How to Tame a Managarmr in ARK

 

    The Managarmr is a Knockout tame by the wiki's own infobox — same taming category as most carnivores — but ark.wiki.gg is explicit that this one is unusually hard to execute: it calls the Managarmr "among the most tricky creature[s] to knock out and tame," not because of high torpidity, but because of its erratic jumping, dashing, gliding flight. That's why the source page documents several specialized trapping and freezing techniques instead of a simple "shoot it and wait" approach. This guide covers what ark.wiki.gg documents: infobox domestication facts, the trapping methods it names, preferred-food quantities at six wild levels, and base stats/saddle. Where the source has no number, this guide says so instead of guessing.

 

Domestication Overview: What the Infobox Says

 

    Per the infobox, the Managarmr is Tameable: Yes, Rideable: Yes, Breedable: Yes, but Torpor Immune: No — so the standard knockout approach applies in principle. Its Preferred Kibble is Exceptional Kibble and its Preferred Food is Raw Mutton. Equipment is the Managarmr Saddle, unlocking at Level 66, and Rider Weaponry is listed as No. Other infobox points: XP for kill 72 XP, Special Loot Chance 30%, Feces Size Medium, Drag Weight 250, Radiation Immune: No. It's Immobilized By a Chain Bola, Large Bear Trap, or Plant Species Y, and Can Damage Thatch, Greenhouse, Wood, Adobe, and Stone. Per the infobox, it's available on Extinction, Genesis: Part 2, Lost Island, Astraeos, and Lost Colony, first added with the Extinction expansion on 6 November 2018.

 

KO Strategy: Trapping a Managarmr

 

 

    Because a Managarmr rarely sits still long enough to shoot, the wiki lists trapping as the real first step: "careful placement of a Large Bear Trap or Stone Dinosaur Gateway can trap even the most dexterous Managarmr." The source names several techniques beyond that base trap. The circle strategy: since "the Managarmr has a hard time hitting you on the side due to its high speed and movement," circle it on the ground, tank its dive attack with fur or flak armor, then chase it down with a fast flyer once torpor makes it flee. A variant swaps in a female Megaloceros, whose jump speed keeps pace with a fleeing Managarmr. The Rock Drake method has the Managarmr dive-attack a Rock Drake until, "after a few tries," it gets stuck on the Rock Drake's head, letting you knock it out from the saddle — though you can't dismount without freeing it, and Rock Drakes aren't native to Extinction without a transfer or mods. A Net Projectile can bring one down before you dart it. The Frozen Strategy uses a Snow Owl or another Managarmr to freeze the target, then boxes it in with Behemoth Gates (or 3–4 lighter Dinosaur Gateways) to shoot through the gaps — the wiki says this "requires two to three tries to get used to... but is very effective." Finally, a starving trap: pen it in gateways outside its attack range and let it burn through stamina and food trying to escape, so it's ready to eat the instant it drops — though overfeeding kibble past that point makes it keep eating.

 

Taming Food and Torpidity by Level

 

 

    The wiki's taming table gives exact food quantities for the two infobox-preferred items, at six wild levels: Level 1 — 2 Exceptional Kibble or 3 Raw Mutton; Level 30 — 4 Kibble or 7 Mutton; Level 60 — 5 Kibble or 11 Mutton; Level 90 — 7 Kibble or 15 Mutton; Level 120 — 9 Kibble or 19 Mutton; Level 150 — 11 Kibble or 23 Mutton. Doing the arithmetic across the full range: Exceptional Kibble needed rises from 2 to 11 (11 − 2 = 9 more kibble), while Raw Mutton rises from 3 to 23 (23 − 3 = 20 more mutton), from Level 1 to Level 150. The table also lists Torpidity-depletion rate and total depletion time per level: 0.3/s and 00:44:26 at Level 1, up to 1.04/s and 02:08:02 at Level 150 — so a higher-level Managarmr both needs more food and gives you a longer unconscious window to deliver it. Exceptional Kibble itself is made from 1× Extra Large Egg, 5× Fiber, 1× Focal Chili, 10× Mejoberry, 1× Rare Flower, and 1× Water, per the source's ingredient list.

 

    The same table also prints six bare KO shot-count figures per level (for example, at Level 1: ×80, ×33, ×9, ×6, ×4, ×2) — but the extracted page text doesn't label which weapon or ammo type each of those six numbers belongs to, unlike the food-quantity columns. This guide won't guess a weapon pairing for those numbers; treat them as undocumented for now.

 

Base Stats, Saddle, and Breeding

 

 

    Base stats at wild Level 1, per the wiki's stat table: Health 825 (+165 per level), Stamina 300 (+30 per level), Oxygen 150 (+15 per level), Food 2000 (+200 per level), Weight 300 (+6 per level), Melee Damage 35 (+1.75 per level), Movement Speed 150% (no per-level increase listed), and Torpidity 800 (+48 per level). The Managarmr Saddle unlocks at Level 66.

 

    Breeding timers, quoted exactly as the source's Reproduction table gives them: Gestation Time 3h 58m 5.714s, Baby Time 9h 15m 33.331s, Juvenile Time 1d 13h 2m 13.325s, Adolescent Time 1d 22h 17m 46.656s, Total Maturation Time 3d 20h 35m 33.313s, and Breeding Interval 18h – 2d. Notes/Trivia flags something the other Draconis-genus creatures don't share: unlike the Wyvern or Rock Drake, the Managarmr "can be tamed directly through knockout, can be bred... and does not require specialized food for the baby" — exactly why trapping matters more than any egg-stealing or milk-harvesting step here.

 

Trap first, tranq second. Box it in with Large Bear Traps, Stone or regular Dinosaur Gateways, or Behemoth Gates before you open fire — a Managarmr that's still mobile in the air is, per the wiki, one of the hardest creatures in the game to land a shot on.

 

Running your own ARK server

 

    Setting up a Frozen-Strategy gate box, farming Rare Flowers and Mejoberries for Exceptional Kibble, and keeping a tamed Managarmr fed through its multi-day maturation timeline all go more smoothly on a dedicated, always-on world than on someone else's play session. A private ARK server keeps your gateway trap standing where you built it, your kibble stockpile untouched, and your newly tamed Managarmr safe from random-server griefing while it's still juvenile. It also lets your tribe coordinate a Rock-Drake-pin or Frozen-Strategy attempt on your own schedule.

 

Conclusion

 

    Taming a Managarmr in ARK comes down to what ark.wiki.gg actually documents: it's a Knockout tame on paper, but trapping it — with a Large Bear Trap, Dinosaur Gateways, a Rock Drake pin, or the Frozen Strategy — matters more than raw tranq math, since it's flagged as one of the trickiest creatures to even hit. Once it's boxed in, feed it Exceptional Kibble or Raw Mutton (2–11 kibble or 3–23 mutton depending on wild level), and have a saddle ready by Level 66. The six unlabeled KO shot-count figures per level, and exactly how much narcotic keeps it under while you feed it, aren't in the extracted source text and aren't guessed here.

 

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