Which ways are there to knock out a dinosaur?

As stated in the title I want to know which ways there are to knock out a dinosaur. I know that you can use tranq arrows and the scorpion, but I've also heard that shooting a dinosaur's head with a slingshot is supposed to help with knocking it out (did not test that though).

So what else can you use to knock out a dinosaur?

Solution 1:

To knock out a creature, here are some of the more basic weapons and creatures you can use:

• Narcoberries / Narcotics (if you're able to force feed the creature)
• Bare fists
• Slingshot
• Wooden club
• Tranq arrows (with bow)
• Tranq darts (with rifle)
• Electric prod
• Scorpion (attacks raise torpor)
• Frog (attacks raise torpor)

There are more weapons / devices and creatures, but depending on your patch, you may not have them all. Here is the most authoritative list of torpor-causing methods I could find.

Solution 2:

The Equus statistically is the best Dino for knocking out things as it’s buck attack does 3.4 torpor per damage vs the scorpions 2.9 torpor per damage. The crossbow is nice as trans arrows are cheap, but if you don’t worry about resource cost then yeah the shocking tranq dart is the best.