ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

View Stats:
Baby rock drake force feeding problem
when I try to force feed it with nameless venom, it's food goes up to like 1400 and then back to 1200... I want it to have much food so I can go do something else, but nothing works and it doesn't want to eat venom itself. What should I do?
< >
Showing 1-8 of 8 comments
I used to raise wyverns, but usually on highly modded servers where I didn't really have any problems with food, but now I'm playing on a x5 servers without any mods (I think) and I just don't know what to do...
guig Dec 28, 2017 @ 9:30am 
that's not the way it works.

you leave the venom in its inventory and it will eat in time. if you play with normal rates it will take time to grow so you will have to take care of him and do several farm session for venom because it spoils. no other way.

also the food bar of a baby is proportional to its growth, don't hope to fully restore it before it's an adult.
Last edited by guig; Dec 28, 2017 @ 9:36am
Don Dec 28, 2017 @ 9:32am 
When your baby matures its stats scale with the maturation percentage. Therefore, you cannot raise the babies food higher than the current food value for its maturation percent. It will always reset to the highest food value for that %. Same as wyverns and wyvern milk.

Example: Baby 20% grown with total food of 10,000 will have a max food of 2,000. Force feeding will increase food to 2,200 or but it will reset to 2,000 because that is the highest for that percentage. 50% grown = 5,000 food points.
Originally posted by guig:
that's not the way it works.

you leave the venom in its inventory and it will eat in time. if you play will normal rates it will take time to grow so you will have to take care of him and do several farm session for venom because it spoils. no other way.

also the food bar of a baby is proportional to its growth, don't hope to fully restore it before it's an adult.
It will probably die then I guess as I need some sleep too... Thanks for help anyways
Originally posted by Don:
When your baby matures its stats scale with the maturation percentage. Therefore, you cannot raise the babies food higher than the current food value for its maturation percent. It will always reset to the highest food value for that %. Same as wyverns and wyvern milk.

Example: Baby 20% grown with total food of 10,000 will have a max food of 2,000. Force feeding will increase food to 2,200 or but it will reset to 2,000 because that is the highest for that percentage. 50% grown = 5,000 food points.
wait, if the food is 3800 now and I'll be able to get like 2 imprints before sleep and the rates are x5 (so it should be at around 40% maturation when I go to sleep), will it survive for 9 hours? I'm starting to feel like this game is part of my life and I don't like it ;(
3800 is the max food now**
Don Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:05am 
Originally posted by Mitusek:
3800 is the max food now**

What is total food value and what is the maturation %? rockdrakes eat slow around 300 food points per hour (rough not tested). In my example 10,000 food was total - the math was easy.

At 3800 food that roughly 8-10 hours safely of time before needing food again.
Last edited by Don; Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:06am
maturation is like 12% at the moment and max food is 3800. I'm gonna be able to give it 2 imprints before going to sleep and it should be at 40% when I go.
< >
Showing 1-8 of 8 comments
Per page: 1530 50

Date Posted: Dec 28, 2017 @ 9:24am
Posts: 8