How much nameless venom for rock drake raising?

[cjgonyea2]

I'm curious to how much it recquires because I hear it's quite rare to get and also it's spoil time is 2 hours in a dinos inventory.. does it exclusively eat nameless venom through out the whole maturation? Do you have to keep getting fresh batches to stuff in it's inventory before the others spoil?

[KitsuneShiro]

Have you ever raised a wyvern?

[Angel]

Nameless venom isnt very hard to get, just have a decent fighter and a lightpet and kill them

[cjgonyea2]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

Have you ever raised a wyvern?

Nope lol

[Cobretti]

They only eat venom

High level Drake is born with 4-5 hours of food in its belly so there is no need to farm venom before hatching or immediately after hatching contrary to what the wiki implies.

A baby eats 337 food an hour (easy to test in game). Venom restores 400 food so the math is very easy. The food consumption drops off quite a bit as they mature. Haven't tested this but I err on the side of caution and assume baby food consumption rate throughout.

You don't have to keep batches in it's inventory. Usually I will wait until it has an hour of food left (food stat on dino is showing 337) and then go farm a bunch of venom. Once fed I will work out how many hours until starved and set an alarm to farm venom 1 hour before starvation. There is also a buffer here because it will consume at least 1 unused vial in its inventory prior to the venom expiring.

With a high level drake I usually do 3 venom runs on day 1, 2 on day 2, 1 on day 3 and that's it. No more runs until maturity.

Venom isn't rare either. It will take about 20 mins to go out, farm and return with all the venom you need. I have farmed venom with ravager, megalo, crab, spino and drake so you have many options.

Don't raise low levels, it makes things much harder as they have lower food stats so need more frequent feeding and low levels are useless anyways.

[Tiramisu]

Its not what I would call rare, you get it from killing nameless and they are not difficult to find. It is down to RNG whether it drops, but having said that if you go with a few tames on a killing spree in the blue biome, you will likely find some in a matter of minutes.

Yes its all they eat (and can be used for care) while they are maturing.

If you have an S+ Fridge it will last a long time, mine lasts about 2 days with a 1.5X rate.

If you are playing official, I would plan to go on more than 1 trip to fetch venom.

I think I used 6-7 or so on mine, keeping its food supply well up.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1262206825

[Snowmeh]

Hate to be a buzz kill over here. but i had tripletes and couldnt give all of them venom. two had no venom and they all lived. just have a nanny, and a trough with meat.

[Cobretti]

Originally posted by Snowmeh:

Hate to be a buzz kill over here. but i had tripletes and couldnt give all of them venom. two had no venom and they all lived. just have a nanny, and a trough with meat.

Hate to be a buzz kill but generally you answer the question with reference to original game design or otherwise state you are playing a modded game.

Both the nanny and baby drakes eating meat are mods to the original game. Perfectly fine but at least disclose this because otherwise you confuse readers who may think baby drakes eat meat, which they dont.

[Thorium]

Also drakes only want to be cuddled for imprinting (even if it tells you that it wants to walk, it realy want to cuddle), which is a bug and they get around double as much imprint progress as they should.
You still need the venom for the food value but as others pointed out, it's not a big deal to get.

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

[=Sargento=]

Originally posted by Cobretti:

Originally posted by Snowmeh:

Hate to be a buzz kill over here. but i had tripletes and couldnt give all of them venom. two had no venom and they all lived. just have a nanny, and a trough with meat.

Hate to be a buzz kill but generally you answer the question with reference to original game design or otherwise state you are playing a modded game.

Both the nanny and baby drakes eating meat are mods to the original game. Perfectly fine but at least disclose this because otherwise you confuse readers who may think baby drakes eat meat, which they dont.

It's not entirely wrong, they only eat venom while babies when they are on troughs they eat meat.

[Cobretti]

Originally posted by =Sargento=:

Originally posted by Cobretti:

Hate to be a buzz kill but generally you answer the question with reference to original game design or otherwise state you are playing a modded game.

Both the nanny and baby drakes eating meat are mods to the original game. Perfectly fine but at least disclose this because otherwise you confuse readers who may think baby drakes eat meat, which they dont.

It's not entirely wrong, they only eat venom while babies when they are on troughs they eat meat.

Looking at the title of the thread reveals the topic is rock drake raising so yes it's wrong to suggest they eat meat at any stage throughout the raising process. If someone uses a mod to allow them to eat meat then disclose it.