Narcotic

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The Narcotic is an item in ARK: Survival Evolved. It can be used to keep dinosaurs unconscious during Taming.

Upon consumption, Narcotics increase the Torpor of a survivor or creature by 40, which is a bit more than the amount of torpor given by the 5 narcoberries required to make it (5 × 7.5 = 37.5). In addition, unlike the berries themselves, the narcotic doesn’t spoil.

Instead of Narcoberries the same amount of Ascerbic Mushroom can be used.

Usage

Narcotics are primarily used in the Taming process to keep dinosaurs unconscious. This is done by putting the Narcotic in the creatures inventory, selecting it, and pressing the Use key (E, , ). The creature’s torpidity will then rise by a total of 40 over the next 8 seconds. 5 Narcoberries will produce a bit less of Torpor and unlike the berries, Narcotics do not spoil. This process can be used against an unconscious player for the same effect. Especially for creatures with a fast decreasing torpor (specifically greater than 6.5 per second[1]), narcoberries are the better choice because the 5 berries will increase the torpor for 5 × 3s = 15 seconds as opposed to one narcotic that increases the torpor only for 8 seconds. During the increase of the torpor it will not decrease, giving berries an advantage when taming creatures like Giganotosaurus and Dimetrodon. Narcotics and Narcoberries do not affect the Taming Effectiveness.

Narcotics can also be used to give the player increased Health regeneration for a short time, although this will cause you to fall asleep due to the rapid increase in torpor it causes. Players with a higher Fortitude will be more resistant to this effect, and will be able to take more Narcotics before they are knocked out.

Crafting

Narcotics are used to craft the following items:

• Tranquilizer Arrow, an important tool for rendering creatures unconscious in order to tame them
• Tripwire Narcotic Trap
• Bug Repellant
• Poison Grenade
• Tranquilizer Dart
• Lesser Antidote

Also, Narcotics are needed for following cooking Recipes:

Notes

• The description of the Narcotic says that it “increases your health” when used, which is rather vague. It does not increase your max health, or instantly restore health, instead providing increased health regeneration for a short time.
• Due to the fact that Narcotics provide 4.0 XP per craft, are vital to taming most creatures, and are commonly made in bulk due to the easy resource requirements, they are a fantastic item to create in order to grind experience and to level up. Even high-level survivors can gain considerable experience through the creation of hundreds of narcotics. However, the Industrial Grinder may be more time efficient beginning at level 64 depending on access to the necessary resources.

Trivia

• In early versions of the game, Narcotics and Narcoberries had a negative effect on Taming Effectiveness.

References

1. ↑ Let n be the number of torpor items used, s be the duration of the torpor increase effect in seconds, L be the rate of torpor loss in torpor per second, and T be the total torpor gain per item used. n can be ignored for proving this number. The effective torpor gain per item is then given by the equation (sL+T). Thus the break even point can be found by providing the stats of narcoberries and narcotics and solving for L: (3L + 7.5 = 8L + 40)