Find out everything you need to know about the peaceful carnivore in our ARK: Survival Evolved Dimetrodon guide. But also how to catch him, tame him, feed him, and breed offspring too.
You can often find the Dimetrodon in the swampy areas of your ARK maps, where it mainly hunts small creatures. As a result, he will not notice you and will not attack you on his own.
This is the Dimetrodon in ARK: Survival Evolved
Appearance: The Dimetrodon is a lizard with crocodile-like legs. Similar to the Spinosaurus, the Dimetrodon has a large sail on its back. His rather large head looks really nasty because of his pointed teeth.
Wild: Although the Dimetrodon is a carnivore, unlike most of its foragers, it is not aggressive. So he will not attack you by himself unless you attack him first. This is because it only hunts and eats small creatures.
Domesticated: With the help of its sail, the Dimetrodon is able to give you warmth, but also cool you down. This makes him indispensable as a companion if you have not yet unlocked or crafted the appropriate armor for excursions into snow biomes or deserts. It’s like a mobile air conditioner.
How to tame the Dimetrodon in ARK
This is how you hunt a Dimetrodon: quite unspectacular, you take a crossbow or your bow and just run away from it. In between, you turn around and shoot him. This is possible due to its slow movement speed. But make sure that you always keep enough distance so that you don’t get bitten.
How to tame him: Once he’s unconscious, it’s best to put the kibble or meat in his inventory and feed him that. To keep the Dimetrodon down and the Stun value up, your best bet is to use the Anesthetic, which you should have prepared enough of since Dimetrodons regain consciousness at an incredible rate.
How to feed a Dimetrodon in ARK
Once you have tamed your Dimetrodon, it is important to know what it likes to eat. Dimetrodons are carnivores, which of course makes the choice of food easier.
- Regular Kibble:
- Ingredients: 1x Medium Egg, 2x Longrass, 2x Savoroot, 1x Cooked Meat Jerky, 5x Fiber, 1x Water
- Ingredients for Cooked Meat Jerky: 1x Cooked Meat, 1x Oil, 3x Sparkpowder
- Kibble (Quetzal Egg)
- Ingredients: 1x Quetzal Egg, 3x Cooked Meat Jerky, 3x Rockarrot, 100x Mejoberries, 120 Fiber, 1x Water
- Ingredients for Cooked Meat Jerky: 1x Cooked Meat, 1x Oil, 3x Sparkpowder
- Raw Mutton:
- Received by gutting Ovis.
- Cooking turns it into the Cooked Lamb Chop
- Raw Prime Meat:
- Gained when gutting larger creatures
- Cooking turns it into Cooked Prime Meat
- Raw Prime Fish Meat:
- Obtained from Alpha Mosasaurus, Dunkleosteus, Electrophorus, Leedsichtys, Megalodon, and Sabertooth Salmon
- Cooking turns it into the Cooked Prime Fish Meat
- Raw Meat:
- Earned by gutting a creature
- Cooking turns it into Cooked Meat
- Raw Fish Meat:
- Received from gutting fish
- Cooking turns it into Cooked Fish Meat
How to breed the Dimetrodon in ARK
This is how you prepare the breeding: If you have a male and female specimen, you build an enclosure that is large enough at best. Put both dinos in the pen and set them to “wander” via the command menu. Alternatively, you can also switch directly to “Pair”, but then there must always be a player nearby, otherwise the pairing will stop due to the rendering.
The mating interval of a Dimetrodon is between 18 and 48 hours.
How to Hatch Eggs: If you have obtained a fertilized Dimetrodon egg from a successful mating, hatching begins. For this, the ambient temperature of the egg should be between 30 °C and 34 °C and in the egg incubator at 32 °C. According to standard settings, the little Dimetrodon baby hatches after about 2.5 hours. After that, it takes about 4.5 hours of your attention, during which you keep putting food in its inventory.
Once it gains juvenile status, it can feed on its own. The entire ripening time lasts about 1 day and 22.5 hours.
Beginner tips on breeding in ARK can be found here:
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