Megalosaurus

CarnivoreKnockout tame

Immobilized by: Chain Bola, Large Bear Trap, Plant Species Y

Spawn command

State

Level

GMSummon spawns a creature already tamed to you at the chosen level.

Spawn class

Info

Base stats

Health: 1025
Stamina: 300
Oxygen: 150
Food: 2000
Weight: 300
Melee Damage: 100%
Movement Speed: 100%
Torpidity: 775

Wild base values at level 1. Stats not shown use the game default.

Taming calculator

Creature level

Taming speed

Sanguine Elixir+30%

Rates come from your server profile — set them once and every calculator updates.

17Kibble (preferred)· 1h 5m

Effectiveness98%Bonus levels+73Tames to level223

Perfect tame

Torpor to knock out7,704Drain rate1.0/s · AverageStays under for2h 4m

Sedatives to keep it under for the full tame

0Narcoberries

0Narcotics

0Bio Toxin

Food	Use / Max	Time	Effectiveness
Kibble (preferred)85 food · 6.2% per item	/17	1h 5m	98% +73 → Lv 223
Raw Mutton50 food · 2.9% per item	/35	1h 18m	92% +68 → Lv 218
Raw Prime Meat50 food · 2.3% per item	/44	1h 39m	87.9% +65 → Lv 215
Cooked Lamb Chop50 food · 1.6% per item	/65	2h 26m	76.9% +57 → Lv 207
Spoiled Meat50 food · 1.5% per item	/65	2h 26m	76.6% +57 → Lv 207
Cooked Prime Meat50 food · 1.2% per item	/87	3h 15m	64.8% +48 → Lv 198
Raw Prime Fish Meat25 food · 0.9% per item	/109	2h 2m	54% +40 → Lv 190
Raw Meat50 food · 0.8% per item	/130	4h 52m	45.1% +33 → Lv 183
Cooked Prime Fish Meat25 food · 0.5% per item	/217	4h 4m	22.8% +17 → Lv 167
Cooked Meat25 food · 0.4% per item	/260	4h 52m	17% +12 → Lv 162
Raw Fish Meat25 food · 0.3% per item	/325	6h 5m	11.6% +8 → Lv 158
Cooked Fish Meat25 food · 0.2% per item	/649	12h 10m	3.2% +2 → Lv 152

Knockout tame. Edit the Use column to mix foods — the game eats the best food first, so the summary feeds your kibble/prime before filling the rest with meat. Sedatives shown keep it under for the whole tame; bring spares.

Minimum to knock out

Creature level

Torpor to knock out7,704

Weapon	Min. hits	Torpor / hit
Tranq Arrow (Bow)	86	90
Tranq Arrow (Compound Bow)	64	121.5
Tranq Arrow (Crossbow)	49	157.5
Tranq Dart (Longneck Rifle)	35	221
Shocking Tranq Dart (Longneck)	18	442

Minimum hits to knock out a level 150 Megalosaurus, using primitive (100%-quality) weapons. This is a floor — it ignores the torpor a creature regenerates between shots, so bring a few spare. Land hits on the head where possible for bonus damage, and watch torpor doesn't drain faster than you raise it.

Stat calculator

State

Taming effectiveness

Creature level1

Server max wild level150

Stat	Wild level	Domesticated level	Value
Health			1,026
Stamina			300
Oxygen			150
Food			2,300
Weight			300
Melee Damage			210%
Movement Speed	—		100%
Torpidity		—	776

Forward calculator. Enter the wild points a creature rolled (and domesticated points you spend after taming) to get each stat's value. Uses official-server rates with no imprint bonus. Melee and movement speed are shown as a percentage; taming effectiveness only boosts stats with a taming bonus (such as melee).

Breeding calculator

Egg hatch speed

Baby mature speed

Rates come from your server profile — set them once and every calculator updates.

Matures in3d 20hEgg-layer

Incubation1h 40mHand-feed window9h 15mCuddles for 100%11 × 9%

BabyJuvenileAdolescent

Hand-feed (no trough) for the first 9h 15m — until Tomorrow 7:53 AM.

If the egg is fertilized now

Egg hatchesToday 8:58 PM
Incubation done+0s
Hand-feed window endsTomorrow 7:53 AM
Safe to use a trough+10h 55m
Adolescent reachedSun 8:55 PM
+1d 23h
Adult reachedTue 7:13 PM
+3d 22h

Imprint cuddle plan100% with all 11 cuddles, one every 8h

Cuddle	After	Clock	Total
#1	+8h	Tomorrow 4:58 AM	9%
#2	+16h	Tomorrow 12:58 PM	18%
#3	+1d	Tomorrow 8:58 PM	27%
#4	+1d 8h	Sun 4:58 AM	36%
#5	+1d 16h	Sun 12:58 PM	45%

Mating cooldown18h – 2dEgg temperature26–32°C

Raising. The Baby phase (0–10%) is the dangerous window — the baby can't eat from a feeding trough and must be hand-fed until it reaches Juvenile. Imprint at each cuddle interval for the full bonus. Wall-clock times assume the egg is fertilized now and rescale with your server profile; mating cooldown is unaffected. Imprint counts assume the default imprint amount — tune that on the imprint calculator.

Where to find

Wild Megalosaurus spawn zones across the catalogued maps. Each dot is a spawn cluster — open the full interactive map for exact GPS and a teleport command.

Combat & handling

Base melee damage: 42
Bite (Night) damage: 94
Grab Chomp (Night) (Player) damage: 1
Shake Prey (Night) damage: 100
Bite (Day) damage: 75
Grab Chomp (Day) (Player) damage: 1
Shake Prey (Day) damage: 80
Drag weight: 410
XP on kill (base): 25
Cloning cost (base): 850 element shards

Drops on death

Survivor

Percentages are the odds of each pick within its loot set, not a guaranteed per-kill rate — a kill can roll a set several times.

Megalosaurus guide

The Megalosaurus is a carnivore in ARK: Survival Ascended. It spawns wild on The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration and Extinction. This page covers its spawn commands, base stats, taming and breeding — with interactive calculators you can drive by level.

How to tame the Megalosaurus

The Megalosaurus is a knockout (violent) tame. Render it unconscious with tranquilizer arrows or darts, then feed it raw meat — with raw prime meat, cooked meat or its preferred kibble taming faster and keeping effectiveness higher. Keep its Torpor topped up with Narcotics or Narcoberries while it eats — use the taming calculator above to see exact food counts, taming time and the effectiveness you'll land at your target level.

Aim for the head where you can — most creatures take extra torpor from headshots — and don't let Torpor drain faster than you raise it. The knockout estimator above lists the minimum tranq arrows and darts for any level.

Megalosaurus spawn command

To spawn a wild Megalosaurus, open the console and run its Summon command. To spawn one already tamed at a chosen level, use GMSummon instead — both are copy-ready in the Spawn commands panel above, along with the raw spawn class (Megalosaurus_Character_BP_C) for use with commands like SpawnDino.

Breeding the Megalosaurus

The Megalosaurus can be bred. Fertilized eggs must be incubated at the right temperature before they hatch. Use the breeding calculator above to plan mating cooldowns, incubation or gestation time, and the maturation timeline from baby to adult, including the imprinting schedule.