Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Are you by any chance considering taming a troodon? Well.. I may have some info on how!! But first as with all of these this is what I would consider bringing, just know it’s entirely up to you how to tackle this! This guys wants what is hard to come by… tames! Some creatures a wild troodon will never attack, (wyverns, rock golems, magmasaurs, gigas, Etc) So how will you tame it, first pick for me would be to go straight to the pheromone darts! As this will Force the troodon to do your bidding whether it wants to or not! Now all you will need is a arena! There’s no perfect way to build one, feel free to come up with your own design! :D now these guys are nocturnal, however they can still be tamed in the day, yet less effective! It’s best to tame this guy at night! Wild Troodons will spawn anywhere throughout dense forests, redwoods, I’ve even seen some in swamps! Best course of action will be to pick them up with a argentavis, or a wyvern, if your in the redwoods watch for thylas! Bring the troodon and drop it into the arena, (probably should have mentioned that baby’s are easier to work with cuz they don’t fight back and give the same Xp) Drop your “test subjects” into the arena, and shoot with pheromone darts! !!Warning taming takes a lot of patience!!
Now that you got yourself a troodon! Why? Good question! First things first this creature is a amazing home defender; got some guy in pvp tryna screw with you? Send your troodon over and he will regret ever living, why? Even when tamed the troodon keeps its venom attack, giving the victim a “buff” on the lower right screen; this is the countdown until you fall uncounsios, stims won’t work! As it’s a great home defender, it is swift and agile, making it a decent escort if you have enough of them! What do they eat? Rumors that they still have to eat living things is a complete lie, they eat meat like every other carnivore!!
Oh not to mention it’s Hp regeneration, it’s great! Overall a pretty cool trophy of both your prowess and determination, as well as a well rounded out non-rideable tame! I hope you succeed in taming this lil monster! Good luck!!
More Troodon Taming & KO Tips
Tames are friends, not food.
Taming
Troodons use a unique flavor of Passive Taming. Instead of putting a Food item in your last Inventory Slot, you have to instead allow the Troodon to kill your tames. Troodons gain Taming Affinity by earning Combat Experience, with the amount required reduced to 40% at night. Taming Affinity will only be credited to a player if the creature killed belonged to you or your tribe. A singular tame is capable of providing experience to multiple Troodons. Tests have shown this is unreliable, but can be reproduced.
Requirements
Experience required: 343 + (32 x Troodon's level)
Experience required at night: 137 + (13 x Troodon's level)
Creatures must not be set as Passive and must be unmounted by a player.
Creatures can be unconscious or pre-damaged (i.e. at 1 Health remaining).
Babies and adults provide the same amount of experience.
Pheromone darts may be utilized to make the Troodon attack a chosen dino, but be careful that other wild dinos do not enter the fight.
Taming Notes
There is a "Feeding Interval" of sorts, wherein no Taming Affinity will be gained for subsequent kills. It is not yet known how this is calculated, but 90 seconds was sufficient for a level 1 Troodon.
Taming Affinity will not reset nor is Taming Effectiveness reduced when a wild Troodon takes damage.
In fact, Troodons will always tame with 100% Taming Effectiveness (i.e. 50% bonus levels).
Taming and Experience Multipliers do not seem to affect the Troodon. That said, the table below utilizes the v253.0 hard-coded 2x experience values (although even if the actual amount of experience required and earned is still on the previous 1x values, the taming requirements are the same.
Troodons will not readily aggro onto most creatures that provide a substantial amount of experience. To circumvent this, have the Troodon aggro to the player while standing on top of the creature
up to be able to feed you tribe mates to them for taming
Don’t use gigas or rex to defence your base from players use these smal Bois I swear they are greatest that is not a joke
And sorry for my bad English but hope that was useful 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
My dodo killed the troodon..
Pro tip, do not use lvl 160 dodo to tame.
It is recommended to only tame troodon during the night, as this will double the taming output it gets from killing creatures. (Dododex correction: taming at night is 2.5x rather than 2x.)
MULTIPLE OF YOUR PRIZED TAMES SOULS FOR A SOUL!!!!!!
Step 1: make a taming pen.
Step 2: put a lvl 80+ baby wyvern into the pen. Knock it out if you want to and lower its health down to almost 0.
Step 3: Drop troodon inside while its eyes are glowing.
Step 4: Enjoy your tamed troodon
If you want to tame this little basterd keep fattening it up with tamed dodos
Just drop them near him and watch him slaughter them all
:D
My favorite thing about Troodons
Me: All right. On to crafting a Troodon Pen for my Troodon.
*hears squawking sound*
Me: Troodon, what'd I tell you about eating my pets? TAMES ARE FRIENDS, NOT FOOD!
30 secs later
Your lvl 6 trike was killed by your Troodon
Me: Stop Eating My Pets!!!!!