Raptor

Raptor

Dossier

These values may differ with what you see in-game or written elsewhere. But that is what the dossier says.

Common Name

Raptor

Group

Dinosaurs

Species

Utahraptor prime

Time Period

Early Creataceous

Diet

Carnivore

Temperament

Aggressive

Release Versions

June 2, 2015

729.0
December 16, 2015

501.0
December 6, 2016

Variants

• Skeletal Raptor
• Alpha Raptor

Spawn Command

admincheat summon Raptor_Character_BP_C
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Raptor/Raptor_Character_BP.Raptor_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Taming Method

Knockout

Preferred Kibble

Kibble (Parasaur Egg)

Preferred Food

Raw Mutton

Equipment

Raptor Saddle (Lv 18)

Unique Costumes

Raptor Bone Costume

Rider Weaponry

Yes

Humans Can Carry

No

Data

XP For Kill

6 XP

Drops

• Raw Meat
• Hide

Special Loot Chance

30%

Feces Size

Small

Drag Weight

85

Carryable By

• Argentavis
• Quetzal
• Megalosaurus
• Tusoteuthis
• Kaprosuchus
• Wyvern

Immobilized By

• Plant Species Y Trap
• Bola
• Bear Trap
• Large Bear Trap

Can Damage

Thatch

Reproduction

Egg

Raptor Egg

Incubation Range

20 - 28 °C / 68 - 82 °F

Incubation Time

1h 59m

Baby Time

3h 42m

Juvenile Time

14h 48m

Adolescent Time

18h 31m

Total Maturation Time

1d 13h 2m 11s

Breeding Interval

18h - 2d

Habitat

SI

EF

WP

NP

GH

EP

WP

M

F

SES

DC

GL

W

WC

HL

FP

CI

WM

WA

SJ

DI

NES

RP

RF

SP

colorblind?

 

 Very Common

 

 Common

 

 Uncommon

For a more exact spawn map, see Spawn Map (The Island)

This creature is missing habitat information.
You can help by finding its map locations in-game and updating them

PP

JN

SkI

SSM

HBI

EI

UW

TC

JM

SG

NSM

LI

JS

RW

NTI

SW

STI

colorblind?

 

 Very Common

 

 Common

 

 Uncommon

 

 Unknown

For a more exact spawn map, see Spawn Map (The Center)

This creature is missing habitat information.
You can help by finding its map locations in-game and updating them

CY

WS

M

C

O

LD

BL

HD

colorblind?

 

 Common

 

 Uncommon

 

 Unknown

This creature is missing habitat information.
You can help by finding its map locations in-game and updating them

CY

WS

M

C

O

LD

BL

HD

colorblind?

 

 Common

 

 Uncommon

 

 Unknown

For a more exact spawn map, see Spawn Map (Scorched Earth)

This article is about Raptor, not to be confused with Microraptor or Oviraptor

The Utahraptor (Yoo-tah-RAP-tor) or simply Raptor is one of the dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Basic Info

Dossier

This dossier section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena, the author of the dossiers has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creatures.

	“	Wild Utahraptor prime is an incredibly aggressive subspecies of Utahraptor found on the Island. It tends to travel in small hunting packs, attacking smaller prey with its sharp teeth and enlarged foreclaws. One of the faster creatures on the island, Utahraptor often uses their pack numbers to their advantage by swarming around their prey before it can react. The large curved talon on the second toe of this sub-species seems particularly suited for dealing significant damage. Utahraptor prime usually kill its prey with numerous slashing and biting attacks in rapid sequence. Domesticated Despite its normally aggressive nature, Utahraptors have become one of the primary combat mounts for roaming bands of raiders, as well as scouts for larger collectives. Those who ride Utahraptor claim they are difficult to tame, but then fiercely loyal. As a carnivore, once tamed they require a steady stream of meat to sustain.	„
		~ Helena

Behavior

Raptors will attack dinosaurs and players on sight. They attack with a "run-and-bite" strategy, making it difficult to defend against an onslaught. A dangerous predator to encounter in the dark, Raptors are nearly impossible to fend off when attacking in packs and aided by darkness. The Raptors often attack from different directions, using this method to take down prey while avoiding damage. Due to their high speed, they are hard to flee from during a player's early levels, and it is advised to make for deep water if attempting to flee an attack or run behind a door and immediately shut it. Also very scary at night.

