Taming

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Creatures in Pixark can be tamed and used for various purposes. Uses for tamed creatures include riding, item transportation, storage, hunting, harvest, and defending property.

Taming Basics

PixARK uses Passive and Knockout taming.

Passive Taming: Non-aggressive creatures can be tamed through passive feeding. Simply equip the creatures preferred food onto the '0' action bar slot and approach the animal and feed it using the "E" action key.

Knockout Taming: Aggressive creatures must be sedated in some form before taming. Sleepy arrows, wooden clubs, and other tools can be used to knockout a creature. Once knocked out simply add the creatures preferred food to the creatures inventory and the taming process will start. Remember to keep an eye on the creatures knockout timers. Use Narco-berries or Sleepy potion to keep creatures from waking up. If the creature wakes up you'll need to restart the taming process from the beginning.

Taming times and foods for creatures can be found on their page. See Creatures for a list of all creatures.

Taming Hints

When you start out the game the first weapon you will get to knock things out is a club. This is a melee weapon that can knock out small creatures and dinos out without killing them (such as a dilo). The second weapon you get is the slingshot (this uses flint for ammo). This engram can be unlocked at level 10 and can be used to know creatures out by hitting them in the head this is more effective then a club but still not very easy to do later game. When you are level 15 you unlock the bow and sleepy arrows these arrows will increase a creatures torpor whenever they are hit and will eventually knock the creature out. If you want to knock out a magic creature such as a Pegasus you will need to use magic arrows. These are unlocked at level 20. Later on at level 35 you can unlock the crossbow this weapon will allow you to do more damage to creatures and more torpor will be dealt if you tranq or magic arrows compared to a normal bow.

Taming Related Information

Director of Live Operation for Snail Games USA, Peter Kang, explains in an article posted on Player.one that "We felt like the whole dinosaur-farm concept was a poor design choice because it encouraged players to stockpile hundreds of dinosaurs for no reason. It created this scenario where players felt compelled to go online and feed the dinosaurs or they would die,... ...Having an attachment to your dinosaurs is great, but it'd be a lot more fun if you had to tame raid-focused dinosaurs before each raid"