Sabertooth Salmon

This article is about Sabertooth Salmon, not to be confused with Sabertooth

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Sabertooth Salmon

Dossier Sabertooth Salmon.png

Dossier

These values may differ with what you see in-game or written elsewhere. But that is what the dossier says.

Group

Fish

Species

Oncorhynchus grexlamia

Time

Late Miocene - Mid Pleistocene

Diet

Carnivore

Temperament

Evasive, Aggressive when attacked

Release Versions

240.0
May 4, 2016

734.0
May 17, 2016

501.0
December 6, 2016

1.0
May 24, 2018

599.0
November 30, 2018

311.74
June 11, 2020

Variants

• Aberrant Salmon
• Eerie Sabertooth Salmon
• X-Sabertooth Salmon

Spawn Command

admincheat summon Salmon_Character_BP_C
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Salmon/Salmon_Character_BP.Salmon_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Aberrant Sabertooth Salmon
admincheat summon Salmon_Character_BP_Aberrant_C
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Salmon/Salmon_Character_BP_Aberrant.Salmon_Character_BP_Aberrant'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Sabertooth Salmon (Escort)
admincheat summon Salmon_Character_BP_Escort_C
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/MissionVariants/Escort/Ocean/Salmon_Character_BP_Escort.Salmon_Character_BP_Escort'" 500 0 0 35
Variant X-Sabertooth Salmon
admincheat summon Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP_C
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/BiomeVariants/Lunar_Salmon/Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP.Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35
Variant Rare X-Sabertooth Salmon
admincheat summon Rare_Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP_C
or
admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/Genesis/Dinos/BiomeVariants/Lunar_Salmon/Rare_Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP.Rare_Lunar_Salmon_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Domestication

Tameable

Rideable

Breedable

Yes¹

No

No

¹ Can be kept and released in a Fish Basket . Untameable on ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile.

Torpor Immune

Yes

Taming Method

Passive

Humans Can Carry

No

Data

XP For Kill

2 XP

Drops

• Raw Fish Meat
• Raw Prime Fish Meat

Feces Size

None

Drag Weight

32.5

Radiation Immune

No

Carryable By

• Aberrant Megalosaurus
• Kaprosuchus
• Megalosaurus
• Tusoteuthis

Can Damage

Thatch
Greenhouse

Habitat

Colorvision Prota- / Deuteranopia Tritanopia

Common             Rare
  Untameable   Cave

The Sabertooth Salmon or Oncorhynchus is one of the Creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Basic Info

Dossier

This section is intended to be an exact copy of what the survivor Helena Walker, the author of the dossiers, has written. There may be some discrepancies between this text and the in-game creature.

	“	Wild Fairly unremarkable by the Island's standards, Oncorhynchus grexlamia is a generally passive fish. Its main form of protection is swimming in a large school. Oncorhynchus does not like conflict, and generally swims away from anything larger than itself at very high speeds. Once provoked, however, Oncorhynchus becomes quite aggressive, along with its nearby brethren. It locks onto its prey with its long "saberteeth" and begins draining that creature's blood. This loss of blood is not too dangerous alone, but when a school of Oncorhynchus attack at once, their target quickly loses speed and stamina from blood loss, drowning if it cannot breath underwater. Domesticated Like many of the smaller fish found on or around the Island, Oncorhynchus cannot be tamed, but it is often herded and harvested for its resources. In particular, certain cuts of Oncorhynchus meat are considered to have superb quality, and are often referred to as "Prime Fish" used for specific high-end concoctions and taming the Island's many piscivorous creatures.	„
		~ Helena

Behavior

Sabertooth salmon lazily swim about in schools until a player enters the water, which, at that point, they begin to swim away from the player in all directions. However, if one salmon is attacked and still alive, it and its companions will all rush in to attack the player in a vicious frenzy of tooth and fin until they or the player are killed.

Appearance

The Sabertooth Salmon is a common fish species in the rivers of the ARK, and thus, a popular prey item for many water-dwelling species on the island. It resembles a modern-day salmon in all aspects save for large fangs protruding from its mouth that give the creature its name.

Color Scheme and Regions

This section displays the Sabertooth Salmon's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Sabertooth Salmon. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Sabertooth Salmon will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.

This information can be used to alter the Sabertooth Salmon's regions by entering cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID> in the cheat console. For instance, cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 6 would color the Sabertooth Salmon's "head, upper body/fins, and tail fin" magenta.

Region 0:
Head, Upper Body/Fins, and Tail Fin

Region 1 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 3 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 4:
Lower Fins

Region 5:
Lower Body and Fin Tips

Region 0:
Side stars

Region 1:
Back color

Region 2 is not used
for this Creature.

Region 3:
Back stars

Region 4:
Main body

Region 5:
Wing veins

Drops

• Raw Prime Fish Meat
• Raw Fish Meat

Use a Sickle to harvest Raw Prime Fish Meat.

