Growing dinos for raw meat: which is the best and what stats to raise

[giorgiobusoni]

I read that for the raw mutton, the best way to far it is to grow ovis and increase the HP stats to increase the raw mutton yield.

What about raw meat? I was thinking phiomia is in between the best meat yields, but which stats should be raise? HP or hunger? Is it HP also for raw meat?

[KitsuneShiro]

An herbivore. I would look at the shortest gestation/hatch time and the baby raise time.

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Breeding

[Dragorin]

What? Why? Mutton can only be gotten from Ovis which aren't behind every tree so raising ovis for meat makes sense. If you want just raw meat hop on a Rex and eat everything in sight for 30 minutes and have more meat then you know what to do with for WAY less effort than raising a herd of X animal for meat would earn you.

[giorgiobusoni]

Fact is that I have just started and I have basically no carnivores :) forget the T-rex suggestion. Also, when it will come the time, I guess that having a lot of herbivores ready to be slaughtered to raise up a baby T-rex could be handy as you'll need to stay next to it to raise it up, can't really go around and leave him alone no?

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

An herbivore. I would look at the shortest gestation/hatch time and the baby raise time.

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Breeding

I have checked it out but I am playing single and I have pumped up the baby raising time so basically any baby will be fully grown within 1 hour. Just need to be there to feed him immediately or he'll die in less than 5 minutes. So raising up time is not a problem, and actually the amount of work is more porpoptional to the number of babies than to the grow up time. So I would like to optimise by growing the species that yields the maximum ammount and to boost the right stats...

[Cobretti]

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

Fact is that I have just started and I have basically no carnivores :) forget the T-rex suggestion. Also, when it will come the time, I guess that having a lot of herbivores ready to be slaughtered to raise up a baby T-rex could be handy as you'll need to stay next to it to raise it up, can't really go around and leave him alone no?

There is nothing wrong with leaving a baby, it wont die in 5 minutes, especially several minutes after hatching on the rates you are using. You have some incorrect assumptions about breeding so instead of thinking about a T-Rex, you should raise a few other dinos to get an understanding of how things work because you are making things a lot more complicated than they need to be.

No one raises dinos for raw meat, that's an incredible waste of time. Before your first proper meat gatherer (Rex), a ptera or argy will do just fine to gather meat. Imprinted argy with all points in dmg is actually a pretty solid meat gatherer but any will do.

[Trigger Zero]

Originally posted by Cobretti:

you are making things a lot more complicated than they need to be.

No one raises dinos for raw meat, that's an incredible waste of time. Before your first proper meat gatherer (Rex), a ptera or argy will do just fine to gather meat. Imprinted argy with all points in dmg is actually a pretty solid meat gatherer but any will do.

Even a raptor (or few for pack) run around and eat things. Much more efficient.

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by Cobretti:

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

Fact is that I have just started and I have basically no carnivores :) forget the T-rex suggestion. Also, when it will come the time, I guess that having a lot of herbivores ready to be slaughtered to raise up a baby T-rex could be handy as you'll need to stay next to it to raise it up, can't really go around and leave him alone no?

There is nothing wrong with leaving a baby, it wont die in 5 minutes, especially several minutes after hatching on the rates you are using. You have some incorrect assumptions about breeding so instead of thinking about a T-Rex, you should raise a few other dinos to get an understanding of how things work because you are making things a lot more complicated than they need to be.

No one raises dinos for raw meat, that's an incredible waste of time. Before your first proper meat gatherer (Rex), a ptera or argy will do just fine to gather meat. Imprinted argy with all points in dmg is actually a pretty solid meat gatherer but any will do.

uhm ok well my triceratops died in 5 minutes after hatching because I didn't bring him food immediately. I will try the ptera.

[jcekstro]

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

Originally posted by Cobretti:

There is nothing wrong with leaving a baby, it wont die in 5 minutes, especially several minutes after hatching on the rates you are using. You have some incorrect assumptions about breeding so instead of thinking about a T-Rex, you should raise a few other dinos to get an understanding of how things work because you are making things a lot more complicated than they need to be.

No one raises dinos for raw meat, that's an incredible waste of time. Before your first proper meat gatherer (Rex), a ptera or argy will do just fine to gather meat. Imprinted argy with all points in dmg is actually a pretty solid meat gatherer but any will do.

uhm ok well my triceratops died in 5 minutes after hatching because I didn't bring him food immediately. I will try the ptera.

