Taming

This article is about the process of taming a creature. For the uses of a tamed creature, see Domestication.

How to Tame a Dinosaur

Creatures on the island can be tamed and used for various purposes. Uses for tamed animals include riding, item transportation, storage, hunting, harvesting, resource production, and defending property while you are offline. Items placed in a tamed creature's inventory usually take much longer to spoil than they would otherwise.

Taming Basics

Tranquilizer Taming

1. First, render the creature unconscious. This can be achieved through the following methods:
   • Punching the creature with your bare hands. This is the most basic, albeit least effective, way to knock out dinos.
   • Using a  Slingshot,  Wooden Club,  Electric Prod,  Bow/ Crossbow/ Compound Bow with  Tranquilizer Arrow,  Harpoon Launcher with  Tranq Spear Bolts, or  Longneck Rifle with  Tranquilizer Dart or  Shocking Tranquilizer Dart. Crossbows/Bows/Rifles with Higher damage will result in more  Torpor per shot. The Crossbow and Harpoon Launcher can be used underwater.
   • Stinging the creature with a  Scorpion
   • Head-butting the creature with a  Pachy
   • Licking the creature with a  Beelzebufo
   • Kicking the creature with an  Equus
   • Shocking the creature with an  Electrophorus
   • Biting the creature with a  Troodon,  Basilisk or  Titanoboa
   • Punching the creature when unconscious can make its Torpor stay up, but you will lose taming effectiveness.
2. Once the creature is unconscious, open its inventory and feed it an appropriate food item by dragging food into its inventory and waiting for the creature to eat it. The food needed to tame it will vary based on the creature you are trying to tame. Keep plenty of food in the animal's inventory while taming; if the creature runs out of food, the taming bar will begin to go down until it gets more food. Force feeding them anything other than  Narcoberries or  Narcotic will fill their hunger but will not affect the taming bar, effectively making the tame take longer.
   • Every time the animal raises its head to eat, the Taming bar increases. Herbivores will eat  Berries when their hunger falls 20 points (30 points for mejo berries) and  Advanced Crops when it falls 40 points. Carnivores will eat both  Raw Prime Meat, Cooked Prime Meat,  Raw Meat, Cooked Meat, Raw Fish Meat, Cooked Fish Meat, Raw Prime Fish Meat, Cooked Prime Fish Meat, Spoiled Meat or Cooked Meat Jerky when their hunger falls 50 points. All applicable creatures will eat  Kibble when their hunger falls 80 points (for a few creatures it is 135, 120, 53.3, 25, or 20). For other food see the table in the section Taming Effectiveness.
   • If a creature's preferred food is in its inventory, they will wait for their hunger to decrease enough for them to eat it, even if other food is present.
3. Keep the creature unconscious throughout the process. The Unconscious bar decreases with the creature's  Torpor, and can be refilled with  Narcoberries or  Narcotic. Narcoberries will raise torpor by 8 points over 3 seconds, and Narcotic will raise it by 40 points over 16 seconds. It also stops the creature's fight against the torpor in this time, so torpor will not fall in addition to the raising. The creature will not voluntarily eat these items, and so they must be force fed by hitting the use-key (E, , ) in the creatures inventory when hovering over the item.

Non-Violent Taming

The following creatures are currently tamed nonviolently: Araneo, Arthropluera, Basilosaurus, Chalicotherium, Dung Beetle, Giant Bee, Gigantopithecus, Ichthyosaurus, Lystrosaurus, Manta, Mesopithecus, Moschops, Onyc, Vulture and Mantis. Diplodocus can be tamed with both methods.

