This page has breeding dinos instructions and information for ARK: Survival Evolved
Contents
Preparation
1) You need 2 tamed creatures of the same species.
2) Get the male and the female close to each other
Mating
3) Set both male and female to "Enable Wandering"
4) Beating hearts should appear over the dinos' heads.
5) Watch mating bar on female dino's HUD.
6) When mating bar fills completely, the female dino drops a fertilized egg.
Female HUD shows who she is mating with as well as a Mating Progress bar
Incubating
7) The Fertilized Egg incubates when dropped, not when in your inventory.
8) Watch and make sure that the Fertilized Egg Health does not drop, if it drops than it means the temperature is not right for incubating.
Parents, Spoiling Time, Temperature, Egg Incubation Meter, Egg Health Meter.
Birth
9) When Egg has been successfully incubated, the baby dino hatches
10) Baby Dinos are fragile and have low health/carrying capacity/food capacity. Take good care of them in the first moments of their life or they will die if you leave them without food. for the first 10% of their maturity (while in baby stage), keep putting food in their inventory. After that, you can use a trough to keep feeding them.
Maturity
11) Babies eventually become "fully matured" with proper care.
12) Until fully-matured, the babies cannot attack and cannot be ridden. They will also flee from any fight regardless of temperament.
Genetics
Babies inherit randomly stats from their parents. For example, mating a male Trike that has "Natural Max" HP with a female that has "Natural Max" Stamina can result in a baby with both of those stats maxed out. You could then mate that baby with a new dino that has another maxed out stat and eventually you can breed a complete max-base-statted Uber-Dino!
Strategy Guide/Tips
- Make sure you have a male and a female. Male/Male and Female/Female won't work.
- Make sure both dinos are of the same species.
- Not all dino species support babies. More support will be added in later patches. Watch for the HUD message "Enable Wandering to Mate" to make sure they can make babies. Or see section below, "Breedable Dinosaurs"
- You can ride the male dino to keep it near the female dino while mating.
- The Dino's HUD will indicate who they are mating with. Make sure they are mating with the correct dino, especially if you have other dinos of the same species around.
- Females cannot mate again for a while until a subsequent Mating Wait interval has passed. This is indicated on the female dino's HUD.
- Male Dinos can mate again immediately.
- Careful not to accidentally eat your fertilized egg.
- The temperature range needed to incubate an egg depends on the species.
- If the Fertilized Egg Health drops to 0 it will be destroyed. Watch the HUD for the health indicator.
- The fertilized egg HUD will also indicate who the parents are.
- Babie's stats will dynamically increase as they mature.
- Babies are unclaimed at first. Imprint on them to claim them right after birth.
- Babies inherit a random stat from their parents, but there is a 70% chance that they will inherit one of the better stats and 30% chance of inheriting one of the weaker stats.
- You will not see the stats until after the baby hatches.
- Dinos don't have to be in-tribe to breed. So two tribes can agree to mate their prized dinos and split the resulting eggs.
- Babies don't have an "age" in days or years, but rather a "Maturation" marked by a "Maturation Progress Bar" on their HUD. The bar will grow in real-time. The babies are classified as follows depending on how full the bar is:
- 0-19%: Baby
- 20-49%: Juvenile
- 50-99%: Adolescents
- 100%: Adults
Breedbale Dinos
The following creatures can be mated:
Direwolf (bugged)
