How do I keep animals i'm taming from getting hurt/eaten by wild animals?

[lucridd]

I come across this problem a lot, I play on single player.

A recent example: I was taming a level 150 Argentavis and had a perfect tame going until a scorpion hit him once and ruined the perfect tame. Some of the tames can take up to like 2 hours, and it's very tedious to constantly be searching the area for potential threats.

Is there a way I can safely be taming an animal while watching a video or something?

I've heard of Building a structure around the animal, but that sounds a little expensive.

I've heard of placing spikes around the animal, that sounds like a good choice but the flying animals could still reach them

I've tried googling this several times and couldn't find much :/

Sorry for any misspellings, I'm writing this just before I go to bed.

[Knight Siegfried]

Originally posted by Amaterasu:

I come across this problem a lot, I play on single player.

A recent example: I was taming a level 150 Argentavis and had a perfect tame going until a scorpion hit him once and ruined the perfect tame. Some of the tames can take up to like 2 hours, and it's very tedious to constantly be searching the area for potential threats.

Is there a way I can safely be taming an animal while watching a video or something?

I've heard of Building a structure around the animal, but that sounds a little expensive.

I've heard of placing spikes around the animal, that sounds like a good choice but the flying animals could still reach them

I've tried googling this several times and couldn't find much :/

Sorry for any misspellings, I'm writing this just before I go to bed.

Best thing to do is make a piller trap with a ceiling and a gateway for trapping birds ( all stone). This allows you to successfully tame them without worrying about them being hurt. Well, depends on the enviroment of course as a compy or dilo could get in? Would just be best to make a big trap and lead your target in it. Killing any wild dinos other than the wanted dino is a good idea or having a friend doing that with you. You could place a turret down with a battery over the ko'd creature? There are a lot of things but this game isn't the best for going afk or watching videos too. I do that too a lot and it sometimes does not end well. But your plan on taming a dino all depends on what species and where you are taming. Hope this somewhat helps. P.s, there are lots of ark trap videos on what traps are best for which dinos.

[Vesuvius]

Google/youtube taming pens/traps

Build taming pens and then kite your prospective tame to it.

Design your pen right and its safe as houses.

[Knight Siegfried]

If you are playing singleplayer, you can just boost the taming rate so it doesn't take so long. But if a multiplayer server, it sounds like a pro vanilla server

[Hominin]

spike walls are pretty easy/cheap to make and throw around quickly. helps to have an argent on guard duty (following, attacking target, ignore unconscious) as well if there are aggressive flyers around. and, yes, taming pens work too but more costly... unless you just make one and use argents/quetz to drop what you want to tame there :D

[Husker_85]

Also, starve taming drastically reduces the risk of your tame being ruined, as hits the unconscious creature takes don't count against your tame until after you feed it for the first time. If you don't already have it, I strongly recommend the DodoDex app. configure it to your game settings and it will tell you exactly how much you need to starve the creature before feeding it. It takes the same amount of time, but the creature will be tamed just a few minutes after you feed it.

[Sicksadpanda]

Originally posted by FallenCat:

Also, starve taming drastically reduces the risk of your tame being ruined, as hits the unconscious creature takes don't count against your tame until after you feed it for the first time. If you don't already have it, I strongly recommend the DodoDex app. configure it to your game settings and it will tell you exactly how much you need to starve the creature before feeding it. It takes the same amount of time, but the creature will be tamed just a few minutes after you feed it.

Incorrect. Dinos getting hit before being fed still affects their taming effectiveness. Starve taming is still useful as you can throw all mutton/prime meat without having to constantly farm every 10 minutes, or if the dino was attacked during the KO phase and you can just let it wake up and try again (doing this will reset the tame effectiveness), and you won't lose whatever food you were about to feed it.

[Husker_85]

Originally posted by Panda:

Incorrect. Dinos getting hit before being fed still affects their taming effectiveness. Starve taming is still useful as you can throw all mutton/prime meat without having to constantly farm every 10 minutes, or if the dino was attacked during the KO phase and you can just let it wake up and try again (doing this will reset the tame effectiveness), and you won't lose whatever food you were about to feed it.

Oh. Well that's very good to know ^.^

[lucridd]

Thanks for all the replies!

[Dragon]

I prefer spike walls