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Liqwde

Love the app. Was wondering if we could get food requirements for the breeding cycle. Baby, juvi, total. Would give a better idea of prep vs just time involved. There is a good breeding call online... but I find your app more conventional. Would love an all in one

Dan Leveille

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Como cuidar dos bebes

Daniel Garcia

Poderiam adicionar a comida do bebe dino para ajudar na criação principalmente dos dinos novos ia ajudar muito

August 10, 2022

Dan Leveille

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Minuteur de faim bébé

Kjorn Ragnarok

Bonjour,

Pourriez-vous faire des minuteurs pour la faim (de bébé jusqu'à adulte) pour l'élevage?

Merci d'avance.

April 13, 2022

Dan Leveille

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Timer for food in Trough

Ryan Sternberg

On selected Dino under breeding category, input the number of Dino’s being raised and how much food in trough and have timer spit out how much time until the food is depleted.

January 22, 2022

Dan Leveille

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Baby raising food timers

Hunter Burchett

Similar to how there are resource calculator that show how many resources you need to make something this would show how much meat/berries you need to raise an animal over a selected period of time for example I have 11 Maewings and I’m going to be gone for 8 hours I would put in the information (what animal.maewing. How many animals.11. And how long I’ll be gone for.8hours.) then it would tell you how much food you need for how ever many animals you had and what type and for how long.

July 26, 2021

Dan Leveille

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favorite food

Fabricio Morezi93

could put the function to see which foods favorite of each baby

June 29, 2021

Dan Leveille

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Add a food timer for raising babies

Tormented

I know it wouldn't be too difficult since I do it myself everytime I want to work out how long I can leave babies unattended for. But having the feature in the app/website even if it isn't 100% accurate would be handy. The math really isn't all that difficult. Including the spoil timer for meat to adjust to.

March 17, 2021

Dan Leveille

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Update RockDrake and Magmasaur

Milagro Granillo

I say this because it is really annoying to have a baby RockDrake or magmasaur and they end up Dying cuz you didnt give them nameless venom or ambergis

September 29, 2020

Dan Leveille

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Update RockDrake and Magmasaur

Milagro Granillo

okay, i did a post like this a long time ago yet, it didnt seem to load, in the Dododex site you REALLY need to update the rock drake and magmasaur data base, becuase it doesnt say what to feed the baby rock drakes nor magmasaurs so, the baby rock drakes need nameless venom and the magmasaur need the astrocetus ambergis

December 26, 2020

Dan Leveille

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Feeding

Billy Harbour

Could you add additional information to what is best to feed baby dino’s eg meat (cooked/raw) fish berries etc

December 12, 2020

Dan Leveille

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Update Info about Rock Drake, and Magmasaur

Milagro Granillo

So, Dododex didnt understand what I said, so im gonna explain it yet again, I know this is a taming calculator and not and update site for ARK: To FEED baby Rock Drakes you have to give them Nameless Venom, AND magmasaurs need Ambergis,I lost 10 baby rock drakes, and 3 baby magmasaurs, they gave me charge of in my tribe, because i had no idea why they didnt eat the meat

November 13, 2020

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Breeding - ARK: Survival Evolved Wiki

“ Baby is born. Baby is killed. Baby is dinner. (Babies are good source of Prime Meat)... „
~ Drake on Baby Creatures

A Raptor and his offspring

Breeding is a feature of ARK: Survival Evolved that allows players to breed improved creatures through Eggs with non-mammals and gestation with mammals. Eggs do not have an owner, so it's possible to steal eggs laid by other survivors' creatures.

Newborn creatures are simply claimed (imprinted on) and do not require the usual taming processes associated with wild creatures. Anyone can claim a newborn. This must be done promptly, along with feeding it, as babies can die quickly from hunger.

