Taming Tips

Ark: Survival Evolved Taming Tips

To begin, first, you’ll have to knock out the creature followed by adding some berries into its inventory (red ones are the most effective) and keep an eye on its Unconscious Meter.

As soon as the Unconscious Meter begins to lower, add some Narcoberries after the one increases the Unconscious Meter by around 8%. During this time, continue to protect the creature and wait until the Unconscious Meter has filled up entirely before naming your creature.

Pro Tip: Always start with smaller creatures before tackling the larger ones.

Taming Dinosaurs and Creatures

You can find Berries by running around the bushes. As for Narcotics, you need to make them by using Pestle and Mortar as well as Engram for Narcotics. As for knocking out the creatures, you can either use your Fists or Slingshot to do that! You can also use Torpid Arrows and Hatchet, but these are for high level enemies. Following is a general overview on how to tame different creatures:

Herbivores: The choice of food for all Herbivores is Berries. In order to increase Taming Process’ effectiveness, you need to increase their hunger.
Carnivores: The choice of food for all Carnivores is Raw Meat. Once again, the effectiveness of Taming Process increases with their hunger. Also remember not to use Berries!

Argentavis – Vulture
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat to tame this creature.

Carbonemys – Turtle
How to Tame: You need to use Yellow Berries to tame this creature which usually takes around 1.5 hours.

Sarco – Crocodile
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat to tame this creature which usually takes around 2-3 hours.

Stegosaurus
How to Tame: You can tame Stegosaurus in around 2.0 hours. Their favorite food includes Red Berries and Blue Berries. It means you can greatly enhance the taming process using both earlier mentioned berries.

Dodo
How to Tame: You need to use Yellow Berries to tame this creature which usually takes about 5 minutes.

Mammoth
How to Tame: You need to use Purple Berries to tame this creature which usually takes about 2.5 – 3.0 hours.

Megalodon – Shark
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat to tame this creature.

Phiomia – Proto-Elephant
How to Tame: You need to use Purple Berries to tame this creature.

Piranha
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat to tame this creature.

Pteranodon
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat to tame this creature which usually takes about 1 hour.

Sabertooth
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat to tame this creature.

Pumonoscorpius – Scorpion
How to Tame: You need to use Spoiled Meat to tame this creature.

Spider
How to Tame: There is not much information available as of this instant!

Carnotaurus – Horned Rex
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat to tame this creature which usually takes about 1.5 – 2.0 hours.

Tyranosaurus
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat to tame this creature which usually takes about 2.0 – 4.0 hours.

Raptor
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat. 30-45 minutes.

Brontosaurus
How to Tame: You need to use Blue Berries to tame this creature which usually takes about 3.0 – 4.0 hours.

Ankylosaurus
How to Tame: You need to use Purple Berries to tame this creature which usually takes about 2.0 hours.

Dilophosaur
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat to tame this creature which usually takes about 5 – 10 minutes.

Parasaur – Elvis
How to Tame: You need to use Blue or Purple Berries to tame this creature which usually takes about 20 – 30 minutes.

Spinosaur
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat to tame this creature.

Triceratops
How to Tame: You need to use Red or Purple Berries to tame this creature which usually takes about 1.0 – 2.0 hours.

Titanoboa – Snake
How to Tame: You need to use Raw Meat to tame this creature.

Ark Survival Evolved Taming

The most important resource required to tame a dinosaur is the food it consumes and depending on the level of the dinosaur players are trying to tame, the amount of food required can be huge and gathering it ends up being a chore.

Because of this, it is always best to tame big dinosaurs in groups rather than just one player attempting it. Before venturing out, players should stock up their inventory with food the dinosaur prefers.

Herbivores will eat berries, Carnivores will prefer meat and fish. If players have the resources, they can also use prime meat or jerky for carnivores to speed up the taming time immensely.

Depending on the type of dinosaur they are interested in, they might need to travel to dangerous parts of the island. For this very reason, it is advisable for the first build up their arsenal and has a few commonly found dinosaurs like the Raptor by the player’s side.

When players finally come face to face with a dino they want to tame, the need to focus on hitting its head with a blunt weapon like a club to knock it unconscious. While this can be easy for small dinos, herbivores, and birds like Dodo, doing this to big dinosaurs is suicide.

In such a case, players can either use a sling to hit their head with rocks or use narcotic arrows to put them to sleep. Once the dinosaur is asleep, players can approach it and put the desired food in the inventory of the dinosaur and wait as it slowly consumes the food.

While the dinosaur is being tamed, it is extremely important that the players stay close to it to guard against other wildlife and to make sure that the food in inventory or the dinosaur’s unconscious state doesn’t run out. If the dino seems to be close to waking up, players can put Narcoberries or Narcotics in the inventory and force feed the dinosaur to keep it sedated and ensure the Torpor level stays high.

Hitting the dinosaur in the unconscious state will only end up reducing the taming efficiency and reduce the dinosaur’s level or it might even wake it up forcing players to repeat the process all over again.

Depending on the type of dino and its level, it can take up to 3-4 hours to tame so players have a long grind ahead of them if they are playing the game on official servers with no speed modifiers.

Once the Ark Survival Evolved dino is tamed, players can name it, put a saddle on it so they can use it as a mount and even park it in their base provided they have built a shelter for dinosaurs.