ARK: Survival Ascended
Taming Calculator

Pick a creature, choose your food, set your server's Taming Speed, and get estimated taming time, food count, narcotics, and bonus levels — all calculated from ARK's engine formulas. Vanilla (1×) by default. Covers the full ARK: Survival Ascended roster — all 120 creatures, verified against the ARK wiki.

Also try: ARK Breeding Calculator · ARK Stats Calculator

read off its health bar
0–100; affects bonus levels
Server multipliers — leave at 1 for vanilla

Set your server's GameUserSettings.ini values to see YOUR exact results. Sign up and NodeMesh reads them live.

Level 150 Rex

~<1m to tame · 17 Exceptional Kibble · 16303678399 Narcotics · +71 levels (95% effective)

Estimate — food count and time match the reference taming tables for a single-food knockout tame; your real in-game taming effectiveness (and mixing food types) can shift the totals. Use as a close guide.
Time to tame
~<1m
driven by Taming Speed Multiplier
Food needed
17 Exceptional Kibble
food count is fixed by the creature — your server settings only change the time
Keep it asleep
16303678399 Narcotics
or 86952951458 Narcoberries · or 8151839200 Bio Toxin
driven by Wild Dino Torpor Drain Multiplier
Bonus levels
+71 levels
tames at level 221 (95% effective)
Vanilla defaults · taming data last verified 2026-07-07. Times scale with your TamingSpeedMultiplier — read how it works.
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