Look for higher level things. It will make it easy and they will farm more meat. Look for a decent level raptor or even an argent like someone else commented. Then go looking for a low level rex. The higher the level the better obviously, but low will be better than a high level raptor would be. Once you knock that out (believe it or not rexes are super easy to knock out, they are incredibly dumb and their ai has trouble biting you) then take out the raptor to kill stegos and low level paracers. Get around 10-15 pieces of prime meat and it will make a rex tame go much quicker and give higher taming effectiveness. That will farm meat much faster than you would by eating babies. You are right that currently it is easier for you to get meat that way, but with very little effort you can be farming meat to your hearts content without any need to breed for it.

[giorgiobusoni]

To be honest I am trying to increase my egg production, and as male do not lay egs I was thinking to slaughter them fod food at least :D Also if I kill while growing they yield prime meat that is good...

[jcekstro]

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

To be honest I am trying to increase my egg production, and as male do not lay egs I was thinking to slaughter them fod food at least :D Also if I kill while growing they yield prime meat that is good...

Mate boost also works for egg production. Most people keep one male and 4-5 females of a species for egg farms. On top of that if you tame an oviraptor and fill it's inventory full and put it on wander it will also give an egg laying boost

[Cobretti]

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

Originally posted by Cobretti:

There is nothing wrong with leaving a baby, it wont die in 5 minutes, especially several minutes after hatching on the rates you are using. You have some incorrect assumptions about breeding so instead of thinking about a T-Rex, you should raise a few other dinos to get an understanding of how things work because you are making things a lot more complicated than they need to be.

No one raises dinos for raw meat, that's an incredible waste of time. Before your first proper meat gatherer (Rex), a ptera or argy will do just fine to gather meat. Imprinted argy with all points in dmg is actually a pretty solid meat gatherer but any will do.

uhm ok well my triceratops died in 5 minutes after hatching because I didn't bring him food immediately. I will try the ptera.

You need to feed all babies when they are born but you don't need to sit with them for the whole time they are being raised. As the dino grows its inventory gets bigger meaning you can store more food in it and don't need to top it up as often.

On your settings, where a rex matures in 1 hour, the baby phase is very fast, you just have to stand next to it for 1-2 mins, load it with meat and then go farm some more but other alternatives is to farm a whole heap and store it in a firdge or just throw it in the feeding trough and take it out and hand feed as needed.

If you are using the mod S+ it even has a nanny that will feed and imprint your dinos.

Get whatever is around you, if you see a carno or raptor, that will do too. Just be mindful that wild raptors can dismount you on a small dino.

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by jcekstro:

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

To be honest I am trying to increase my egg production, and as male do not lay egs I was thinking to slaughter them fod food at least :D Also if I kill while growing they yield prime meat that is good...

Mate boost also works for egg production. Most people keep one male and 4-5 females of a species for egg farms. On top of that if you tame an oviraptor and fill it's inventory full and put it on wander it will also give an egg laying boost

yes this is what I want to achieve. Just for now I only have 1 male 1 female. I want to get more females by making babies, but the male I don't need so I thought to covert them into meat :D

[Nimmerf Roh]

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

Originally posted by jcekstro:

Mate boost also works for egg production. Most people keep one male and 4-5 females of a species for egg farms. On top of that if you tame an oviraptor and fill it's inventory full and put it on wander it will also give an egg laying boost

yes this is what I want to achieve. Just for now I only have 1 male 1 female. I want to get more females by making babies, but the male I don't need so I thought to covert them into meat :D

did you actually read what other post mentioned ? a male provides an egg boost?

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by Nimmerf Roh:

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

yes this is what I want to achieve. Just for now I only have 1 male 1 female. I want to get more females by making babies, but the male I don't need so I thought to covert them into meat :D

did you actually read what other post mentioned ? a male provides an egg boost?

YES. I already HAVE the male. So why I would need to keep more than 1?

[Trigger Zero]

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

Just for now I only have 1 male 1 female.

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

YES. I already HAVE the male. So why I would need to keep more than 1?

?
You have one male or you have more than one male?
Also why do you feel you need the meat? You are making this all very complicated. People have told you what to do but you are hell bent on raising babies. Just raise pigs then and feed them berries.

: and I mean phiomia, NOT daeodon.