Taming Methods
This is the standard taming method for many aggressive creatures: raise torpor, knock the creature unconscious, then feed it while keeping it asleep.
What is Knockout Taming
These cave-reward items are required for most boss portals and are usually the main reason players have to run dangerous caves before attempting arena fights.
What are Artifacts
This post-apocalyptic story map features corrupted creatures, orbital supply drops, Element veins, Titans, and the King Titan as the final boss.
What is Extinction
This survivor starts as a scientist studying the ARKs and eventually becomes known as The One Who Waits.
Who is Helena Walker
This crafted material is made by grinding Flint and Stone, is used in recipes like Gunpowder, and can also fuel certain preserving/crafting stations.
What is Sparkpowder
This taming method requires feeding the creature while it is awake, often from the final slot of the hotbar, without knocking it out first.
What is Passive Taming
This boss is usually one of the first Island bosses players attempt and is fought in its own arena after placing the required artifacts and tributes into an Obelisk or Supply Crate.
What is Broodmother Lysrix
This Norse-inspired free map includes realms such as Asgard, Vanaheim, and Jotunheim, uses Runestones in its progression, and features multiple world bosses before Fenrir.
What is Fjordur
This substance is at the center of ARK’s corruption, Tek advancement, and the disaster that devastated Earth.
What is Element
This advanced resource is crafted from Silica Pearls or Silicate plus Metal Ingots, and becomes a major bottleneck for generators, electrical gear, and Tek progression.
What are Electronics
Creatures like Rock Elementals, Titanosaurs, and Karkinos are not normally knocked out with tranq arrows; they require heavy impact methods such as cannons, catapults, or similar siege damage.
What is Siege Knockout
This Island boss is fought in a cold northern-themed arena and is known for hitting hard, summoning minions, and punishing players who fall or get knocked into dangerous terrain.
What is Megapithecus
This original ARK map contains the classic progression through caves, artifacts, Broodmother, Megapithecus, Dragon, Tek Cave, and the Overseer.
What is the Island
This 19th-century chemist begins as one of the Explorer Note survivors but becomes obsessed with the Obelisks, the Tek Cave, and forbidden knowledge.
Who is Edmund Rockwell
This fuel is made from Oil and Hide in a forge and is needed to run machines like the Fabricator, Industrial Forge, Chemistry Bench, and other advanced stations.
What is Gasoline
This taming style requires letting the creature grab, hunt, or interact with prey or corpses rather than simply feeding it like a normal unconscious tame.
What is Sacrificial Taming
This Island boss is infamous for percentage-based fire damage, making it dangerous even to high-health boss armies and forcing players to respect its breath attack.
What is the Dragon
This story map is almost entirely underground and is defined by radiation zones, climbing picks, Rock Drakes, Nameless, Reapers, and Rockwell.
What is Aberration
This ancient Chinese warrior appears throughout Explorer Notes and becomes one of the most feared and respected survivors, often associated with her bond to powerful creatures.
Mei-Yin Li
This artificial material is made in the Fabricator from Obsidian and Cementing Paste, but its organic version can often substitute for it before spoiling.
What is Polymer
This stat is preserved by using better food, avoiding damage after knockout, and not ruining the tame; it determines how many bonus levels the creature gains when the tame completes.
What is Taming Effectiveness
This final Island boss is not started from a normal Obelisk arena like the others; players must complete the Tek Cave and reach the Observation Deck before fighting it.
What is the Overseer
This desert story map introduced extreme heat, sandstorms, wyverns, and the Manticore as its main boss.
What is Scorched Earth
This massive corrupted being is described as the strongest Titan and serves as the final major threat of Extinction.
What is the King Titan
This paste-like resource is crafted from Chitin/Keratin and Stone, but experienced players often farm it from beaver dams or Achatina instead because of how much late-game crafting demands it.
What is Cementing Paste