Spindles
Immobilized by: Chain Bola, Large Bear Trap, Plant Species Y
Spawn command
GMSummon spawns a creature already tamed to you at the chosen level.
Spawn class
Info
Base stats
- Health
- 440
- Stamina
- 325
- Oxygen
- 225
- Food
- 2250
- Weight
- 325
- Melee Damage
- 100%
- Movement Speed
- 100%
- Torpidity
- 400
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 · 11.4% per item | /9 | 12m 48s | 99% +74 → Lv 224 |
 Raw Mutton50 food · 5.4% per item | /19 | 15m 51s | 95.5% +71 → Lv 221 |
 Raw Prime Meat50 food · 4.3% per item | /24 | 20m 1s | 93% +69 → Lv 219 |
 Cooked Lamb Chop50 food · 2.9% per item | /35 | 29m 11s | 86.1% +64 → Lv 214 |
 Spoiled Meat50 food · 2.9% per item | /35 | 29m 11s | 85.9% +64 → Lv 214 |
 Cooked Prime Meat50 food · 2.1% per item | /47 | 39m 11s | 77.3% +57 → Lv 207 |
 Raw Prime Fish Meat25 food · 1.7% per item | /59 | 24m 36s | 68.4% +51 → Lv 201 |
 Raw Meat50 food · 1.4% per item | /70 | 58m 21s | 60.4% +45 → Lv 195 |
 Cooked Prime Fish Meat25 food · 0.9% per item | /117 | 48m 46s | 35.4% +26 → Lv 176 |
 Cooked Meat25 food · 0.7% per item | /140 | 58m 21s | 27.6% +20 → Lv 170 |
 Raw Fish Meat25 food · 0.6% per item | /175 | 1h 12m | 19.6% +14 → Lv 164 |
 Cooked Fish Meat25 food · 0.3% per item | /350 | 2h 25m | 5.7% +4 → Lv 154 |
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) | 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 Spindles, 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 | 441 | ||
| Stamina | 325 | ||
| Oxygen | 225 | ||
| Food | 2,250 | ||
| Weight | 325 | ||
| Melee Damage | 210% | ||
| Movement Speed | — | 120% | |
| 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
Rates come from your server profile — set them once and every calculator updates.
Hand-feed (no trough) for the first 4h 37m — until Tomorrow 2:42 AM.
- Egg hatchesToday 8:56 PMIncubation done+0s
- Hand-feed window endsTomorrow 2:42 AMSafe to use a trough+5h 45m
- Adolescent reachedTomorrow 9:13 PM+1d
- Adult reachedSun 8:22 PM+1d 23h
| Cuddle | After | Clock | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | +8h | Tomorrow 4:56 AM | 20% |
| #2 | +16h | Tomorrow 12:56 PM | 40% |
| #3 | +1d | Tomorrow 8:56 PM | 60% |
| #4 | +1d 8h | Sun 4:56 AM | 80% |
| #5 | +1d 16h | Sun 12:56 PM | 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.
Where to find
Wild Spindles 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
- 10
- Melee damage
- 32
- Drag weight
- 200
- XP on kill (base)
- 1
- Cloning cost (base)
- 800 element shards
Drops on death
Bonus Glasses 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.
Spindles guide
The Spindles is a carnivore in ARK: Survival Ascended. It spawns wild on Extinction. This page covers its spawn commands, base stats, taming and breeding — with interactive calculators you can drive by level.
How to tame the Spindles
The Spindles 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.
Spindles spawn command
To spawn a wild Spindles, 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 (Spindles_Character_BP_C) for use with commands like SpawnDino.
Breeding the Spindles
The Spindles 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.