With the new implemented breeding system it’s possible to breed dinosaurs with perfect stats and values. But not all animals on the Island are mating. This list contains the animals, which can create offsping at the moment. Outdated! Nearly all creatures can be breed now, the mammals too!
You know from the previous Tutorial “How to get Babies in ARK” how to get Fertilized Eggs and how you can incubate them, but why should you do this? Here you get some basic informations, how the Stat-Values of the Baby are produced and what color the Baby will get.
The Parents don’t have to be “in-Tribe” to mate, they just have to be non-aggressed and tamed and in proximity. So a Tribe could loan out their prized breeding dinos, and both Tribes split the resulting eggs, etc.
Babies are unclaimed initially, so you should “Imprint” on them to claim them after birth. Babies initially have extremely low health and carrying capacity and food, so you need to carefully feed and take care of them in their first moments of life, or they’ll soon die. They dynamically can carry more, gain more HP, and food capacity, as they mature over time. They have a maturation progress bar on their HUD, which they grow in real-time:
Babies < 10% < Juvenile < 50% < Adolescent < 100% Mature
And oh yeah the younger a baby is, the corresponding less resources it gives if u harvest it, but the more chance of prime meat you get. Newborns are pretty much guaranteed to give a couple primes >:D
Sooo… now we get to the interesting part:
The Baby’s base stats are a random combination of its parents’ base (original pre-tamed) stats, and so are its colors. The better base stat will be chosen with a probability of 70%.
Example: Baby with 2 Max-Base-Stats-Values:
Triceratops Male
| HP | Max Value |
| Stamina | a |
| Attack Damage | b |
| Inventory Weight | c |
Triceratops Female
| HP | d |
| Stamina | Max Value |
| Attack Damage | e |
| Inventory Weight | f |
possible Triceratops Baby (chance 49%)
| HP | Max Value |
| Stamina | Max Value |
| Attack Damage | b or e |
| Inventory Weight | c or f |
This Baby can now mate (once grown) with another Triceratops with max Attack Damage and max Inventory Weight to breed for a Baby with 4 max Base-Stats with a chance of 24%.
By using this selective breeding, you can breed out the stats you don’t want, breed in the ones you do, and eventually with enough effort, breed a complete max-base-statted Uber-Dino… and let the world shudder!
Source: Drake on Steam
With Patch 219 it is possible to breed Dinos to get little Babies – now you can get descendants from your best and most beautiful creatures 🙂 How this works we´ll discuss step by step and why you should do this can be found in another article (“Instructions for perfect breeding & basic informations on babies“). The tutorial for mammals can be found here.
Take 2 Creatures of the same species – male and female – together in a confined space (in a pen for example)
(Annotation: Check if the female is ready to breed, in case she had eggs before, because it could be that she has still some downtime. There are some Creatures which can´t mate right now – but only a few 😉 If you want to check the Mating-Status look at the HUD Message “Enable Wandering to Mate”)
Now you have to set them both to “Enable Wandering”. As soon as they are close enough beating hearts will appear over their heads, and the mating bar will appear on the female Dino’s HUD. Both Dino’s HUDs will also indicate who they’re mating with, specifically.
When the Mating bar is complete, she’ll drop a Fertilized egg. (perhaps more? I couldn´t encrypt it – please comment in case you have better informations :))
So now you have got your Fertilized egg… what is next?
The Fertilized Egg itself only incubates when dropped, not in Inventory. To incubate it must be kept at a certain temperature range depending on the species. If outside of this temperature range, it won’t make incubation progress, and it will lose “Fertilized Egg Health” over time and be destroyed if zero. This is all indicated on the HUD when looking at a fertilized Egg, and its description also tells you its Parents.
After being fully and successfully incubated, the baby dino will pop out of the egg.
Following Article
Source: Drake on Steam
Triceratops-Baby
Direwolf-Pup (not added yet- but it stealthed in this thread ;))
