Taming Experience - The best way to tame a dino

[NineMills]

Figuring out the best and most effective way of taming a dino.

I heard that if you starve but keep the dino knocked out, then when the dino's food is on 100, you pile all food in at the same time.

This increases the speed in which a pet is tamed and increases the stats of the pet too?

[DredSilent]

Some notes on taming. Spam feeding them foods they don't like reduces hunger, but its actually slower then the normal tick rate. The other con to this is it reduces their taming efficiency rating.

The best and simplest way is to just tranq a dino, let them sleep until they get to the starving point, then shove the best food on them, there are plenty of guides out there explaining which to use.

For carnivores, using prime raw meat greatly increases the tame rate. It is most worth getting a shark, because he can get hordes of prime raw meat to be used with taming other dinos... just try to find the dinos near the shore :)

[chowriit]

Starving does nothing over letting them eat at their own rate, it's been tested and is a complete myth.

[PocketYoda]

Początkowo opublikowane przez TGVaccaro:

Does anyone know how to tame a Tryceratops fast? What is his favourite berry/food?

The pink/purple berries are their fav.

Get 100+ Narcotics add them let its health get to say 50 and the berries watch the taming go up fast as... Profit..

Keep the Narco up while it starves..

Now does the starving take the same amount of time as the fully fed taming, your guess is as good as mine, for me they are approximately the same..

[Cthuluhoop]

Letting it starve makes no difference.

If it goes hungry and you immediately feed it, then let it go hungry and feed it immediately or you let it go hungry twice and you feed it twice immediately it still takes the same time.

It would only work if the longer it was hungry, the faster it dropped.

You can use stimberries though to increase its hunger but this means you need double the narcoberries to keep it knocked out.

[UnbowedUnbentUnbroken]

I haven't tried the starving method yet, so I have a question: Do you have a taming effectiveness level before you put food in the dino?

Because if not, then starving the dino could ensure that you have the maximum effectiveness and thus the highest stat boost to your new tame.

[Galroche]

Does forcing the stim/narco reduce is taming efficienty ? if that's the case it's a pretty useless combo because the time require to tame it increase, no ?

[PocketYoda]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Galroche:

Does forcing the stim/narco reduce is taming efficienty ? if that's the case it's a pretty useless combo because the time require to tame it increase, no ?

It does if you spam it, if you narco just after it feeds it doesn't.

[Lurk]

I'm rather impressed with my poor glitched Didi the dilo. The poor thing fell off a cliff into a rock you can't destroy 2 days ago and is still alive. Can't get it out, can't call it to me. If I crouch I can see its tail but it is stuck.

I suspect when I log on tonight it will have eventually starved to death...

[Badankadonk]

This was tested and proven to be false on reddit. It takes just as long starving first.

[Quickie]

Found this on a search and it seems to be true from what I have experienced thus far.

*Argentavis (Vulture): Spoiled Meat

*Bat:

*Carbonemys (Turtle): Yellow Berries

*Sarco (Croc): Raw Meat. 2-3 Hours (I Suppose that would be around 150-200 Narcotics?)

*Dodo: Yellow Berries. 5 Minutes. 1 Narcotics.

*Mammoth: ??? Berries. 2.5-3 Hours. (I Suppose that would be around 150-200 Narcotics?)

*Megalodon (Shark): Raw Meat

*Phiomia (Proto-Elephant): Purple Berries

*Piranha: Raw Meat

*Pteranodon: Raw Meat. 1 Hour @ lvl 1. 25-30 Narcotics.

*Sabertooth: Raw Meat

*Pumonoscorpius (Scorpion): Spoiled Meat

*Spider:

*Carnotaurus (Horned Rex): Raw Meat. 1.5-2 Hours. (I Suppose that would be around 150 Narcotics?)

*Tyranosaurus: Raw Meat. 2-4 Hours. (I Suppose that would be around 200 Narcotics?)

*Raptor: Raw Meat. 30-45 Minutes. 25-30 Narcotics.

*Brontosaurus: Blue Berries. 3-4 Hours. (I Suppose that would be around 200 Narcotics?)

*Ankylosaurus: Purple Berries. 2 Hours. (I Suppose that would be around 100 Narcotics?)

*Dilophosaur: Raw Meat. 5-10 Minutes. 2-3 Narcotics.

*Parasaur (Elvis): Blue/Purple Berries. 20-30 Minutes. 10-15 Narcotics

*Spinosaur: Raw Meat

*Stegosaurus: Blue/Red Berries. 2 Hours. (I Suppose that would be around 100 Narcotics?)

*Triceratops: Red/Purple Berries

*Titanoboa (Snake): Raw Meat.

[Nokeel]

THE rule is : taming bar goes up with each bit of food the dino eats!

So the fastest way to tame a dino is :

- let him starve. Going to 0 food is no problem if he has health left. (why go to 100?? just stupid number)

- giving him narcoberries also decreases his foodmeter. So keeping him asleep helps accelerating his hunger too. (If you have looots of berries, force feed him even more than needed to keep him asleep, it will accelerate the whole process)
Giving spoiled meat also helps for carnivores to accelerate his hunger.

- Once at 0 food, instantly put a lot of his favorite food in it. Meat for carnivors, berries for herbivors. (or see above message for more details)

- he will eat until his foodmeter is full again. Tamingthen mostly goes up to 75-95%depending on food and level; (prime meat will always be better than raw meat, a higher level will always require a bit more time/food)

- then keep him asleep and wait until he eats again and again as his food-meter drops again. Or force feed him again with narco berries to make it drop faster again.

- So all in all, taming time is mostly depending on food stat of dino. (it will take less time to go from 200 to 0, then from 4000 to 0)


So have a loooooot of narcoberries, enough food for the dino you want to tame and it will take you about 20-30min to 1h max for almost any dino.


When i started the game, it took me more than 3 hours to tame a carno, because I put all the meat directly in him and had to wait for his food to go from 4000/4000 to 3980/4000 each time before he ate a meat. Now it only takes average 30-40 minutes total.

Enjoy your taming guys! :)

[Xuhybrid]

Starving it for an hour them taming it for 30 minutes is not a 30 minute tame...

[RollingTrojan]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Xuhybrid:

Starving it for an hour them taming it for 30 minutes is not a 30 minute tame...

Indeed this, its complete theory that starving it saves time on the tame.. it doesn't. Starving a Stegasaurus for 6000 food, takes just as long for him to eat it, regardless.

Throw food in, berries/narcotics in straight away, go mine, gather wood, more berries etc.. and keep busy while waiting

[ll_Vaporware_ll]

Początkowo opublikowane przez JokesERc:

Figuring out the best and most effective way of taming a dino.

I heard that if you starve but keep the dino knocked out, then when the dino's food is on 100, you pile all food in at the same time.

This increases the speed in which a pet is tamed and increases the stats of the pet too?

Don't bother. I tried this with 2 trikes. Makes no difference fed or starved.

[Nokeel]

Thing is you can starve him faster by force feeding him narco-berries...

Even if his torpor gets to max, he still will eat the berries. And each one will starve him faster.
So using more than needed to just keep him asleep will accelerate the whole process.