1. Put the food you plan to feed to the creature in the far-right slot of your hotbar.
   •  Araneo prefers  Spoiled Meat over  Raw Meat
   •  Arthropluera prefers  Broth of Enlightenment over  Spoiled Meat and  Raw Meat
   •  Basilosaurus prefers  Kibble (Therizinosaurus Egg) over Meat and Fish
   •  Chalicotherium takes  Beer (also Stimberries but with extremely low effectiveness)
   •  Diplodocus prefers  Kibble (Lystrosaurus Egg) over  Vegetables and  Berries
   •  Dung Beetle prefers  Feces over  Spoiled Meat
   •  Giant Bee prefers  Kibble (Ichthyornis Egg) over  Rare Flower
   •  Gigantopithecus prefers  Kibble (Titanoboa Egg) over  Berries
   •  Ichthyosaurus prefers  Kibble (Dodo Egg) over Meat and Fish
   •  Lystrosaurus prefers  Rare Flower over  Vegetables and  Berries
   •  Manta takes  Angler Gel
   •  Mantis prefers  Deathworm Horn
   •  Mesopithecus prefers  Kibble (Dodo Egg) over  Berries
   •  Moschops asks randomly for  Tintoberry,  Mejoberry,  Giant Bee Honey,  Organic Polymer,  Rare Mushroom,  Rare Flower,  Raw Prime Meat,  Cooked Prime Meat,  Prime Meat Jerky,  Raw Prime Fish Meat,  Cooked Prime Fish Meat, or  Cooked Lamb Chop
   •  Onyc takes Meat and Fish
   •  Vulture prefers  Spoiled Meat over  Raw Meat
   • Charge Light-specific dino ( Bulbdog,  Shinehorn,  Featherlight,  Glowtail) prefers  Plant Species Z Seed , but takes in their specific Mushroom.
2. Approach the creature and press the use key (default: E, , ) to feed it when prompted.
   •  Lystrosaurus and  Moschops are peaceful and not scared, you don't need to hide yourself.
   • For all other  Ghillie Armor is recommended.
   • If touched during the taming process, Gigantopithecus and Manta will attack and Mesopithecus will run.
   • Diplodocus wants to play with you and shoves you around.
   • You need to have  Bug Repellant applied to yourself to tame an Araneo, Arthropluera, or Onyc and can be helpful to tame the Dung Beetle and Manta, as these creatures are aggressive and will otherwise attack you on sight or on being touched.
   • Ichthyosaurus and Lystrosaurus can be touched without penalty, and will not attack you under any circumstance.
3. Wait for the creature to become hungry enough to eat again. This can take varying amounts of time depending on the creature in question and the food you are feeding it.
4. Repeat this process until the taming bar is filled.

Note that the first instance of food you feed to the creature is akin to knocking it unconscious with a violent tame - it binds the tame to the Survivor (or their tribe) and the creature's hunger will begin decreasing. At this point - the taming effectiveness and taming progress will not begin to diminish unless the creature starts taking damage (i.e. enters combat or starts dying of starvation). The initial delay between the first and second feedings compared to all subsequent feedings is also greater. Once fed a second time, progress will begin to reset if you take too long to feed. Moving too far away before a second feeding will also un-bind the tame - resetting everything (although its food may take a few moments to update). As with violent tames, you can bulk-feed a starved creature with an approximately 5-10 second delay between feedings. Due to the complete reset if you move too far away and the fact most long-duration non-violent tames don't have sufficient food to be substantially starved: this trick is only really helpful for taming skittish Ichthys or monkeys .

Unique Non-Violent Taming

Some dino must be tamed with unique methods.

•  Basilisk eats fertilized  Rock Drake Egg from the ground.
•  Equus takes  Rockarrot and ridden on, calming with the said food when it starts its attempt to kick the survivor off.
•  Gacha takes just about anything that is dropped by the survivor, but prefers Structure items in stack of 10 over anything else.
•  Hyaenodon needs to be pet without being spooked or aggravated.
•  Liopleurodon swims towards the nearest dropped  Giant Bee Honey from the player. *
•  Pegomastax steals  Berries from survivor placed in the far-right slot of hotbar.
•  Phoenix needs to be constantly burned during Superheat, either through  Fire Wyvern or  Flamethrower
•  Roll Rat automatically eats thrown  Giant Bee Honey whilst its buried underground.
•  Titanoboa eats fertilized  Dinosaur Egg from the ground.
•  Troodon kills tamed dino for thrills and sports.
•  Hesperornis and  Otter eats  Dead Fish that the player drags to the creature.

With the exception of Hyaenodon, Liopleurodon, Phoenix, and Troodon, they too follow the same process in waiting to become hungry enough to eat again.

* = Liopleurodon automatically disappears without a trace after 30 minutes. Tame only if you need its buff for the said duration period.

Fish Basket Non-Violent Taming

For more details, visit  Fish Basket

With introduction to Aberration, it is possible to tame certain aquatic creatures using  Fish Basket (which must be learnt in Aberration map to utilize in other maps). While it requires time for the basket to set up, it can be utilized to capture and tame smaller creatures. Bear in mind it has a certain lifespan while being trapped; letting it "spoil" to zero will kill them. Creatures that have been tamed using the  Fish Basket are considered force-tamed and don't behave normally.

Temporary Taming

Some creatures can be considered "temporarily tamed/commandable" (but not fully temporary tame like Lioleupredon or Titan), but either does not show up as part of the tribe (still rendered as wild), or are only interact-able as survivor.

•  Carnotaurus - Can be temporarily commanded after being "recruited" by, and with a  Yutyrannus for 60 seconds.
•  Giant Bee - Periodically spawned by  Giant Queen Bee. Acts as temporary guardian for the queen who spawned it.
•  Forest Wyvern - Periodically spawned by wild  Forest Titan. Can be ridden long as it still has its flame.

