Ride a Dino How to Tame Dinosaurs: Finish a Capture

Choose the dinosaur before you jump

To tame a dinosaur in Ride a Dino, get onto the target and remain with it until the tame completes. Start by choosing a manageable creature in the stampede. A deliberate target is more useful than jumping between several dinosaurs without finishing any of them.

If you are still learning, make a completed tame your goal. You do not need the most impressive dinosaur on the screen for that practice to count. The first useful improvement is finishing the action you started and returning with the creature you intended to catch.

Stay with the capture you are finishing

Once you are on your chosen dinosaur, give the tame time to finish. Avoid using another jump simply because a different creature passes nearby. Switching your attention too early can leave you with another unfinished attempt instead of a growing collection.

Watch the run as well as the target. Running out of stamina can end a riding attempt, so a promising encounter is not the same as a secured catch. Commit to a target you can reasonably stay with rather than spending the whole run pursuing something you have already failed to reach.

For computer input details, see the controls reference. Its purpose is learning the jump and return actions; here the important decision is when to stop switching targets.

Return after a successful tame

When the tame completes, use the return-to-pen control if it is available. Returning is a useful finish, not an admission that the run was too short. It puts you back at the ranch where you can manage what you caught before choosing another goal.

A new dinosaur also gives you a reason to think about pen space. Deal with that home-side problem before making several more captures that you cannot comfortably fit into your current plan. The ranch guide explains returning, equipping and getting ready for another trip.

Fix the part of the attempt that failed

If you never reached the target, practise the approach and jump. If you reached it but changed mounts before completion, focus on staying with one choice. If the run ended as stamina ran out, treat preparation and target ambition as the next things to reconsider. These are different problems; repeating the same frantic jump sequence will not clarify which one matters.

You can also choose a smaller goal for the next run. Securing a manageable dinosaur is better practice than repeatedly losing a difficult one at the same point. Keep rare collection ambitions, but do not let them replace every achievable capture.

After a clean tame, decide whether the next trip is for a new species, a useful ranch addition or riding practice. Giving the run one purpose makes it easier to leave with a result you actually wanted.