How to Tame Thrall in ARK
Thrall is a creature found in ARK: Survival Ascended.
Quick Facts
- Diet
- Unknown
- Temperament
- Neutral to Extremely Aggressive
- Tame Method
- Knockout
- Rideable
- Yes
Thrall Taming Details
Thrall is a knockout tame. Its most effective taming food is Kibble (preferred).
Alternative foods: Species-appropriate food.
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 Thrall on supported maps. Check the spawn map and bring a fast mount or a flyer for transport.
3. Knock it out
Thrall 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) in its inventory (alternatives: Species-appropriate food). 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, equip a saddle (unlocks via the engram tab) to ride your Thrall.
Breeding & movement
Where it spawns & other details
Related tools & resources
Thrall — Background & Lore
Thralls are survivors turned by the 
Red Element of the 
Lost King on Lost Colony in ASA. They are the first humanoid creatures players can recruit as tames, and they come in many armed types, from harvesters to snipers.
Where to find it
Only on Lost Colony, where they defend outposts and the Lost King's buildings. They usually leave other Red Element survivors alone unless provoked.
How to get one
They cannot be tamed in the wild. Clear a raid outpost mission and loot the outpost vault: it can hold one or more Thralls. The type is random and the level follows the difficulty you picked. A recruited Thrall comes out of the vault as it is, not in a cryopod, so it has to be carried out.
Uses
- Harvesting: some types gather
Thatch, 
Wood and 
Fiber early on. - Combat: ranged types scale with their weapon skill and usually deal more damage than melee ones.
Tips
Thralls heal from 
Blood Packs or 
Sweet Vegetable Cakes. Loot on a dead Thrall is taken from the corpse, as with bosses, and the bodies fade quickly.