Contents

  • 1 Breeding Mechanics
    • 1.1 Preparing Mating
      • 1.1.1 Mating Requirements
      • 1.1.2 Mating Range While Wandering
    • 1.2 Mating
      • 1.2.1 Special Conditions of Mating
      • 1. 2.2 Mating Wait Interval
    • 1.3 Incubation
      • 1.3.1 Managing Temperature
        • 1.3.1.1 Glued Eggs
    • 1.4 Gestating
    • 1.5 Claiming
    • 1.6 Caring For Babies
      • 1.6.1 Caring for Baby Carnivores
      • 1.6.2 Caring for Babies from Egg-only Tames
      • 1.6.3 Special Caring
        • 1.6.3.1 Reaper King
        • 1.6.3.2 Royal Griffin
        • 1.6.3.3 Beelzebufo
      • 1.6.4 Food Values
    • 1.7 Maturation Phases & Food Consumption
      • 1.7.1 Notes
    • 1.8 Imprinting
    • 1.9 Sterile Creatures
  • 2 Times for Breeding
  • 3 Stats of the Offspring
    • 3.1 Example
    • 3.2 Amount of higher stats and chance of obtaining them when hatching
    • 3.3 Finding the Best Parents
      • 3.3.1 Wild Stats Level-up
    • 3.4 Level of the Offspring
      • 3.4.1 Example
  • 4 Notes/Trivia
  • 5 External Video Tutorials
  • 6 References
  • 7 External links

Breeding Mechanics

Preparing Mating

The first step of breeding is having two opposite sex creatures of the same species for mating. Original, Tek, Aberrant, X, and R variants of creatures count as separate species, and as such, cannot be cross-bred. They must be bred with their own variant. Most creatures can be bred; those few that cannot are listed at the bottom of this article. See Sterile Creatures for more information.

Always be prepared for having more than one baby to be born upon incubation/gestation completion. There is a 10% chance of twins, and a 2% chance of triplets.[1]

It has been confirmed that there is no creature in the game capable of affecting chances of mutations, twins and triplets.[2]

Mating Requirements

For creatures to successfully mate, they must be:

  • of same species
  • of opposite sex (one male and one female)
  • within mating range of each other
  • wandering or set to mate (Enable Wandering or Enable Mating must be enabled on both creatures)
  • not following anything (Disable Following on both creatures)
  • unburdened (the creatures must not be carrying so much weight they are unable to move)
  • not mounted
  • not spayed/neutered
  • not having a mating cooldown (once mated females have a mating cooldown interval before they can mate again, the cooldown can also be triggered when transferring the creature between Arks)
Mating Range While Wandering

If using the Enable Wandering method to allow for mating, then steps need to be taken to maintain the mating range, which varies between species and is loosely based on the size of the adult creature. If the mating pair wander outside the mating range, then mating is stopped and mating progress is reset.

Building a pen of a suitably small size to keep the wandering creatures within mating range of each other is one common approach.

You can also use the "Whistle Stop (All)" command (U on PC). This halts all creatures within the area to stop moving, even ones that are enabled to wander. It's best to use the whistle every time the creature starts to move again, or to prevent the creatures from ever moving, whistle constantly. While this method doesn't need a pen, it does need you or a tribe member to stay there and constantly whistle. This may be more helpful if one survivor is constantly whistling not to move, and another survivor enables the creatures nearby to wander. In this way, you can achieve mass breeding in an area without ever building a pen, or moving creatures.

To initiate breeding of a pair by yourself, whistle both creatures to follow you, then enable wandering. Then, disable following on both. This prevents them from walking around in the meantime.

It is possible to use the  Dino Leash , to restrict the range for mating. Then no mating pen is needed.

If you do not want to build a pen, whistle or use a leash; then you can simply use enable mating instead, this will make the creatures stand still and then they will start to mate.

Mating

When the above conditions are all met, a small red heart icon appears over the heads of the mating creatures, and a mating bar appears on the female's HUD (look at the female to reveal the HUD). The HUD also indicates which creature they are mating with. Ensure the mating animals remain close together, as otherwise the mating stops. Due to server lag and game mechanics, the mating bar does not continuously update in real time. Additionally, mating multiple females to a single male at the same time can make this worse. Patience is advised as the bar moves in leaps and bounds.

Once the mating bar is completed, non-mammalian females drop a single fertilized egg , and mammalian females start gestating.

If there are too many tamed creatures in the server or in the tribe, the pair will refuse to mate until there is a free spot.

Special Conditions of Mating

Some of the creatures will only mate when certain conditions are given.

