Sometimes you just want to tame something to test it out in Ark Survival Evolved, or perhaps to help control wild dino spawn, whatever the reason there are a couple of console commands that you can use to make it happen.
forcetame
The first is forcetame you type this in while you are looking at the wild creature and boom you have a tame dino. The new tame will wander around a few seconds and then stop. The dino will gain extra levels via 100% taming effectiveness. There will be no sound or naming screen when the tame works. It can be hard to move from console to game screen on a moving target, so be careful of using this command with dangerous creatures.
dotame
If you want the regular taming experience where you get the naming option extra then you can use thedotame command.
Say that in your Ark Survival Evolved single player game you
want to play around with the new dinos, but you can’t find them, or you want to
see just want to have an island populated with 300 T-Rexes, there is a console
command you can use to make that happen.
To bring up the console on PC use the tab key.On Xbox and PS4 you get the option for admin commands
in the pause menu.
The first command spawns in a random dino based on your
difficulty setting, so if it is set to 3 on the center map, the highest a dino
will spawn in is 150, and on the island map it would be 120.With the following command you will get
completely random stats and sex of the dino. We’ll use Carbonemys as an example
look in the Ark Wiki for individual creature spawn codes:
summon Turtle_Character_BP_C
If you want to get more specific about the level of the
creature and the location of a spawn you can use a much longer console command:
The last numbers are the important part of the code.In the above example the 500 refers to the
distance that the creature will spawn from you.500 is only a couple of foundations distant from you, so this is a very
dangerous thing to be doing if you are spawning in a highly aggressive dino
like a Giga.
The next two numbers 0 0 are not as important have to do
with the location of the spawn.When
using this cheat code the creature will spawn in the direction you are looking,
so if you are looking straight up they will spawn in the air and if you’re
looking down they will be glitched into the ground, and maybe fall through the
map.
The last number is the one you really want to know (35), and
that is the level it is going to spawn in as.I don’t know what the level cap is, I have used up to level 100000 to
test it out in a cave where too many dinos were spawning and causing fps issues.In order to tame a wild animal with an extremely
high level you will need some mods, or another cheat code forcetame.When you enter
the forcetame code anything you are
looking at will instantly become tamed.They won’t stop instantly like a normal tame, but they will wander for
5-10 seconds before coming to a stop.
These codes will allow you to spawn in any dino you want, even those that aren't available for a specific map like mantis on the Island Map, or Dire Bears in Ark Scorched Earth. I haven't tested it by the forcetame cheat is said to only work for a limited time on some of the high-end creatures like the titianasaur. These cheats and the give item cheat are probably the most useful console commands for the game.
In the single player Ark Survival Evolved, on PC, I had a situation where hundreds and hundreds of Titian Boas, spiders, and centipedes were pouring out of the cave, so it is time to do a dino wipe. All these creatures caused severe lag and low fps (about 5), and the game sometimes crashed. The only real solution was to use the "destroywilddinos" command. The game froze for a few minutes as it had to spawn in all new dinos, but this command did work and killed everything on the entire map. Finally, I can go into the area of the cave and not have crazy fps.
Reasons to destroy wild dinos 1) Lag and low fps because there are too many wild dinos in an area 2) There was an update with dino species and you want them to spawn in quickly 3) You've got something very dangerous like a giga near your base and you need a safe way to get rid of it.
Before you try to kill everything I recommend backing up your game just in case something goes wrong. You also don't want to be in the middle of taming something. To enter the command in single player
How to Kill all the Dinos I Ark Survival Evolved single player
1) Hit the tab key to bring up the console
2) Type enablecheats then hit enter
3)Hit the tab key to bring up the console again
4) Type destroywilddinos and hit enter
On Xbox and Playstation
PlayStation L1 + R1 + Square + Triangle (hit the buttons at the same time)
Xbox LB + RB + X + Y (hit the buttons at the same time)
The game could lag very badly, or freeze for a few minutes like it did on my PC. Then all the creatures should be brand new.
I have this same problem, but with fish, near our base on the Xbox one version, and will have to give it a try.
