how do the saddles work?

[Electroflux]

can't seem to figure out how to actually use them.

[Awkward Mongoose]

Each creature has a saddle slot when you view their inventory. Place it there. near the upper right.

[Joreel]

How do you make a saddle and where is the one they gave us?

[Electroflux]

how do i view their inventory? i'm standing next to a phioma or whatever it's called

[StudioWildcard]

Get a tamed dino of that species, then press F in front of the tamed dino to access its inventory, then put the saddle on it. (Note that better saddles from blueprints may have better durability and armor ratings) Finally, press E on the dino to hop on and mount it, and away you go :)

[Electroflux]

and i tame it, how? lol

[StudioWildcard]

Punch it out, or tranquilize it, and then put food that it likes into its inventory. (for canivores, generally, raw meat. herbivores, generally, berries. but there are other various likes and dislikes depending on the creature). Then wait and protect the creature until its tamed, which you can track on its taming meter that appears when near it :)

[Electroflux]

awesome, thanks for the help.

[Electroflux]

anyway to speed it up? gave it tons of berries but it looks like it might wake up before it's done being tamed. it seems to take quite a while

[Electroflux]

okay that was annoying. gave it tons of berries, waited forever and it wasn't tamed? i don't understand.

[Euri]

Originally posted by Electroflux:

okay that was annoying. gave it tons of berries, waited forever and it wasn't tamed? i don't understand.

I tamed a level 11 dino (the special saddle dino, dino names are super hard guys) a bit ago and can offer a couple tips.

You need to do the following:

1: Do NOT let the food in the dino's inventory run out, it will lose it's tamed bar over time with no food. This one is important as the tame bar goes down very quickly once out of food.

2: Keep it knocked out. Two ways that I know of to accomplish that. Force feed it narco berries, or shoot it in the head with a sling shot.

To force feed it choose the bottom option in the dino's inventory, something like manual use item. As for shooting it in the head, it does the job very well, but it also takes a chunck of health per shot so take care not to murder the poor beast.

Should be all you need to do.

[TheEagleREVOLVERmasterOCELOT-R8]

Hello, i have a problem with the special saddle: i have already tamed the beast But i dont know why i Can't transfert the saddle on the dino... any tip?

(The saddle is the special You start with, And The tamed dino is the one od the right type)

[Murderhorse]

The saddle is just a skin, you need to have access to the actual saddle in the tech tree.. not sure how to apply the skin to the dino though.

[Dalle]

i might be stupid but was wondering why there is a durability on a saddle since it dont break. so whats it for than?

[Draconix]

Originally posted by Electroflux:

how do i view their inventory? i'm standing next to a phioma or whatever it's called

Stand next to it and Press F key

Originally posted by Electroflux:

and i tame it, how? lol

Herbivores (Non meat eaters) eat berries, so give it berries, Mejoberry increase tame time.
Carnivores (Meat eaters) eat meat...

More on the subject.. read the following.

http://ark.gamepedia.com/Taming

Good luck!

Originally posted by Dalle:

i might be stupid but was wondering why there is a durability on a saddle since it dont break. so whats it for than?

Well your pets fight as you do, when you fight something, your armor/weapons get damaged the same applies to the saddle on Dinos when they fight something.

[Draconix]

Originally posted by SilverShooter86:

Hello, i have a problem with the special saddle: i have already tamed the beast But i dont know why i Can't transfert the saddle on the dino... any tip?

(The saddle is the special You start with, And The tamed dino is the one od the right type)

Its only for Parasaur, Drag and drop it on to the current saddle for Parasaur. It changes it. Same thing with the hat that comes with the game. Make yourself a hat and drag the one that comes with the game and apply it to said hat.