Turret Taming

For certain creatures, such as the  Titanosaur,  Rock Elemental, and  Karkinos tranquilizers are ineffective. In order to inflict torpor on them, you will need to do damage to their head using a turret weapon. Because turrets themselves are immobile, one may have to mount said turret upon a platform saddle, usually the  Bronto Platform Saddle,  Paracer Platform Saddle, or  Quetz Platform Saddle. The most efficient weapon is the  Cannon, as it's torpor-to-damage ratio will be the highest. Although you can also use the Rocket Launcher on Rock Elemental, and the Catapult Turret on the Karkinos. Although related, Rubble Golem can't be tamed.

* = Tamed Titanosaur will refuse to eat anything, and will not regain hunger through any methods and will eventually starve to death. But if the private server or single player runs with AllowRaidDinoFeeding setting it can be force-fed.

Raise-only Taming

Three of the creatures cannot be tamed through any ways as adults. In order to 'tame' the said creatures, they have to be raised from birth. Following creatures can only be tamed from birth.

•  Wyvern - Steal an egg from the Wyvern nest in Scar found in Scorched Earth and either in Dragonmalte Trench, Wyvern Cave or Murdersnow ( Ice Wyvern only) found in Ragnarok.
•  Rock Drake - Steal an egg from a Rock Drake nest in Grave of the Lost, found below Aberration.
•  Reaper King - Weaken Reaper Queen at its lowest, turn off charge light, and get its attention to be impregnated. Found at any Element Regions in Aberration

Craft-only Taming

Three Creatures can only be "crafted" rather than through regular taming, through acquisition of its Blueprint, or crafted as level 1 (or 51 for the  Mek) at either a  City Terminal or  Tek Replicator within Extinction.

In the case of both  Enforcer and  Scout, these can both be found roaming around the Sanctuary. Destroying them will drop Blueprints related to their level, possibly ranging from Primitive to Ascendant based on their level, with random percentage of stats.

In the case of the  Mek, these can be crafted with a Level 51 Engram. They only come out as Level 51 and unlike the  Enforcer, these cannot level up. Better grade, higher level  Mek Blueprints can occasionally be obtained either from Hard or Legendary  Orbital Supply Drops.

Titan Taming

3 of the Titans can be temporarily tamed by attacking corruption nodes on their bodies in a designated sequence. Each Titan is different at where the corruption exist, and thus requires different strategy to eliminate the corruption.

All Corrupt tumors found at its body always take one damage per hit, which makes high damage ranged pointless. Rather, utilizing rapid-firing ranged like  Assault Rifle or creatures like  Velonasaur will help.

Based on how much damage it takes, the titan type when tamed will change, each with higher stat. These are denoted as its prefix when it is first tamed.

• Alpha = Taken less than ?? HP loss
• Beta = Taken between ?? and ?? HP loss
• Gamma = Taken between ?? and ?? HP loss
• None = Taken more than ?? HP loss

Taming Effectiveness

The taming effectiveness indicates the amount of bonus the creature gets once it is successfully tamed. It does not have any effect on the taming speed of the dinosaur. The initial taming effectiveness is 100%, and decreases whenever the creature eats the food left in its inventory or takes damage while unconscious. Taming effectiveness decay is reciprocal, meaning that the lower it is, the less it drops. Basically the formula is TE = 1 / ( 1 + [number of food eaten] + [damage taken]), with some additional weighting multipliers, depending on the species and kind of food. Feeding a creature their preferred food will not only tame them faster, but also reward you with a higher taming effectiveness percentage. Most creatures also have a preferred Kibble, which will be the fastest taming food while only slightly decreasing the taming effectiveness. The maximal taming effectiveness possible is 99.9%. (Side note: Efficiency is not a synonym for effectiveness. The efficiency (how economical a method is) is not taken into account for the taming effectiveness.)

In the case of Reaper King, Taming effectiveness also applies, but through a different method. While it is still not born, killing dinosaur will absorb experience like effectiveness, affecting its bonus stat when it is born. No other method of earning experience will increase it however.

Effect of the Taming Effectiveness

Taming Effectiveness (TE) determines the number of bonus levels that a creature will gain upon completion of the taming. Each level is another point in a particular skill. These bonus levels are considered "wild levels" for the purposes of post-tame level-ups (e.g. +4% per level refers to 4% of the post-tame value) and breeding, and so maximizing Taming Effectiveness is vital for procuring the best creatures.