  •  Royal Griffin - will only mate with the other gender with similar surname.
  •  Ferox - will only mate when the female is at least 95%+ addiction as a small creature.
  •  Magmasaur - will only mate when the female is submerged in the lava surface in Volcano Region on any map.
  •  Megachelon - will only mate at deep depths in the ocean.
  •  Beelzebufo - will only mate in water.
  •  Diplocaulus - will only mate in water.
Mating Wait Interval

Females cannot mate again until a mating wait interval has passed (Cryofreezing them will still continue the mating interval cooldown). This interval is indicated on their HUD.

The mating interval starts after the creature has laid the egg or gestation has completed. The mating interval is also started for female creatures that are transferred between servers. Males can mate at any time.

Incubation

Main article: Incubation

The fertilized egg itself only begins Incubation when dropped onto the floor/ground or placed correctly in an  Egg Incubator (Genesis: Part 2). When incubating, a Fertilized Egg must be kept at a certain temperature range depending on the species (this also factors in insulation). If outside of this temperature range, incubation won't make progress, and it loses "Fertilized Egg Health" over time and is destroyed if this reaches zero. This is all indicated on the HUD when looking at a Fertilized Egg, along with its parents.

You can always "pause" the incubation by picking up the egg and putting it in a  Refrigerator,  Preserving Bin or other Inventory.

The following eggs are an exception due to the nature of how it is obtained (no health loss in inadequate temperature area):

  • Crystal Wyvern Egg
  • Deinonychus Egg
  • Magmasaur Egg
  • Rock Drake Egg
  • Wyvern Egg

If there are too many tamed creatures in the server or in the tribe, the egg will continue to incubate with no timer information, but letting it hatch will not yield a baby.

Managing Temperature

The best method to ensure eggs are at an appropriate temperature for incubation is through insulation. Use one or more  Air Conditioner,  Dimetrodon,  Kairuku or  Otter. Six  Air Conditioner should work for all eggs but eight is ideal for when there is a heat/cold storm. You might need up to 14 or more Air Conditioners for larger eggs such as the  Giganotosaurus, or the  Wyvern in Scorched Earth or Ragnarok. The  Rock Drake in Aberration requires at least 15 Air Conditioners due to its very cold incubation requirement. Whereas the  Deinonychus from Valguero needs a rough 23 Air Conditioners in the snow because of its extreme heat required.

With the release of Genesis: Part 2, the introduction of the  Egg Incubator (Genesis: Part 2) allows for yet another way to incubate eggs.

Another way is to tame a handful of  Dimetrodon. These seemingly useless finned creatures are actually one of the best sources of insulation in the entire game. The higher their melee damage, the higher their insulation bonus is; at ~1000 melee damage, it can even raise Wyvern eggs. The insulation effect stacks with other Dimetrodons, so if one isn't enough to do the job, try two, or three, or more. Far cheaper to maintain than the expensive air conditioners, these guys are mobile and only need meat, compared to the stationary air conditioner that also needs electricity to run. However, everything has its drawbacks: the Dimetrodon is slow and hard to transport on foot; they are hard to tame due to where they spawn and their fast torpor drop. However, it is worth the risk, especially on Aberration, where  Rock Drake Egg would normally require many air conditioners.

At the beginning of the game, when the Air Conditioner or Dimetrodon are not yet available, use a heat source to regulate the egg's temperature.  Standing Torch,  Torch,  Campfire,  Industrial Cooker, and stone fireplace work well. However, they all have the downside of providing negative Heat Tolerance, making careful management necessary, or going to colder areas to make the gap between cold resistance and heat resistance bigger. You may need four or more torches, depending on the biome and the egg.

Since temperature gradients can be very extreme between regions, easily reaching 20 °C or more, you can try and find a nearby biome where the temperature is closer to the eggs' ideal point; this is usually in the biome that spawned the creature. Early in the game, it is easier to find a biome that is too cold (e.g. near the coast) and heat the egg with torches, rather than trying to cool down a hot biome.

As Fertilized Eggs don't lose Egg Health in an inventory, and spoil incredibly slowly, you can keep them in your Inventory or in a preserving bin/refrigerator until able to achieve the appropriate temperature needed for Incubating. This can be very useful if you settled in a region with extreme temperatures as it's especially difficult to cool an egg in a hot biome without an air conditioner when it gets too hot.

