Dec 02, 2015 Scorpions are a oldy but a goody still due to ease of taming and better saddle than the frog, as well as the ability to attack under water unlike the frog. Theres no way to 'add more torpor' beyond hitting a unconcious dino again, which will reduce taming efficiency and run the risk of killing said tame.
- May 16, 2017 if you are trying to knock out an X-Mosasaur bring at least 3x the tranqs listed, X-Dinos take 3x less damage from you and your tames so as a result they require 3x as many tranqs. I went through 550 tranq arrows and 5.5 crossbows to knockout a 135 and it took 30 mins of non-stop firing so you might want to build a trap.
- Maybe taming a megalodon first is a good start. Those swim to the surface where it's easier to knock out and tame (with a taming pen in shallow waters). Or even a baryonix. Then you have something to defend yourself and whatever you are taming in the deep. Maybe take a diplocaulus (or scuba gear) with you too, since it provides oxygen.
| Tripwire Narcotic Trap | ||||||||
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| Place two of these near each other to create a poisonous trap. | ||||||||
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| Type | Trap | |||||||
| Item | ||||||||
| Single use | Yes | |||||||
| Added in | v186.0 | |||||||
Spawn Command cheat giveitemnum 325 1 0 0 or cheat GFI PoisonTrap 1 0 0 or cheat giveitem 'Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Weapons/PrimalItem_WeaponPoisonTrap.PrimalItem_WeaponPoisonTrap' 1 0 0 | ||||||||
| Crafting | ||||||||
| Required level | Level 29 | |||||||
| Engram Points | 9 EP | |||||||
| Crafting XP | 3.9 XP | |||||||
| Crafting Time | 5s | |||||||
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| Required Stations | ||||||||
| Ingredients | ||||||||
Resources breakdown[Expand] 15 × Narcotic 15 × Spoiled Meat 3 × Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste 35 × Fiber 1 × Crystal Total Base Ingredients
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Overview[edit | edit source]
The Tripwire Narcotic Trap is a trap that operates nearly identically to the Improvised Explosive Device. Using tripwire traps requires two to be placed within close proximity of each other to generate a tripwire between them; as crafting only yields one trap, two are needed for the trap to function. Just like the IED, you and your dinos can set off your own gas trap by stepping on the tripwire; allied dinosaurs and tribe members, however, are immune to the gas.[1]
Breaking a narcotic trap by hand or with tools or weapons will detonate it and any trap it's connected to, while using the demolish function on a friendly narcotic trap will allow you to pick up the item and place it elsewhere.
Dinosaurs knocked out by a narcotic trap's effect will not be available for taming.
Note that you can still build torpor on wild dinos by using narcotic traps during taming. Just make sure that in the end it was knocked out by tranq arrows or slingshot. One set (2 crafted) of narcotic traps applies 240 torpor. So if you expect a wild dino would have around 1000 torpor, use 3 to 4 sets to build 720 to 960 torpor, and apply the last bit of torpor by tranq arrow or slingshot. That way the dino will take very little damage, as a narcotic trap doesn't do any damage, and you will need only a few tranq arrows after that to knock it out.
You can also use narcotic traps to build torpor on a dino that is in the taming process, although usually that's unwise in terms of resources as it takes 30 narcotics to craft a set of two traps, and it applies 240 torpor in total. Thus only 8 torpor per narcotic. Any dinos knocked out by the Tripwire Narcotic Trap will still have their food decrease while unconscious, enabling you to starve a dino without heavily damaging it, to prepare for a proper knock out, which is useful for low HP dinos like Dimetrodon that would die from a secondary taming attempt should the first one fail.
It also seems that wild dinos are not aggroed by narcotic traps. This is useful when attempting to tame dinos that flee when players attack them.The narcotic traps connection also becomes disconnected after a while.
Painting and Color Regions[edit | edit source]
The Tripwire Narcotic Trap is not currently paint-able, however this object may be re-mapped to include paint regions in a future update.
For more information on Paint Regions and how to use them, please view the Dye, Paintbrush, or Spray Painter pages.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Two narcotic traps connected by their tripwire
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑v186.1 * Allied Dinos are now immune to your Gas Traps
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