Ptero Minion
Spawn command
GMSummon spawns a creature already tamed to you at the chosen level.
Spawn class
Base stats
- Health
- 650
- Stamina
- 150
- Oxygen
- 150
- Food
- 1200
- Weight
- 120
- Melee Damage
- 100%
- Movement Speed
- 100%
- Torpidity
- 120
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 · 15.7% per item | /7 | 29m 52s | 98.7% +73 → Lv 223 |
 Raw Mutton50 food · 7.4% per item | /14 | 35m 0s | 94.5% +70 → Lv 220 |
 Raw Prime Meat50 food · 5.9% per item | /17 | 42m 30s | 91.9% +68 → Lv 218 |
 Cooked Lamb Chop50 food · 4.0% per item | /26 | 1h 5m | 83.3% +62 → Lv 212 |
 Spoiled Meat50 food · 3.9% per item | /26 | 1h 5m | 83.1% +62 → Lv 212 |
 Cooked Prime Meat50 food · 2.9% per item | /34 | 1h 25m | 73.8% +55 → Lv 205 |
 Raw Prime Fish Meat25 food · 2.4% per item | /43 | 53m 45s | 64.1% +48 → Lv 198 |
 Raw Meat50 food · 2.0% per item | /51 | 2h 7m | 55.7% +41 → Lv 191 |
 Cooked Prime Fish Meat25 food · 1.2% per item | /85 | 1h 46m | 31.1% +23 → Lv 173 |
 Cooked Meat25 food · 1.0% per item | /102 | 2h 7m | 23.9% +17 → Lv 167 |
 Raw Fish Meat25 food · 0.8% per item | /128 | 2h 40m | 16.7% +12 → Lv 162 |
 Cooked Fish Meat25 food · 0.4% per item | /255 | 5h 18m | 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) | 14 | 90 |
 Tranq Arrow (Compound Bow) | 10 | 121.5 |
 Tranq Arrow (Crossbow) | 8 | 157.5 |
 Tranq Dart (Longneck Rifle) | 6 | 221 |
 Shocking Tranq Dart (Longneck) | 3 | 442 |
Minimum hits to knock out a level 150 Ptero Minion, 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 | 521 | ||
| Stamina | 150 | ||
| Oxygen | 150 | ||
| Food | 1,380 | ||
| Weight | 120 | ||
| Melee Damage | 231% | ||
| Movement Speed | — | 135% | |
| Torpidity | — | 121 |
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 3h 42m — until Tomorrow 2:20 AM.
- Egg hatchesToday 8:58 PMIncubation done+0s
- Hand-feed window endsTomorrow 2:20 AMSafe to use a trough+5h 22m
- Adolescent reachedTomorrow 5:09 PM+20h 11m
- Adult reachedSun 11:40 AM+1d 14h
| Cuddle | After | Clock | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | +8h | Tomorrow 4:58 AM | 25% |
| #2 | +16h | Tomorrow 12:58 PM | 50% |
| #3 | +1d | Tomorrow 8:58 PM | 75% |
| #4 | +1d 8h | Sun 4:58 AM | 100% |
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.
Combat & handling
- Base melee damage
- 15
- None damage
- 18
- Barrel Roll damage
- 50
- Drag weight
- 149
- XP on kill (base)
- 3
- Cloning cost (base)
- 1975 element shards
Ptero Minion guide
The Ptero Minion is a carnivore in ARK: Survival Ascended. This page covers its spawn commands, base stats, taming and breeding — with interactive calculators you can drive by level.
How to tame the Ptero Minion
The Ptero Minion 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.
Ptero Minion spawn command
To spawn a wild Ptero Minion, 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 (Ptero_Minion_Character_BP_C) for use with commands like SpawnDino.