Glued Eggs

While most creature's egg can be moved to its suitable location if the required temperature for incubation is not suited at its current location, some of the eggs cannot be moved once laid due to its glued nature. As such, females of the following eggs must lay their eggs at locations that allows incubation without causing complications:

  • Araneo Egg
  • Arthropluera Egg
  • Bloodstalker Egg
  • Mantis Egg
  • Moth Egg
  • Pulmonoscorpius Egg

Gestating

During gestation, females can consume up to twice the amount of food they would normally. Ensure the expectant mother has access to plenty of food during gestation to avoid losing the baby.

The baby will need immediate attention to survive, so be sure to be there at the time the gestation ends.

Trying to put a gestating mother into a cryopod will terminate the pregnancy.

Claiming

Babies are hatched/born unclaimed, so a survivor must "claim" them immediately after birth by getting close to them, looking right at them, and pressing the "use" key (E, , ) to imprint them, otherwise they can be claimed by other survivors. The only exception is the  Reaper King, which can only be claimed by the survivor who "gave birth" to it; no other survivor including the birthgiver's tribe mates can claim it.

Warning: Pets set on aggressive attack unclaimed creatures as soon as they are hatched/born. Whistle "Passive" or claim babies quickly to avoid this. Also Tek Shields will 'shunt' unclaimed babies out of their radius.

As of 264.5, Auto Turrets and Plant Species X set to "Players and Tamed Creatures" will NOT attack unclaimed creatures after they are hatched/born. You can safely place turrets inside a hatching pen without fearing for babies' lives.

If babies are not very promptly claimed and then fed they can quickly die from hunger.

You can control the hatch timing of fertilized eggs using a  Preserving Bin or  Refrigerator. This is not an option for live birth creatures, so make sure to time the mating and gestation appropriately.

Caring For Babies

Young animals take significant time and intensive care, especially during the "Baby" stage; if you're busy, don't breed your creatures right away. Alternately, you can just put the newborn baby into a cryopod for later. Most creatures will require the better part of a weekend to raise.

New babies follow the nearest survivor if one is within a reasonable range, so survivors will probably want to disable these settings. New babies have extremely low health, carrying capacity and food, so survivors need to carefully feed and take care of them in their first moments of life, or they'll soon die. The creature must be fed by adding food to their inventory. Once they reach Juvenile phase of their maturation (10.1%) they can eat from a  Feeding Trough or  Tek Trough to ensure the creature has a sufficient food supply. The maturation progress and phase is shown when looking at the creature.

Babies dynamically gain more HP, food capacity, and carrying capacity as they mature over time. They need lots of food because the babies eat very quickly, so stock up beforehand while the mother is pregnant/the egg is incubating.

Babies are not mountable and flee from fights. Mounts that can carry creatures (e. g. the  Argentavis) can carry babies, which allows you to quickly reposition the little ones if needed.

The  Procoptodon and the  Maewing are two creatures that can help with raising babies.

It takes a long time for babies to mature; breeding should only be attempted if you or your tribe have the time. As the baby grows, you will be able to leave the baby alone for longer and longer periods of time. One good use of a survivor's time at this stage might be crafting kibble for imprinting. If you will be imprinting, the baby might request any of 6 different kibbles (on PC and Console) or 15 different kibbles (on Mobile), so make sure you have them on hand.

Caring for Baby Carnivores

Baby carnivores are especially difficult to raise as it takes a minimum of 48 real hours to mature them, and a stack of meat spoils every 26.6 real hours (40 x 40 mins) in the feeding trough. Therefore their feeding trough must be topped up every 26 hours to continue their development. Failure to do so could result in starvation to death. By using Fish Meat, this time is doubled to 53.3 hours (40 x 80 mins), although Raw Fish Meat is only half as nutritious as Raw Meat, so babies will need twice as much meat. Creatures* will eat food with the lowest food value first (see food table below), thus fish meat before raw meat, so mixing the two will result in the longer keeping fish meat being eaten first. After progression to Juvenile phase, the creatures can eat from a trough, but will starve if not fed.

This is less of an issue for herbivores, because a stack of 100 berries lasts 66 real hours (2.7 days) before spoiling, a much more manageable interval. Remember not to try and feed the babies with stim or narcoberries because they won't eat them.

*Few creatures, like Baryonyx and Pelagornis will eat Raw Fish Meat before Cooked Fish Meat and they only eat fish meat. Similarly, their offspring will only eat raw fish meat until reaching adulthood.

The use of a powered  Tek Trough that can store more items and acts like a refrigerator extending the spoil time is recommended.

