it'll even take the orphaned babies of rival species.
Domesticated
Now for the bad news: to my knowledge, no one's been able to figure out how to tame an adult Gigantoraptor -- its unique disposition seems resistant to behavioral conditioning. However, survivors bolder than me were able to sneak into nests to win the trust of their young, and they claim that reward is well worth the risk. Once matured to adulthood, your tamed Gigantoraptor will happily look after any of your tribe's young creatures, nurturing them and teaching how to fight. It can even use its call to help you find orphaned baby animals out in the wild. If you bring those orphans home, then your Gigantoraptor will happily add them to its brood.
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Appearance
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Variants
Aberrant Gigantoraptor
The Aberrant Gigantoraptor is the Aberrant variant of Gigantoraptor found in Aberration. It is identical to the normal Gigantoraptor except for its glowing robe. It is tamable via usual Gigantoraptor taming methods and is Radiation immune.
Type in values of a wild creature to see on which stats it's emphasized. Green values on a high-level creature are very good for breeding. If you have already tamed your creature you can try to recover the breeding stats with an external tool.[2]
Gigantoraptor
The stat-calculator does not work in the mobile-view, see here for alternatives: Apps
Note that after the creature is tamed it gets bonuses on some stats depending on the taming effectiveness. This makes it hard to retrieve the levels on a tamed creature, so this tool is only for wild ones, but gives a first impression, how well the stats are distributed.
The Gigantoraptor acts as an adoptive parent to your dino babies. Placing babies in the saddle, the Gigantoraptor will act as a Feeding Trough, using food in its inventory. (Note: however, that the player must be actively sitting in the saddle for this to occur). While in the saddle, you can care for your baby by feeding it food from your last item slot and cuddle with it using the reload menu R or take it for a walk by just walking around on your Gigantoraptor. Once per imprint cycle, you can use the Gigantoraptor's roar C to change the imprint requirement of any nearby babies needing care, so it's recommended to take care of all needs possible first before roaring.
Babies can be carried regardless of their maturation progress, so long as they're not adult. However, the Gigantoraptor cannot carry Giganotosaurus or Carcharodontosaurus of any maturation progression. There may be other large creatures it can't carry but this requires further testing.
Egg Incubation
The Gigantoraptor can also incubate eggs regardless of insulation requirements, which is very useful for incubating extreme eggs such as Wyvern and Rock Drake eggs. Place the egg in its inventory, select it, then there will be an option to attach the egg to the left/right saddle slot at the bottom center of the menu. There will be an icon to the left/right of your hotbar indicating the incubation progression. Once it turns green, select the egg in the inventory and there will be an option to hatch it at the bottom center of the menu. It will immediately imprint to you to name it.
Note that if the Gigantoraptor is a lower level than the hatched creature, it will fall out of the saddle and possibly go under the mesh, so make sure you are on a structure such as a roof of a house to negate any potential of actually losing the creature, or ensure the Gigantoraptor is a sufficient level to carry the creature.
Baby Call
Any wild baby claimed by the Gigantoraptor during this window gains bonus Bonus-Wild-levels (normally gained during taming, which babies can’t get) proportional to the Gigantoraptor’s Tamed-levels multiplied by its taming effectiveness
for example:
Lvl 150 baby claimed by a Giganto with 0 level up points or 0% taming effectiveness would result in the baby getting 0 bonus levels.
Lvl 150 baby claimed by a Giganto with 44 level up points and 50% taming effectiveness would result in the baby getting 18 bonus levels.
Lvl 150 baby claimed by a Giganto with 44 level up points and 100% taming effectiveness would result in the baby getting 37 bonus levels.
Lvl 150 baby claimed by a Giganto with all 88 level up points and 50% taming effectiveness would result in the baby getting 37 bonus levels.
Lvl 150 baby claimed by a Giganto with all 88 level up points and 100% taming effectiveness would result in the baby getting the full 75 bonus levels.
Taming effectiveness is derived from the taming mini-game with Gigantoraptor chicks, and claimed Gigantoraptors hatched from eggs are considered at 100% taming effectiveness.
The Gigantoraptor can only claim babies less than or equal to its own level.
Distribution of the Bonus-Wild-levels skew towards the Gigantoraptor’s highest stat (wild and mutated) when applied to the baby
Extra weight scales from a 0% difference to a 6.25% percent difference, by having 60 wild points (if difficulty 5), and 254 mutations in the specific stat.
Once all stats are calculated, a simple weight-distribution is used to determine where the Bonus Wild levels go.
