Lasso

A rope tool for Equus riders

The Lasso is a ranged tool in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its description: "An easily-crafted ranged tool that can ensnare and pull a target. Can only be wielded when riding a certain creature." On the ARK Wiki, that creature is the Equus: the Lasso is crafted on an Equus with the Equus Saddle equipped, and it can be used only from an Equus's back.

What it can do

• Dragging creatures: it pulls both conscious and unconscious creatures. The wiki names the Raptor, Direwolf, Sabertooth, Dodo, Phiomia, Ovis, Pteranodon, Argentavis, Quetzal, Baryonyx and Ravager among those it can move, and notes that more are to be added.
• Pulling loot: it can gather certain resources and draw dropped items and loot bags toward the rider from a distance, though it does not pick them up on its own.
• Torpor: each hit deals torpor at 1.4 times its damage (14 torpor at base). Even so, the wiki does not rate it as a good way to knock a creature out or to keep one unconscious on a long trip.
• Water: unlike the Bola, the Lasso works underwater. It can haul knocked-out creatures out of the water, or drag out a creature like the Otter for easier taming.

Help with taming

According to the wiki's notes, dragged creatures keep their taming effectiveness (tested with a Sabertooth being starve tamed on Ragnarok), and lassoed creatures do not turn aggressive. With two people, it can also keep a bird from running off.

Crafting and carrying

A Lasso takes 4 Thatch and 6 Fiber, crafts in 0.75 seconds and gives 0.6 XP. Each one weighs 3 and up to 10 stack together, so a full stack weighs 30. Our records list it on 14 maps, and the wiki gives version 256.0 as the one that added it.