Tranquilizer Dart

Tranquilizer Dart

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A potent dart full of tranquilizing poison. For use in a Longneck Rifle. Can not be used with attachments.

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Weapon

Type

Ammunition

Ammo for

 Longneck Rifle

Item

Weight

0.2

Stack size

100

Single use

Yes

Added in

v218.0

Spawn Command

cheat gfi TranqDart 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Weapons/PrimalItemAmmo_TranqDart.PrimalItemAmmo_TranqDart'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 62

Engram points

30 EP

Crafting XP

0.2 XP

Crafting time

1s

Prerequisites

•  Stone Arrow
•  Narcotic
•  Simple Rifle Ammo

Unlocks

•  Pheromone Dart
•  Shocking Tranquilizer Dart
•  Tranq Spear Bolt

Used to craft

3 items

Crafted in

•  Smithy
•  Argentavis Saddle
•  Castoroides Saddle
•  Thorny Dragon Saddle
•  Tek Replicator
•  Exo-Mek

Required stations

Refining Forge
Mortar and Pestle

Ingredients

Resources breakdown [Expand]

3 × Narcotic

15 × Narcoberry

3 × Spoiled Meat

3 × Raw Meat

2 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

1 × Simple Rifle Ammo

6 × Gunpowder

6 × Sparkpowder

3 × Stone

6 × Flint

6 × Charcoal

6 × Wood or Fungal Wood

1 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

Total Base Ingredients

3 ×	Stone
6 ×	Flint
6 ×	Wood or Fungal Wood
15 ×	Narcoberry
3 ×	Raw Meat
3 ×	Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

The Tranquilizer Dart, also called the Tranq Dart, is a type of ammunition in ARK: Survival Evolved. It is unlocked at Level 62 for 30 Engram Points.

Used in the  Longneck Rifle, the Tranquilizer Dart rapidly raises the  Torpidity of any target it hits. It deals far more torpor than a  Crossbow loaded with  Tranq Arrows, allowing it to knock out targets much faster. Additionally, its lower damage makes it perfect for knocking out weaker creatures that would otherwise not survive the higher damage of the Tranq Arrow.

Tranquilizer comparison table

Ammunition	Weapon	Damage	Narcotic	Instant torpor	Over time	Total	Torpor /  Narcotic
Tranq Arrow	Bow	20	1	40	50	90	90
Tranq Arrow	Compound Bow	27	1	54	67.5	121.5	121.5
Tranq Arrow	Crossbow	35	1	70	87.5	157.5	157.5
Tranquilizer Dart	Longneck Rifle	26	3	156	65	221	73.7
Tranq Spear Bolt	Harpoon Launcher	36	3	216	90	306	102
Shocking Tranquilizer Dart	Longneck Rifle	26	3	312	130	442	147.3

Crafting

Tranquilizer Darts are used to craft  Shocking Tranquilizer Darts and  Pheromone Darts.

Notes

• Upon impact, the Tranquilizer Dart deals 26 base damage to the target, which increases with the quality of the Longneck Rifle it is fired from. The target's torpor will increase by 600% of the damage dealt instantaneously, as well as an additional 250% of the damage over the next 5 seconds, for a total of 221 Torpor with a 100% Longneck Rifle.
• Tranquilizer darts remove attachments to the Longneck Rifle when applied. The attachment can be reapplied later.
• Hitting the target with another dart before the first one delivers all of its torpor will stack the effect in terms of time, meaning that if you hit a target a second time while it still has 2 seconds of torpor increase, it will increase the time to 7 seconds.
• Due to the high material cost of Tranquilizer Darts, it is good practice to use Crossbows with Tranq Arrows whenever killing the target would be unlikely with a Crossbow (higher damage per torpor delivery).

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
218.0	Tranquilizer Dart is added to the game.
218.3	Tranq Dart Torpidity effect increased by 100%.
219.0	Buffed tranq dart torpidity by 20% and reduced tranq dart crafting cost to 1 rifle bullet, 2 metal ingots, and 3 narcotics.
269.2	Implemented a new value to reduce indirect torpor from Tranquilizer Dart.