ARK: Survival
Taming Time & Levels
Nothing you can configure affects taming as much as the server multipliers, and they pull in two directions at once: how long a tame takes, and how high the creature's level ends up. This works out both, using the values your server really runs.
Taming Time & Levels
There is no creature database here on purpose — find your dino's base taming time, and this applies your server's multipliers to it.
Taming time on your server
60 min at 1×, divided by 1×
Bonus levels
Half the creature level, scaled by effectiveness
Level once tamed
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How the numbers are worked out
Your TamingSpeedMultiplier divides the time: set it twice as high and you wait half as long. Levels work separately, and are widely misunderstood. On top of its wild level a tame receives bonus levels equal to half that level, multiplied by the share of taming effectiveness still intact at the end. Full effectiveness on a level 150 creature means seventy-five bonus levels and a finished level of 225; finish at three-quarters effectiveness and a quarter of that bonus is gone.
The formula
- taming minutes = base minutes ÷ TamingSpeedMultiplier
- bonus levels = floor(creature level × 0.5 × effectiveness)
- final level = creature level + bonus levels
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Common mistakes
You enter the base taming time yourself, and that is a choice, not an omission. Hundreds of creatures can be tamed, each with its own food values and torpor rates, and patches keep shifting them; a lookup table we could not maintain would be confidently wrong across the board. Look up your creature's base time, then use this to see what your server's settings make of it. And because effectiveness falls as the creature eats, put in the effectiveness it will finish at rather than where it begins.
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