Narcotic
Increases your health, but puts you to sleep.
cheat giveitemnum 122 1 0 0or
cheat gfi Narcotic 1 0 0or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Consumables/PrimalItemConsumable_Narcotic.PrimalItemConsumable_Narcotic'" 1 0 0
| 20 × |  Narcoberry or Ascerbic Mushroom
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| 4 × |  Raw Meat
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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 0.357 per second when crafted with a mortar and pestle, or greater than 7.5 per second when crafted with a chemistry bench[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
- ↑ 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. The effective torpor gain is then given by the equation n(sL+T). When the narcotic is crafted with a mortar and pestle, n is 5 for the narcoberries and 1 for the narcotic. A chemistry bench gives 50% more narcotic, making n=1.5. Thus the break even point can be found by providing the stats of narcoberries and narcotics and solving the appropriate equation for L. With a mortar and pestle we have 5*(3L + 7.5) = 8L + 40, which gives L=0.357. With a chemistry bench we have 5*(3L + 7.5) = 1.5*(8L + 40), which gives L=7.5.
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