Bonding
As the adoptive parent, the Gigantoraptor loves to show babies how to hunt. When riding a Gigantoraptor that you've imprinted with babies in the saddle, the babies will want to go hunting. During a hunt, the baby will mark a random enemy of some minimum level (based on the level of the baby, which is 60 levels under the baby's level, but caps at maximum of level 90) with a red skull and crossed swords. Killing that enemy within the 5-minute time limit will increase the bonding of the baby with the adoptive Gigantoraptor. The killing blow must be landed by the adoptive Gigantoraptor while mounted; any other death of the target will act like a loss of target (not triggering a 30 second rest). Removing the baby from the saddle will reset the bonding progress. After a set number of hunts (different for each type of dino), the baby will be fully bonded to its adoptive parent and will receive a buff while near the adoptive parent. A hunt target can be reset by moving out of range of the chosen target. Hunt targets include most land creatures from Compys and Dodos to Alpha Rexs, but not ants or bugs due to their low render distance. Oddly enough, Trilobites are considered potential targets.
Bonded adopted dinos are indicated by a pulsing icon showing a Gigantoraptor head with a green chain link. During a fight, the Gigantoraptor and its adopted children will receive a stacking buff (up to 25) on each kill made by an adopted dino. At 1 to 14 stacks, the buff is called Alloparental Pride or Adopted Love and is indicated on the Gigantoraptor by a golden cloud around its neck. At 15 to 25 stacks, the buff changes to Alloparental Fury or Adopted Rage and is indicated by a reddish-orange cloud around the Gigantoraptor parent's neck. Each stack will fall off individually while out of combat at a rate of about 1 per 30 seconds.
Alloparental Pride
Whenever certain events happen to a Bonded Creature within Alloparental range, Gigantoraptor gains stacks of the Alloparental Pride buff.
Max stacks: 25
Events that give stacks of Alloparental Pride:
Baby becomes Bonded: 5 stacks.
Bonded Creature matures: 5 stacks.
Bonded Creature levels up: 2 stack.
Bonded Creature kills something: 1 stacks.
Bonded Creature dies: 15 stacks.
For each stack of Alloparental Pride, Gigantoraptor deals 2% bonus damage (max 50%) and provides a 1% bonus experience per stack (max 25%).
Upon reaching 15 stacks, buff name changes to Alloparental Fury, and Gigantoraptor also gains 10% movespeed.
Stacks of Alloparental Pride last for 1 minute, and refresh upon gaining new stacks.
Adopted Love
Whenever Gigantoraptor has the effect of Alloparental Pride, all Bonded Creatures within Alloparental range gain the Adopted Love buff, reducing incoming damage by 10%.
Whenever Gigantoraptor has the effect of Alloparental Fury, all Bonded Creatures within Alloparental range gain the Adopted Rage buff, increasing their damage by 5%, in addition to the Adopted Love's 10% damage resistance.
Feathers for Breeding: Once per 24-hour cooldown (Or every 4 hours on Host-Local/Singleplayer), you can pluck a Gigantoraptor Feather from the Gigantoraptor that improves the chance of babies being born with the higher parental stat; the feather will tell you which stat and what percent chance. To use the feather, place the feather in the inventory of the female dino you are breeding. The feather will be consumed after the female lays a fertilized egg or begins gestating.
Nanny: The Gigantoraptor serves as an excellent nanny-dinosaur for young creatures wild and tamed alike, making it a valuable creature for those who wish to imprint or otherwise simply raise their babies. The Gigantoraptor's saddle can hold up to two babies less than its own level, acting as a feeding trough for all baby stages similarly to the Maewing, and allows for both imprinting and bonding. It is important to note, however, that players must be riding the Gigantoraptor for it to feed the babies under its care.
Mobile Hatchery: The Gigantoraptor can likewise hold and hatch an egg on each side of the Gigantoraptor Saddle. This will allow you to bypass the need for regulating the temperature of the eggs, such that you can hatch Wyvern and Rock Drake eggs without needing Air Conditioners or high-melee stat Dimetrodons.
Wild Baby Tamer: Making the Gigantoraptor roar will allow you to spot wild baby creatures more easily; this gives the Gigantoraptor a temporary buff called Baby Call, which marks any wild babies with large pulsing pacifier icons over their heads. This buff lasts for 1 minute and detects babies within statis range. While under the effects of this buff, the Gigantoraptor can imprint on orphaned wild babies, granting additional levels to the newly tamed dino.
