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Otter
Variants
Spawn Command
or
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cheat summon Otter_Character_BP_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Otter/Otter_Character_BP.Otter_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35Variant Aberrant Otter
cheat summon Otter_Character_BP_Aberrant_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Otter/Otter_Character_BP_Aberrant.Otter_Character_BP_Aberrant'" 500 0 0 35Variant X-Otter
cheat summon Snow_Otter_Character_BP_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/BiomeVariants/Snow_Otter/Snow_Otter_Character_BP.Snow_Otter_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35Variant Otter (Gauntlet2)
cheat summon Otter_Character_BP_STA_Cor
cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis2/Missions/ModularMission/Gauntlet2/STA/Dinos/Otter_Character_BP_STA.Otter_Character_BP_STA'" 500 0 0 35 Preferred Food
Preferred Food 
Equipment
Data
XP for kill
16 XP
35
Aberrant Gigantopithecus
Aberrant Megalosaurus
Argentavis
Blood Crystal Wyvern- Ember Crystal Wyvern
- Fire Wyvern
- Forest Wyvern
- Gigantopithecus
Griffin- Ice Wyvern
Karkinos
Kaprosuchus- Lightning Wyvern
Mammoth- Megalosaurus
- Poison Wyvern
Procoptodon
Pteranodon
Quetzal
Tapejara- Tek Quetzal
Tropeognathus- Tropical Crystal Wyvern
Tusoteuthis- X-Argentavis
- X-Tapejara
Gestation Time
7h 56m 11.428s
Baby Time
2h 6m 15.757s
Juvenile Time
8h 25m 3.028s
Adolescent Time
10h 31m 18.785s
Total Maturation Time
21h 2m 37.57s
Breeding Interval
18h - 1d 15h 40m
Habitat
Common Rare
Untameable Cave
Untameable Cave
The Otter is a small, piscivorous mammal. It is mostly known for its ability to provide insulation when standing on a survivor's shoulder, as well as its capability to carry multiple Artifacts of the same type in its inventory.
It was first added in 
ARK: Survival Evolved on the 29th of August, 2017.
Basic Info
Dossier
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.
“
Species
Lutra peloso
TimeEarly Miocene
DietOmnivore
TemperamentFriendly
- Wild
Found along the Island’s many inland waterways, Lutra Peloso have become exceptionally adept at hunting and foraging. This species of Otter has to be particularly cunning because of its diminutive size, and fierce competition for its preferred food source: fish. It is not a creature that excels at combat, and would not naturally pose an intimidating threat to any predators. Finding packs of river Otters is simple enough: They are distinguished by their elongated bodies, bushy tails, and webbed feet. Their trusting and inquisitive nature ensures they are often hunted for their lustrous fur, but many prefer to tame them to become trusted companions.
- Domesticated
There are few creatures which provide the companionship that Lutra Peloso does. Rather than traveling beside you, it would prefer to comfortably rest on your back, providing insulation. Once domesticated, it can be told to harvest fish on demand, with a specific goal in mind from the fish that it consumes, the otter has a knack for foraging silica pearls, and can even yield a slight chance at finding black pearls within!
„
~ Helena
Behavior
Otters spend most of their life in the water, darting rapidly around without straying too far from their origin point. They target fish, from which they harvest Raw Fish Meat, Silica Pearls, and Black Pearls. They are able to harvest Raw Meat from dead corpses, as well; however, after taming, they only eat fish.
Appearance
The otter is a very small animal—easily overlooked, and clearly resembling the modern otter. Their short, lustrous fur is brown, and when on land they move with a distinctive loping gait.
Color Scheme and Regions
Region 0:Body Main
Natural colors:
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Region 1:Unused
This region does not show on the body.
Region 2:Unused
This region does not show on the body.
Region 3:Unused
This region does not show on the body.
Region 4:Body Stripes and Highlights
Natural colors:
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Region 5:Underbelly
Natural colors:
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This section displays the Otter's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Otter. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Otter 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 Otter's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Otter's "body main" magenta.
Body Main
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Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.
Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.
Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.
Body Stripes and Highlights
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Underbelly
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This section displays the Otter's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Otter. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Otter 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 Otter's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Otter's "main body" magenta.
Main Body
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Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.
Legs and Accents
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Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.
Belly
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Back
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Variants
Aberrant Otter
Aberrant Otter is the Aberrant variant of Otter found in Aberration. It is identical to the normal species except for its glowing robe. It is tameable and is not 
Radiation immune.
X-Otter
X-Otter is the X variant of Otter found in the Snowy Biome on Genesis: Part 1. It is identical to the normal species except for its patterned robe. It is tameable.
