Creatures

Seventy-one creature pages, and the first cut is the one the game makes for you. Ten of them cover Alpha variants, and the game's position on those is stated twice in our own coverage in almost the same words. The Alpha Carnotaurus page says that like all other Alpha creatures, it cannot be tamed. The Alpha Tusoteuthis page says the same thing, that it is not tamable like all Alpha creatures in the game. They are not a harder version of a tame; they are a different category of thing, and the only question they pose is what they drop.

The other sixty-one are yours if you can catch them. Below, the kill list first and then the tames map by map.

The ten you kill

Alphas are loot piñatas with very high health. Our pages are fairly consistent about what falls out: Hide and Raw Prime Meat as standard, plus something worth the trouble. The Alpha Mosasaur drops fishing rods and raw prime fish, the Alpha Raptor drops special items on top of the usual, and the Alpha Karkinos is worth killing with a high-level Spino or Megalosaurus if you would rather not fight it fairly.

Two entries in that table disagree with the rule, and it is worth being straight about it. The Alpha Karkinos page opens by saying most players think you cannot tame one but that you can force tame it, and then describes a genuine in-game routine: pillar it into a trap, hit it with a catapult from a raised platform until it goes down, then feed it spoiled meat or kibble. Everywhere else in this folder, force taming means typing a command. And the Alpha Lymantria page is really a Lymantria page, covering the tent trap, the Mejoberries and a saddle at level 36 for 12 engram points, none of which applies to an Alpha. Read that one as the standard creature's guide, whatever the title says.

Aberration: ten tames and a torch problem

Aberration has the second-largest roster here and the most coherent one, because almost everything on it answers a need the map creates. Light is the big one, which is why three of its ten creatures are light pets: the Bulbdog, the Featherlight and the Shinehorn, with the Glowtail and the Glowbug alongside them.

The rest are transport and trouble. The Ravager is the pack mount that replaces the flyers you do not have, the Roll Rat is the harvester, and the Basilisk is the prize. The Nameless and the Seeker are the two you are usually running from rather than towards.

Fjordur: thirteen tames, the largest roster

Fjordur has more creature coverage than any other map, partly because it spans several realms and partly because it added a lot. The map's own additions are the Andrewsarchus, the Desmodus, which is fed on blood packs and Moschops and crafts Sanguine Elixir, and the Fjordhawk.

The heavy hitters are the Giga and the Shadowmane, the workhorses are the Quetzal, the Argentavis and the Megachelon, and the specialists are the Dung Beetle for fertilizer, the Gacha for resources, the Otter for warmth and pearls, the Ferox for its Element transformation, and the Deinonychus for climbing.

The rest of the maps

One page has no map attached at all: our general Otter guide, which covers the creature wherever it turns up rather than on one island.

Creatures that appear on more than one map

Six creatures have pages on two or three maps, and the reason to notice is that our coverage of them is not duplicated, it is localised. The Griffin gets three write-ups, on Lost Island, Ragnarok and Scorched Earth, because its spawn behaviour differs on each. The Ice Wyvern is covered on Ragnarok and Valguero, the Deinonychus on Fjordur and Valguero, the Giga on Fjordur and Lost Island, the Gacha on Extinction and Fjordur, the Ferox on Fjordur and Genesis, and the Dung Beetle on Crystal Isles and Fjordur. If a creature you want has a page for the map you are on, use that one.

The ones that are really egg guides

Three of the creatures above cannot be tamed in the ordinary sense at all, and the coverage of them lives elsewhere. Wyverns, Rock Drakes and Magmasaurs have to be hatched from stolen eggs, which is why the Ice Wyvern, Lightning Wyvern and Magmasaur pages here handle the creature while our items guide handles the theft. The Crystal Wyvern Heir on Crystal Isles is the one exception, since that map's Wyverns work differently.

For everything else, the practical companions are our resources guide, since most taming runs on kibble and the crops behind it, and locations for somewhere to keep what you catch. The wiki hub sorts every page here by map.

Frequently asked questions

Can Alpha creatures be tamed?

Our pages say no, twice stating it as a rule covering all Alphas, and the ones offering a tame are offering a console command. The Alpha Karkinos page is the single exception claiming an in-game method, so treat that one as unconfirmed.

Which map has the most creature coverage?

Fjordur with thirteen, then Aberration with twelve including its own Alphas. The Center and Genesis Part 2 have one apiece.

What should I tame first on Aberration?

A light pet, before anything else. Three of the map's ten tames exist to solve the darkness, and the Bulbdog is the one our other Aberration pages keep recommending you bring into caves.

Why do some creatures have several pages?

Because their locations and taming conditions change by map. The Griffin has three pages for that reason, and the right one to read is whichever matches the map you are playing.