Argentavis breeding: am i insane?

[Hobin Rood]

I read online that these guys would be super hard to breed, but i have two in my incubation unit and they're on track to mature within an hour or two at most.... am I missing something? The only modifier on my game is player xp rate at 3x. nothing else is changed.

[retsam1]

in default breeding many dinos take a long time. Breeding for exceedingly good stats can take an extremely long time.

There is also this good vid guide on breeding too for stat mutations you might want to view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KGhaV1mddE&t=27s

In general if you are in single player, you might want to consider significantly upping the speed at which they breed.

[Hobin Rood]

but is it normal for these argy's to be full grown just after an hour of hatching?

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Venomine:

but is it normal for these argy's to be full grown just after an hour of hatching?

No. That would indicate you increased the maturity speed a bit there. That's probably a good thing since it can take much much much longer on default.

[Hobin Rood]

i just double checked tho and its at 1.0. this doesn't make sense.

[Smaugi]

On vanilla ark IT takes 2days 10 hours (both incubation and growing) to grow an argent

[Smaugi]

Originally posted by Venomine:

i just double checked tho and its at 1.0. this doesn't make sense.

Do you have any events on? They tend to speed up maturation

[Hobin Rood]

i actually have the launch options set to disable events

[Rüdiger J Simpson]

Originally posted by Venomine:

i actually have the launch options set to disable events

single player? if so there is a special SP setting that boosts everything extremely. you can tick/untick it in you settings

[Hobin Rood]

Originally posted by Rüdiger J Simpson:

Originally posted by Venomine:

i actually have the launch options set to disable events

single player? if so there is a special SP setting that boosts everything extremely. you can tick/untick it in you settings

it is SP. know where that is?

[Rüdiger J Simpson]

should be under "general"

if you want to know what exactly it changes:

There is a configuration option "Use Singleplayer Settings" in the General tab of the Host/Local dialog. When activated some settings (e.g. difficulty) are optimized for single players and small groups (non-dedicated sessions).[1] This option was introduced in 259.0.

The intention behind this change was to soothe the Single Player and Non-Dedicated experience to make it more approachable for those playing in smaller groups. Of course, you don't have to have these settings on, but they will make a significant difference to your game!

These are settings which are automatically enabled in Single Player and Non Dedicated Servers. You can turn them off by disabling the ini setting, or just unchecking the box in your host options. Details for all options can be found in Server Configuration. These are the changes that occur when Singleplayer Settings are activated:

[ServerSettings]
DifficultyOffset=0.200000
XPMultiplier=2.000000
TamingSpeedMultiplier=2.50000
ServerCrosshair=True
ShowMapPlayerLocation=True
EnablePvPGamma=True
AllowFlyerCarryPvE=True[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
MatingIntervalMultiplier=0.125000
EggHatchSpeedMultiplier=10.000000
BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier=36.799000
BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier=0.167000
bFlyerPlatformAllowUnalignedDinoBasing=False
bAllowCustomRecipes=True
bPassiveDefensesDamageRiderlessDinos=True
MaxDifficulty=False
bUseSingleplayerSettings=True

source
https://ark.gamepedia.com/Single_Player

[Cobretti]

I've actually lost 2 Argies back during SE launch. Playing SE official, I went to sleep missed my alarm and woke up with Argies having just starved. Not sure about now but back then SE meat would spoil twice as fast and salt would only last for the first hour or so therefore you couldn't sleep much more than 6 hours without killing your babies.

Obviously if you can control time (by playing your own server) or change stack sizes, it gets much easier, just like all breeding.

[Sicksadpanda]

Argies are actually one of the easier dinos to raise. Their incubation temperature sucks, but air conditioners will fix that easily.

Gigas or Mosasaurus would be the awful ones since they take 2 weeks to grow, on unboosted servers.

[Liralen]

Originally posted by Venomine:

I read online that these guys would be super hard to breed, but i have two in my incubation unit and they're on track to mature within an hour or two at most.... am I missing something? The only modifier on my game is player xp rate at 3x. nothing else is changed.

I've always found argents easy to breed playing unofficial, although our server's settings don't mature dinos as fast as yours.

Don't sweat it. Watching grass grow does not make one an uber gamer.

I once watched a tree stump for days in the early days of Everquest waiting for a quest object to spawn. I now recognize my Evercrack addiction for what it was - there was nothing like Everquest when it launched.

WoW's release, over 5 years later cured me of it.

Ironically, I now avoid WoW for the same reasons I avoid Everquest.

I'm certainly not going to repeat those mistakes in Ark, by playing official.