Wild monkey dying while taming...

[Grimm Spector]

I gave a monkey a couple tinto berries, everything was fine, taming increased; then I gave him a mejoberry, and taming increased...and then he stopped getting more hungry, for about 4 minutes, during which his health just dropped constantly until he died...wtf?

[Reeva!]

monkeys are very small, he might have stood in a shallow pool of water which was just high enough to let him drown, that's the only reason i could think for his life to be dropping out of combat, other than feeding him biotoxin, which you can't.

[Reeva!]

ye i saw monkey and assumed it was like a chimpanzee size monkey. never tamed a baboon sized monkey tho so if it's the bigger one then i have no clue how to help =)

[Sicksadpanda]

Monkeys actually hurt themselves if you scare them. You have to crouch and feed without touching.

[Grimm Spector]

Originally posted by Silky Rough:

I can't think of any way this would happen. How are you trying to tame him? In a cage?

You didn't tranq' him and then something chewed on him?

Nope, literally just following him as he wandered the beach, nothing came near him, nothing happened to him. Nothing touched him but me feeding him twice. It was a meso sorry.

Originally posted by Panda:

Monkeys actually hurt themselves if you scare them. You have to crouch and feed without touching.

So you're saying I stressed him out by walking around without crouching and he died of stress...ouch....I'll try not standing...

[SteelFire]

I'm surprised you were actually able to walk up to a meso and feed it. You should have to be crouched and sneak just close enough to feed them, because if they detect you or you touch them they should run away. So, yeah, I think what Panda said is what happened, yours just was a little buggy and didn't run.

[Xenulus]

Is this on Valguero by chance? Because I've been experiencing a lot of WEIRD dino behaviors on that map including but not limited to:

1. Dinos changing levels while my back was turned.
2. Dinos walking on air with horribly broken legs.
3. Killed a dino with a bow, started harvesting it, when it suddenly floated away like a helium ballon.

[crimsondrac]

Monkeys and Lystros as well, have always had a passive feeding bug. I am not sure what triggers it but I think it might be if you wait too long in between feedings. Whatever the cause, sometimes they will actually starve to death without ever asking for more food. What happens is when you passive tame something, their food meter starts ticking. While they are fully wild, they do not need food. Once the hunger meter starts working, if you do not feed them regularly enough, somehow the feed option gets forgotten and they then just starve to death. This bug has been in the game since they introduced passive tame creatures. The only way to be sure to get around it is to use Kibble to tame them faster.

[Grimm Spector]

Originally posted by SteelFire:

I'm surprised you were actually able to walk up to a meso and feed it. You should have to be crouched and sneak just close enough to feed them, because if they detect you or you touch them they should run away. So, yeah, I think what Panda said is what happened, yours just was a little buggy and didn't run.

I have real high movement speed and just chased him repeatedly ... cornered him near some rocks a few times, etc.

Originally posted by crimsondrac:

Monkeys and Lystros as well, have always had a passive feeding bug. I am not sure what triggers it but I think it might be if you wait too long in between feedings. Whatever the cause, sometimes they will actually starve to death without ever asking for more food. What happens is when you passive tame something, their food meter starts ticking. While they are fully wild, they do not need food. Once the hunger meter starts working, if you do not feed them regularly enough, somehow the feed option gets forgotten and they then just starve to death. This bug has been in the game since they introduced passive tame creatures. The only way to be sure to get around it is to use Kibble to tame them faster.

This seems likely, blah, and I don't have enough egg production to produce any kibble really. So expensive.

[Xenulus]

Meso's take the lowest tier kibble, Basic. A couple dodo eggs and cooked meat and you're in business.

[Dradiin]

Originally posted by Xenulus:

Meso's take the lowest tier kibble, Basic. A couple dodo eggs and cooked meat and you're in business.

Soooo easy, then you get your shoulder mounted poo flinger.

[Xenulus]

Its like having a shoulder mounted turret! lol

[SteelFire]

Originally posted by Grimm Spector:

Originally posted by SteelFire:

I'm surprised you were actually able to walk up to a meso and feed it. You should have to be crouched and sneak just close enough to feed them, because if they detect you or you touch them they should run away. So, yeah, I think what Panda said is what happened, yours just was a little buggy and didn't run.

I have real high movement speed and just chased him repeatedly ... cornered him near some rocks a few times, etc.

Oh, yeah... no... it was spooked, you killed it by scaring it repeatedly.
https://ark.gamepedia.com/Mesopithecus

You never want to spook a passive tame and have it run away. If you do, then you want to keep track of where it goes, but don't keep following it as it runs, because it will stay spooked and keep running. You've got to let it calm down and drop aggro before you can try again. Good thing for you that it was a meso, the big passive tames, like the giganto and chali, will turn around and curb-stomp you hard if you spook them.

It's not a bad idea with a meso to drop it in a taming pen (then go out of range if it's acquired aggro, so it can calm down). That way you're not potentially following them around where something else can attack them or you and if they do spook, they're contained and you can back off to let them calm down.

[Grimm Spector]

Originally posted by SteelFire:

Originally posted by Grimm Spector:

I have real high movement speed and just chased him repeatedly ... cornered him near some rocks a few times, etc.

Oh, yeah... no... it was spooked, you killed it by scaring it repeatedly.
https://ark.gamepedia.com/Mesopithecus

You never want to spook a passive tame and have it run away. If you do, then you want to keep track of where it goes, but don't keep following it as it runs, because it will stay spooked and keep running. You've got to let it calm down and drop aggro before you can try again. Good thing for you that it was a meso, the big passive tames, like the giganto and chali, will turn around and curb-stomp you hard if you spook them.

It's not a bad idea with a meso to drop it in a taming pen (then go out of range if it's acquired aggro, so it can calm down). That way you're not potentially following them around where something else can attack them or you and if they do spook, they're contained and you can back off to let them calm down.

Huh, good to know, do you get it in a pen using a ptera to pick it up or somethign?

[SteelFire]

Yup. Snatch it up with a flyer and air drop it into a pen. Then, once you have you're new friend, you are legally required to give it a hat.

[Grimm Spector]

Originally posted by SteelFire:

Yup. Snatch it up with a flyer and air drop it into a pen. Then, once you have you're new friend, you are legally required to give it a hat.

I definitely intend to give it a hat, don't worry. Don't have a flyer yet, but it's on the list when we reach that level.