How to tame a therizinosaurus?

[Nightstorm]

So me and my partner downed 1 of these things, and I hit it with tranqs but it continually wakes up fast. I kept tranqing it but it just ends up dying at the end due to damage and about 33% tamed.

How do I tame it since it wakes up so fast?

[Vesuvius]

Make a ton of narcotics 1st.... instead of shooting it.... feed it narcotics

And i mean a ton... they lose torpor super fast

[Serangel]

Feed it narcotics or narco berries to keep it knocked out?

[Spieleschmiede Wulfrath]

you need to constantly feed him narcotics to keep him asleep. best ist build 4 gates in a square, lure him in and tranq him insede, from the outside. leave some room to shoot through. look up how much Narcotics you need on dododex

[esthergray]

I don't know if this has already been answered or not, since the previous comments are not yet viewable but it sounds like you are trying to keep it down with tranq arrows. You knock it out with them but you need narcotics or narco berries to keep it down. The arrows will kill it after it is knocked out.

[RealZenPirate]

Narcotics dude. Just simple narcotics. Bring a couple hundred of them with you whenever you go to tame something. Put the narcotics in the creature's inventory like how you put the food in it's inventory, and then use them while they are in there. This will remotely use the narcotics on the creature, keeping it knocked out. You get about 30 torpor back per narcotic you feed it (in my experience), and in the case of Therizinosaur or Thylacoleo, they lose torpor VERY fast, so you may end up using multiple hundreds of narcotics, depending on what level creature you're attempting to tame.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Nightstorm:

So me and my partner downed 1 of these things, and I hit it with tranqs but it continually wakes up fast. I kept tranqing it but it just ends up dying at the end due to damage and about 33% tamed.

How do I tame it since it wakes up so fast?

1. If you hit a knocked out dino with more tranq darts or arrows, you ruin the taming effectivity bonus stat chances for that dino. Please read up on or watch videos on taming.

2. All knocked out dinos will lose torpor and wake up if:

a. no additional narcotics or narcoberries are force fed to them while unconscious and their torpor bar timer returns to 0.
b. The speed at which they are fed narco's or narcoberries for increasing their torpor timer is slower than the speed of their torpor draining timer.
c. you inanely feed them stimberries which speeds up the torpor timer going to 0.

[{FU}TheForgeryTTV]

Bring lots of narcotics like the others said. After you knock it out, watch the therizinosaurus closely. Put the narcotics in its inventory and force feed it by clicking on E.

I also strongly recommend to make exceptional kibble (here in the link: https://www.dododex.com/kibble) so the taming process is faster and less painful. If you can't make it for some reason, mejoberries are your best bet then but bring a lot of it too.

[Dracul]

Using said kibble, bring lots of narcos and use a tame calculator like DodoDex to figure out how many narcos it will take to take the theri from almost awake to having its torpor full once more, this way when it dips down to about 10% (IE about to wake up any moment) you can stuff in the required narcos and have more breathing room as its torpor climbs then eventually goes down again, less stressful than jamming them in every few moments. Note this only works well with higher levels, super low level theris will also have a low torpor capacity and you'll spend less time taming it but require more constant babysitting.

[margalus]

Use narcoberries on things that run out of torpor fast. Lots of them. Narcotics give the torpor all at once so it starts dropping immediately. Using berries causes the time delay torpor to build up for several minutes, and during that time while the torpor is going up it doesn't drop so it works a little better.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by Nightstorm:

So me and my partner downed 1 of these things, and I hit it with tranqs but it continually wakes up fast. I kept tranqing it but it just ends up dying at the end due to damage and about 33% tamed.

How do I tame it since it wakes up so fast?

By not shooting it with tranq arrows when you have already knocked it out. Force-feed it Narcoberries or narcotics.

[Xandor]

You should always use narcoberries, not narcotics.
1 Narcoberry gives 7.5 torpor over 3 seconds
1 Narcotic gives 40 torpor over 8 seconds.
So 1 narcoberry gives 2.5 torpor per second and 1 narcotic gives 5 torpor per second.

When gaining torpor a creatures stops losing torpor, so the slower it regains torpor the better it is.

You knock out the creature, wait until it almost wakes up, then feed it so much narcoberries that it should regain full torpor.
As an example if you feed it 1000 narcoberries, then it will gain 7500 torpor over 50 min. Meaning you won't have to worry about its torpor for 50+ minutes.

This is how you tame Theri and Giga, becomes super easy if you just use the narcoberries properly. Then you don't need to babysit the creature to make sure its torpor doesn't drop, you know for sure it won't wake up for a long time when it regains torpor.

*I think numbers are correct, but might be some mistake idk.

[Liralen]

What everyone else said, but in case it's not clear, any damage caused to a dino you have knocked out reduces the taming effectiveness.

So my first priority before knocking out a dino is to make sure that no damage can occur to it once I do, i.e., kill everything nearby that might harm it then surround it with structures, pull it into a structure, or use a quetzal or the like to pick it up and fly them to a safe spot/taming pen (yeah, I know, hard to tame a quetzal if you don't know how to tame a therizin, just saying for completeness).

Not damaging the dino you want to tame after it is knocked out is so important that when working with someone else, we coordinate who gets the last tranquilizing shot, to prevent damage caused by someone else hitting it with a tranquilizing shot after it's knocked down.

Edited note: Just remembered that before having quetzals, I'd put tall pillars around the therizin. Easier with a friend.

[Pisaro]

Tranqing a knocked out Dino is a very, veeeery bad idea. dont damage them. Narcotics, Narcotics and narcotics :)

[123]

You can pump more narcoberries then their Torpor-Bar seems to "accept".
At least 300 more, prly even more.

This will result in 2 Effects:
1. It will take additional time until the Narcobar even drops (Good)
2. After Taming often Dinos like Giga or Theris still got increasing torpor (Bad)

So watch carefully after taming if the torpor still increase
or you might end up having a sleeping dino in a potential dangerous enviroment.


A good berry-Gatherer for early level Theri-Taming is a Iguanadon.
(easy tame, early saddle, better yield per plant then Trike , better speed then Trike etc. )

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by Xandor:

You should always use narcoberries, not narcotics.
1 Narcoberry gives 7.5 torpor over 3 seconds
1 Narcotic gives 40 torpor over 8 seconds.
So 1 narcoberry gives 2.5 torpor per second and 1 narcotic gives 5 torpor per second.

When gaining torpor a creatures stops losing torpor, so the slower it regains torpor the better it is.

You knock out the creature, wait until it almost wakes up, then feed it so much narcoberries that it should regain full torpor.
As an example if you feed it 1000 narcoberries, then it will gain 7500 torpor over 50 min. Meaning you won't have to worry about its torpor for 50+ minutes.

This is how you tame Theri and Giga, becomes super easy if you just use the narcoberries properly. Then you don't need to babysit the creature to make sure its torpor doesn't drop, you know for sure it won't wake up for a long time when it regains torpor.

*I think numbers are correct, but might be some mistake idk.

And the only real reason to use anything other than berries is simple availability. If you already have a large storage full of narcotics just use those, who cares. If you're middle of ocean etc just use biotoxin since it is locally available. Narcotics store indefinitely so that's basically the only real benefit and you likely farmed xp by making tons amyway.