Narcotic
Increases your health, but puts you to sleep.
Details
- Category
- Consumable
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 85 crates
- Item ID
- 122
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 6
- Engram points
- 6
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Narcotic guides
How to craft Narcotic
Narcotic is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 6, costs 6 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 2 XP.
How to get Narcotic
Narcotic is found in 85 loot crates.
Loot crates
85 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration GreenAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Green BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Fjordur GreenFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Green BonusFjordur · ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony Cave YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- NeophyteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA
Narcotic — Detailed Guide
Keeping a tame unconscious
Narcotic is a drug in ARK: Survival Evolved, made from 
Narcoberry and 
Spoiled Meat. Its in-game description: "Increases your health, but puts you to sleep." The ARK Wiki names taming as its primary use: it keeps knocked-out creatures unconscious.
Using it on a creature
Put the Narcotic into the unconscious creature's inventory and use it from there. Torpor then climbs by 40 over 8 seconds, a little more than the 5 Narcoberry inside it would give, and unlike the berries a Narcotic does not spoil. The same works on an unconscious player. Neither the Narcotic nor the berries change taming effectiveness.
Berries keep one advantage, per the wiki: on creatures whose torpor falls quickly, five berries keep torpor rising for 15 seconds against 8 for one Narcotic. Torpor does not drop while it is rising, which gives berries the edge when taming a 
Giganotosaurus or a 
Dimetrodon.
Taking it yourself
A survivor who takes one also gains 40 torpor, along with a short spell of faster health regeneration. Despite the wording of the description, it neither raises maximum health nor heals on the spot. The torpor can put you to sleep; a higher Fortitude lets you take more before you are knocked out.
Crafting and what it goes into
The engram unlocks at level 6 for 6 engram points. One Narcotic takes 5 Narcoberry and 1 Spoiled Meat; 
Ascerbic Mushroom can replace the berries in equal amount, and the ARK Wiki adds that a much smaller amount of 
Bio Toxin also works. It crafts in 5 seconds for 2 XP, and the wiki mentions both the 
Mortar and Pestle and the 
Chemistry Bench for making it. Each weighs 0.1 and they stack to 100, a full stack weighing 10. Loot is another source: 85 crate types can contain it, Aberration Blue and Aberration Surface Blue among them.
Our ASE records list it in recipes such as:
- Ammunition:
Tranq Arrow (1) and 
Tranquilizer Dart (3) - Consumables:
Lesser Antidote, 
Bug Repellant, 
Medical Brew, 
Fria Curry, 
Lazarus Chowder, 
Shadow Steak Saute (8) and 
Mindwipe Tonic, which takes 72 - Traps and weapons: Tripwire Narcotic Trap (15) and
Poison Grenade (10)