Natural wild mutations?

[DingDongDanger]

So I saw a ravager with a bright blue back mutation? Can dinos spawn with wild mutations or can ravagers just have crazy colors like that because I've never seen that.

[Fuzzy]

Dinosaurs don't breed in the wild. Do you ever see baby dinos in the wild? No. Colors of wild dinosaurs can be random, and some can look a lot like a color mutation.

[Thorium]

Wilds can't spawn with color mutations. Possible colors may change with events like last Halloween and current Christmas.
So far i have not seen any bright colored ravager, but we also don't participate in the official Christmas event on our cluster.

Colors are not completly random. They are selected randomly from a table of possible colors with the species.

[DingDongDanger]

It's not a Christmas one. It's in single player I saw it, no mods. It's the first ravager I've seen with a bright color like that. Also Christmas dinos are only red and green not blue. I was asking if there was a chance of one spawning in with a mutation because I didn't think Ravagers could spawn naturally with such a crazy color.

[GhostlyComa]

Rock Drakes can spawn with natural mutations and I have see. Some rather oddly bright Ravagers before

[DingDongDanger]

Originally posted by Daedalus:

Rock Drakes can spawn with natural mutations and I have see. Some rather oddly bright Ravagers before

Yea rock drakes can have some crazy colors. I saw a solid white one today I really wanted. Also a bright red one.

[GhostlyComa]

Bubblywums (Jen) confirmed on Twitter that Drakes have a very unlikely chance to spawn with a mutation

[Spider-Mimic]

i have seen bright purple rock drakes....lol

[DingDongDanger]

That's actually awesome. I was hoping for a holiday drake and reaper but unfortunately on the dedicated I manage we're not far enough in to get them yet. I can only do it on single player but can't activate the Christmas event on single player :(

[ciceqi]

We've occasionally tamed dinos that already have a mating cooldown ticking. It IS possible for dinos to mate in the wild, as I recall, or was at one point. It's just rare that they're stuck next to each other long enough for it to happen, and you never see babies because I believe they follow the same rules: feed them quick or watch them die.

That said, if the baby maturation speed is set high enough in your game, they can survive to adulthood before starving in some cases. In one of my SP games, I would just leave my favorite raptor breeding pair on wander in a mating box and totally forget about them. Periodically I'd come back to base to find they'd mated, laid an egg, the egg had hatched (raptors are all-terrain, I guess), and there'd be an unclaimed adult raptor just running around on wander...wouldn't attack unless you attacked it first, with the claiming text hovering over it.

So yes, I'd totally believe that a wild ravager could have a color mutation. I'm more curious to know whether it still just says "wild ancestors" in the center or whether you've got "ravager level x" on either side of the family tree. :D Then again, wyvern blue is one of their possible back colors, as I recall, but it's closer to blue-black when I've seen it, not bright blue.

[DingDongDanger]

Originally posted by ciceqi:

We've occasionally tamed dinos that already have a mating cooldown ticking. It IS possible for dinos to mate in the wild, as I recall, or was at one point. It's just rare that they're stuck next to each other long enough for it to happen, and you never see babies because I believe they follow the same rules: feed them quick or watch them die.

That said, if the baby maturation speed is set high enough in your game, they can survive to adulthood before starving in some cases. In one of my SP games, I would just leave my favorite raptor breeding pair on wander in a mating box and totally forget about them. Periodically I'd come back to base to find they'd mated, laid an egg, the egg had hatched (raptors are all-terrain, I guess), and there'd be an unclaimed adult raptor just running around on wander...wouldn't attack unless you attacked it first, with the claiming text hovering over it.

So yes, I'd totally believe that a wild ravager could have a color mutation. I'm more curious to know whether it still just says "wild ancestors" in the center or whether you've got "ravager level x" on either side of the family tree. :D Then again, wyvern blue is one of their possible back colors, as I recall, but it's closer to blue-black when I've seen it, not bright blue.

How long ago was this? Is this still a possibility? I'm finding Ravagers with unnatural colors on my server still. I DO have my server rates up so high that a rock drake reaches adulthood in 5 minutes.