Plesiosaur
Spawn command
GMSummon spawns a creature already tamed to you at the chosen level.
Spawn class
Info
Base stats
- Health
- 2400
- Stamina
- 800
- Oxygen
- 150
- Food
- 5000
- Weight
- 800
- Melee Damage
- 100%
- Movement Speed
- 100%
- Torpidity
- 1600
Wild base values at level 1. Stats not shown use the game default.
Taming calculator
Rates come from your server profile — set them once and every calculator updates.
| Food | Use / Max | Time | Effectiveness |
|---|---|---|---|
 Kibble (preferred)85 food · 3.8% per item | /27 | 55m 17s | 98.8% +74 → Lv 224 |
 Raw Mutton50 food · 1.8% per item | /57 | 1h 8m | 94.6% +70 → Lv 220 |
 Raw Prime Meat50 food · 1.4% per item | /71 | 1h 25m | 91.8% +68 → Lv 218 |
 Cooked Lamb Chop50 food · 1.0% per item | /105 | 2h 6m | 83.7% +62 → Lv 212 |
 Spoiled Meat50 food · 0.9% per item | /107 | 2h 8m | 83.3% +62 → Lv 212 |
 Cooked Prime Meat50 food · 0.7% per item | /142 | 2h 50m | 73.8% +55 → Lv 205 |
 Raw Prime Fish Meat25 food · 0.6% per item | /178 | 1h 46m | 64.3% +48 → Lv 198 |
 Raw Meat50 food · 0.5% per item | /213 | 4h 15m | 55.6% +41 → Lv 191 |
 Cooked Prime Fish Meat25 food · 0.3% per item | /355 | 3h 33m | 31.1% +23 → Lv 173 |
 Cooked Meat25 food · 0.2% per item | /425 | 4h 15m | 23.9% +17 → Lv 167 |
 Raw Fish Meat25 food · 0.2% per item | /532 | 5h 19m | 16.7% +12 → Lv 162 |
 Cooked Fish Meat25 food · 0.1% per item | /1063 | 10h 37m | 4.8% +3 → Lv 153 |
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
| Weapon | Min. hits | Torpor / hit |
|---|---|---|
 Tranq Arrow (Bow) | 177 | 90 |
 Tranq Arrow (Compound Bow) | 131 | 121.5 |
 Tranq Arrow (Crossbow) | 101 | 157.5 |
 Tranq Dart (Longneck Rifle) | 72 | 221 |
 Shocking Tranq Dart (Longneck) | 36 | 442 |
Minimum hits to knock out a level 150 Plesiosaur, 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
| Stat | Wild level | Domesticated level | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 2,400 | ||
| Stamina | 800 | ||
| Oxygen | 150 | ||
| Food | 5,750 | ||
| Weight | 800 | ||
| Melee Damage | 280% | ||
| Movement Speed | — | 100% | |
| Torpidity | — | 1,601 |
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
Rates come from your server profile — set them once and every calculator updates.
Hand-feed (no trough) for the first 11h 34m — until Tomorrow 4:26 PM.
- BirthToday 8:56 PMGestation done+0s
- Hand-feed window endsTomorrow 4:26 PMSafe to use a trough+19h 30m
- Adolescent reachedMon 2:44 PM+2d 17h
- Adult reachedThu 12:36 AM+5d 3h
| Cuddle | After | Clock | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | +8h | Tomorrow 4:56 AM | 7% |
| #2 | +16h | Tomorrow 12:56 PM | 14% |
| #3 | +1d | Tomorrow 8:56 PM | 21% |
| #4 | +1d 8h | Sun 4:56 AM | 29% |
| #5 | +1d 16h | Sun 12:56 PM | 36% |
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 Plesiosaur 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
- 60
- None damage
- 75
- Drag weight
- 500
- XP on kill (base)
- 15
- Cloning cost (base)
- 1050 element shards
Drops on death
Bonus Fireworks Skin
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.
Plesiosaur guide
The Plesiosaur is a carnivore in ARK: Survival Ascended. It spawns wild on The Island. This page covers its spawn commands, base stats, taming and breeding — with interactive calculators you can drive by level.
How to tame the Plesiosaur
The Plesiosaur 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.
Plesiosaur spawn command
To spawn a wild Plesiosaur, 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 (Plesiosaur_Character_BP_C) for use with commands like SpawnDino.