Drops
Base Stats and Growth
| Attribute | Base Value | Level Increase | Taming Bonus | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild | Tamed | Additive | Multiplicative | ||
 Health |
40 | +8 | +5.4% | 0.07 | |
 Stamina |
180 | +18 | +10% | ||
 Oxygen |
600 | +60 | +10% | ||
 Food |
400 | +40 | +10% | ||
 Weight |
30 | +0.6 | +4% | ||
 Melee Damage |
10 | +0.4 | +1.7% | 7% | 17.6% |
 Movement Speed |
100% | N/A | +1% | 70% | |
 Torpidity |
350 | +21 | N/A | 0.5 | |
- For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, see Base Creature Statistics.
- For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, see Creature Stats Calculation.
- 1These are the base speeds of the tamed creature at 100% Movement Speed, i.e. without a possible taming bonus.
- 2These are the speeds of the creature once tamed including a possible taming bonus and no imprinting bonus.
- For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.
Wild Stats Level-up
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]
Otter
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.
Abilities
Active
| Bite |
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Offer Gift
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Passive
Shoulder Pet
The Otter is a shoulder pet, meaning that it can be picked up by the player on their shoulder, allowing the Otter to attack from there if within range. It cannot take damage unless the player dies or it is thrown off the shoulder.
While on one's shoulder, the weight that the Otter has in its inventory will weigh half as much as it would to the player.
Pearls Collector
The Otter can harvest 
Silica Pearls and sometimes 
Black Pearls from small fishes after killing them and harvesting their corpses.
Insulation
Standing next to an Otter provides 75-82 
Hypothermic insulation and 34-38 
Hyperthermic insulation, which increases with its 
Melee Damage stat, and decreases based on your distance from it. It also gives this protection to players with an Otter around their neck.
Artifact Backpack
The Otter is the only creature whose inventory works as a structure instead of a normal creature inventory, which means that it can carry multiple 
Artifacts even of the same type simultaneously. Because its inventory works as a structure, however, the Otter's inventory does not increase the spoilage time of objects.
Helmets
The Otter can be equipped with helmets for extra damage resistance.
Combat
General
The Otter is a friendly creature and will attempt to flee when attacked, so be ready for a small chase.
Strategy
Because of its low health, even a 
Spear can make quick work of an Otter.
Dangers
The Otter poses essentially no dangers to even a low-level survivor, but its decent speed in water can quickly lead a survivor into a more dangerous area.
Weakness
Very low HP, can be easily killed by 
Piranhas or swarms of 
Salmon.
Taming
The Otter is passively tamed in a manner similar to the 
Hesperornis. Fish must be killed, and their corpses dragged to the Otter. While still holding the fish, press E, 
, 
, 
to feed the fish to the Otter.
Larger fish, and fish killed by the 
Ichthyornis, provide a higher taming percentage per fish.
If having trouble relocating the Otter you can merely track it using your Taming List.
- Argy Fishing: It is possible for an Argentavis to pick up an otter right out of the water, provided the otter is close to the surface and the Argentavis doesn't touch the water. Simply fly on the waters surface, grab the desired otter and bring it to land. If the Otter is in the Argentavis's talons, drop the Otter and pick it up with the beak. You can then land, and the Otter will remain stationary for you to bring fish to. Additionally, if Ally Looking is enabled, the Argentavis will lean the Otter towards you.
- Lasso Fishing: If said Otter tends to stay deep under the water surface for an Argentavis to grab a
Lasso and an 
Equus can reel it back to shore where it can then be put into the bird's beak.
- Grappling Hook: You can use a Grappling Hook with a Crossbow to reel in the Otter for an easy tame
- Honey Baiting: Perhaps the easiest method for people that play solo is to harvest honey (by hand or a
Dire Bear depending on your comfort level and situation), and equip it to the last slot on your hot bar, as if you were taming a Roll Rat. Next, go near the shoreline (or wherever the Otter you want is), press zero to deposit a honey glob onto the ground with a spoil timer of 45 seconds - this will attract any and all Otters in a radius (similar to that of a 
Feeding Trough) to the honey even straight out of the water; be aware that 
Trilobites and other wild creatures (requires further testing) will also be attracted to the glob and may eat the honey or pose a threat to the survivor or the Otters. To take it one step farther you could leave a trail of Honey globs leading into a taming pen, then you can kill and drag fish at your leisure without worry of having to track down or lose the Otter to carnivores.
After being tamed the Otter will only eat Fish Meat.
Utility
Roles
- Early Hunter: The relative ease of taming an Otter can provide early survivors with a reliable food source as the Otter retrieves fish for them to cook, staving off hunger until better food sources can be acquired.
