
cheat summon Kentro_Character_BP_C
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Kentrosaurus/Kentro_Character_BP.Kentro_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Kentrosaurus (Gauntlet)
cheat summon Kentro_Character_BP_Gauntlet_C
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Gauntlet/Volcanic/Kentro_Character_BP_Gauntlet.Kentro_Character_BP_Gauntlet'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Kentrosaurus (Retrieve)
cheat summon Kentro_Character_BP_Retrieve_C
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Retrieve/Volcanic/Kentro_Character_BP_Retrieve.Kentro_Character_BP_Retrieve'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Kentrosaurus (Gauntlet2)
cheat summon Kentro_Character_BP_STA_C
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Dinos/Kentro_Character_BP_STA.Kentro_Character_BP_STA'" 500 0 0 35
The Kentrosaurus (KEN-truh-SAWR-us) is a medium-sized, herbivorous dinosaur, known for the massive amounts of deadly spikes on their backs, causing bleeding damages to anything hit by them.
It was first added in ARK: Survival Evolved on the 5th of May, 2017.
This section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena Walker, the author of the dossiers, has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creature.
Kentrosaurus Aethiopicus
TimeLate Jurassic
DietHerbivore
TemperamentShort-Tempered
While Kentrosaurus aethiopicus is considerably smaller than its close relative, Stegosaurus regium, it is much more formidable in matters of self-defense. In fact, it is arguably the pound for pound champion of not only the Stegosaurus, but when encountered in close-knit fighting packs, ranks atop the Island's herbivorous dinosaurs in general. Thanks to its wickedly sharp defensive spikes, any creature that attacks Kentrosaurus is likely to be reversely wounded in turn, and it is capable of piercing even the thickest of hides and armors when it goes on the offensive. I have personally witnessed the Kentrosaurus fell much larger predators in a single such "impaling" maneuver! Underestimating Kentrosaurus can be a fatal mistake, particularly when it is in a herd. When travelling in numbers, Kentrosaurus seems to grow much more aggressive, increasing the range at which it will defend its territory.
Survivors have seen little success in their attempts to ride Kentrosaurus, owing to its spikes and hot-headed temperament. However, a tamed herd of Kentrosaurus can effectively defend a compound and take on larger carnivores. Once impaled by its attack, the Kentrosaurus slams the attacker on the ground continuously, helping to turn the tide of a pitched battle!
Kentrosaurus is a very defensive and territorial herbivore. Although it tolerates wild herbivores, it will attack survivors and tamed dinosaurs that come close to it. It also gains a pack bonus from others nearby, similar to Allosaurus and
Compies. Approach with extreme caution, as its bleeding attacks can be devastating, especially with the herd bonus.
Kentrosaurus is a smaller, stockier relative to the more famous Stegosaurus. Its body is similar to
Stegosaurus, with a low slung head with a beaked mouth, close to the ground to feed on low growing vegetation. It has a double row of plates up to its pelvis and a formidable double row of spikes down its tail, its main form of defense. In addition, it has a pair of spikes on its shoulders to deter attackers from the sides.
This section displays the Kentrosaurus's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Kentrosaurus. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Kentrosaurus will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.
This information can be used to alter the Kentrosaurus's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID>
in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6
would color the Kentrosaurus's "main body" magenta.
Attribute | Base Value | Level Increase | Taming Bonus | ||
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650 | +130 | +5.4% | 0.07 | |
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300 | +30 | +10% | ||
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150 | +15 | +10% | ||
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6000 | +600 | +10% | ||
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500 | +10 | +4% | ||
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10 / 42 | +0.5 / +2.1 | +1.7% | 7% | 17.6% |
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100% | N/A | +1% | ||
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500 | +30 | N/A | 0.5 |
Type in values of a wild creature to see on which stats it's emphasized. Green values on a high-level creature are very good for breeding. If you have already tamed your creature you can try to recover the breeding stats with an external tool.[1]
The stat-calculator does not work in the mobile-view, see here for alternatives: Apps
Note that after the creature is tamed it gets bonuses on some stats depending on the taming effectiveness. This makes it hard to retrieve the levels on a tamed creature, so this tool is only for wild ones, but gives a first impression, how well the stats are distributed.
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Damage Reflection
The Kentrosaurus returns an specific percentage of the damage received back to its aggressor depending of its drag weight (See Damage Reflection for more details).
Pack Boost
The Kentrosaurus receives the Pack Boost whenever it is near to another allied Kentrosaurus. A "pack" of two Kentros will receive a +1 Bonus, which will go up to +4 in a group of 5 or more Kentros. They receive +5% extra Melee Damage per extra pack member up to 4 members.
A single wild Kentrosaurus will not attack unless one almost walks into it. However wild Kentrosaurus are herding creatures and gain a bonus from others nearby, this pack bonus will make them increasingly territorial with every additional wild Kentrosaurus. Starting from a group of two, they will attack any tamed dinosaur or survivor that come close to them.
It is best to keep a distance and kite the Kentrosaurus with ranged weapons. Be on the look out for the highest levelled dinosaurs and try and take them out first.
Ranged weapons or large dinosaurs that can resist its latch attack and tank its bleed damage such as Rexes.
The Kentrosaurus can pick up the player using its main attack into its tail spikes, as well as applying the bleed effect. Although the Kentrosaurus will drop the player after some time, its attacks can still be devastating to even the strongest of players.