Caring for Babies from Egg-only Tames
This section is about content exclusive to the DLC: Scorched Earth, Aberration, Genesis: Part 1, Crystal Isles

Babies hatched from Egg-only taming (with the exception of  Deinonychus) only take a specific food until they fully mature. While their food drops down slower than other babies, feeding them with their usual food will not replenish their food.

  •  Wyvern = Only takes in  Wyvern Milk which can be obtained by either knocking out an adult wild female  Wyvern, or killing  Alpha Fire Wyvern.
  •  Rock Drake = Only takes in  Nameless Venom which can sometimes be gained by killing  Nameless.
  •  Magmasaur = Only takes in  Sulfur or  Ambergris which can sometimes be harvested from the green-cracked rock formations in Lunar Biome at Genesis Simulation or in Ringed Asteroid at - Space - in Genesis Ship.
  •  Crystal Wyvern = Only takes in  Primal Crystal  which can be obtained by gathering (with "Use") from a knocked out adult wild  Crystal Wyvern.
Special Caring

Some babies require special caring. Effects can be disastrous if not cared for properly.

Reaper King
This section is about content exclusive to the DLC: Aberration

For details on taking care of baby Reaper King or how to obtain them, check its own article. Reaper King babies will attack any dino and any survivor around if it is able to reach towards them and will be constantly on wander (with no options to stop wandering or follow target). It will not attack the birth giver with  Reaper Pheromone Gland  effect. Once it reaches Juvenile however, it will stop randomly attacking and can be ordered like every other baby.

Whenever the baby attacks an entity, a portion of its food will be lost.

Royal Griffin
This section is about a feature exclusively available on Mobile

Baby Griffins prefer to be secure to feel safe. While it feels insecure, it will refuse to eat food from inventory or trough. For it to feel secure, it must be close to its mother based on the current ancestor, or a female griffin with the same surname as the baby.

Beelzebufo

Until adulthood maturity, Beelzebufo babies must always be kept inside water. Any attempt to pull it out even as Adolescent will easily kill it.

Food Values

Carnivores will only eat meat, while herbivores will only eat berries. During the baby phase, you have to hand feed the baby until it reaches the juvenile phase. This can take quite a long time so be prepared and have time to sit around feeding a baby.

Food Food-Value
Preferred  Kibble 80 (53.33*)
 Kibble made from  Prime Meat Jerky (excluding Carbonemys kibble) 90
Other  Kibble 60
 Raw Prime Meat /  Raw Meat /  Raw Mutton 50**
 Spoiled Meat 50***
 Cooked Prime Meat /  Prime Meat Jerky 50
 Crops 40
 Mejoberries 30
 Cooked Meat /  Cooked Meat Jerky 25
 Raw Prime Fish Meat /  Cooked Prime Fish Meat /  Raw Fish Meat 25
 Other Berries 20
 Cooked Fish Meat 12

* Brontos only gain 53. 33 food points from their preferred  Kibble (Carbonemys Egg)
** some creatures have different values for raw meat, e.g. the  Bloodstalker gains only 10 for each raw meat.
*** only for  Scorpions,  Vultures and  Mantis.

Maturation Phases & Food Consumption

Maturation Progress Phase
0%-10% Baby
10%-50% Juvenile
50%-100% Adolescent

Food consumption by babies is very large and varies by the maturation progress dynamically by the following formula: 

FoodPerSec = R * (1 - maturationRatio) , with R = basic food drain rate

The basic food drain rate varies per creature. For example, this value for a Rex baby is around R=1.16, while the Bloodstalker has a base food drain rate of R=0.785 (further measurements needed for other creatures).

The Rock Drake has a basic food drain of R = 0.1, other special creatures like Wyvern and Magmasaur may have an equivalent food consumption (not tested yet).

Note: This formula is an estimation and may not give exact numbers (the error is around 5%). `maturationRatio` is the maturation percentage divided by 100.

Some Perspective: For only one baby Rex (remember you could have twins or triplets) on an unmodified server, it will take roughly 96 stacks of raw meat (stack size 40) to reach adult phase, so be sure to have plenty on hand before the baby is born!

Use a calculator to determine the needed food and time, e.g.[3]

Notes
  • Each creature seems to have a different food consumption rate that appears to change with each stage of the maturation progress (at least for wolves and Dodos).

