Otter
CreatureShoulder Pet
Otter taming calculatorPassive
Bring 12 Sabertooth Salmon.
No knockout| Fish | Progress each | Needed | Effectiveness |
|---|---|---|---|
 Sabertooth Salmon | 411 | 12 | 80.44% |
 Coelacanth | 235 | 21 | 57.32% |
 Piranha | 118 | 42 | 25.13% |
Progress scales straight off the size of the fish you drag over, so a larger corpse is worth proportionally more.
How this tame works
- There is no cooldown between fish, so this goes as fast as you can catch them and drag them over. The only clock is your own.
- Drag the fish corpse up to the Otter rather than putting it in your inventory. It eats what you are carrying.
- Each one is worth the same no matter its level. Higher levels simply need more of them.
Otter taming video guide
More about taming the Otter
ARK: Survival Ascended features the Otter as a tamable, piscivore creature that survivors will encounter in the wild. It falls within the Shoulder Pet classification.
With 40 base Health, the Otter is glass-cannon fragile. Its base Melee Damage sits at 100%, giving it decent hitting power. With 180 base Stamina, the Otter has moderate endurance. Weight capacity starts at 30, giving it very limited carrying capacity.
After taming, the Otter is primarily used for resource harvesting, excelling at gathering specific materials. It gives live birth after a gestation period, making breeding straightforward. Killing a wild Otter yields 4 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.84 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.