Appearance

The raptor is a relatively small dinosaur with feathers on the head, back, tail, and on the backs of the arms. They come in a variety of colors, although green and reddish brown seem to be the most common it is rare in the color black.

Color Scheme and Regions

This section displays the Raptor's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Raptor. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Raptor will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.

Server admins can use this region information in the Console Command "cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID>".
For example, "cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6" would color the Raptor's "body accent" magenta.

Region 0: Body Accent	Region 1: Feather Tips	Region 2 is not used for this Creature.
Region 3: Body	Region 4: Feathers	Region 5: Belly

Region 0: Body AccentRegion 1: Feather TipsRegion 3: BodyRegion 4: FeathersRegion 5: Belly

Drops

• Raw Meat
• Hide

Base Stats and Growth

Note that creatures will have different stats in Survival of the Fittest

Basic Stats

Attribute	Amount at Level 1	Increase per point		Taming Bonus
		Wild	Domesticated1	Add	Mult
Health	200	+40	+5.4%	0.07
Stamina	150	+15	+10%
Oxygen	150	+15	+10%
Food	1200	+120	+10%
Weight	140	+2.8	+4%
Melee Damage	152	+0.75	+1.7%	7%	17.6%
Movement Speed	100%	N/A3	+3%	20%
Torpor	180	+10.8	N/A4	0.5

¹Percentages are based on the value of the stat the moment the creature was tamed (after taming effectiveness)
²The absolute Base Damage is shown here instead of the percentage.
³Wild creatures do not level up movement speed
⁴Torpor increases every level on wild creatures, but can not be increased once they are tamed.

• For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, see Base Creature Statistics.
• For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, see Creature Stats Calculation.

Movement Speed

Movement Type	Base Speed	Sprinting		Stamina Used
		Wild	Domesticated
Walking	480	993.599976	1104	6
Swimming	300	N/A	N/A	N/A

• These are the base speeds of the creature at 100% Movement Speed
• For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds

Attack Values

Melee		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
			Base	Minimum	Activation	Using the (PC), (PS4), (Xbox One), the Raptor bites and claws at the target.
		0	300	0	0
Attack Type		Damage	Projectile Values			Torpor Values		Status Effect: Stamina			Status Effect: Torpidity
			Life	Impulse	Radius	Base	Mult	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount
	Melee	15

Wild Stats Level-up

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.

Raptor

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.

Taming

Level 1					Time
Kibble (Parasaur Egg)	2	0	0	0	0:02:40
Raw Mutton	4	0	0	0	0:03:21
Cooked Lamb Chop	7	0	0	0	0:05:50
Raw Prime Meat	5	0	0	0	0:04:11
Cooked Prime Meat	9	0	0	0	0:07:30
Raw Prime Fish Meat	11	0	0	0	0:04:36
Raw Meat	13	2	1	1	0:10:51
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	21	0	0	0	0:09:00
Cooked Meat	26	2	1	1	0:10:51
Raw Fish Meat	32	8	2	1	0:13:21
Cooked Fish Meat	63	7	2	1	0:13:08
KO: × 18; × 8; × 2; × 2; × 1; × 1
Torpor-depletion: 0.3 / s, Time until all torpor is depleted: 00:10:00

Level 30					Time
Kibble (Parasaur Egg)	4	0	0	0	0:05:20
Raw Mutton	8	0	0	0	0:06:41
Cooked Lamb Chop	15	0	0	0	0:12:30
Raw Prime Meat	10	0	0	0	0:08:21
Cooked Prime Meat	20	1	1	1	0:16:39
Raw Prime Fish Meat	25	0	0	0	0:10:26
Raw Meat	30	29	6	3	0:25:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	50	17	4	2	0:21:25
Cooked Meat	60	29	6	3	0:25:01
Raw Fish Meat	75	50	11	6	0:31:16
Cooked Fish Meat	150	50	11	6	0:31:16
KO: × 50; × 21; × 6; × 4; × 3; × 2
Torpor-depletion: 0.5 / s, Time until all torpor is depleted: 00:16:29

