How to Tame Lumina in ARK
Complete walkthrough for taming Lumina: gear, food, knockout strategy, and tips.
Quick Facts
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Temperament
- Neutral
- Tame Method
- Knockout
- Rideable
- No
Lumina Taming Details
Lumina is a knockout tame. Its most effective taming food is Kibble (preferred) or Raw Mutton.
Alternative foods: Cooked Lamb Chop, Raw Prime Meat, Cooked Prime Meat, Raw Meat.
Taming Steps
1. Prepare your gear
Bring Tranq Arrows or Tranq Darts, a Crossbow or Longneck Rifle, Narcotics or Narcoberries, and bug repellent.
2. Locate the creature
Find a wild Lumina on supported maps. Check the spawn map and bring a fast mount or a flyer for transport.
3. Knock it out
Lumina is a knockout tame. Use a Crossbow, Longneck Rifle with Tranq Darts, or Shocking Tranq Darts. Aim for the head for bonus torpor and keep distance to avoid aggro damage.
4. Feed the right food
Place Kibble (preferred) or Raw Mutton in its inventory (alternatives: Cooked Lamb Chop, Raw Prime Meat, Cooked Prime Meat, Raw Meat). Higher-tier food gives faster taming and higher level bonuses.
5. Maintain torpor
Watch the torpor bar. Feed Narcoberries or Narcotics to prevent it from waking up before the tame completes.
6. Claim & saddle
Once tamed, Lumina will follow your commands. It cannot be ridden.
Lumina base stats
Level 1 wild values, with the gain each point adds in the wild and after taming.
| Stat | Base | Per wild level | Per tamed level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 800 | +15.0% | +10.8% |
| Stamina | 650 | +5.0% | +5.0% |
| Oxygen | 150 | +10.0% | +10.0% |
| Food | 1650 | +10.0% | +10.0% |
| Weight | 350 | +2.0% | +4.0% |
| Melee damage | 1 | +5.0% | +10.0% |
| Movement speed | 1 | +0.0% | +1.0% |
| Torpidity | 750 | +6.0% | +0.0% |
Breeding & movement
Where it spawns & other details
Lumina spawns on The Center, Scorched Earth, Astraeos, Ragnarok, Extinction, Valguero, Lost Colony.
Related tools & resources
Lumina — Background & Lore
The Lumina is a sun-aligned flying dragon from Dragontopia in ASA, the counterpart to the Umbra. It is a fast aerial fighter with traps, dashes and a rage mode, and it gains bonuses when it flies near a tamed Umbra.
Where to find it
The Center, Scorched Earth, Astraeos, Ragnarok, Extinction, Valguero and Lost Colony.
Taming
- Weaken it: bring its health down to about 20% with a firearm. A shotgun works well.
- Mini-games: it then carries you through three challenges: a button sequence, a beacon-destroying flight and an obstacle dive.
- Food: it prefers
Superior Kibble and 
Raw Mutton.
Breeding
It lays Lumina Eggs. At 1x an egg hatches in about 5 hours and a baby takes about 3.9 days to mature.
Uses
- Saddle: the
Lumina Saddle unlocks at level 65. It cannot be ridden with weapons. - Draco Fury: builds up as it deals damage and triggers a 10-second rage in which it ignores non-structure damage, hits harder and can disable nearby Tek equipment.
- Eclipsar Synergy: bonuses when within 100 m of a tamed Umbra.