ARK Lystrosaurus Spawn Command

Grants nearby allied creatures the 'Fast Learner' passive buff, increasing their XP gain by 1.35x for 5 minutes. The buff drops off within 10 seconds of an affected creature moving too far from the Lystrosaurus. Lystrosaurus is a herbivore. Passive tamed — hand-feed with Rare Flower (preferred), Mejoberry, or berries one piece at a time, waiting for hunger to drop between feeds. Common across The Island. An Aberrant variant exists in Aberration with bioluminescent features.

Passive — walk up to and pet the Lystrosaurus to activate the XP buff (the petting interaction is required to trigger it). The buff lasts 5 minutes, then must be reactivated by petting again. No radial menu or combat key involved. Multiple Lystrosauruses can be used simultaneously to cover more allied creatures. Park it at your base and pet it before any tame-leveling session or when grinding XP. Multiple Lystrosauruses in close proximity can stack coverage across a larger group of tames. It produces eggs for kibble as a secondary passive benefit. Level Health for survivability (base 90 HP). Prioritize it as a support animal, not a fighter — base damage is only 6.

XP buffing allied tames (1.35x multiplier); kibble egg production; low-maintenance base companion.

Open the console with ~ and enter cheat summon Lystro_Character_BP_C to spawn a wild Lystrosaurus in ARK: Survival Ascended. For a tamed one at a level you choose, use cheat gmsummon "Lystro_Character_BP_C" 150. On a server, run enablecheats <ServerAdminPassword> first and keep the cheat prefix.

Use the builder above, or cheat gmsummon "Lystro_Character_BP_C" <level>. The number is the pre-tame level. ARK adds up to a 50% taming bonus, so a value of 100 ends up around level 150. To hit a target level, divide it by 1.5. A gmsummon creature still needs a saddle to ride.

Yes. The builder above generates a single SpawnExactDino command that bakes the level and the imprint into one copy-paste line. The saddle comes as a separate cheat gfi command (it can't ride inside the spawn). To set its colours, spawn it first, then use the ARK Dino Color Builder to build the SetTargetDinoColor commands (with a live preview).

summon drops a wild Lystrosaurus at a random level. SummonTamed gives you a tamed one but at a random level you can't set. gmsummon spawns it tamed at the level you specify, the one most people want.

Yes. In single player the cheat prefix is optional and no password is needed. On a dedicated or non-dedicated session you must run enablecheats <ServerAdminPassword> once, then prefix each spawn with cheat. Set that admin password without hand-editing files using our free ARK config generators.

Yes. Lystrosaurus has 1 spawnable variant (Aberrant). Each has its own class name, in the builder's Variant dropdown and the variants table.