Level 60					Time
Kibble (Parasaur Egg)	6	0	0	0	0:08:00
Raw Mutton	13	0	0	0	0:10:51
Cooked Lamb Chop	24	0	0	0	0:19:59
Raw Prime Meat	16	0	0	0	0:13:21
Cooked Prime Meat	32	24	5	3	0:26:39
Raw Prime Fish Meat	40	0	0	0	0:16:41
Raw Meat	48	79	17	9	0:40:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	80	55	12	6	0:34:15
Cooked Meat	96	79	17	9	0:40:01
Raw Fish Meat	120	121	26	13	0:50:01
Cooked Fish Meat	240	121	26	13	0:50:01
KO: × 82; × 34; × 10; × 6; × 4; × 2
Torpor-depletion: 0.66 / s, Time until all torpor is depleted: 00:20:56

Level 90					Time
Kibble (Parasaur Egg)	9	0	0	0	0:12:00
Raw Mutton	18	0	0	0	0:15:01
Cooked Lamb Chop	33	16	4	2	0:27:29
Raw Prime Meat	22	0	0	0	0:18:21
Cooked Prime Meat	44	60	13	7	0:36:38
Raw Prime Fish Meat	55	0	0	0	0:22:56
Raw Meat	66	148	32	16	0:55:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	110	110	24	12	0:47:06
Cooked Meat	132	148	32	16	0:55:01
Raw Fish Meat	165	214	46	23	1:08:46
Cooked Fish Meat	330	214	46	23	1:08:46
KO: × 115; × 47; × 13; × 8; × 6; × 3
Torpor-depletion: 0.79 / s, Time until all torpor is depleted: 00:24:10

Level 120					Time
Kibble (Parasaur Egg)	11	0	0	0	0:14:40
Raw Mutton	23	0	0	0	0:19:11
Cooked Lamb Chop	42	45	10	5	0:34:58
Raw Prime Meat	28	0	0	0	0:23:21
Cooked Prime Meat	56	107	24	12	0:46:37
Raw Prime Fish Meat	70	14	3	2	0:29:11
Raw Meat	84	232	51	26	1:10:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	140	178	39	20	0:59:57
Cooked Meat	168	232	51	26	1:10:01
Raw Fish Meat	210	326	71	36	1:27:31
Cooked Fish Meat	420	326	71	36	1:27:31
KO: × 147; × 60; × 17; × 10; × 7; × 4
Torpor-depletion: 0.92 / s, Time until all torpor is depleted: 00:26:42

Level 150					Time
Kibble (Parasaur Egg)	13	0	0	0	0:17:20
Raw Mutton	28	0	0	0	0:23:21
Cooked Lamb Chop	51	81	18	9	0:42:28
Raw Prime Meat	34	0	0	0	0:28:21
Cooked Prime Meat	68	163	36	18	0:56:37
Raw Prime Fish Meat	85	39	9	5	0:35:26
Raw Meat	102	330	73	37	1:25:01
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	170	258	57	29	1:12:47
Cooked Meat	204	330	73	37	1:25:01
Raw Fish Meat	255	454	100	50	1:46:16
Cooked Fish Meat	510	454	100	50	1:46:16
KO: × 179; × 74; × 20; × 12; × 9; × 5
Torpor-depletion: 1.04 / s, Time until all torpor is depleted: 00:28:48

Note that the values are for optimal cases, always bring extra supplies!
For a level-dependent count of resources needed, try an external taming calculator.

Ingredients for Kibble (Parasaur Egg): 1 ×  Parasaur Egg , 1 ×  Longrass , 1 ×  Cooked Meat , 2 ×  Mejoberry , 3 ×  Fiber , 1 ×  Water

KO Strategy

Start with a thrown Bola to keep it from pursuing you. Once it's immobile, use Tranquilizer Arrows (headshots result in quicker knockouts). Do this carefully; it should not take very many. Once it is unconscious, use Narcotic. Narcotics and Prime Meat will tame it more efficiently. Narcoberries and Raw Meat also work. Keep a sharp lookout for other raptors as they often come in groups, and for other predators, as they are frequently found in high-traffic areas; unless you have a large herd of supporting dinos or a number of tribemates to help out, you may have to take the time to find an isolated Raptor, which can take a long time, or kill off the extra creatures.

