ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Immersive Taming
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Burgesssssss  [developer] Jan 5, 2018 @ 6:11pm
Default Supported Dinos and Baits
For any players who installed the mod previously but have not played in some time, a one time reset of Immersive Taming settings may required for default bait prefs to repopulate if you're seeing unusual bait preferences. See the Customization thread for more details.

Food Baits

By default, bait desirability is determined by if the Dino would normally eat the bait ingredient when tamed, as opposed to its original preferred taming foods.

However, you can edit bait preferences on a per species basis using the Immersive Taming Settings menu. See this thread for more info.

Simply drop the bait from your hotbar or shoot from a bow, crossbow or compound bow to initiate the tame and attract a supported dino. Can also handfeed baits if taming is above 35% and the bait is on the last item in the hotbar. Handfeeding grants a 15% bonus by default.

Berry Bag - Any dino that eats Mejoberries when tamed.
Veggie Bag - Any dino that eats Veggie Base (Any vegetable) when tamed.
Botany Bale - Any dino that also eats Veggie Base (Any vegetable) when tamed.
Raw Meat - Any dino that eats Raw Meat when tamed.
Raw Prime Meat - Any dino that eats Raw Prime Meat when tamed.
Raw Mutton - Any dino that eats Raw Mutton when tamed.
Raw Fish Meat - Any dino that eats Raw Fish Meat when tamed.
Raw Prime Fish Meat - Any dino that eats Raw Prime Fish Meat when tamed.
Blubber Bait - Any dino that eats Raw Prime Fish Meat when tamed.
Spoiled Meat - Any dino that eats Spoiled Meat when tamed.
Sulfur Rock - Any dino that eats eats Sulfur when tamed.
Aberrant Mushroom Bag Bait - Any dino that eats Plant Z Seeds when tamed.

In addition, the following dinos with stricter diets have also been manually added.
- Enabled Achatina to eat Berry, Veggie and Botany Baits.
- Enabled Procop to eat Veggie and Botany Baits
- Enabled Liopleurodon and Boa to eat non-spoiled Meat Baits.
- Enabled Archa to eat Spoiled Meat Baits
- Enabled any creature that is a child class of LanternPet to eat Aberrant Mushroom Bag Bait

Trophy Baits

Trophy Baits can be shot or thrown like regular Baits. Once investigated, specified Dinos will commence combat with the player. Taming progress will only increase by proving your worth in battle, by depleting the Dino's health by half. Once reached, target prevention will unlock, and the Dino can be fed food baits like a regular passive tame.

Rex Arm - Attracts Rexes and Rock Elementals for Combat Taming.
Spino Sail - Attracts Spinos, Plesiosaurs, Mosasaurs and Tusoteuthis for Combat Taming.
Yuty Lung - Attracts Yutyrannus and Therizinosaurus for Combat Taming.
Rock Drake Feather - Attracts Rock Drakes, Basilisks, Karkinos and Reapers * for Combat Taming.
Giga Heart - Attracts Gigas and Titanosaurs for Combat Taming.
Fire Wyvern Talon - Attracts Fire and Ice Wyverns for Combat Taming
Lightning Wyvern Talon - Attracts Lightning Wyverns for Combat Taming
Poison Wyvern Talon - Attracts Poison Wyverns for Combat Taming

Kibble Baits

Currently set to their vanilla preferences. Although dinos can by default be tamed with any kibble (albeit slowly if not their preferred one), don't worry about a random Dodo accidentally going for your Quetz kibble for your Giga. There's checks in place to ensure kibble baits only attract those dinos that eat it as their preferred food.

*Only specific Reapers can tamed, depending on how and where they're spawned. See this thread for more info.
Last edited by Burgesssssss; Sep 8, 2018 @ 8:52am
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Arqeph Jan 6, 2018 @ 5:02am 
Perfect, thanks for the list, and good luck with the rest of the creatures! (i wonder if the rock golem is going to give trouble.)
LuigiTheKuk Jan 8, 2018 @ 6:18am 
you've got 2 berry bag subtitles. I assume the second one is supposed to be the veggie bag?
Burgesssssss  [developer] Jan 8, 2018 @ 6:21am 
Originally posted by LuigiTheKuk:
you've got 2 berry bag subtitles. I assume the second one is supposed to be the veggie bag?

