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Master Zoologist achievement in ARK: Survival Evolved

Master Zoologist

Tame at least one of every tameable creature on the ARK

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How to unlock the Master Zoologist achievement

  • shelbygt5252shelbygt5252
    18 Nov 2017 18 Nov 2017 25 Mar 2020
    UPDATE 3/25/2020
    From IDIV151ON

    "If the batch codes aren't working for you, remove the SPACE between each | and Gmsummon, so it looks like this:
    Gmsummon "blah_blah_BP_C"1 |Gmsummon "blah_blah_BP_C"1 |Gmsummon... etc etc

    I corrected it myself and it works and it popped":

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    You may also need to summon the rock drake after the batch commands:

    From einbrecher87

    "Important note:
    I read somewhere in the youtube comments that it‘s neccesary now to spawn and tame the rock drake too, I got the Achievement today immediately after I tamed him.
    So if you use Maka‘s guide or this guide make sure you spawn and tame all 89 dinos and after that use the following for the rock drake:
    cheat summon rockdrake_character_bp_c
    after he spawned tame him with:
    Dotame
    Achievement should then pop for you"

    UPDATE 3/23/2020
    Comments seem to indicate that the batch command is no longer working, so this solution will not be helpful anymore. I will leave it up for now in case it starts working again, but it seems like you will have to go one-by-one.


    This solution is for players using Windows 10, streaming to Windows 10, or using Smartglass. If you use the symbol "|" you can tame in blocks of 10, which makes this go very quickly. (Thanks to Sandman78 for the tip)

    Open the admin command and copy/paste each block into the command:

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    biguns5Batch formatting worked for me... and no need to spawn the rock Drake
    Posted by biguns5 on 08 Oct 23 at 20:20
    mehtaab2727Still Works
    Posted by mehtaab2727 on 20 Dec 23 at 09:25
    Rayel Lyagracias me sirvio, no necesite sacar al rock Drake, guia funcionando nuevamente mil gracias
    Posted by Rayel Lya on 26 Feb at 14:27
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  • SashamorningSashamorning
    19 Jul 2017 18 Jul 2017 12 May 2018
    Yeah, more codes. This list is as of 9/28/2017.

    If you see any codes that don't work, please let me know.

    Edit: in order to get this, you have to have checkmark on all the dossiers of the creatures in your log. If there's no place for a checkmark, you can skip that one.

    You MUST have the creature dossier before taming a creature. I suggest following my guide for Veteran Paleontologist before starting (and you can knock out that achievement too!)
    ARK: Survival EvolvedVeteran PaleontologistThe Veteran Paleontologist achievement in ARK: Survival Evolved worth 130 pointsFind the Dossiers of each of ARK's initial Specimens.


    WARNING: ascending may erase your progress. Better to do that either first, or do all of these codes first. The are a lot.

    Edit: THC Robs95 let me know that this popped in a game where another player spawned the creatures and tamed them. Both players got the achievement. DephoZ confirmed that if you are in a tribe with another person, each of you can get the achievement if one of you does a code, so you can split the work. (See the comments.) At worst, you'll all have to complete the list just as normal.

    Open the command box at the pause screen by pressing cn_LB+cn_RB+cn_X+cn_Y. Then type in the codes below, press the Admin Command button, and back out. Once you spawn them, you will have to look at them (so that the tag shows, such as Allosaurus), then pause again and type "dotame" (NOT "forcetame"). The creature needs to be in the center of your screen, which can be a pain with insects and fast creatures. Use can use the "kill" command if you have too many with you and/or they're interfering with your taming.

    DephoZ confirmed in the comments that you can save time by force taming the creatures as they spawn. Type the following, with the correct creature where XXXX is:

    Gmsummon "XXXX_character_bp_c"1

    so something like:

    Gmsummon "Achatina_character_bp_c"1

    In the creature dossiers, once you've tamed a creature there will be a checkmark, so you can see whether or not you've already gotten it. Unfortunately, the achievement tracker does not move for this one.

    There are ~90 codes in all. Some are land creatures, some are sea creatures. Sea creatures can be insta-tamed the same as land creatures; they'll just die out of water. (Makes sense to me.)

    Edit: Apparently, there was a difference in the quotation marks that I used in Word and the ones here. I changed the characters, so they should work. Let me know if there's an issue in the comments.

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    x Tyian xDon’t know if it’s on the list as it was the last one I needed after manually doing them all but I missed the electric eel (electrophorus) also carries over between characters and you can see what ones you still need in the explorer log tabs, if it has a circle it’s needed and will appear a tick when complete. Only the island tab are needed
    Posted by x Tyian x on 27 Apr 22 at 14:50
    TheRe4per71Will forcetameaoe work as well?
    Posted by TheRe4per71 on 28 Apr 23 at 20:41
    flipmodeXXIIII’ve done the first set of ten and noticed that before doing “dotame” I had some checked off.
    Tested with Toad and I didn’t “dotame” and I got the check in the dossier on spawning it in.

    So I wonder if the behaviour of this achievement has changed?
    Posted by flipmodeXXIII on 13 Sep 23 at 12:46
  • I Artaios II Artaios I
    21 Jul 2017 22 Jul 2017 22 Jul 2017
    Exact method as above just in video format for the visual learners !

    THIS VIDEO WAS MADE USING THE EXACT CODES AS THE VIDEO ABOVE ME.

    God Mode - *LeaveMeAlone
    *InfiniteStats

    Just exclude the following dinos:
    *Anything that has Alpha in in front of it
    *Diseased Leach
    *Titanoboa
    *Titannomryma
    *Ammonite
    *Cnidaria
    *Coel
    *Eurypterid
    *Leedsichthys
    *Piranha
    *Sabertooth Salmon
    *Trilobite
    *Bee Drone
    *Griffin
    *Meganeura
    *Yeti

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    ResinousHashishor you could use the Xbox application and copy / paste codes
    Posted by ResinousHashish on 22 Jul 17 at 02:54
    Killercrank
    Posted by Killercrank on 22 Dec 18 at 17:07
    TORNADO0fSOULZ@ ResinousHashish : how do you cut and paste .. I tried the xbox companion app and iot doesnt bring the option where you can type or cut/paste from PC
    Posted by TORNADO0fSOULZ on 16 Jun 22 at 06:52
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