Any way to tame a mammoth with high effectiveness?

[Splosions]

Knocked out a lvl 5 mammoth and started with 80% effectiveness. He is only 1/4 tamed and his effectiveness is down to 40% only feeding him narcotic and mejo berries.

[Uzi [OTG]]

Supposedly there are recopies based on berries that are the equivalent of prime meat
for meat eaters.

I've been unable to confirm if any of the special cook foods work. I did try
with some berry eaters in solo offline play by using console cheats to spawn
some of the special cooked foods. None I tried were accepted as food by the
slumbering berry eaters.

[Hades]

Starvation.

Feed him nothing until he's almost zero food... but keep him under with narcs.

Then drop a tonne of mojoberries in him....

[DebaucheryMeister]

Originally posted by Storm:

Starvation.

Feed him nothing until he's almost zero food... but keep him under with narcs.

Then drop a tonne of mojoberries in him....

this has been proven as false as they lose taming effectiveness everytime they eat

[Endfear]

Originally posted by Storm:

Starvation.

Feed him nothing until he's almost zero food... but keep him under with narcs.

Then drop a tonne of mojoberries in him....

That's been proven not to work plus the taming effectiveness would still go down.

[Arsenic_Touch]

There is currently no method to increase taming effectiveness outside of prime meat for carnivores.

Use a scorpion for the best starting effectiveness though.

[Hades]

Originally posted by MAIL919:

Originally posted by Storm:

Starvation.

Feed him nothing until he's almost zero food... but keep him under with narcs.

Then drop a tonne of mojoberries in him....

this has been proven as false as they lose taming effectiveness everytime they eat

Narcotics, not narcoberries.

[Li Shengshun/Bk-201]

Originally posted by Storm:

Originally posted by MAIL919:

this has been proven as false as they lose taming effectiveness everytime they eat

Narcotics, not narcoberries.

Narcotics drop the food of dinos aswell, thus they eat more/faster and the effectivness drops aswell. Starving does nothing.

[Pandah Sykes]

I've hard that narco berrys are more suited for keeping herbivores unconscious while narcotics are better for carnivores , who knows if that's true but like others have said don't starve him , make sure you tranq arrow him in the face a couple times to ensure a high taming effectiveness at first , and try and feed him narcotic/narcoberrys/food very conservatively as these things bring down effectiveness ...

[hostage67]

I have heard that Savoroot is like prime meat for herbivores but have not had a chance to actually test it yet. Savoroot is one of the seeds that are randomly dropped and can be farmed to create the edible part. But it has a low expiration timer (like prime meat) so you'd likely have to tranq the dino somewhere near your base for this to be effective.

If you do test this and it works be sure to let us know.

[hostage67]

Originally posted by Strawberry Rhubarb Pie:

I've hard that narco berrys are more suited for keeping herbivores unconscious while narcotics are better for carnivores , who knows if that's true but like others have said don't starve him , make sure you tranq arrow him in the face a couple times to ensure a high taming effectiveness at first , and try and feed him narcotic/narcoberrys/food very conservatively as these things bring down effectiveness ...

That use to be the case, but isn't anymore. Now Narco Berries and Narcotics are equally effective on both herbivores and carnivores.

- Taming effectiveness is based on their % health, so the fewer shots you can down them in the better.
- Headshots are more effective than body shots at downing your prey
- Tranq arrows take 10 secs to be fully applied after being hit.
- Tranq arrows are the most effective way to tranq an animal
- Taming effectiveness is dropped any time the dinosaur eats (narcotics/narcos not effected)
- Force Feeding your dino quickly drops his taming effectiveness
- Using bow, slingshot, fists, etc... to keep him under works, but does drop his taming effectiveness. Also watch his health as you can kill him this way.

[Hades]

Originally posted by Li Shengshun/Bk-201:

Originally posted by Storm:

Narcotics, not narcoberries.

Narcotics drop the food of dinos aswell, thus they eat more/faster and the effectivness drops aswell. Starving does nothing.

Dude... just don't give it ANY food and the taming effectiveness bar never starts. Once its food is down to like 5%... drop the food in. It wil eat non-stop and taming effectiveness stays high.

I just did it twice last night so don't be telling me it doesn't work.

[Splosions]

so started at 80% ended at 25%, nothing I could have done better. BS

[FedTonyHD]

Storm, you don't get it. It doesn't make any difference if the sleeping creature is eating over time or in one rush. He needs to eat as often as always. Foodpoints / 30 (mejos) or /50 (raw meat) / 150 (Prime Meat) = Times they have to eat. If you had high effectivness then you were just lucky. Maybe you didn't do much damage, tamed a really low level creature or you got confused with a dino eating prime meat. I tamed about 15 Creatures the recent 5 days and some of them got starved and some don't, never did it do anything different. And i tame only lv 87/90 Creatures.

Edit: What i can tell thou is that it is helpful to get Dinos with lower base Foodpoints. I once tried to tame a mammoth wich started out with like 20k Foodbar. He would have taken 10+ hrs. I tried it out, but after 15-30min i stopped. The Progress was nearly non existant.

[Scottious]

so prime meat restores 150 food? interesitng. cause when the carnivore dino is 50 food below full he will eat a prime meat. what that means is if you starve the carnivore he gets less eating rotations in of prime compared to if he is constantly monitored and fed from full.

[FedTonyHD]

He will indeed eat at 50 food. But his affinity (a hidden value based on the foodmeter) will go up 150 instead of 50. Thats why you get a higher taming progress on the tamed carnivore. You surely noticed that the carnivores need to eat less often feeding them prime meat. Maybe i just formulated badly for the above post. Its not that they need to feed the whole foodmeter in actual food, the need to get a affinity level to end the taming wich is as high as their food meter.