- Pearl Collector: The Otter's ability to collect Silica Pearls and rarely Black Pearl from fish can provide early survivors—and even advanced survivors with no ocean presence—limited access to these resources until survivors have the ability to go diving for large concentrations themselves. However, as they have a limited
Oxygen supply, leaving them on aggressive, even if following a creature out of water, can cause them to drown if a large fish spawn occurs, or they get trapped behind or under something under water. This severely limits their use as an automatic gatherer of any resource. (Level 
Weight)
- Tip: Keep them away from Piranhas and Salmon, their low health renders them easily killed. Kill fish by yourself and have the otter gather the corpses. Otters can work in a team with Ichthyornis ( Ichthyornis brings fish, otter collects (prime) fish); however, the otter seems not to collect pearls in this case.
- Alternatively, the Otter can be guarded by a
Castoroides (or any other herbivore, for that matter) set to aggressive. Take care and note that the guardian will attack anything, even the normally peaceful 
Bronto, risking both the guardian and Otter's lives, and the excess raw fish can encumber the Otter, possibly drowning it if left unchecked.
- Tip: Keep them away from
- Portable Insulation: Like the
Dimetrodon, the Otter provides a stacking insulation effect to nearby survivors. Unlike the Dimetrodon, however, the Otter can be carried around on a survivor's shoulder, which allows a passive insulation bonus while out and about. Leveling the Otter's Melee Damage increases the amount of insulation provided, granting approximately 75-82 hypothermic insulation and 34-38 hyperthermic insulation per 100% melee damage (converted to per-100% for readability; the actual value increases per %). The equation for insulation is as follows: Hypo 0.753x+6.88, Hyper 0.347x+2.81. Aberrant Otter equation for insulation: Hypo 0.8x-0.075, Hyper 0.37x-0.483. Insulation drops to 0 at .5 foundations.
- Artifact Transporter: Since the Otter's introduction at ARK's launch, it has been able to store as many of the same
Artifact as its weight allows; this is despite the fact that no other creature (including players) in ARK can hold more than one of the same type of Artifact. This is a feature, not a bug. This also comes with a disadvantage: the Otter's ability to hold multiple artifacts is due to the fact that its inventory works as a structure, and therefore, it does not reduce spoiling time like other similar creatures.
- Backpack: Only half their inventory weight is put on your shoulder, meaning you can carry extra weight (Level Weight).
- Companion/Pet: Because of their all around cuteness, Otters are a popular pet among survivors, especially with their ability to wear a hat.
- Wingman: The Otter will attack opponents from your shoulder if they are within melee range. Although the damage isn't much, the extra hits could mean the difference between life and death for the survivor. (Level Melee Damage)
Collectibles
| Resource | Efficiency |
|---|---|
 Silica Pearls
|
★★★★☆ |
 Raw Fish Meat
|
★★★★☆ |
 Raw Prime Fish Meat
|
★★★☆☆ |
 Black Pearls
|
★★★☆☆ |
Spotlight
Notes
For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Otter, see the relevant Wikipedia article.
- The Otter was first revealed on August 5, 2017.[2]
- Although the Dossier states they are omnivores, they are in fact piscivores and only eat fish meat.
- The in-game scientific name Lutra peloso translates as Hairy Otter. There is no such real-world classification. This may be a reference to the character and series Harry Potter.
- Real otters are social animals that live in a group called a romp. Ark's Otters don't have this behavior.
- Otters will not receive a pack bonus when nearby other Otters.
- Double tap "F" to throw the Otter off your shoulder.
- Aberrant Otters are not immune to radiation.
- Curiously, the otter's inventory works like that of a structure and not like that of a creature. This allows Artifacts to be stored inside, but with the notable disadvantage that it does not better preserve objects that spoil inside its inventory.
Changelog
| Patch | ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
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|---|---|
| 267.0 | Otter is added to the game. |
| 275.0 | Aberrant Otter is added to the game. Aberrant Otter is not immune to radiation |
| 279.252 | Fixed Otter Weight limit not working properly.
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| 306.41 | X-Otter is added to the game. |
| Patch |  ARK: Survival Ascended Changes
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|---|---|
| 36.8 | Improved Otter LODs on lower settings. |
| 52.5 | Added Aberrant Otter wild baby spawn. |
Gallery
Otter with a Silica Pearl
References
Categories:
- Mammals
- Piscivores
- Friendly creatures
- Creatures released in v267
- Creatures released in 2017
- Creatures released in v762
- Creatures released in v514
- Creatures released in v521
- Creatures released in 2018
- Creatures released in Mobile v1
- Tameable creatures
- Breedable creatures
- Creatures that can wear hats
- Creatures that can be carried by humans
- Creatures that can be shoulder-mounted
- Creatures that drop small feces
- Gestation
- Creatures