At 100% Taming Effectiveness, a creature will get 50% of its wild level as bonus levels. The amount of bonus levels gained is proportional to the Taming Effectiveness (so 50% TE is 25% bonus levels). Where L is the creature Wild Level, the amount of bonus levels is L × TE / 2 (rounded down). For example: a level 90 Rex with a taming effectiveness of 85% will get 90 × 85% / 2 = 38.25 → 38 bonus levels.

With a maximum wild level of 150 and a maximum taming effectiveness of 99.9% for all creatures that have to eat at least once (creature such as the Troodon and Pegomastax retain 100% due to not technically "eating") - the maximum amount of bonus levels you can achieve is 150 × 99.9% / 2 → 74 (rounded).

In addition to bonus levels, most creatures have at least one stat that has a Taming Multiplier that is based on Taming Effectiveness - e.g. the Rex has 17.6% multiplier on its Melee Damage. The multiplier is applied after bonus levels and any additive bonuses (e.g. the Rex also has a +7% additive bonus). As an aside, the additive bonuses are unaffected by Taming Effectiveness. Similarly to bonus levels, the multiplier scales proportionately to the Taming Effectiveness. Using the rex as an example again, the full 17.6% multiplier is only achieved with 100% Taming Effectiveness. At only 50% TE, you will only get 8.8% bonus melee damage. Use the external taming calculators to know which method is more cost/effective for your situation.

When breeding, newborns are considered to have 100% Taming Effectiveness regardless of the Taming Effectiveness of the parents. While this will not cause them to gain bonus levels, this will cause them to gain the maximum stat multipliers. This is why bred creatures will often have higher melee or food stats than either of their parents.

Food	Food-Value	Taming Speed	Taming Effectiveness	Used To Tame
Broth of Enlightenment	20	50x Speed	★★★★★	Arthropluera
Raw Mutton	50	7.5x Speed	★★★★☆	Carnivores
50 Black Pearls	1500	6.6x Speed	★★★★★	Tusoteuthis
Preferred Kibble	80	5x Speed	★★★★★	All kibble tames, except those listed below.
Kibble (Archaeopteryx Egg)	120	3.33x Speed	★★★★★	Diplocaulus
Kibble (Carbonemys Egg)	53	7.55x Speed	★★★★★	Brontosaurus
Kibble (Lystrosaurus Egg)	53	5.2x Speed	★★★★★	Diplodocus
Kibble (Mantis Egg)	20	20x Speed	★★★★★	Rock Elemental
Kibble (Megalosaurus Egg)	120	3.33x Speed	★★★★★	Therizinosaur
Kibble (Moschops Egg)	53	7.55x Speed	★★★★★	Purlovia
Kibble (Oviraptor Egg)	135	2.96x Speed	★★★★★	Megalosaurus
Kibble (Pelagornis Egg)	25	16x Speed	★★★★★	Archaeopteryx
Kibble (Quetzal Egg)	80	6.875x Speed	★★★★★	Mosasaurus,  Giganotosaurus (5x Speed)
Kibble (Tapejara Egg)	120	3.3x Speed	★★★★★	Kaprosuchus
Kibble (Terror Bird Egg)	53	7.5x Speed	★★★★★	Woolly Rhinoceros
Kibble (Titanoboa Egg)	80	3.75x Speed	★★★★★	Gigantopithecus,  Dunkleosteus,  Thylacoleo (5x Speed)
Kibble (Therizinosaurus Egg)	320	1.56x Speed	★★★★★	Basilosaurus
Rare Flower	35	4.55x Speed	★★★★★	Lystrosaurus
Large Animal Feces	37.5	4.27x Speed	★★★★★	Dung Beetle
Cooked Lamb Chop	50	4x Speed	★★★★★	Carnivores
Raw Prime Meat	50	3x Speed	★★★☆☆	Carnivores
Raw Prime Fish Meat	25	2.4x Speed	★★★☆☆	Carnivores
Spoiled Meat	50	2x Speed	★★★☆☆	Araneo,  Arthropluera,  Dung Beetle and  Pulmonoscorpius
Cooked Prime Meat /  Prime Meat Jerky	50	1.5x Speed	★★☆☆☆	Carnivores
Rare Mushroom	75	1.3x Speed	★★☆☆☆	Procoptodon
Beer Jar	45	1x Speed	N/A	Chalicotherium
Raw Meat	50	1x Speed	★☆☆☆☆	Carnivores
Cooked Meat /  Cooked Meat Jerky	25	1x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆	Carnivores
Advanced Crops	40	1x Speed	★★☆☆☆	Herbivores
Chitin	50	1x Speed	★☆☆☆☆	Archaeopteryx
Mejo Berries	30	1x Speed	★☆☆☆☆	Herbivores
Sulfur	25	1x Speed	★☆☆☆☆	Rock Elemental
Other Berries	20	1x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆	Herbivores
Plant Species X Seed	50	1x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆	Procoptodon
Angler Gel	24	1x Speed	N/A	Manta
Raw Fish Meat	25	0.8x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆	Carnivores
Cooked Fish Meat	12	0.8x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆	Carnivores
Cooked Prime Fish Meat	25	0.8x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆	Carnivores
Other Kibble	80	0.66x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆	Anything other than the creature that prefers the type of Kibble.
Stone	50	0.14x Speed	★☆☆☆☆	Rock Elemental
Stimberries	0	?x Speed	☆☆☆☆☆