My bad. Fixed it there now.
Panzerbestie84 Jan 8, 2018 @ 9:50am 
I thought i could tame a rex with the prime meat baits arrows ... didnt work ...
Did I something wrong??
Burgesssssss  [developer] Jan 8, 2018 @ 10:10am 
Originally posted by Panzerbestie84 (Deathkorps):
I thought i could tame a rex with the prime meat baits arrows ... didnt work ...
Did I something wrong??

Not yet. Something else in the works for dinos that use Huge DinoSettings, such as the Rex.
AlphaGodith Jan 9, 2018 @ 11:12am 
why do stego and procoptodon require veggie instead of berry bags? the stego i would think would be the same as a trike as far as taming, and the procoptodon isn't a 'large' or 'huge' herbivore, either...
Burgesssssss  [developer] Jan 9, 2018 @ 11:42am 
Originally posted by Godith Shadowind:
why do stego and procoptodon require veggie instead of berry bags? the stego i would think would be the same as a trike as far as taming, and the procoptodon isn't a 'large' or 'huge' herbivore, either...

They use large DinoSettings, which is what the baits use to determine which Dinos should be attracted. DinoSettings themselves determine food preference, affinity, along with damage adjustments (large dinos taking more damage on spiked wallls) and the like.

It's hard to specify specific dinos, especially modded ones, without something universal that's shared, such as Dino Settings.
Gantros Jan 9, 2018 @ 2:30pm 
I'd like to confirm that the modded Gryphon (not Griffin) and the Deinonychus also work.
keister kid Jan 9, 2018 @ 6:26pm 
I had no luck getting Hyaenodon to work properly - I'd fire some bait at one, it would eat it, and I would approach it to pet it and examine its taming progress. However, the dino info window would never appear, and I'd typically startle the Hyaenodon, resetting the progress anyway. Perhaps there's some interference from vanilla's unique taming process for Hyaenodon. It's equally likely, though, that I'm just crap and doing something wrong. Input?
Zaxerino Jan 11, 2018 @ 10:28am 
Ptero meaning Pteranadon?
Fullmetal_Angyl Jan 11, 2018 @ 12:01pm 
Originally posted by kiester kid:
I had no luck getting Hyaenodon to work properly - I'd fire some bait at one, it would eat it, and I would approach it to pet it and examine its taming progress. However, the dino info window would never appear, and I'd typically startle the Hyaenodon, resetting the progress anyway. Perhaps there's some interference from vanilla's unique taming process for Hyaenodon. It's equally likely, though, that I'm just crap and doing something wrong. Input?
I don't know how stupid this sounds, but what about waiting a bit to make sure it's hungry and only the right animal eats it and continuing to shoot the food until it follows? Once it is far enough away from the others check its progress. The petting is an activity that helps with progression, but from what i've seen it isn't needed to get the animal following.
Last edited by Fullmetal_Angyl; Jan 11, 2018 @ 12:02pm
Burgesssssss  [developer] Jan 11, 2018 @ 12:32pm 
Originally posted by kiester kid:
I had no luck getting Hyaenodon to work properly - I'd fire some bait at one, it would eat it, and I would approach it to pet it and examine its taming progress. However, the dino info window would never appear, and I'd typically startle the Hyaenodon, resetting the progress anyway. Perhaps there's some interference from vanilla's unique taming process for Hyaenodon. It's equally likely, though, that I'm just crap and doing something wrong. Input?

Hi! That's actually specific to the default Hyaenodon. As it's a normal passive tame, it's taming progress actually decreases if it's close to the pack leader. So it's likely it's depleting faster than you can increase it via immersive taming methods. Dino specific things like this are in the pipeline to get corrected. For now, you can try separating one from the pack for a single tame, but it's unlikely you'll get a pack tame until I tweak this for the mod.
Burgesssssss  [developer] Jan 11, 2018 @ 12:33pm 
Originally posted by Zaxerino:
Ptero meaning Pteranadon?

That is correct!
Xeno Jan 11, 2018 @ 2:52pm 
Are you adding more dinosaurs to the list like the rex or giga and will there be an option so that you can tame a quetz?
Fullmetal_Angyl Jan 11, 2018 @ 7:06pm 
Originally posted by JustRandomFail:
Are you adding more dinosaurs to the list like the rex or giga and will there be an option so that you can tame a quetz?
Burg is working on adding baits made with bolts for the ballista (I think it's called) for bigger dinos like the rex. That's all I know on it, but I hope it helps.
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