How to take out a dinosaur in ARK: Survival Evolved (2024)

To take out a dinosaur in ARK: Survival Evolved, you need to hit it with a weapon that stuns you, such as stun darts, stun arrows, aPulmonoscorpiusor even your fists.

Each dinosaur has a fixed amount of stun that must be filled before it is knocked out. UsingDododex's Knock Out Calculator allows you to calculate how many hits are needed from each weapon.

Be careful not to kill the creature

Note that because weapons also deal damage, it is sometimes possible to kill the creature instead of incapacitating it.

A wild creature's health is randomly assigned, so it's not always 100% possible to determine whether to kill a creature or not.Dododex's "probability of death" featurecalculates the probability that your specific weapon will kill a creature of a certain level.

Better weapons generally reduce the risk of death

More advanced weapons will have a higher onetorpor: injury condition, which will reduce the risk of death.

However, in some rare cases, stronger weapons can sometimes even be too powerful for low-level dinos with very low health (especially if you include a headshot multiplier). For example, imagine that a dinosaur's required torpor is 100 and your weapon has 80 torpor. Because the weapon is so powerful, firing twice causes an additional 80 torpor (and some corresponding damage), while with a weaker weapon (such as 20 torpor) you can get exactly 100 torpor - and no excess damage.

How Torpor Infliction works in ARK

One of the most common misconceptions about ARK is how stun is created when KOing a dino.

1. It is best to hit every 5 seconds.

Most weapons (bow, crossbow, rifle) cause stunfor a period of 5 seconds. Then the anesthetic supply stops for 1 second before tapering off. This means the creature is stunnedstarts to empty after 6 seconds, so it's best to shoot every 5 seconds.

2. Torpor speed varies per dinosaur (and increases with level)

The torpor speed varies per dinosaur. Stronger dinos usually (but not always) have higher torpor speeds, and even a few seconds past the 6 second mark can compensate for multiple shots. Dododex displays the speed during the torpor section and marks it as high or low. A higher level also means a higher torpor speed.

Real example:If you shoot a level 30Gigawith a Tranq Dart, and then shoot it again within 7 seconds, the 1 second gap (last 6 seconds) almost compensating for ALL the stun you inflicted from the first shot. But the Giga has an unusually high torpor speed.)

Dinos with the highest Torport percentage:

  1. Giganotosaurus(120 torpor/s at level 1, increasing with each level)
  2. Wyvern(includedKristal Wyvern) (25/s)
  3. Mosasaurus(12,8/s)
  4. Dimetrodon(5/s)
  5. The most important(4,18/s)
  6. Megalania(3,6/s)
  7. Pachyrhinosaurus(3,5/s)
  8. Quetzal(3,4/s)
  9. Therizinosaurus(2,83/s)
  10. Visser(2,8/s)

3. Torpor piles. Don't shoot too fast.

The stun from each hit accumulates. Shooting too quickly doesn't "waste" the stun (a common misconception), but it does withdraw the stun, which can make it difficult to decide whether to continue shooting.

Example:A dino needs 10 arrows, but you shot all 10 so quickly that it isn't KOed because it's only hit ~7 arrows worth of stun so far. Some players keep shooting because it's not KOing, but all you have to do is wait for the delay to pass.

However, it can be useful to shoot a little faster than 5 seconds (which allows the stun to build up) if you know you might miss some shots (especially for faster dinos). This way if you miss a shot the stun doesn't start to wear off because it's still running through the backlog.

4. Dododex is responsible for the depletion of anesthesia

Dododexis the only app that includes stun exhaustion in KO calculations. You can use the 'seconds between hits' setting (available on the website and in the app) to accurately determine how many resources you need based on your expected hit rate.

TL;DR:

Always try to shoot at a ~5 second pace, but you can shoot a little faster if you expect to miss. Check the dino's torpor speed on the Dododex to determine the importance of hitting at the correct speed.

  • High rate + high level= Timing is crucial. Don't miss any time gaps and don't leave any time gaps
  • Low rate + low level= Time differences are not that big
How to take out a dinosaur in ARK: Survival Evolved (2024)

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How to take out a dinosaur in ARK: Survival Evolved? ›

To knock out a dinosaur in ARK: Survival Evolved, you must hit it with an torpor-inflicting weapon, such as tranq arrows, tranq darts, a Pulmonoscorpius or even your fists.

How do you release a dinosaur in Ark? ›

Releasing Creatures

To do this, walk up to your tamed animal, hit the menu button, and select the option to release that creature.

How do you get a dinosaur out of the ground in Ark? ›

Move to a river/lake/ocean, the dino will follow you and when you get to water somewhere the dino should be able to move right out of the island, back into the world.

How do you get rid of Rex in Ark? ›

Fire something at it, (I recommend a gun of some sort), to get its aggro. Let it follow you into the trap, and when the bear trap goes off, place the 4th gate in the opening you left. the Rex should be trapped now. Now, just fire your tranqs into it, (wait 5 seconds between each tranq) until it goes down.

How do you release a dinosaur? ›

To release a dino, use the flute to get them to follow you off the ranch. Once you're out in the valley, use it again to get their attention. The lower right corner prompts should have a flute sequence to tell them to return to the wild.

How do you move dinosaurs in Ark? ›

ARK Survival Evolved: Dino and Item Transfer
  1. Dino Upload: Go to an obelisk or loot drop with the dino. Open the dino's inventory there. ...
  2. Items Upload: Go to an obelisk or loot drop with the items. Open the inventory there. ...
  3. Download: When downloading dinos or items on the new map, the process is reversed.

How do you get a dinosaur out from under the map in Ark? ›

On single player you should be able to bring up the console and type 'ghost'. This will put you in a no-clip flying mode, which will allow you to fly down to them. You should then be able to mount them, which will temporarily cancel 'ghost', so you'll have to type 'ghost' into the console again.

How do you get a dino unstuck in Ark? ›

1 person rides the creature that is stuck, the other person flies a Quetzal with a platform saddle and ramps built onto the saddles, use the ramps to get underneath the creature and manoeuvre it free. This should act as leverage to pry it free from it's stuck position.

How do you knock out dinosaurs in Ark? ›

To knock out a dinosaur in ARK: Survival Evolved, you must hit it with an torpor-inflicting weapon, such as tranq arrows, tranq darts, a Pulmonoscorpius or even your fists. Each dinosaur has a set torpor amount that must be filled out before it gets knocked out.

How do you delete animals in Ark? ›

Look@ Dino > Type in console Kill. Ded dino. If the kill command doesnt work you could pop into godmode (admincheat god) and then while looking at the giga use admincheat destroymytarget. be warned, this will basically delete anything you are targeting , building, wild or tamed creatures and even tribemates.

Can you disable leedsichthys ark? ›

The Leedsichthys, or simply Leeds, is a fast and tanky aquatic mount that is able to transport up to 5 water creatures at once. The mod also features a large amount of configs to adjust their damage and aggression towards rafts, including disabling it entirely.

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