Ground Transport: The Gigantoraptor is extremely fast when sprinting, both in and out of water. It also has the ability to glide long distances like a Terror Bird by holding down the jump button (Space, , , ). (Level up Stamina, Weight and Speed)
Food Gatherer: The Gigantoraptor can gather Keratin, Organic Polymer and any kind of Meat with its primary attack (Lmb, , , ), and Berries, Wood, and Thatch with its secondary attack (Rmb, , , ). This makes it useful for gathering food in a pinch if you don't have other strong food-gathering tames on hand. (Level up Weight and Damage)
Hunting Leader: The Gigantoraptor is a fierce fighter in and of itself, but when out and about with an army of adopted dinos, it becomes even stronger, and boosts the strength of its progeny. This is because of the Alloparental Pride buff, a stackable buff that cumulatively increases the damage output of the Gigantoraptor and attenuates incoming damage dealt to dinos upon which the Gigantoraptor had imprinted, which each aggregated stack, ultimately evolving into Alloparental Fury at 15 stacks and above, which boosts the adoptive parent's movement speed and increases the damage output of imprinted dino. These stacks are obtained, amongst other means, through combat, and for each kill made by an imprinted dino. This means that, to maximize the effectiveness of this bonding buff, Gigantoraptors are best used to lead in boss battles with lots of summons, such as the Broodmother Lysrix, or in wave battles, such as the case with orbital supply drops. (Level up Health and Damage)
Orbital Supply Drop Defender: A particularly potent example of this creatures effectiveness is showcased during the defense of Extinction'sOrbital Supply Drops, where hordes of corrupted dinosaurs attack a supply pod in waves. Maximizing Alloparental Fury stacks will be trivially easy with the right setup, due to the quantity of enemy dinos. A pair of opposite-gender Carcharodontosaurus, benefitting from the 33% damage output/resistance buff of Mate Boost, the maximum Bloodrage buff of +175% increased damage, 15% damage increase from the Rally Call of a male File:Deinotherium.pngDeinotherium, the 15% damage resistance given by the Rally Calls of three female Deinotheriums, a YutyrannusCourage roar increasing damage output by 25% and reducing oncoming damage by 20%, and Intimidation from a Mammoth reducing hostile damage output by 25%, all combined with Alloparental Fury/Adopted Love and the associated buffs delineated above, would make a force to be reckoned with.
Taming
To obtain a Gigantoraptor, you must find a Gigantoraptor nest out in the wild with both an adult and a baby Gigantoraptor alive. Adults cannot be tamed, only their babies, but the adult must be alive and distracted to tame the baby.
To distract the adult, you will need to lure it away by throwing down fertilized eggs. Use Ghillie Armor to reduce the chance of being detected. The adult will attempt to hatch the egg by cracking it open; larger eggs will keep it distracted for longer than smaller eggs. Should the egg actually hatch, though, the adult will aggro on the babies and kill them. Once the adult has destroyed the egg, it will return to the nest, regardless of any other eggs laying around. Leave the nest at that point, run a distance away, and throw down another egg. Return to the nest once the adult is occupied trying to hatch the new egg.
The parent must be awake and able to return to the nest[3]; babies will not feel comfortable approaching you in the nest otherwise, which means traps are not a viable way to occupy a parent.
To tame the baby after the adult is distracted, walk up to the nest and use the option to Hide in Gigantoraptor NestE. While hiding in the nest, the baby will randomly run up to you, do a jump-flap animation, then perform some random action which you must mimic within roughly 2 seconds: Spin A, Bow S, or Flap D. Performing the same action within the given timeframe (denoted by a circular timer above the baby's head) will advance the taming percent. Failure to perform the same action in time will cause a small loss of taming effectiveness. Performing the wrong action will drop taming effectiveness dramatically. Getting aggro from the adult will reset the taming effort.
Note that you can leave the nest while the taming is in progress without losing any effectiveness or progress, but if you leave render distance of the nest, this can reset any progress that was made. As such, make sure you have all the necessary fertilized eggs in range, likely in the inventory of a tamed creature set some distance from the nest. Beware of aggressive creatures nearby, as they will attack you, the adult, or the baby, even if you're hiding in the next. It is presumed that taming progress will be lost if the baby is hit in any way during taming. Try to clear out any threats in the area before initiating the taming procedure.
Finally, it is important to know that killing the parents or otherwise allowing them to die will prevent you from imprinting on their babies! However, you can use a tamed Gigantoraptor to imprint on orphaned wild baby Gigantoraptors.
There have been reports of some instances where the baby Gigantoraptor will not interact with the player in any way, even if it should be "comfortable" to do so. Usually in these cases, it's best to abandon the taming attempt and find a different one since there isn't a known/reported method to fix this issue.
