Single Player Settings - Wild Dino Stats and Dododex

[[VIE]@Dragon]

Hello Ark Community.

I have a quick question regarding the Single Player Settings.
What is the Multiplier added to wild dino stats? I want to check up if they are good for taming and breeding so I can get some cool dinos with Imprint + Mate Bonus and ravage through the Island but since the Dododex is Vanilla I can't check up on it :(

Can one of the more advanced players here help a newbie?

Also: Should I raise the difficulty a bit if I can afford it so I can tame creatures at a higher level and ergo with higher stats? Seems like cheating if I later put it back to the normal single player setting again :(

[DigginTiger]

At first it's hard to evaluate if a dino has good stats or not. Little by little you'll learn what the good stats are for every specie, but in the meanwhile i would suggest you to download and install LARKATOR which is a very usefull ark programm to locate wild and tamed dinos all over the map and check their stats before and right after taming, regardless of their species particularities.

(assuming you play on vanilla single player setting: difficulty = 0.2) just to help you out, you can consider that any dino's attribute bellow 5 is crap, between 5-7 is descent, between 7-10 is good and above 10 is excellent. Note i have never found any wild dino exceeding 15 in one attribute which is an insane value at this difficulty setting btw.

Moreover Larkator will allow you to check the "true" numbers in the speed attribute which seems to be kinda messed up when you look at your dino's speed ingame.

keep in mind some of the attribute points randomly allocated by the game on wild dinos and upon taming bonus will be kinda "wasted" into oxygen and food and these do not appear in larkator so you can only check this "waste" of points "ingame" BEFORE and RIGHT AFTER the taming since both value might highly be different.

larkator is extremely usefull when it comes to breeding, especially if you have already allocated your dinos attribute points when leveled up, as it will only show up the stats of your dinos after the taming bonus (which are the ones you want to look at when you breed dinos).


Changing the game difficulty and thus the wild dinos max level is up to you. The main usefull thing that you will gain from this, is your dinos will have a much bigger stamina pool and a much bigger carrying capacity (weight) which will def help you out in your adventure, especially with flying dinos.

Hope this was somehow helpfull and clear enough as my native language isn't english :D

have fun !

[[VIE]@Dragon]

Thank you for the quick answer!

Unfortunately I play the XBox Version because the people I play with don't have a PC so I can't use an external Tool to help me out.
For anyone who is interested I think I actually figured it out, cannot confirm though:

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Single_Player

Option Default SP multiplier Result
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[0] 0.2 × 2.125 0.425
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[8] 0.17 × 2.353 0.400
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[0] 0.14 × 3.571 0.500
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[8] 0.14 × 3.571 0.500
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[0] 0.44 × 2.273 1.000
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[8] 0.44 × 2.273 1.000

These things are changed according to the Wiki. It appears that the wild stats are unchanged but they receive a bigger boost after taming, if I read these lines of code right.

[danleveille]

Hey, I'm the developer of Dododex. If you're playing on Single Player (or, have "Use Single Player Settings" enabled), wild stats are the same. Dododex's Stat Calculator should work fine for you.

Are you running into issues where the stats are not lining up?