Taming parasaur?

[Skoliosis Ryttaris]

I'm new to the game and ive never come across an issue with taming parasaurs but today i played on my sp world, trying to tame a parasaur. I bola it and rock it with slingshot like ive done every other time. But instead of getting unconcious it died, 3 times in a row? what am i doing wrong

[PBandjellyfish]

They take double damage when hit in the head but still the same torpor.
A low wild health stat can be a factor, previously being wounded by wild dinos is also a factor.

Slingshot torpor is instant.

[Skoliosis Ryttaris]

Originally posted by PBandjellyfish:

They take double damage when hit in the head but still the same torpor.
A low wild health stat can be a factor.

Slingshot torpor is instant.

I didn't understand a word you said, what is torpor

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

You got unlucky. The torpor of a creature goes up with its level, but the health doesn't always get leveled up, so sometimes parasaurs will have too little health to be knocked out with a rock and slingshot.

[Skoliosis Ryttaris]

Originally posted by Chaser the Tiny Hippo:

You got unlucky. The torpor of a creature goes up with its level, but the health doesn't always get leveled up, so sometimes parasaurs will have too little health to be knocked out with a rock and slingshot.

Okay i see, so I'm doing everything correctly but was just unlucky?

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

Originally posted by PBandjellyfish:

They take double damage when hit in the head but still the same torpor.
A low wild health stat can be a factor.

Slingshot torpor is instant.

Torpor scales with damage.

Originally posted by Olle:

Originally posted by PBandjellyfish:

They take double damage when hit in the head but still the same torpor.
A low wild health stat can be a factor.

Slingshot torpor is instant.

I didn't understand a word you said, what is torpor

Everything, including you, has a torpor stat. If the torpor stat fills up on a dino, it will get knocked out.
Your goal when taming something is to knock it out, so you have to fill up its torpor with a weapon like a slingshot.

Originally posted by Olle:

Originally posted by Chaser the Tiny Hippo:

You got unlucky. The torpor of a creature goes up with its level, but the health doesn't always get leveled up, so sometimes parasaurs will have too little health to be knocked out with a rock and slingshot.

Okay i see, so I'm doing everything correctly but was just unlucky?

Yes. It's rather unlikely for a parasaur to have low enough health to die from the slingshot instead of get knocked out, so you just had a bad luck streak.

[Bulborb87]

Olie once a creature is knocked out you need to feed the creature it's prefered food (for a parasaur is goes: berries (tinto, azul & amar)> mejoberries> advanced crops> kibble)

you also need to keep the creature asleep to continue the taming process (not every creature are a knockout tame as some are passive tames) so you need to force feed the creature Narcoberries, Narcotics or Bio Toxin

[Humpenstilzchen]

In my opinion the best thing you can do is to kill small creatures for meat and gather narcoberries so you can craft narcotics.
Craft as much narcotics as you can, you will level up quite fast with this method and then unlock the tranq arrows.
With tranq arrows taming will be a lot easier.

[swagNswift]

You should probably get a trike to protect your parasaur, they're not that strong.

[HeManCan]

Consider getting the Super Spyglass mod. It shows you current numeric health/torpor of dinos.