Imprinting

Main article: Imprinting

Imprinting is a way to improve the stat-values of a bred creature. It requires one of three interactions (giving specific kibble, cuddling or walking) every 8* hours. Only a single player can imprint a newborn baby (whoever claims it first). There is no penalty for not imprinting, but no gain either. Any imprinting done is permanent. Accumulated imprinting values will not be lost if you miss an imprint.

If this player manages to care for the baby during the entire maturation, the creature's base stats before modifications will be increased by 20% and, when ridden by the imprinter, it will also gain 30% increased damage and damage resistance.

* The time between imprint and the amount of imprint gained per imprint can change if an event is happening. Keep an eye out on the HUD for when the next imprint is required.

Sterile Creatures

All tameable creatures are breedable except for:

  • Astrocetus
  • Basilisk
  • Coelacanth
  • Desert Titan
  • DodoRex
  • Dung Beetle
  • Forest Titan
  • Giant Bee
  • Giant Queen Bee
  • Ice Titan
  • Karkinos
  • Lamprey
  • Leech
  • Liopleurodon
  • Mega Mek
  • Mek
  • Noctis
  • Noglin
  • Phoenix
  • Piranha
  • Rare X-Sabertooth Salmon
  • Reaper
  • Rock Elemental
  • Sabertooth Salmon
  • Titanoboa
  • Titanosaur
  • Trilobite
  • Zombie Wyvern
  • Zomdodo

Despite in-game showing the  Reaper King as breedable, it is impossible due to how they are "tamed", with the added fact they are shown as genderless.

In ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile,  Royal Griffin has gender and can be bred. However, they will only mate with members of the same house (they must have the same 2-3 last letters in their names).

Times for Breeding

Template:Table of Breeding Template:Table of Mammal Breeding

Stats of the Offspring

In-Depth look at Breeding Super Dinos

The spawn of two dinosaurs will inherit the "natural" stat levels of its parents. Natural stat levels are the levels in each stat after it has been tamed but before it gains any stats through leveling-up by a player. There is a 55% chance of inheriting the stronger stat of each parent. This means you have a certain percent chance of obtaining a 100% perfect (meaning with only the higher stats of both parents) creature from both parents from each mating.

The stat-values (not the stat-levels) of the offspring are calculated like for a creature that was just tamed with a 100% taming effectiveness with the taming effectiveness bonuses applied. This means that an offspring can have higher values than its parents in stats that get a bonus from taming effectiveness (for most creatures this is Melee Damage and sometimes Food). See also Creature stats calculation for how the values are calculated from the stats.

Example

To understand this better, here is an example. Let's only look at the melee damage of a pair of Raptors. Assume they were just tamed with a taming effectiveness of 70% and both already have 4 levels in melee damage. The value you can see as melee damage is according to the formula on Creature stats calculation, the newly added extra modifier (balancing update), and the stats of the raptors 

Value = (BaseStat × ( 1 + LevelWild × IncreaseWild) + TamingBonusAdd × TamingBonusAddModifier) × (1 + TamingEffectiveness × TamingBonusMult × TamingBonusMultModifier) Value = (100% × ( 1 + 4 × 5%) + 50% × 15%) × (1 + 70% × 40% × 45%) Value = 127.5% × 112.6% Value = 143.6%

The offspring inherits the values of its parents. They don't inherit the plain value, but the levels the parents spend in the stats before being leveled up by a player. So the offspring inherits 4 levels for its melee damage (as both parents have 4 levels in this case). To get the value of the melee damage of the offspring, we calculate it like before, but this time we use a taming effectiveness of 100% (this is the way the game gives you another bonus if you breed creatures). 

Value = (BaseStat × ( 1 + LevelWild × IncreaseWild) + TamingBonusAdd × TamingBonusAddModifier) × (1 + TamingEffectiveness × TamingBonusMult × TamingBonusMultModifier) Value = (100% × ( 1 + 4 × 5%) + 50% × 15%) × (1 + 100% × 40% × 45%) Value = 127.5% × 118% Value = 150.5%

Like the parents, the offspring has 4 levels in melee damage, but with the higher taming-effectiveness-bonus its value is 150.5% instead of 143.6%. The bonus is not much, but is clearly noticeable.

