Variant
Put its food in your last hotbar slot and feed it once, then mount it straight away. Stay on and feed again every time it prompts you. Each feed is worth well over what that food is normally worth, so bring the best thing it eats rather than berries. It throws you off somewhere between seven and forty-six seconds whatever you do, and being thrown costs a quarter of the progress you have built and makes it hostile, so feed on every prompt and get straight back on.
Bring 10 Rockarrot. About 4 minutes at level 150.
| Food | Food Quantity (Current/Max) | Taming Time | Effectiveness |
|---|---|---|---|
Rockarrot | 4:24 | 74 Lvl (224) 99.82% | |
Archelon Algae | 8:48 | 74 Lvl (224) 99.81% | |
Crops | 37:36 | 72 Lvl (222) 97.09% | |
Mejoberry | 2:58:12 | 34 Lvl (184) 46.14% | |
Berries | 3:09:60 | 18 Lvl (168) 25.1% | |
Stimberry | 11:52:48 | 0 Lvl (150) 1.33% | |
Sweet Vegetable Cake | 15:50:24 | 0 Lvl (150) 1.33% |
Check the taming results to see how long it takes to tame the R-Equus, what effectiveness you'll achieve, and how many bonus levels it gains. Better food means better results.
The timer below tracks feeding intervals for your passive R-Equus tame - it tells you exactly when the next feeding window opens.
ARK: Survival Ascended features the R-Equus as a tamable, herbivore creature that survivors will encounter in the wild. It falls within the Variant classification.
Its base Melee Damage sits at 105%, giving it solid damage output. At 233 base HP, the R-Equus is not particularly tanky. With 560 base Stamina, the R-Equus has respectable staying power. A base Weight of 350 means generous inventory space.
As a tame, the R-Equus earns its keep through resource gathering, making tedious farming runs much faster. It gives live birth after a gestation period, making breeding straightforward. A wild R-Equus is worth 1 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.44 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.
Take a look at this short video guide to taming the R-Equus.
Estimated time until optimal feeding point: 4m 48s
Food to consume through starvation: 240
Target food level: 5010