Base Stats and Growth

Note that creatures will have different stats in Survival of the Fittest

Attribute	Base Value	Level Increase
		Wild
Health	65	+13
Stamina	100	+10
Oxygen	N/A	N/A
Food	100	+10
Weight	18	+0.36
Melee Damage	4	+0.2
Movement Speed	100%	N/A
Torpidity	15	+0.9

• For a comparison of the stats of all creatures, see Base Creature Statistics.
• For an explanation of exactly how the levelup calculation works, see Creature Stats Calculation.

Movement	Base Speed	Sprinting Speed
Swimming	190	399

• These are the base speeds of the creature at 100% Movement Speed.
• For a comparison of the speeds of all creatures, see Base Creature Speeds.

Attack Values

Bite		Stamina Cost	Attack Range			Description
			Base	Minimum	Activation	Using the (PC), (PS4), (Xbox One), the Sabertooth Salmon bites the target.
		0	150	0	0
Attack Type		Damage	Projectile Values			Torpor Values		Status Effect: Stamina			Status Effect: Torpidity
			Life	Impulse	Radius	Base	Mult	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount	Duration	Damage Mult	Amount
Melee		4

Combat

This section describes how to fight against the Sabertooth Salmon.

General

Sabertooth Salmon very rarely swim alone. Found in groups of 3-4+, provoking one can very quickly become a very bad decision if not prepared.

Strategy

When fighting the salmon it is important to remember that their bleed is a killer, so staying near the shore is a viable strategy. Simply swim far enough to hit the fish with a spear or bow ( or crossbow if available ) then swim back. This will aggro all nearby salmon but they will be easy pickings from the shore with a spear or pike.

Weaponry

Long range weapons such as a bow or crossbow can be a cheap and simple way to dispatch of these fish from the shore or shallow bodies of water. Long reaching spears and pikes are also valid options.

Dangers

When attacked, a Sabertooth Salmon will usually flee for a few seconds, but will then come back and attack. Any other Sabertooth Salmon in the area will also become agressive and swarm the attacker. Its bleed effect can be devesating to an unequiped player and can kill quickly.

Weakness

Often limited in health and seems to possess a larger hit box than Piranhas.

Taming

Sabertooth Salmon can be 'tamed' using Fish Basket . They can level, however they do not eat from the trough.

Utility

Roles

Food Source: Sabertooth Salmon can easily be bulked trapped by use of walls and dinosaur doors, guaranteeing a readily available source of Prime Fish for taming and recipes.

Notes/Trivia

For information pertaining specifically to the real-world Sabertooth Salmon, see the relevant Wikipedia article.

• The dossier was revealed by Jat on February 1, 2016
• The generic name means "hooked nose", referring to the shape of its mouth. The specific epithet roughly means "gregarious swallower", referring to its social nature and ferocity when provoked, but it is incorrectly constructed; the correct form would be gregilamia.
• Like Coelacanths, they can appear in different sizes. The smallest are barely larger than a human’s arm, some of the smallest creatures in game, while the largest are beasts that can be comparable in size to an Ichthyosaurus, if not larger, and could easily be ridden if it was allowed. Note that size does not reflect what level the fish is. Small fish can be just as dangerous (if not more so because they’re harder to hit) as larger ones if you attack them!
• Beyond their fangs, adults of Sabertooth salmon had larger gill rakers compared to their smaller, modern relatives, leading scientists to suggest that the adults ate plankton.
• Real Salmon lay eggs, however Ark's Sabertooth Salmon do not.
• The Salmon are cloned by the Overseer to maintain their presence in the ecosystem, because they are either completely unable to breed or their population is unable to recover manually.
  • The game does not assign any genders to the Salmon, making players unable to breed them.
• Sabertooth Salmon do not produce Feces.
• Helena wrote in her dossier and notes that Oncorhynchus cannot be tamed. However, this only means she and other survivors were unable to tame them.
• The Sabertooth Salmon along with Coelacanth, Leech, Piranha and Trilobite became tamable with the Fish Basket  introduced in Aberration.
• Salmon in real life sacrifice their lives using all of their strength to reach their birth place to lay their eggs. The salmon die after laying their eggs.
• Genesis: Part 1 introduced a new variant called the X-Sabertooth Salmon. Currently, this is the only biome-variant in the Lunar Biome.

Changelog

Patch	Changes
240.0	Sabertooth Salmon is added to the game
240.1	Harvesting Salmon corpses with a Metal Sickle now longer give unreasonably high quantities of Raw Prime Fish Meat
240.2	Fish should no longer get knocked around as much after death
244.2	Fixed issue with fish endlessly spawning on land near the Redwoods biome
245.0	Fish can now be fished using a Fishing Rod
254.5	Sabertooth Salmon no longer receive buffs or debuffs
261.0	Added Sabertooth Salmon to the Snow Cave on The Island
262.0	Fixed an issue where wandering fish would cluster into a corner
275.0 Aberration Expansion Release	Added Aberrant Sabertooth Salmon You can now tame Sabertooth Salmon with the Fish Basket
305.12	Fixed a bug where the Fish Basket wasn't returning creatures properly
306.41 Genesis: Part 1 Expansion Release	Added X-Sabertooth Salmon

Gallery

• 

  Render of a Sabertooth Salmon.

• 

  Render of an X-Sabertooth Salmon.