How to Tame a Ravager in ARK

 

    The Ravager is a fast, pack-hunting canine that can climb both natural vines and survivor-built zip lines, and ark.wiki.gg's own Taming Method field for it reads flatly "Knockout" — there's no passive-feed option documented for this creature. This guide walks through what the wiki's Ravager page says about knocking one out, what to feed it once it's down, how much Raw Mutton and torpidity time that takes at six documented levels (1, 30, 60, 90, 120, and 150), and what the tame comes with once it's yours. Anywhere the source page doesn't give a number, this guide says so explicitly instead of guessing.

 

The Knockout (KO) Taming Method

 

    ark.wiki.gg's infobox lists the Ravager's Taming Method as "Knockout" — you don't hand-feed it like a passive grazer, you have to render it unconscious first. The page's KO Strategy section is direct about the tool: "Using a Bola will make it stand still so it's easily knocked out." Once it's immobilized, the real obstacle is the Ravager's pack behavior. The wiki states it plainly: "The pack bonus on Ravagers makes them more difficult to tame so it is recommended that you bola the Ravager you wish to tame and either kill its packmates or simply lead them far enough away and lose aggro." Isolating your target matters as much as the weapon you bring.

 

    The source page does list bare knockout-shot multipliers per level — for example ×50, ×21, ×6, ×4, ×3, and ×2 at Level 1 — but the extracted table doesn't attach a named weapon or ammo type to each number. This guide will not guess which figure belongs to a Bow, Crossbow, or a specific dart type — exact tranq-shot counts per weapon are left undocumented here rather than assumed.

 

What You Need: Preferred Food and Equipment

 

 

    Per the wiki's Domestication data, a Ravager is listed as Tameable: Yes, Rideable: Yes, Breedable: Yes, and Torpor Immune: No — so a torpidity-based knockout works on it, unlike a handful of ARK creatures that resist it outright. The Preferred Food field names Raw Mutton specifically. The Kibble field in the infobox is blank, and the Level 1 taming-food table (Raw Mutton, Cooked Lamb Chop, Raw Prime Meat, Cooked Prime Meat, Raw Prime Fish Meat, Raw Meat, Cooked Prime Fish Meat, Cooked Meat, Raw Fish Meat, Cooked Fish Meat) doesn't include any kibble type either — so a dedicated Ravager kibble is treated as undocumented rather than assumed.

 

    Once tamed, the wiki lists the Ravager Saddle unlocking at Level 47, with Rider Weaponry listed as Yes, meaning a mounted rider can fire weapons from the saddle.

 

Raw Mutton and Torpidity, Level by Level

 

 

    The wiki's taming-food table gives a Raw Mutton quantity, a feeding time, and a torpidity-depletion rate for six wild levels:

 

• Level 1 — 1 Raw Mutton, 0:07:02 feeding time, torpidity depletes at 0.3/s, fully depleted in 00:27:46
• Level 30 — 2 Raw Mutton, 0:14:04, 0.5/s, depleted in 00:45:49
• Level 60 — 4 Raw Mutton, 0:28:08, 0.66/s, depleted in 00:58:11
• Level 90 — 5 Raw Mutton, 0:35:10, 0.79/s, depleted in 01:07:09
• Level 120 — 6 Raw Mutton, 0:42:12, 0.92/s, depleted in 01:14:12
• Level 150 — 7 Raw Mutton, 0:49:14, 1.04/s, depleted in 01:20:01

 

    Doing the arithmetic: Raw Mutton needed goes from 1 at Level 1 to 4 at Level 60, a 4x increase (4 ÷ 1 = 4), and up to 7 at Level 150, a 7x increase over Level 1. The torpidity-depletion rate itself climbs from 0.3/s at Level 1 to 1.04/s at Level 150, roughly 3.5x faster (1.04 ÷ 0.3 ≈ 3.47) — a higher-level Ravager's torpor drains that much quicker once you stop adding to it, so your feeding window shrinks the higher the level.

 

    The page's bare KO-shot multipliers at other levels — for example ×137, ×56, ×16, ×9, ×7, and ×4 at Level 30 — aren't tied to a named weapon either, so exact tranq-shot counts at those levels are left undocumented as well.

 

Base Stats, Drops, and What You Get

 

 

    The wiki's Base Stats and Growth table lists these base values and per-level increases for a wild Ravager: Health 400 base, +80 per level; Stamina 350 base, +35 per level; Oxygen 150 base, +15 per level; Food 1200 base, +120 per level; Weight 500 base, +10 per level; Melee Damage 25 base, +1 per level; Torpidity 500 base, +30 per level; Movement Speed 100% base with no listed flat per-level increase. The same table also carries taming-bonus percentage columns (Wild and Tamed, Additive and Multiplicative), but the extracted data for those columns doesn't line up cleanly against its own header, so the taming-bonus percentages are left undocumented rather than risk misattributing a number to the wrong stat.

 

    Elsewhere on the page: a Ravager kill is worth 24 XP, listed drops are Raw Meat, Pelt, and Hide, Drag Weight is 120, and Special Loot Chance is 30%. The page also notes Ravagers "take heavily reduced Fall Damage" and can climb both natural vines and player-placed zip lines — worth remembering if you're chasing or fleeing one across broken terrain mid-tame.

 

Bola the specific Ravager you want before firing a single tranq shot — the wiki is explicit that its pack bonus "makes them more difficult to tame," so kill or lead away any packmates first. Load Raw Mutton into its inventory the moment it's knocked out; that's the food the infobox names as Preferred. Torpor Immune is listed as No, so a standard knockout works fine, but the depletion-rate numbers above mean a higher-level Ravager's torpor window closes faster — have your Raw Mutton stockpile ready before you start, not after it's already down.

 

Running your own ARK server

 

    Isolating a single Ravager away from its pack, watching a torpidity-depletion clock you can't pause, and stockpiling enough Raw Mutton for a Level 120 or 150 attempt all go easier with a dedicated, always-on world instead of racing someone else's session length. A private ARK server keeps your bola'd target exactly where you left it, your tribe's Raw Mutton stash untouched, and your half-finished tame safe from other players wandering into the fight — no server restart wiping the torpidity progress you've built up. It also means you can time a multi-person pack-isolation attempt around your own group's schedule.

 

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Conclusion

 

    Taming a Ravager in ARK comes down to what ark.wiki.gg actually documents: it's a Knockout tame, a Bola is the tool the wiki names for immobilizing it, Raw Mutton is its listed Preferred Food, and the Ravager Saddle unlocks at Level 47. The Raw Mutton and torpidity-depletion figures above are given for Levels 1, 30, 60, 90, 120, and 150 specifically — not extrapolated to any other level. Exact tranq-shot counts per weapon and the base-stat table's taming-bonus percentage columns weren't reliably extractable from the source and are left undocumented rather than guessed.