Gigantoraptor was originally supposed to be exclusive to Ragnarok, but was then announced to be released on the Center due to the Shastasaurus being delayed. Then it was announced to be released for the Island due to the Center map also being delayed. It would then become a temporary mod before being added to the main game.
It has now since been integrated into the main game and can be removed from the mod list.
Removed Titanomyrmas as potential hunt targets during Gigantoraptor bonding training as they have lower render distance and could cause a hunt to activate with no indicator visible.
Fixed Wild Gigantoraptor babies getting stuck in their nests.
Updated wild Gigantoraptor baby claiming text to more accurately indicate they cannot be claimed by survivors when their parent has been killed.
Updated bonded dino and egg HUD elements to fix overlapping hotbar when using higher than default values.
Added ability to pickup babies in front of you with AltFire (Left Ctrl single press, hold and release RB on gamepad after 0.33 secs).
Updated bonding training to clear/ lose training target if you get too far away.
Fixed issue with Gigantoraptor nests not getting cleared out.
Added check for ini option OverrideBondedPassImprintMultiplier in ServerSettings section to override percentage of imprint that is passed onto bonded babies.
Fix issues with Gigantoraptor not spawning with other mods that already override the Therizinosaur.
Giganotosaurus or 
Gigantopithecus
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ARK: Survival Ascended's release of the Ragnarok DLC, it was later brought forward with intentions to release alongside The Center instead. It was initially created as a standalone mod before being integrated into the main game in 2024 and is accessible on The Island, found within the jungles.
Radiation immune.
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Feeding Trough, using food in its inventory. (Note: however, that the player must be actively sitting in the saddle for this to occur). While in the saddle, you can care for your baby by feeding it food from your last item slot and cuddle with it using the reload menu R or take it for a walk by just walking around on your Gigantoraptor. Once per imprint cycle, you can use the Gigantoraptor's roar C to change the imprint requirement of any nearby babies needing care, so it's recommended to take care of all needs possible first before roaring.
Baby Call
Bonding
Alloparental Pride
Adopted Love
Gigantoraptor Feather from the Gigantoraptor that improves the chance of babies being born with the higher parental stat; the feather will tell you which stat and what percent chance. To use the feather, place the feather in the inventory of the female dino you are breeding. The feather will be consumed after the female lays a fertilized egg or begins gestating.
Maewing, and allows for both imprinting and bonding. It is important to note, however, that players must be riding the Gigantoraptor for it to feed the babies under its care.
Gigantoraptor Saddle. This will allow you to bypass the need for regulating the temperature of the eggs, such that you can hatch 
Wyvern and 
Rock Drake eggs without needing 
Air Conditioners or high-melee stat 
Dimetrodons.
Terror Bird by holding down the jump button (Space, 
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). (Level up Stamina, Weight and Speed)
Keratin, 
Organic Polymer and any kind of 
Meat with its primary attack (Lmb, 
), and 
Berries, 
Wood, and 
Thatch with its secondary attack (Rmb, 
Alloparental Pride buff, a stackable buff that cumulatively increases the damage output of the Gigantoraptor and attenuates incoming damage dealt to dinos upon which the Gigantoraptor had imprinted, which each aggregated stack, ultimately evolving into Alloparental Fury at 15 stacks and above, which boosts the adoptive parent's movement speed and increases the damage output of imprinted dino. These stacks are obtained, amongst other means, through combat, and for each kill made by an imprinted dino. This means that, to maximize the effectiveness of this bonding buff, Gigantoraptors are best used to lead in boss battles with lots of summons, such as the 
Broodmother Lysrix, or in wave battles, such as the case with orbital supply drops. (Level up Health and Damage)
Carcharodontosaurus, benefitting from the 33% damage output/resistance buff of 
Mate Boost, the maximum 
Bloodrage buff of +175% increased damage, 15% damage increase from the Rally Call of a male File:Deinotherium.png Deinotherium, the 15% damage resistance given by the Rally Calls of three female Deinotheriums, a 
Yutyrannus 
Courage roar increasing damage output by 25% and reducing oncoming damage by 20%, and 
Intimidation from a 
Mammoth reducing hostile damage output by 25%, all combined with Alloparental Fury/Adopted Love and the associated buffs delineated above, would make a force to be reckoned with.
Spin A, 
Bow S, or 
Flap D. Performing the same action within the given timeframe (denoted by a circular timer above the baby's head) will advance the taming percent. Failure to perform the same action in time will cause a small loss of taming effectiveness. Performing the wrong action will drop taming effectiveness dramatically. Getting aggro from the adult will reset the taming effort.
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