Breeding

[CloudBurst99]

OK Ill explain this the best I can!
I can't understanding breeding. What do people mean by Base Breeders? Let's say I have 225 Rex 1 Male and 225 Rex Female 2 have 251 Rex Female 3 has the stats your trying to get from Rex 1 and 2. But the level of the baby is different is that ok to use as a base breeder.

[🦊 Hermit]

Total level is the sum of the levels a creature has in each stat. So if a creature has 10 levels in HP, 5 in stam and melee, 2 in oxygen and food, and 1 in weight, it's overall level will be 10+5+5+2+2+1=25.

So the baby coming out higher than the parents is not surprising. It probably just inherited the better stats from each of them - perhaps the mother's HP and the father's melee, for example, which caused it's max level to rise higher.

If it has the stats you want, then it will be fine to use as a breeder yes. Just so long as it doesn't have any mutations, which can be checked in the ancestry page when looking at it's inventory screen.

[esthergray]

Higher or lower? I guess the important thing is does it have the stats that you are looking for.
If you are looking for health, does it have the health of the parent with the highest health. When you get the baby with the stats you want, then breed it to the opposite sex parent. If you are planning on going for mutations, I would strongly recommend watching some youtube about mutations.

[Killians]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL4fDTRg4Ig

[🦊 Hermit]

This one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VLNElxm5_s

[Elseanor]

I had difficulty as well. The video above from SeeShell Gaming was the clearest. Thanks to that, I stack mutated a Tek Rex army and a Tickle Chicken army, completed the whole island solo/alpha, and Ascended. She repeats a lot, but that was great for me since it really sunk in. Definitely the video I recommend.

[Liralen]

I didn't get it either, until someone wanted a spyglass mod. This mod shows you a dino's stats, so you can decide for yourself which stats you want to breed. This varies depending on the dino (i.e., high oxygen completely useless on many dinos, but if you went by levels alone, it would result in less than optimal.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1404697612