Taming a scorpion... Anyone successfully done it?

[Joreel]

If so how long did it take and what food did you use?

[Trumpster]

taming them is easy, be a man and punch it with your fists till it passes out!!!

[Zerat_KJ]

lvl 21, 60x sleep beries + 5 narcotic, 35 - 40 spoiled meat, 11 in game hours

[Brawnkoh]

We haven't tried feeding them rotten meat as someone else suggested, just regular meat (we've probably spent more time on it because of that). They also don't eat prime meat. It's pretty risky to try to knock them out without tranq arrows. They're fun to use, but they can't swim.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=457809786

[Alakki]

My Tribe tamed one (or rather, I tames one)
it eats Raw Meat, and i used Narcotics to sedate it.

Hope this helps :)
And it took about 1 daytime's time.

[Venae]

Taming a scorpion: Best practice.

1. Knock it out. Keep it knocked out.

First off, knock it out at range, you don't want to be close enough to be stung! Using tranq arrows is best, otherwise use slingshot.

Once knocked out, fill up with Narcoberries or Narcotics, whatever you prefer. I found my trike was brilliant for quickly collecting 100x stacks of Narcoberries. The most important thing here is to keep it unconcious. If you've got some spoiled meat somewhere, use it.


2. It's taming time!

Now for taming it. It only eats spoiled meat. The best way of obtaining Spoiled Meat, especially if you haven't got any, is to find a quick source of Raw Meat. Packs of Dodo's, Fish (Coelacanth), or even a large Dino if you can.

Here's the trick! Do NOT stack the Raw Meat. Keep it all seperate, individual pieces of Spoiled Meat spoil faster. Use Ctrl + Drag to split a stack by one. This will mean that ALL the Raw Meat in your Inventory will spoil all at once, not one at a time when it's stacked up.

It took me about 25 pieces of Spoiled Meat for a Level 7 Scorpion.


3. It's feeding time!

Now for feeding it. After you successfully tame the scorpion(s), it will eat both Raw and Spoiled Meat, but will prefer Spoiled Meat.

Bonus intel.

If you use your Scorpion(s) to kill prey, exercise caution!

Scorpions will 'eat' the dead wildlife they kill/find if given the chance. You can use this to your advantage, as they keep the items obtained by 'eating' in their inventory, like your character does when harvesting meat/hide etc.


Hope this helps, and clears up some confusion!

[Michaelsaurus]

it took me 2 tranq arrows and it was out 17 spoiled meat and it was tamed, scorp was level 5 when i tamed it

[MikeHawk]

Joreel eredeti hozzászólása:

Hanks for responding, I'd love to tame one, but they are really hard to catch it seems.

Just kite it and shoot it with Tranq arrows or sling shot, Make sure you have lots of Narco berries and spoiled meat before attempting to tame one.

[Kaptain Teemo]

Scorpion is stuck at the cave entrance and cant get out. any one knows how to fix this?

[Gladiator]

I tamed my first Scorpion earlier tonight. It was level 4, and I took it down (unconscious) after 5 or 6 tranquilizer arrows.

They prefer spoiled meat. I put 65 in, and I didn't keep track but I doubt it ate much more than 20 or 25.

If you use narcotics to keep the torpidity up, it won't decrease the taming effectiveness like using a narcoberry will (the scorpion is not a herbivore).

It didn't take very long to tame. One in-game night cycle.

It's a great pet stat wise, I was really impressed!

[Zalzany]

Lowere levels are prefered we caught tonight, not sure how many tranq arrows, took the guy a little over an hour I think. But he had a huge pild of meat on his old mount already with 120 spoiled on it. Keep in mind meat lats longer on a dino, so store raw and even rotten on your other dinos and from what I can see there is no limit on how many you can have just have to be carefull and hit U when you a distance away then hit J once its out cold or they will finish off your taming target thinking they are defending you.

After I learned that meat trick I always store mine on the dihlos or whatver is with me it works wonders as even the rotten they got lasts a while especialy nice when I want to make more narco and need to get berries to go with it. In fact its easier for me to pile up spoiled meat and store it then to find narco berries now. Need to learn how to use the tribes berrie gathering mount or keep testing out farming the berries.