Leveling Dinos

[SunsetErosion]

I am trying to figure out if there is a way to get the xp gained for killing babies to my dinos (no wyvern) -> PvE
Am I missing something or is it not directly possible?
I am trying to level up (a Megaloceros) because you can use a weapon while riding...
The idea was, killing it with SWORD then devide xp with my pet -> not working

The method of giving it to another tribe, then start a "war" just to let me kill his babies for my own benefit is my only idea of a possible method.

Right?

[AllOfTheAllos]

I guess war's the only way indeed. Far as I know, only dinos on PVE that can be leveled by killing friendlies and are NOT wyverns are magmasaurs and basilisks (same method as for wyverns) and shoulder pets (pick one up, kill stuff yourself, pet gets a share of EXP. That's how I level my sinos and used to level my dimorphos).

[Yggdrassil]

Another quick way for some easy dino xp is to go over to island and do note run while riding it.

[SunsetErosion]

2 hours ago, AllOfTheAllos said:

I guess war's the only way indeed. Far as I know, only dinos on PVE that can be leveled by killing friendlies and are NOT wyverns are magmasaurs and basilisks (same method as for wyverns) and shoulder pets (pick one up, kill stuff yourself, pet gets a share of EXP. That's how I level my sinos and used to level my dimorphos).

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[Pipinghot]

8 hours ago, SunsetErosion said:

I am trying to figure out if there is a way to get the xp gained for killing babies to my dinos (no wyvern) -> PvE
Am I missing something or is it not directly possible?

I'm pretty sure you claim the baby, then unclaim it, then mount the megaloceros and have the megaloceros kill it while mounted.

Or, if you use tame groups, put the megaloceros into a tame group by itself, select that tame group, and whistle Attack My Target. Depending on the species you're using for XP you might want to weaken them before you have the megaloceros attack.

[GrumpyBear]

1 hour ago, Pipinghot said:

I'm pretty sure you claim the baby, then unclaim it, then mount the megaloceros and have the megaloceros kill it while mounted.

Or, if you use tame groups, put the megaloceros into a tame group by itself, select that tame group, and whistle Attack My Target. Depending on the species you're using for XP you might want to weaken them before you have the megaloceros attack.

unfortunately in PVE official, you can't kill unclaimed babies.  even if you claim them first.  Whenever they are unclaimed, they are in a different tribe, the tribe of the unclaimed.

Now, what if..... what if you went onto gen2.  Set up a pen that holds a bunch of babies ready to kill, and trap a wild noglin inside.  Let the noglin take control of the tame you want to level up.  Would it gain xp from killing the babies under the noglin's control?  

[SunsetErosion]

12 hours ago, GrumpyBear said:

Now, what if..... what if you went onto gen2.  Set up a pen that holds a bunch of babies ready to kill, and trap a wild noglin inside.  Let the noglin take control of the tame you want to level up.  Would it gain xp from killing the babies under the noglin's control?  

Nice idea, but, doesnt work... I think tamed creatures dont get any xp at all killing something while not mounted, right? Ok, thats also not true, they do get xp. Something about this was true in the past I think though? But Noglin controlled creatures cant damage unclaimed dinos PvE, and dont get xp for killing claimed babies

Edited Sunday at 04:20 PM by SunsetErosion

[DaddyMike72]

I believe you have to enable PVP to get it to work.  I run my servers in PVP mode just for this very purpose even though my fam and friends don't really PVP.  As a dino breeder, I don't want to have to hack at a tame one at a time with a sword every time I get a bad stat mix.  I would rather breed up 6 imprinted dimorphs, have them anchored to a parasaur and use them to kill off unclaimed babies.  I honestly don't remember if I got exp from hacking at tames with a sword when I had PVE enabled, but when I switched the server to PVP, I was blown away by how much XP I got from chomping a group of 9 baby rexes with a thyla.  It was something like 2 to 3 levels worth.  It is one of the reasons I cranked XP gain way down after a server reset and why I no longer ride my... baby killers... man that sounds so wrong...

I am going to rethink my life choices now.

 

... what kind of example am I setting for my k....

 

*sniffle*

 

(edit:  Wanted to add that the last time I was personally riding the mount (leveling Allos and Thyla) doing the killing, if the if the physical hit killed the baby, the mount would get the xp, but the corpse would drop through the world.  If the bleed effect got the kill, the mount didn't get xp, but the corpse would be there to harvest.  This was a relatively new development for me.)

Edited 17 hours ago by DaddyMike72