All New Dinosaurs and How to Tame Them in Ark Ascended: Scorched Earth

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You might think that they’ll eat anything, but dinosaurs are pretty picky. Here’s every new dinosaur in Ark Survival Ascended: Scorched Earth and their Preferred Food.

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Ark Survival Ascended: Scorched Earth: Every Dinosaur and Their Preferred Food, Listed

Scorched Earth might seem like a hostile wasteland, but it’s absolutely teeming with life. You’ll practically be tripping over dinosaurs. But if you want a full list of each and every dinosaur in Ark Survival Ascended: Scorched Earth and their preferred food, look no farther.

To tame most dinosaurs, you’ll need to knock them out and insert their preferred food in their inventory. You can do this by pressing and holding the interact button on the dinosaur’s unconscious body. The best tools for knocking out a dinosaur are usually clubs, blunt weaponry, tranquilizers, or your own bare fists if you think you can go toe-to-toe with the creature. If you try putting in a food item that isn’t the preferred food for the dinosaur, its taming gauge won’t increase and it’ll be a wasted effort.

DinosaurTamable?Preferred Food
AchatinaYesSweet Vegetable Cakes
AnkylosaurusYesCrops or Dilo Egg Kibble
AraneoYesSpoiled Meat
ArchaeopteryxYesPelagornis Egg Kibble or Chitin
ArgentavisYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
ArthropleuraYesSpoiled Meat
CarnotaurusYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
CoelacanthYesAny meat
DaeodonYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
DeathwormNo 
DirewolfYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
DoedicurusYesCrops or Dilo Egg Kibble
Dung BeetleYesLarge Animal Feces
EquusYesRockarrot or Dilo Egg Kibble
Fasolasuchus YesKibble
GallimimusYesCrops or Dimetrodon Egg Kibble
Giant BeeYesRare Flowers or Simple Kibble
HyaenodonYesPetting
IguanadonYesCrops or Compy Egg Kibble
JerboaYesSeeds or Plant Species Y Seed
Jug BugNo 
KaprosuchusYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
KentrosaurusYesCrops or Regular Kibble
LymantriaYesCrops or Regular Kibble
LystrosaurusYesRare Flower
ManticoreNo 
MantisYesDeathworm Horn
MegalaniaYesRaw Mutton or Extraordinary Kibble
MegalosaurusYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
MegatheriumYesGiant Bee Honey or Baryonyx Egg Kibble
MicroraptorYesRare Flower
MorellatopsYesCrops or Simple Kibble
MoschopsYesSap, Leech Blood, Organic Polymer
OasisaurYesDeath Essence Resurrected in Oasis
OnycYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
OvisYesSweet Vegetable Cake
ParaceratheriumYesCrops or Pachy Egg
ParasaurYesCrops or Basic Kibble
PegomastaxYesMejoberry
PhoenixYesFound during Heat Waves and struck with fire weapons
ProcoptodonYesRare Mushrooms
PulmonoscorpiusYesSpoiled Meat and Regular Kibble
PurloviaYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
RaptorYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
RexYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
Rock ElementalYesSulfur
SabertoothYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
TapejaraYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
Terror BirdYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat
Thorny DragonYesRaw Mutton or Regular Kibble
ThylacoleoYesCooked Lamb Chop or Extraordinary Kibble
TitanoboaYesFertilized Giganotosaurus Egg or Fertilized Brontosaurus Egg
TitanomyrmaNo 
TitanosaurYesKnock out and saddling
TroodonYesAllow it to kill your tamed dinosaurs
UnicornYesRockarrot, Simple Kibble, or Crops
VultureYesSpoiled Meat
WyvernYesMust raise from a hatchling using Wyvern Milk
YutyrannusYesRaw Mutton or Raw Prime Meat

Want to tame something large? Check out our guide on How to Tame the Oasisaur in Ark: Survival Ascended Scorched Earth.

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A Staff Writer at Prima Games since 2022, Daphne Fama spends an inordinate amount playing games of all stripes but has a soft spot for horror, FPS, and RPGs. When she’s not gaming, she’s an author and member of the Horror Writers Association with a debut novel coming out in 2025. In a previous life, she was an attorney but found she preferred fiction to contracts and forms