🧮 Taming Calculator

ARK 2 Taming Calculator — Food, Time & Narcotics

Been playing ARK for years now and honestly the thing I hated most was doing taming math in my head or alt-tabbing to some janky calculator mid-game and forgetting the numbers and having to tab back and forth like five times and that's exactly why I built this thing because I got so sick of it honestly I mean just pick your creature and set the level and taming multiplier and boom you get exact numbers for how much food you need and how long it'll take and how many narcotics to bring and what your post-tame effectiveness and bonus levels will look like and all that stuff you'd otherwise have to calculate by hand, and the URL updates automatically so you can share your exact setup with tribe mates or post it on Discord or wherever without having to screenshot anything which is honestly one of those small features that makes a huge difference when you're coordinating with other people, it supports all the major ARK 2 creatures too and I've used it for literally every single tame I've done in the last like year of playing on both official and unofficial servers and it hasn't let me down yet you know what I mean? So just pick a creature and go. And it works. That's pretty much all there is to it tbh.

Creature Settings

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Quick Reference

Select a creature to see its base stats and taming info.

Taming Results

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Food Needed
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Taming Time
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Narcotics
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Effectiveness
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Bonus Levels

All Food Options

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Amounts are estimates and honestly they can vary a bit in practice because of server tick rate and creature AI doing weird stuff you know and sometimes the torpor math doesn't line up perfectly and you might need a few extra narcotics or the tame takes a couple minutes longer than the calculator says and you're sitting there stressing out wondering if you did something wrong, but these numbers are gonna get you really close and I've used them for pretty much all my own tames on official and unofficial servers without any major issues, narcotics assume 40 torpor per narcotic over 8 seconds so just factor that in and bring a few extra to be safe and you'll be fine, maybe a handful more if you're on a laggy server or whatever. So yeah, bring extras. And you get the idea.

Data sources: Studio Wildcard press materials; ARK community taming calculators including Dododex and Crumplecorn.