Amount of higher stats and chance of obtaining them when hatching

Number of desired stats Probability [%]
6 2. 77%
5 13.59%
4 27.80%
3 30.32%
2 18.61%
1 6.09%
0 0.83%

Finding the Best Parents

To maximize the stats of the offspring, specialized parents with a good value in few stats are needed. The more specialized a creature is in one stat, the higher it can be. To get a really good breed you need 6 creatures, each with a high upleveled (only the wild-leveling counts here) different stat. After at least 3 generations a creature with the best of the stats can be bred.

Wild Stats Level-up

Type in values of a wild creature to see on which stats it's emphasized. Green values on a high-level creature are very good for breeding. If you have already tamed your creature you can try to recover the breeding stats with an external tool.[4]

Breeding

The stat-calculator does not work in the mobile-view, see here for alternatives: Apps

Note that after the creature is tamed it gets bonuses on some stats depending on the taming effectiveness. This makes it hard to retrieve the levels on a tamed creature, so this tool is only for wild ones, but gives a first impression, how well the stats are distributed.

Level of the Offspring

The resulting level of the baby is the sum of wild level-points (i.e. level of the creature directly after taming) spent in the inherited stats by its parents. Assume for example, that one (highly unusual) parent has only leveled up in Health 40 levels and nothing else, while the other parent leveled up only in weight 30 levels. If the baby happens to inherit these higher stats, it inherits 70 levelups giving it level 71 with its starting level. Other possibilities are a level 41 Baby with only health leveled up, a level 31 baby with only weight leveled up or a baby with level 1 and nothing leveled up.

The (practically impossible to reach) maximum of levels a baby can get would be 223 levelups (149 natural + 74 by taming bonus (TE of nearly 100%)) in each stat, with 7 stats summing up to level 1562 (223 levelups in 7 stats plus the startinglevel: 223 x 7 + 1 = 1562). 223)].

Note that the levels a wild animal wastes in the movement stat is remembered and passed on during breeding. Thus two siblings with seemingly identical stats might have different levels if one of them inherited a higher movement stat than the other. This has one practical advantage: a higher torpor level.

Note that the cap level of creature on official are 450, after this level your creature will be deleted by server restart, transferring or if you cryo pod it.

Example

Here's an example of two parents and possible children they can get. Child1 inherited random stats, ChildMax only got the maximum values and ChildMin only got the lower values. You can see that the level of the offspring can be lower, in between or higher as the levels of the parents. The higher levelup is displayed in bold.

Displayed are only the wild levels (the ones that can be inherited). Levelups by the player have no influence on the stats of the offspring.

In this example the levels of Stamina are the same for both parents, so you cannot tell which one the offspring inherited.

Mother Child1 ChildMax ChildMin Father
Level 154
Stat Lvl
HP 24
St 23
Ox 26
Fo 18
We 19
Dm 22
Sp 21
Level 150
Stat Lvl
HP 18
St 23
Ox 26
Fo 22
We 19
Dm 22
Sp 19
Level 166
Stat Lvl
HP 24
St 23
Ox 26
Fo 22
We 27
Dm 22
Sp 21
Level 130
Stat Lvl
HP 18
St 23
Ox 15
Fo 18
We 19
Dm 17
Sp 19
Level 142
Stat Lvl
HP 18
St 23
Ox 15
Fo 22
We 27
Dm 17
Sp 19

To get to the creature's level, you add up the levels of the stats and add one, as all creatures start at level one.

Notes/Trivia

  • Contrary to popular myths, the  Oviraptors and  Unicorns do not increase chances for twins, triplets nor mutations.
  • The  Titanoboa,  Basilisk,  Coelacanth,  Piranha,  Sabertooth Salmon,  Karkinos,  Dung Beetle,  Astrocetus,  Lamprey and  Trilobite cannot be bred when domesticated.
    • However, in the real world all reptiles, fish, crustaceans, snails, whales, and Trilobites and Dung Beetles are able to breed.

External Video Tutorials

Quick tutorial on hatching eggs

Video about breeding and mutations

References

  1. ↑ Patch notes, v220
  2. ↑ ComplexMinded's tweet, dated Mar 4, 2020
  3. ↑ Crumplecorn's Breeding Calculator
  4. ↑ ARK Smart Breeding

External links

  • Ark Breeding Calculator (Web Application)

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