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.

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 · 14 Exceptional Kibble · 2268000000000 Narcotics · +71 levels (95% effective)

Estimated — exact food/time depend on in-game taming effectiveness; use as a guide.
Time to tame
~<1m
driven by Taming Speed Multiplier
Food needed
14 Exceptional Kibble
food count is fixed by the creature — your server settings only change the time
Keep it asleep
2268000000000 Narcotics
or 12096000000000 Narcoberries · or 1134000000000 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 2026-06-28. Times scale with your TamingSpeedMultiplier — read how it works.
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