Because this creature seems to reflect a certain percentage of damage, using a tamed Giga against them is ill-advised. This will result in a massive reflection and an almost instantaneous filling of the Rage Bar, though a fully imprinted tame Giga with good saddle won't have much of the issue.
They have low torpor and can fall easily under tranq arrows or darts. This will make taming or killing them much easier if you don't have any hunting dinosaurs. They are also fairly slow, so it is not too challenging to evade them.
Note: Contrary to Jen's post about 257,[2] testing and devkit data show that the Kentrosaurus does not prefer Savoroot over other crops.
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4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:03:12 |
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37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:22:12 |
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37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:22:12 |
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37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:22:12 |
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37 | 36 | 8 | 4 | 0:44:24 |
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73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:21:54 |
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145 | 81 | 16 | 8 | 1:05:15 |
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207 | 74 | 15 | 8 | 1:02:06 |
KO: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
Torpidity-depletion: 0.3 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:27:46 |
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Time | |
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9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:07:12 |
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88 | 24 | 5 | 3 | 0:52:48 |
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88 | 24 | 5 | 3 | 0:52:48 |
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88 | 24 | 5 | 3 | 0:52:48 |
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88 | 199 | 41 | 21 | 1:45:36 |
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176 | 24 | 5 | 3 | 0:52:48 |
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352 | 375 | 77 | 39 | 2:38:24 |
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502 | 349 | 72 | 36 | 2:30:36 |
KO: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
Torpidity-depletion: 0.5 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:45:49 |
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15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:12:00 |
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142 | 112 | 24 | 12 | 1:25:12 |
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142 | 112 | 24 | 12 | 1:25:12 |
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142 | 112 | 24 | 12 | 1:25:12 |
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142 | 464 | 97 | 49 | 2:50:24 |
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283 | 111 | 24 | 12 | 1:24:54 |
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565 | 810 | 170 | 85 | 4:14:15 |
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808 | 761 | 159 | 80 | 4:02:24 |
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Torpidity-depletion: 0.66 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 00:58:11 |
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20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:16:00 |
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195 | 239 | 51 | 26 | 1:57:00 |
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195 | 239 | 51 | 26 | 1:57:00 |
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195 | 239 | 51 | 26 | 1:57:00 |
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195 | 799 | 171 | 86 | 3:54:00 |
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390 | 239 | 51 | 26 | 1:57:00 |
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779 | 1357 | 289 | 145 | 5:50:33 |
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1113 | 1277 | 272 | 136 | 5:33:54 |
KO: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
Torpidity-depletion: 0.79 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:07:09 |
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25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:19:59 |
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249 | 403 | 88 | 44 | 2:29:24 |
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249 | 403 | 88 | 44 | 2:29:24 |
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249 | 403 | 88 | 44 | 2:29:24 |
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249 | 1203 | 261 | 131 | 4:58:48 |
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497 | 402 | 87 | 44 | 2:29:06 |
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993 | 1996 | 432 | 216 | 7:26:51 |
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1418 | 1881 | 408 | 204 | 7:05:24 |
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Torpidity-depletion: 0.92 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:14:12 |
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31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0:24:47 |
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302 | 593 | 131 | 66 | 3:01:12 |
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302 | 593 | 131 | 66 | 3:01:12 |
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302 | 593 | 131 | 66 | 3:01:12 |
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302 | 1654 | 364 | 182 | 6:02:24 |
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604 | 593 | 131 | 66 | 3:01:12 |
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1207 | 2713 | 596 | 298 | 9:03:09 |
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1724 | 2561 | 563 | 282 | 8:37:12 |
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Torpidity-depletion: 1.04 / s, Time until all torpidity is depleted: 01:20:01 |
Note that the values are for optimal cases, always bring extra supplies!
For a level-dependent count of resources needed, try an external taming calculator.
Ingredients for Regular Kibble:
1 ×
Cooked Meat Jerky, 1 ×
Medium Egg, 5 ×
Fiber, 2 ×
Longrass, 2 ×
Savoroot, 1 ×
Water
Kentrosaurus can impale the following dino into its tail spikes (except flying creatures)
It cannot impale unconscious and alpha variant creatures.
The Kentrsaurus' damage reflection does not increase if the Kentro is under Mate Boost or Pack Boost buff effects, however the percentage of damage reflection that it does scales with the drag weight of the aggressor, here it is some examples:
Species / Common Name | Drag Weight | Reflection Damage1 |
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35 | 9.48% |
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250 | 24.51% |
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285 | 26% |
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550 | 45.4% |
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950 | 70.37% |
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1000 | 70.4% |
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1200 | 300% (100%) |
1This column represents the percentage damage that the Kentrosaurus returns back to the aggresor.
2The Broodmother Lysrix receives x3 extra damage by default, meaning that the real Kentrosaurus' damage reflection is 100%.
The Humans seems to be an exception for this rule, despite their drag weight being 35, humans have different values depending on whether they use melee weapons or their own fists, having values of 14.6% and 33.6% respectively.
There is a damage limit that the Kentrosaurus can return, that limit seems to be 700.
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★★★☆☆ |
For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Kentrosaurus, see the relevant Wikipedia article.
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259.0 |
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295.102 | Added a hard clamp to Kentrosaurus ![]() |