Dino Level and Stats

Spawn level	1-150 (official servers)
Taming effectiveness bonus levels	+0-50% of spawn level (+74 max)
Max level increase after taming	+73

• Dinos spawn with a level of 5 to 150 in official, or different depending on the difficulty level of the server.
  •  Wyvern and  Rock Drake are an exception, spawning in at 5 to 190 in official. Other levels applies like every other dino based on difficulty setting however.
  • Specific event creatures like  GachaClaus only spawns in at affixed level.
  • All Tek Creatures are an exception as well, spawning in at 20% higher level (5 to 180) compared to their original counterpart.
  • Being a roaming boss creature, all Titans spawns as Level 1500, and will have an increased effectiveness level based on how much health it has left at the time of taming.
  •  Jerboa,  Leedsichthys, and  Alpha Leedsichthys are also an exception, only spawning in as level 1 with no regards to difficulty levels of the server.
• For every level above 1, the animal has an improvement made at random to one of its base stats. Usually one stat in particular will have been upgraded naturally.
• Any animal, once tamed, can be leveled up manually up 72 times (Except for Titans and  Mek). This means if you tame a level 1 animal, it will cap at level 73 and not level up anymore, but an animal tamed at level 30 may reach level 103.
• Lower level animals are generally easier and less dangerous to render unconscious, and it is faster (and requires less food and drugs) to tame them.
• Beginning players may want to target lower level animals to save time and resources, especially for early game mounts and pack animals such as  Phiomias.
• Established players may want to target higher level animals, as their beginning stats (and thus max-level stats) will be higher. It is common for 'end game' hunters to stalk specific dinos (sometimes with specific colors) within a few levels of a server's cap, knock them out, and then inspect their stats. If their random improvements have gone to less useful stats (such as Food), the hunter may kill or abandon the unconscious dino and search for another.
• Which improvements are desirable will depend on the animal's species and intended use. For instance, it is usually pointless to level up melee damage on a  Parasaur intended as a pack animal, while this may be the most important stat for a hunting  Raptor or a siege  Rex.
• The amount of XP an animal needs to earn to level up is the same, regardless of the level it was at when tamed. E.g., the same amount of XP will take an animal tamed at level 1 to level 2, or tamed at level 26 to level 27, etc.
• Tamed animals will earn XP slowly even while doing nothing, just like the player. The player gets additional XP equal to half the XP earned by an animal they are riding, so it's a good idea to sit on a dino while AFK.
• The max dino level (without breeding) after taming and leveling is 295 on an official or non-modded server (i.e. 150 wild level + 74 taming bonus + 73 level ups).

Taming Hints

• One  Narcoberry will increase an animal's  Torpor by 7.5. One  Narcotic increases torpor by 40. A  Tranquilizer Arrow fired by an ordinary bow will increase torpor by about 100 (dependent on the body region), but deals damage and decreases Taming Effectiveness.
• To feed  Narcotics or  Narcoberries, use the E, , .
• In an emergency, if you run out of Narcotics and Narcoberries, you can punch or slingshot the animal in the head to keep it unconscious, or shoot it with a  Tranquilizer Arrow. However, this will damage the creature, thereby reducing taming effectiveness and the amount bonus levels gained. It could also kill the creature if you aren't careful.
• Be sure they have food at all times. If they run out of food, their taming meter will fall rapidly until it reaches zero.
• An unconscious animal will remain unconscious until the torpor reaches 0. If it wakes up, you will lose all taming progress, plus any items that were in the animal's inventory(If an unconscious tame is killed however it will drop an Item Cache with all the items you had on it when it died).
• Different animals lose torpor at different rates (for example, a  Spinosaur loses torpor very quickly) and because taming takes longer for higher levels, more Narcotics are needed.
• Taming can take up to several hours. Keep an eye out for other players or predators, as they may try to harm your unconscious creature.
• Your tamed animals can die from starvation even while you are offline, so be sure there is enough food in their inventory. However, like players, inactive animals will use food very slowly.
• If your tame has low health you can force feed it so that it will regain some HP. This will not decrease taming effectiveness if the creature's food is maxed out. This only works on carnivores.
• If your tame gets hit you can let it wake up to reset the taming effectiveness.
• During Valentines Day event,  Box o' Chocolates can be used to quickly knock 40% off taming progress of any knockout tames. However, these can only be used once per wild unconscious creature.

