Taming a carno, way too long to be normal

[Turbat]

so I'm taming a carno on a new server I mounted. all settings are on default and I'm feeding him both prime and regular meat, which is easy with a good raptor, and can round up tons of narcoberries with my trike. still, it takes litteral hours.

is there something I'm doing wrong?
I'm lvl 23 and he's 14, it should "speed up" things. he didn't get attacked, I got him as much variety in food I could for a carnivorous
still it takes hours (48 ingame hours have past for only 2/3 of the taming bar)
if that's how it's meant, this is stupid as hell, there is no challenge or difficulty, just a test of patience

don't get me wrong, I'm not looking for a "taming should be easier 'cause I'm a wimp/harder 'cause I have stuff to compensate" debate. I'm not talking easier, just less of a cactus up the arse.
I should also clarify I'm not looking to discuss realism. I'm talking about what is to me a gameplay issue (and if we're talking realism, I don't think knocking out a carnosaurus with a slingshot and forcefeeding him meat while he's on drug fits).

I know about kibble but haven't tried them yet (need eggs for taming/need taming for eggs) is the difference SO important?

long story short: if not to make it shorter, is there at least a way to make the taming automatic or more interesting? having to be focused on such a menial task for HOURS is just ridiculous and insulting.


*please no bragging about how taming should be longer as it's just typical PVP talk for "I don't want new players to have a chance against me" and would be off-topic, thank you.

[White, the Loiterer]

I personally recommened making some good'ol Carno kibble. Also I don't see why your level would "speed things up". Also Prime Jerky is a god-send.

[JasonB]

Originally posted by WarlordOfRome:

I personally recommened making some good'ol Carno kibble. Also I don't see why your level would "speed things up". Also Prime Jerky is a god-send.

Prime jerky is only 1.5X speed right? Raw Prime is 3X and Kibble is 5X. Prime jerky is not much more useful then regular raw meat.

[White, the Loiterer]

Originally posted by JasonB:

Originally posted by WarlordOfRome:

I personally recommened making some good'ol Carno kibble. Also I don't see why your level would "speed things up". Also Prime Jerky is a god-send.

Prime jerky is only 1.5X speed right? Raw Prime is 3X and Kibble is 5X. Prime jerky is not much more useful then regular raw meat.

I apologize, I never used Prime Jerky and I had multiple people in my server say it was mighty, and these people tend to be reliable.

[Turbat]

damn, so basically, the advice would be not to tame anything above a trike before you can make jerky? I have to admit I could live with a 25min carno tame tho, even if it means preparing for a while. I mean, two hours just standing on a beach... c'mon!

now what would it mean for the biggest ones? I roamed the wiki but there's no estimation of the total time I could find, just this "time" value that doesn't seem to mean anything (is it the time it takes between two bites of food?)

[🅶ila]

Kibble.

There's a progression chart on the official Wiki page of kibble progression. (Tame this dino, and get it's eggs to make kibble to tame this dino, and so on and so forth.)

48h in-game doesn't seem to be that long. I've spent an entire day cycle taming some of the lesser creatures, so it would serve to function that larger, more advanced dinos would take longer.

[Turbat]

indeed. I meant kibble, not jerky.
thanks everyone for the helpful answers
it sure sucks for singleplayer as the system still forces you to stand by the creature (I would LOVE a way to transport them, only having to tame on the spot for the biggest ones)

still, I now know I paid in time what I add not in preparation, feels better than "and now, sit doing nothing for two hours"

[zeshinizumi]

You should also only be feeding it primes or kibble tbh..feeding a mix is causing it to take longer than if you had gone with just prime.....also narcoberries? You really should be using narcotics.

[🅶ila]

Nah, since the taming time is so long, just load it up with Torpor, food; and check back on it every so often.

Plus, I read somewhere that dinos can drag things the same as you can. ("G" key, I think?) Not sure if a Carno is too big to be drug, but I would think a Trike or turtle could probably cart one off - they can carry a crap ton of weight.

[Anodin]

Originally posted by Turbat:

damn, so basically, the advice would be not to tame anything above a trike before you can make jerky? I have to admit I could live with a 25min carno tame tho, even if it means preparing for a while. I mean, two hours just standing on a beach... c'mon!

now what would it mean for the biggest ones? I roamed the wiki but there's no estimation of the total time I could find, just this "time" value that doesn't seem to mean anything (is it the time it takes between two bites of food?)

You do not need to make kibble for a fast tame. Cooked prime helps speed things up and have that in it's inventory while hunting fresh raw prime which is second only to kibble.

I enjoyed taming carnivores before kibble. Running around getting raw prime while also keeping the tame area as safe as possible made taming a little challenging and improved the taming effectiveness as well.

[MagickMike]

You could try the starving approach. It doesn't make the taming faster at all, but if you keep letting its hunger go down and keeping it under. Then mass dump a bunch of prime meats on it...technically it is faster then running around and getting prime after prime after prime back and forth. Keep it under untill like its 1/4 of hunger left and dump in like 30 primes.

[🅶ila]

You lose taming progress if you let it run out of food..

[Anodin]

Originally posted by Gila:

You lose taming progress if you let it run out of food..

If you are refering to Mike's post just before your post I quoted he is talking about not feeding the animal anything then dumping a bunch of raw prime in. It is highly effective if you can get a bunch of prime meat. You can wait until the food drops enough, load the prime all at once at the end and the taming can complete almost instantly at that point, as long as one gets enough raw prime.

[MagickMike]

Yes you will loose progress if you put in food and then it eats and runs out. Not if you leave it withot any food at all and only narcos untill its hunger is down really far and then mass dump in prime or kibble...if you run out of primes and its still taming then you just throw in some reg meat.

[Uvea]

Change your taming speed to 4x , i cant play with it less than that :P im only casualy gaming for about 2-3hrs a night once or twice a week so i dont have the time to wait for hours like you say.

[🅶ila]

Ah, you mean initially letting it run out.

I thought you were talking about filling it up, then letting it run hungry, then filling it back up again. :D