How to Tame Dinosaurs in Dead Age: Tame Dinos — Foods, Steps and Allies

Quick answer

You tame a dinosaur by feeding it food items until the food counter above it fills. When the bar completes, the tame finishes: the dino puts on a saddle, a green name tag marks it as yours, and you can use Ride to hop on.

• Two observed tames used different foods: a Parasaurolophus on a Cooked dinosaur chop, a Triceratops on Blueberries.
• The amount of food differs per dinosaur, so carry extra.
• Not every creature is tameable — the Prehistoric Spider is a fight, not a friend.

How to tame a dinosaur, step by step

1. Find a wild dinosaur. A wild Parasaurolophus and a wild Triceratops both completed their tames through the same feed-until-friendly interaction.
2. Put food it will eat in your hotbar — see the foods that have worked below.
3. Feed it again and again. Each feeding adds to the food-icon counter above the dino; a Parasaurolophus was seen at 5/7 mid-tame. The dino talks back with speech bubbles like "Not bad, human.", "One more bite..." and "Just a little more and I'm yours!"
4. Keep feeding until the counter fills. The number of bites differs per dinosaur, so bring more food than you think you need.
5. Confirm the tame. A message such as "You tamed a Parasaurolophus! Use Ride to hop on." appears, the dino equips a saddle, and its green name tag now carries your name ("Bruce's Parasaurolophus"). That tag is your sign the dino is officially your ally.

You can also watch this tame on YouTube.

Foods that have worked

These are examples from actual tames, not a fixed feeding chart — how much a dinosaur needs appears to differ from one dino to the next. Cooked dinosaur meat is simple to get: drop raw dinosaur cuts into the campfire and they come back cooked.

What your tamed dinosaur can do

Your new ally appears in the left HUD with its own HP — observed examples include a Parasaur at 150 HP and a Triceratops at 495 HP. Each tamed dino gets PROTECT BASE / FOLLOW YOU toggle buttons plus a RELEASE button, and the game prompts you to "Use Ride to hop on."

For more on how the dinos behave once they're part of your camp, see our dinosaur companions guide.

T. rex is tameable too

The game's own "My Little Pet" achievement asks you to "Tame a T. rex." and rewards 15 diamonds, claimed in the in-game Achievements menu; the badge is rated 4/6 difficulty. That confirms the T. rex can join your side — but it doesn't reveal what a T. rex eats, so head out with a mix of cooked dino meat and berries and feed it until its counter fills.

The achievement to chase

NO. 01

My Little Pet

The official achievement for taming a T. rex. Rewards 15 diamonds, claimed in the in-game Achievements menu, and is rated 4/6 difficulty.

Not every creature can be tamed

The Prehistoric Spider offered no taming interaction — it's a fight, and beating one unlocked the "Eight Legs, Zero Chances" achievement and dropped a Raw dinosaur chop. That drop isn't useless: raw dinosaur cuts cook into food like the chop that tamed the Parasaurolophus, so an un-tameable creature can still end up feeding your next tame.

New to the game? The Dead Age: Tame Dinos beginner guide covers your first days, and the survival guides help keep your camp running while you're off feeding dinosaurs.