Sarco

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: 400
Stamina: 450
Oxygen: 150
Food: 1500
Weight: 300
Melee Damage: 100%
Movement Speed: 100%
Torpidity: 400

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.

9Kibble (preferred)· 38m 24s

Effectiveness98.6%Bonus levels+73Tames to level223

Perfect tame

Torpor to knock out3,976Drain rate1.0/s · AverageStays under for1h 4m

Sedatives to keep it under for the full tame

0Narcoberries

0Narcotics

0Bio Toxin

Food	Use / Max	Time	Effectiveness
Kibble (preferred)85 food · 12.1% per item	/9	38m 24s	98.6% +73 → Lv 223
Raw Mutton50 food · 5.7% per item	/18	45m 0s	94.3% +70 → Lv 220
Raw Prime Meat50 food · 4.5% per item	/23	57m 30s	91.3% +68 → Lv 218
Cooked Lamb Chop50 food · 3.1% per item	/33	1h 22m	83.1% +62 → Lv 212
Spoiled Meat50 food · 3.0% per item	/34	1h 25m	82.5% +61 → Lv 211
Cooked Prime Meat50 food · 2.3% per item	/45	1h 52m	72.7% +54 → Lv 204
Raw Prime Fish Meat25 food · 1.8% per item	/56	1h 10m	63.2% +47 → Lv 197
Raw Meat50 food · 1.5% per item	/67	2h 47m	54.4% +40 → Lv 190
Cooked Prime Fish Meat25 food · 0.9% per item	/111	2h 18m	30.2% +22 → Lv 172
Cooked Meat25 food · 0.8% per item	/133	2h 46m	23.1% +17 → Lv 167
Raw Fish Meat25 food · 0.6% per item	/166	3h 27m	16.2% +12 → Lv 162
Cooked Fish Meat25 food · 0.3% per item	/332	6h 55m	4.6% +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

Creature level

Torpor to knock out3,976

Weapon	Min. hits	Torpor / hit
Tranq Arrow (Bow)	45	90
Tranq Arrow (Compound Bow)	33	121.5
Tranq Arrow (Crossbow)	26	157.5
Tranq Dart (Longneck Rifle)	18	221
Shocking Tranq Dart (Longneck)	9	442

Minimum hits to knock out a level 150 Sarco, 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			401
Stamina			450
Oxygen			150
Food			1,500
Weight			300
Melee Damage			270%
Movement Speed	—		160%
Torpidity		—	401

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 in1d 22hEgg-layer

Incubation2h 29mHand-feed window4h 37mCuddles for 100%5 × 20%

BabyJuvenileAdolescent

Hand-feed (no trough) for the first 4h 37m — until Tomorrow 5:16 AM.

If the egg is fertilized now

Egg hatchesToday 10:08 PM
Incubation done+0s
Hand-feed window endsTomorrow 5:16 AM
Safe to use a trough+7h 7m
Adolescent reachedTomorrow 11:47 PM
+1d 1h
Adult reachedSun 10:56 PM
+2d

Imprint cuddle plan100% with all 5 cuddles, one every 8h

Cuddle	After	Clock	Total
#1	+8h	Tomorrow 6:08 AM	20%
#2	+16h	Tomorrow 2:08 PM	40%
#3	+1d	Tomorrow 10:08 PM	60%
#4	+1d 8h	Sun 6:08 AM	80%
#5	+1d 16h	Sun 2:08 PM	100%

Mating cooldown18h – 2dEgg temperature30–34°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 Sarco spawn zones across the catalogued maps. Each dot is a spawn cluster — open the full interactive map for exact GPS and a teleport command.

The Island71 zones

Aberration116 zones

Extinction23 zones

Combat & handling

Base melee damage: 35
Melee damage: 35
Roll damage: 45
Lunge damage: 40
Melee Left damage: 35
Drag weight: 200
XP on kill (base): 5
Cloning cost (base): 550 element shards

Drops on death

Survivor<0.1% of rolls

Apex Drop100% of rolls

Sarcosuchus Skin100%

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.

Sarco guide

The Sarco is a carnivore in ARK: Survival Ascended. It spawns wild on The Island, 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 Sarco

The Sarco 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.

Sarco spawn command

To spawn a wild Sarco, 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 (Sarco_Character_BP_C) for use with commands like SpawnDino.

Breeding the Sarco

The Sarco 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.