Combat

They run fast and attack faster, so be prepared for a quick reaction, usually a player with good speed and stamina can outrun them, but be aware, they can be persistent. Always check the raptor's surroundings and be prepared, they have a good visual range.

General

Raptors can often be found in packs of two or more, depending on the zone you will find them close to the shores, or deep in the jungle.

Strategy

The best strategy is to keep distance or heavily engage with them, depending on your stats, armor and weaponry. At first you may want to avoid them. One trick is to run to a herd of trikes, Stegos etc. and get the raptors to hit and aggro them by accident, making a diversion or a means to gather lots of meat and hide. If a Raptor is a low level, a Spear can easily kill it, but beware, if they are in a pack of two or more, this strategy will not work! A way to kill high level ones, or two or more Raptors is to have a good climber, like a Thylacoleo, or a flyer. Then climb onto a big rock, as they are good jumpers, from there, shoot it with a Sling, Bow, Crossbow etc. It should die fairly quickly.

Also, make sure the Raptor is not glowing red. If it is, that's an Alpha Raptor!

Weaponry

One well placed headshot with a Crossbow can take a Raptor with a lvl between 1~20. Since they are fast, try to make them run in a straight line and be ready for shooting.

Dangers

Raptors can be dangerous if they reach you from behind, eventually you will learn to recognize their steps on the ground and start running before this happens. Try to take them out when they are engaged with some big animal if you want to easily kill them, just don't hit the bigger animal!

Weakness

Raptors have a very low Torpor tolerance, you can try to knock them out with a few punches if you have a high melee damage stat. Wild raptors also make for awkward swimmers, and even a relatively ill-equipped survivor with a basic spear can lure them into the shoreline as a tide-turning last resort.

Utility

They can be useful and lightweight for traveling, as far as their Stamina lasts, you may want to increase their Stamina if you want them for transport, or their health and attack damage if you want them to assist you on combat. They gather about the same or slightly more material per carcass than a Stone Pick, but finish gathering faster.

Roles

• Damage: A quick attacker with decent damage that can easily circle slower enemies, the raptor makes for a good attack animal (Health and Melee Damage).
• Hunter: Similar to Damage, the raptor is a good meat and hide provider once you have a saddle, though metal and stone weapons are more efficient (Health and Melee Damage).
• Hunting/Battle Pack: Although they do individually less damage than direwolves, they tame faster and thus can be more easily assembled in larger numbers; pick the best to ride, or saddle up a bigger beast to be the core of your little army (Level Damage and Health to all Raptors, with Stamina, Carry Weight, Melee Damage and Health added to the one ridden).
• Travel: Raptors are very fast, and make for good mounts for quick travel around the island. They cannot carry much, however, so they make for poor pack animals (Level Speed, Stamina, and Carry Weight).
• Light Cavalry Mount: With the advent of the ability to use melee weapons like Pikes and firearms like the Assault Rifle from the back of medium to small sized mounts, the Raptor can be very useful as a flanking cavalry mount by sprinting in and having the rider fire at close range or by allowing a sniper to rapidly circle around the enemy, fire, and then reposition or escape (Level Health, Stamina, and Speed, with Carry Weight as needed).
• Companion or Pet: Even though most of high level players prefer Sabertooths and Wolves as fast mounts (because of their strength), many of them still keep Raptors as pets (Level Health and Weight).
• Cave Mount: Sabertooths can be seen as an upgrade of the Raptor in terms of strength. But it turns out that Sabertooths have big trouble to attack airborne creatures because of their extremely low hit box and the fact that their jumps lack vertical reach. They can hardly handle a swarm of Onycs. Raptors have no problems hitting Onycs and are therefore the better choice. But you must keep an eye on your own health since airborne creatures deal damage to the rider, unless you ride a Megaloceros. Having a mount in caves has several advantages: Your food and water count drop slower, the mount can carry useful stuff, and they deal and take damage (Level Health, Damage, and Stamina).
• Early Prime Meat Hunter: As one of the first prime meat gatherer available for a player raptor can hunt alone or in a very effective team with Ichtyornis. In the second case you just need to command heron to Hunt and Retrieve small creatures like Dodo and Lystro and Raptor will do the butchering.

