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THORNY DRAGON
The Thorny Dragon is a carnivore found on 9 maps, with a drag weight of 150. Tamed, it harvests Wood and Raw Meat better than most creatures. It is rideable once you have the level 40 saddle.
Stat Calculator
point distribution & extractionRoll Quality
how lucky these wild points areKnock Out
Thorny Dragon at a glance
the game's own base values — the calculator above levels them| Stat | Base (level 1, wild) | Per wild level | Per tamed level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 260 | 52 | 5.4% |
| Stamina | 350 | 35 | 10.0% |
| Oxygen | 150 | 15 | 10.0% |
| Food | 1,200 | 120 | 10.0% |
| Weight | 300 | 6 | 4.0% |
| Melee Damage | 100% | 5% | 1.7% |
| Movement Speed | 100% | — | 1.0% |
| Torpidity | 450 | 27 | — |
A wild Thorny Dragon starts at 260 health and 100% melee damage. Its drag weight is 150, which decides what can carry it. The saddle engram unlocks at level 40. Killing one gives 6 base XP.
Taming food: Regular Kibble, Raw Mutton, Raw Prime Meat, Cooked Lamb Chop, Cooked Prime Meat, Raw Prime Fish Meat, Raw Meat, Cooked Meat. Torpor drains at 0.5 per second once it is unconscious.
Breeding: lays an egg, incubating in 2h 29m, and the baby matures in 2d 43m with 6 imprints available. The egg needs 22–28°C to incubate . Mating cooldown runs 18h to 2d.
Immobilised by: Chain Bola, Bear Trap, Large Bear Trap, Plant Species Y.
Best at gathering: Wood, Raw Meat, Raw Prime Meat, Chitin, Keratin.
Drops on death: Raw Meat, Keratin, Hide.
Taming Calculator
Lv 150 · knockoutHow You Get One
method, in orderHolding it still
Chain BolaFired from a Ballista or 
Harpoon Launcher. Grounds flyers and pins them where they land.
Bear TrapPlace it, kite the creature over it. Holds long enough to get darts in.
Large Bear TrapSame idea as the Bear Trap, sized for the big stuff. Bait it into walking over one.That's the full list — nothing else immobilizes a Thorny Dragon, per the game's own immobilizer table (drag weight 150).
Taming at a glance
a level 150, at official 1× rates| Level | Regular Kibble | Time | Effectiveness | Bonus levels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 5 | 15m 59s | 99.5% | +14 |
| 60 | 8 | 25m 34s | 99.3% | +29 |
| 90 | 11 | 35m 10s | 99.0% | +44 |
| 120 | 14 | 44m 45s | 98.7% | +59 |
| 150 | 16 | 51m 09s | 98.5% | +73 |
Every number in this card is at official 1× rates, with the fastest food. Taming speed and food consumption multipliers change all of it, and most servers are not on official — the calculator at the top of this tab takes your rates, a Sanguine Elixir, and every other food this creature will eat.
Effectiveness is what decides the bonus levels: every unit of food eaten costs a slice of it, so the food that needs the fewest units finishes at the highest level. That is why kibble is worth the trouble — not that it is much faster, but that it is fewer feedings.
Torpor drains at 0.5 per second while it is unconscious, so on a long tame you will need Narcotic to keep it down. The calculator works out how much.
Timers
start them when you knock it outServer Rates
every number on this tab is calculated at these ratesBreeding
egg → adultDrops & Harvest
On death
Abilities
what it does and how you trigger it 
- Bite Primary attack
The Thorny Dragon bites the target for 40 damage.
5 stamina · 0.67s cooldown - Shoot Spines Secondary attack
The Thorny Dragon shoots spines at the target for 1 damage. This attacks increases the Torpor of the target on impact. Neither damage or torpor of this attack scales with Melee Damage stat.
15 stamina · 1.36s cooldown
- Auto-Harvest Resources
The Thorny Dragon auto-harvest the trees that it has in front of it whenever it has no rider and its Weight capacity is below 50%.
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Smithy Saddle The
Thorny Dragon Saddle changes the Thorny Dragon inventory to work as a Smithy to craft and repair items. - Weight Reduction
The Thorny Dragon reduces the weight of the following resources by the listed amount while they are in its inventory:
Details
everything else the game files recordKnockout by level
every level, as a tableA level 150 Thorny Dragon has 4,473 torpor and takes 21 Tranquilizer Darts or 50 Tranq Arrows to knock out — 9 darts with head shots.
Full Thorny Dragon knockout table → — every level from 1 to 450, across seven weapons.
