This would be a good place to post any instructions on what we've learned about the game. This could be anything from where to find certain dinos, what strategies work for different fights, etc.
Taming Effectiveness What is Taming Effectiveness and what does it mean? When you first knock out a dino they'll have a initial taming effectiveness, this changes based on how many times you've tamed that type of dino and it also has a little bit of luck involved. Taming Effectiveness doesn't affect the speed at which you are taming an animal but instead affects the bonus stats that you receive at the end of the taming process. How is Taming Effectiveness affected? When you first knock out a dino they'll have a initial taming effectiveness, this changes based on how many times you've tamed that type of dino and it also has a little bit of luck involved. As you begin taming your dino there's a key matter to keep in mind, ANYTHING that dino eats will lower the effectiveness. This applies to narcoberries, narcotics, stimberries, and stimulant, in addition to whatever food you are using to tame that dino. To tame a dino at peak effectiveness you'll want to use a combination of narcotics and that animals favorite food (prime meat for carnivores, favorite berries for herbivores). 1 narcotic = 5 narcoberries but only counts as 1 ingestion into the animal, opposed to 5 ingestions from the narcoberries. This means more effectiveness at the end of your taming process and thus, better stats! Narcotics Stats (courtesy of Alclarity) - Remote Use Narcoberry = approx +7.5 Torpor, -1 Food, -0.2 Taming effectiveness (over 4-5 seconds) - Remote Use Narcotics = approx +25 Torpor, -5 Food, -0.4 Taming effectiveness (over 4-5 seconds) - Remote Use Narcotics = approx +40 Torpor, -5 Food, -0.4 Taming effectiveness (over 4-5 seconds)(Adjusted in update 172.5) - Bring a Mortar Pestle when taming to craft Narcotics; it costs 5 Narcoberry + 1 Spoiled Meat - Best way to manufacture spoiled meat is to split Raw Meat stacks in your personal inventory (Hold Ctrl + Drag Click) Notes This is knowledge that I've learned from personal experience of the taming process, if you have more you'd like to add feel free to chip in.
Additional Taming Notes - Level of dino doesn't seem to matter EXCEPT that a dinosaur can only gain a total of 10000 XP in addition to its current tamed level (can exceed level 60). - Starving it versus starting to feed it right away will still take the same time to tame. - Doing excessive damage to a dinosaur you are trying to tame will reduce its Taming effectiveness but not the amount of time needed to tame it. - (Rumor) Taming effectiveness adjusts the base stats of the dinosaur after it is tamed. You can see the difference by checking its inventory stats before and after it is tamed. - The higher base level of the dinosaur you tame, the higher potential it will have in total stat points allocated - For example, tame a level 1, it will stop leveling around 45 (approx 10000 XP later) or tame a level 27 and 10000 XP later it will stop leveling around 65. - If you aren't sure which berry is favored by a herbivore, put all four types of berry on the dinosaur and when it's food level drops, watch which one gets eaten first. - Some animals (specifically domesticated or egg hatched dinosaurs) cannot be tamed until YOU are a certain level. - Remote Use Narcoberry = approx +7.5 Torpor, -1 Food, -0.2 Taming effectiveness (over 4-5 seconds) - Remote Use Narcotics = approx +25 Torpor, -5 Food, -0.4 Taming effectiveness (over 4-5 seconds) - Bring a Mortar Pestle when taming to craft Narcotics; it costs 5 Narcoberry + 1 Spoiled Meat - Best way to manufacture spoiled meat is to split Raw Meat stacks in your personal inventory (Hold Ctrl + Drag Click)
Yes, Narcotics were buffed. They used to be 3x as effective as Narcoberries, now they are 5x as effective.
I updated the statistics in the main post to what sounds right based on the new effectiveness, I don't know if the hunger/taming effectiveness values changed.