For Carnivores

• All Carnivores prefer  Raw Mutton and  Raw Prime Meat over anything other than their favorite  Kibble, and it will tame them faster than regular  Raw Meat. All babies drop  Raw Prime Meat, as do the adult variants of the following species:

• Argentavis
• Brontosaurus
• Carnotaurus
• Diplodocus
• Giganotosaurus
• Mammoth
• Paraceratherium
• Plesiosaur
• Purlovia
• Quetzal
• Rex
• Tek Rex
• Sarcosuchus
• Spinosaur
• Stegosaurus
• Tek Stegosaurus
• Titanoboa
• Mosasaurus

For Herbivores

• Unlike carnivores, there are no foods you can feed a herbivore to increase its taming speed except for Kibble, and herbivores also often require significantly more Kibble than a similarly levelled and sized carnivore. Thus - you should set aside a lot of time for taming herbivores, particularly if you've got your eye on a high leveled one.
• Herbivores will eat  Advanced Crops, while this will not speed up the overall time to tame, it will result in a higher taming effectiveness.
• Herbivores will not voluntarily eat  Narcoberries.
• Unlike with tamed dinos where  Stimberries will cause them to become hungry, force feeding an unconscious dino will only have their torpidity decreased - causing them to wake up sooner. However, herbivores will eat a stimberry if there is no other food in their inventory. Although stimberries drastically reduce tame effectiveness, they add a very small amount of taming affinity with no food gain. Therefore, they will eat the stimberries at a constant rate. This can be a way to increase taming affinity while starve taming a herbivore at cost of a 0% taming effectiveness.

For Most Creatures

• Most creatures have a preferred  Kibble that will raise the taming meter much faster than their favorite foods while almost halting the Taming Effectiveness decay. Kibbles are created by combining an egg, jerky, one of the  Advanced Crops, 2  Mejoberries, 3  Fiber, and a filled  Waterskin or other water container in a cooking pot.
• The type of egg, jerky, and crop will vary based on which kind of kibble you are trying to create.
• Kibbles make taming 5 times faster for every creature that prefers one except for Brontos, which are tamed 8 times faster using kibbles.
• New players will notice that some taming times will be very high without the use of kibble, and be rightly discouraged. Generally, if a tame takes longer than 3 hours without kibble, it should probably not be attempted. Taming high level creatures without kibble greatly decreases taming effectiveness, negating the advantages of taming a high level creature.
• A  Cryopod  allows the ease of moving dinosaur from one point to another, especially freshly tamed. Just be mindful not to die as anyone can steal the filled cryopod for their tribe from a dead body (If a plan is made to breed, it might be advised to find another way of moving, unless the player is fine with waiting at most 2 days for cooldown).
• If the player has access to  Snow Owl, they can use it to heal up wounded unconscious dino to ensure that they continue to live in case it somehow lost too much taming effectiveness.

Speeding up starve taming with Battle Tartare

This method is no longer effective.

There are ways to speed up taming using Battle Tartare. However its not an easy technique, and you need to be aware of several things:

• It should only be done during starve taming. Force feeding anything other than narcotics or stimulant to tamed creature during normal taming will cause a massive drop in taming effectiveness. This doesn't apply to starve taming though. Force feeding anything during starve taming will not cause a drop in taming effectiveness.
• Battle Tartare inflicts damage. Even though it actually doesn't cause any taming effectiveness drop (even during normal taming, although force feeding it still does), it still increases the risk of killing the creature. One battle tartare does a low amount of damage. To be precise 90 damage over 200 seconds. But you will likely need to feed multiple sometimes around ten and sometimes even over a hundred Battle tartares to really make it matter.
• As each battle tartrare works only for 200 seconds, and it cause the food meter drop 50% faster, the amount of battle tartares you need can be calculated by this formula: normal total taming time(in seconds)/3*2/200, which simplifies to normal total taming time/300. For example: Taming a 150 Castoroides with kibble will normally take one hour, 19 minutes and 10 seconds, or 4750 seconds in total. Thus total amount of battle tartares you need is 4750/3200=16(rounded up), and it will take 16*200=3200 seconds (53 minutes) of force feeding battle tartares. At that time beaver should get hungry enough to eat the required 22 Gallimimus kibble, thus saving you a 23 minutes of taming. During that starve taming, the Castoroides will take 16*90=1440 damage.
• If tamed creature is on very low health already, and thus Battle tartare can potentially kill it, you can instead force feed it Enduro Stew. It will not speed up taming on it own, but will cause restoring 1080 health over 15 minutes of duration of Enduro Stew. But same as for battle tartare, force feed Enduro Stew only during stave taming. Force feeding it during normal taming will cause massive drop in taming effectiveness. Although force feeding Battle Tartare will instantly cancel effect of Enduro Stew, and vice versa. Thus you can't have both active at the same time.
• Be aware that even though battle tartare can potentially speed up taming by 50%. Its not the same as having 1.5x taming multiplier. It will simply cause creature get hungry 50% faster. But it will still need to eat same amount of food to be tamed.
• Cooking battle tartare is quite tricky, as it requires three portions of raw prime meat for each portion of tartare. Its recommended to do it only with the Industrial Cooker, with everything (besides raw prime meat) already put in it. Thus you only have to bring large amount of raw prime meat to be able to cook some of the battle tartare. Killing alpha predators provides very high amount of prime meat. Another way to get high amounts of it is killing Paracers, Diplos, or Brontos.