Collectibles

Resource	Efficiency
Raw Prime Meat	★★★★☆
Raw Meat	★★★★☆
Pelt	★★★☆☆
Chitin	★★★☆☆
Keratin	★★★☆☆
Hide	★★★☆☆

Breeding

Like all other dinosaurs, breeding raptors requires a tamed male and a tamed female (they don't need to belong to the same person or even the same tribe), confined to a small enough area that they stay very close to each other for long enough to mate. Both dinosaurs must have wandering enabled. The raptors will not mate if either of them is set to follow a player or another creature, or is being ridden.

Mating pen

The two raptors must stay very close to each other in order to mate. The only room size that guarantees this closeness is 1 wall x 1 wall - even 1x2 is too large! (Of course, you could use a larger pen if you wanted to have an element of chance or luck involved.) Tamed raptors will not damage structures during a mating attempt so a mating pen can be built quickly and cheaply out of thatch walls and wooden fence foundations. Since raptors can walk through a doorway, a reusable mating pen can be constructed by using at least one thatch doorframe/thatch door to form one side of the mating pen. (Note that a thatch door can open inwards or outwards, and raptors can only be ridden through the doorway with the door facing one direction - if the raptor doesn't fit, close the door and open it the other way.)

Mating attempt

After penning both raptors together, enable wandering on both of them. If an attempt is underway, the information panel for the female will say 'Mating with [male's name and level]' and a progress bar will appear below her. A mating between a level 52 male and level 15 female took approximately 3 minutes. As soon as the mating bar fills, the female will lay a fertilized egg. She cannot mate again for 1.5 hours; the male can mate as often as needed.

Incubating the egg

The fertilized egg will only make incubation progress when on the ground (not when in any inventory) and when maintained at the correct temperature. If the egg is on the ground and it is too hot or too cold, it will lose health over time. The egg will NOT lose health in the player's inventory so you can save an egg from bad weather by picking it up and holding it until the temperature is more agreeable. The incubation temperature range for a raptor egg is 20-27 degrees Celsius (68-82 degrees Fahrenheit). The egg is too cold at 19 degrees or below, and too hot at 28 degrees and above.

Notes/Trivia

For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Raptor, see the relevant Wikipedia article

• Like many other Dromaeosauridae it is believed that Utahraptor did not use its sickle claw as a slashing weapon, but rather for stabbing. This is due to the very thick profile of the claw. Dromaeosaurs such as Utahraptor, Velociraptor, and Deinonychus likely used their claws to puncture arteries and even organs to cause internal bleeding, killing the prey quickly due to blood loss. They may also have used their sickle claw to hold onto their prey while using primarily their hands and teeth to deal injuries.
• The species of Utahraptor ostrommaysorum was first studied and named after the release of the movie Jurassic Park, in which a similar dinosaur was erroneously called Velociraptor. The actual Velociraptor mongoliensis was about the size of a large turkey, and have only been found in Mongolia. The dinosaur from Jurassic Park was being excavated in the Badlands of Montana, while Utahraptor ostrommaysorum was discovered in the Dalton Wells Quarry of east-central Utah.
• Despite the Raptors in ARK being identified as a species within the genus Utahraptor, the skull seen in its dossier is of Velociraptor rather a member of the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae, which Utahraptor belongs to. The Raptor's in-game model, however, resembles Deinonychus.
• Argentavis can pick up and carry Raptors, and can be grabbed by Kaprosuchus.
• Raptors often kill themselves by attacking stronger herbivores. Some herbivores can even take out whole packs.
• The name of the Utahraptor means originally approximately "Utah plunderer".
• Raptors can be seen as the mascots of ARK. They appear in much of the promotional artwork and in one of the in-game holiday events.
• The Raptors in-game are depicted with only a few feathers, while their real-world counterparts would have had a full coat over their body.
• The Player can use weapons while mounted on this creature.
• The Name "Utahraptor prime" translates into "best Utah plunderer".

Gallery

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  Size Comparison

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  Tamed Raptor

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  A pack of Raptors

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  Baby Raptor

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  Raptor model

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  Raptor with color mutation