Animal level cap

[Vartyr]

So I know that animals spawn between level 1 - 120 and that there is a "leveling up" cap, which is the number of levels the animal can level up after taming. I wanted to know when you tame a level 120 animal, is that animal at the level cap already or can you still level it up within the same "leveling up" cap parameter?

[DeadlyPaws]

Once an animal is tamed you can level them 50 times if I remember correctly. For example you tamed a lvl 120 raptor, and it got +40 bonus levels with the taming effectiveness. It would tame at 160 and you could level it up the additional 50 levels with a final level cap of 210.

[Demran]

Wild Dino's Levels on 4.0 Difficulty are between Level 1 and Level 120.
Taming Effectiveness adds bonus levels when Dinos are tamed as well.
At 100% Taming Effectiveness Dinos will get half of their Max Level as bonus.
So 100% TE Level 50 Rex will get +25 Bonus Levels / Level 100 Rex will get +50 Bonus Levels etc.

Of course on normal settings (Official Server settings) it is impossible to tame with 100% Effectiveness (Unless it is 1 Kibble tame I guess) - as far as I know a Level 120 Rex will get +51 Level Bonus (with around 85% Taming Effectiveness) if it is tamed with best possible food (Pulminoscorpicus Kibble for Rex's) on Official Server Settings.

Which will get him up to level 120+51=171
After that point your 50 Level Cap comes in to play. You can get +50 Levels on top of that Level. (Might be 49, I hit some Dino's to max level and suspecting that it is 49 not 50)

Which makes the possible Highest level Trained Dinosaur to;
Level 120 + 51 Bonus + 50 Trained Levels = 221 on Official Server Settings.

As a side note, it doesn't matter what level a Dinosaur is at after being Tamed, it will always require same amount of Xp to level up again (with training)

Example: You tamed 2 rex's. One of them is level 10 after Tame, the other is Level 100 after tame, it will take both of them only 10 xp to get to Level 11 and 101 respectively. (Out of 50 Train cap)

[Vartyr]

Originally posted by DeadlyPaws:

Once an animal is tamed you can level them 50 times if I remember correctly. For example you tamed a lvl 120 raptor, and it got +40 bonus levels with the taming effectiveness. It would tame at 160 and you could level it up the additional 50 levels with a final level cap of 210.

ok got it. Is it possible to get more than +40 bonus levels with the taming effectiveness or is that also the cap of bonus levels?
Thanks for the answer :D

[DeadlyPaws]

Also for taming I just found this site and thought it would be helpful in your adventures in ARK. http://ark.crumplecorn.com/taming/

[Vartyr]

Originally posted by DeadlyPaws:

Also for taming I just found this site and thought it would be helpful in your adventures in ARK. http://ark.crumplecorn.com/taming/

Really nice site.

Thank you both for the fast answers :D

[DeadlyPaws]

The bonus levels are based on the dino's level and you can get more than +40. :D