Taming Table

These tables give an overview of the needed resources to tame the Dinosaurs and Creatures of ARK. The numbers in these tables are meant to give a first impression on the needed resources and to compare to other creatures and so are only for a level 30 creature, fed with the standard food (i.e.  Mejoberry for Herbivores and  Raw Meat for Carnivores). For the  Tranq Arrow number it is assumed they hit the body, if there are no other annotations, using a  Crossbow. Targeting the head is more effective for most creatures.

For additional info on the food and time needed for each creature, visit their individual pages, as the needed resources vary largely depend on the level and used food.

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.

Herbivore Taming Table (Level 30)

Creature	Rideable	Narcoberries Needed	Narcotics Needed	Mejoberries Needed	Tranq Arrows Needed** [body;head]	Preferred Food	Time Needed [hh:mm]	Level for Saddle
Ankylosaurus	Yes	640	132	250	8	Kibble (Dilo Egg)	03:45	40
Brontosaurus	Yes	650	89	834	34	Kibble (Carbonemys Egg)	05:00	55
Carbonemys	Yes	340	62	250	5 (body); 10 (tail); 25 (shell)	Kibble (Pteranodon Egg)	01:52	25
Castoroides	Yes		547	167	7	Kibble (Gallimimus Egg)	03:45	55
Dodo	No	22	4	38	1;1	Advanced Crops	00:08	N/A
Doedicurus	Yes	1600	390	284	14	Kibble (Dilo Egg)	04:15	30
Gallimimus	Yes	1461	550	169	8	Kibble (Dimetrodon Egg)	01:41	30
Gigantopithecus	Yes	N/A	N/A	139	N/A	Kibble (Titanoboa Egg)	03:10	Not Needed
Lystrosaurus	No	N/A	N/A		N/A	Rare Flower		N/A
Mammoth	Yes	786	150	417	10	Kibble (Raptor Egg)	04:23	40
Megaloceros	Yes	221	41	100	4;2	Kibble (Dimorph Egg)	01:15	30
Mesopithecus	No*	N/A	N/A	84	N/A	Kibble (Dodo Egg)	00:33	N/A
Pachy	Yes	121	22	100	3;23 (especially resistant head)	Kibble (Dilo Egg)	00:50	15
Pachyrhinosaurus	Yes	50	18	163	8	Bug Repellant	01:13	25
Paracer	Yes	1506	373	542	23	Kibble (Pachy Egg)	03:56	30
Parasaur	Yes	102	17	125	3;2	Advanced Crops	00:38	10
Phiomia	Yes	45	3	250	5;2	Advanced Crops	00:25	5
Procoptodon	Yes	653	151	167 ()	5	Rare Mushrooms	01:51	50
Stegosaurus	Yes	646	127	500	9;6	Kibble (Sarco Egg)	03:45	30
Triceratops	Yes	306	64	250	5	Kibble (Carno Egg)	01:53	20
Woolly Rhino	Yes				11	Kibble (Terror Bird Egg)		45

* The Mesopithecus rides on the player's shoulder.

** Number of tranq arrows shot by a 100% crossbow.

Carnivore Taming Table (Level 30)

Creature	Rideable	Narcoberries Needed	Narcotics Needed	Raw Meat Needed	Tranq Arrows Needed*** [body;head]	Preferred Food	Time Needed [hh:mm]	Level for Saddle
Angler	Yes	3513	1153	90	16	Kibble (Kairuku Egg)	04:30	Not needed
Araneo	Yes	N/A	N/A	38 ()	N/A	Spoiled Meat	0:21	40
Argentavis	Yes	648	120	100	7;3	Kibble (Stego Egg)	03:45	55
Arthropluera	Yes	N/A	N/A	? ()	N/A	Broth of Enlightenment		50
Beelzebufo	Yes	349	70	81	4	Kibble (Pulmonoscorpius Egg)	00:54	25
Carnotaurus	Yes	663	133	100	7	Kibble (Ankylo Egg)	03:45	50
Compy	No*	11	2	5 ()	1	Raw Prime Meat	00:01	N/A
Dilophosaur	No	33	4	23	2;1	Raw Prime Meat	00:13	N/A
Dimetrodon	No	4755	2528	84	14	Kibble (Quetzal Egg)	04:12	N/A
Dimorphodon	No*	76	16	45	2;1	Raw Prime Meat	00:11	N/A
Direbear	Yes				18	Kibble (Carno Egg)	06:54	35
Direwolf	Yes	498	100	60	8;4	Kibble (Carno Egg)	01:52	Not needed
Dung Beetle	No	N/A	N/A	16 ()	N/A	Large Animal Feces**	00:13	N/A
Dunkleosteus	Yes				21	Kibble (Titanoboa Egg)		40
Giganotosaurus	Yes	8716	5071	196	174	Kibble (Quetzal Egg)	07:21	85
Ichthyosaurus	Yes	N/A	N/A	32	N/A	Kibble (Dodo Egg)	01:22	10
Kairuku	No	200	35	45	6;2	Raw Prime Meat	00:25	N/A
Manta	Yes	N/A	N/A	? ()	N/A	Angler Gel		25
Megalodon	Yes	509	102	100	14	Kibble (Spino Egg)	03:45	45
Mosasaurus	Yes	9611	4627	580	53	Kibble (Quetzal Egg)	08:57	75
Onyc	No	N/A	N/A	57	N/A	Raw Prime Meat	00:28	N/A
Oviraptor	No	180	35	247 ()	3;2	Giganotosaurus Egg	01:22	N/A
Plesiosaur	Yes	3377	1030	250	28	Kibble (Rex Egg)	05:00	60
Pteranodon	Yes	481	97	60	2;1	Kibble (Dodo Egg)	02:30	35
Pulmonoscorpius	Yes	81	17	38 ()	3	Spoiled Meat	00:38	25
Quetzal	Yes	7475	2603	317	22;8	Kibble (Rex Egg)	08:59	60
Raptor	Yes	133	23	60	4;2	Kibble (Parasaur Egg)	00:50	15
Rex	Yes	1891	408	159	27	Kibble (Pulmonoscorpius Egg)	05:18	60
Sabertooth	Yes	221	45	60	9;3	Kibble (Bronto Egg)	01:53	45
Sarcosuchus	Yes	627	124	85	7	Kibble (Trike Egg)	03:32	35
Spinosaur	Yes	4787	1486	154	15	Kibble (Argentavis Egg)	06:54	60
Terror Bird	Yes	1449	462	83	6	Kibble (Gallimimus Egg)	02:04	25
Tapejara	Yes				8	Kibble (Allosaurus Egg)		50

* The Dimorphodon and the Compy ride on the player's shoulder.

** The Dung Beetle is not a Carnivore but prefers Spoiled Meat after it is tamed.

*** Number of tranq arrows shot by a 100% crossbow waiting 5 seconds in between shots to apply all the "over time torpor".

Untamable

Not all creatures can be tamed. Most creatures that are tamable through certain ways have the prefix "Wild" next to their name. Untamable wild creatures do not have such prefix.

The following creatures are currently not tamable except by use of the forcetame command.

• Alpha Predators
• Ammonite
• Bosses (Broodmother Lysrix, Dragon, Megapithecus, Manticore, Overseer, Rockwell, King Titan and Alpha King Titan)
  • Any dinosaur spawned in by the bosses.
• Cnidaria
• Corrupted Creatures
• Deathworm
• Enraged Creatures
• Eurypterid
• GachaClaus
• Glowbug
• Jug Bug
• Leedsichthys
• Meganeura
• Nameless¹
• Reaper Queen
• Seeker
• Titanomyrma
• All creatures found in the following cave:
  • Swamp Cave
  • Snow Cave (e.g. Yeti)
  • Tek Cave
  • Old Tunnels
  • Grave of the Tyrants
  • Ruins of Nosti
  • Old Railway Cave (Excluding  Glowtail)
  • Hidden Grotto
  • Elemental Vault
  • Desert Cave
  • Forest Cave
  • Ice Cave

• ¹ = Force-taming a Nameless will cause it to burrow underground, de-registering its existence, making it the only creature to be untamable by even command means without system abnormalities (e.g: Crashing).

Taming Calculators

See Apps for a list of taming-calculators.