ARK: Survival Evolved

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Chaka (FR) May 22, 2022 @ 5:00pm
Why my baby wyvern starved to death?...
Hello, i was breeding a baby wyvern (lvl 60 poison but nerver mind...) and i had a pig that was healing on passive mode on. (full of cooked meat, mutton, prime and normal...)
All was working fine as i was looking baby's health that was regularly healed by the pig.
So i am saying to myself "ok, all is working fine and the food is not consumed too quickly".
Then i am logging off. At this moment the baby wyvern was at around 2,5% maturation (very slow by the way even with double week-end rates).
I come back quietly and go to see where it is going on...
And... Wtf where is my baby wyvern???
I look the food in the pig, it was still almost full of food so it is not about this problem.
I look tribe log: "Your baby wyvern starved to death !" ... WTF.

How is this possible??? The pig was still in the baby's range and this one died???
The pig is still in passive mode on and the baby was closed in a room with walls so he couldn't escape (and passive mode from attacks).

By the way, it's pve.
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VampHell May 22, 2022 @ 5:03pm 
Btw did you put wyver milk on the baby?
Hex: ratio May 22, 2022 @ 5:03pm 
the baby wyvern may have had passive healing but it starves more health then the pig can heal. make sure to give it wyvern milk or carnivore baby food is your using mods
Chaka (FR) May 22, 2022 @ 5:24pm 
Hi, i don't give wyvern milk because simply i don't have any.
I use only the technic with the pig to heal him.

I don't understand as many people said the pig technic is enough.
And more of that, the pig has incredible stats (a lot of HP and enormous food points).
Furyion May 22, 2022 @ 6:59pm 
use mae wings better than a pig easier cheaper.Pig glitches runs out of food it and your baby wyver can die real quick
zerassar May 22, 2022 @ 7:05pm 
Pigs are not healing when in stasis.
You logged off.
The area entered stasis.
Pig stopped healing
Baby died.

You must keep the area out of stasis.
I.e. stay logged in and within render
Last edited by zerassar; May 22, 2022 @ 7:05pm
Sicksadpanda May 22, 2022 @ 7:29pm 
At this point, it might be worth the time investment to get the milk. I hate building traps too, but it might be useful in the long run.
Goritude May 22, 2022 @ 10:47pm 
Put baby in cryopod before logging off. As was said above, pig doesn't heal when u are offline.
retsam1 May 22, 2022 @ 11:12pm 
Originally posted by zerassar:
Pigs are not healing when in stasis.
You logged off.
The area entered stasis.
Pig stopped healing
Baby died.

You must keep the area out of stasis.
I.e. stay logged in and within render


This
Liralen May 22, 2022 @ 11:55pm 
I also agree with zerassar.

In my experience raising hundreds of baby dinos on unofficial servers, the server does not actually heal the health of them unless you are nearby. Even if you're feeding them their preferred food, it's like servers calculate the amount of food it would have eaten and subtracts that amount from inventory, but doesn't provide the health improvement that should have added.

So even if you had given them milk, then logged off, I doubt if the outcome would have been any different, unless you are running a dedicated server and could shut it down while you were logged off. Edited Note: or perhaps playing single player, which I rarely play except for testing, so I wouldn't know.

Once you obtain Tek sleeping pods, you can safely go afk without your character dying from lack of food or water (at least on a PvE unofficial server) if you are sleeping in it near the babies.

But that's kind of a "Let them eat cake" solution.
Last edited by Liralen; May 23, 2022 @ 12:03am
Chaka (FR) May 23, 2022 @ 2:40am 
Hi, this is sooooo stupid !!! Why noone said me before or no guide or wiki tells that pig doesn't heal if i am offline?....
And if i have no cryopod so i can die too by starving (staying online and go afk) outside if i am close to the pig too but wasting more food healing me also...

By the way what is this "stasis" state? If i remember well i saw a base with dinos laying eggs and i think the player was not online so i could take some normal eggs and one time a fertilized one. (everytime i gone there i took some eggs)

One last question: do i need to feed the baby with milk until he becomes juvenile or adult? Thx.

ps: i play official pve.
Last edited by Chaka (FR); May 23, 2022 @ 2:43am
retsam1 May 23, 2022 @ 3:23am 
Originally posted by Chaka (FR):
Hi, this is sooooo stupid !!! Why noone said me before or no guide or wiki tells that pig doesn't heal if i am offline?....
And if i have no cryopod so i can die too by starving (staying online and go afk) outside if i am close to the pig too but wasting more food healing me also...

By the way what is this "stasis" state? If i remember well i saw a base with dinos laying eggs and i think the player was not online so i could take some normal eggs and one time a fertilized one. (everytime i gone there i took some eggs)

One last question: do i need to feed the baby with milk until he becomes juvenile or adult? Thx.

ps: i play official pve.


1. Stasis is a game system in Ark that essentially pauses activity in an area if no players are active there. On persistent servers, time still goes by and other features such as baby growth or crops etc still happen but other features do not.

There have been discussions for many years on this on the forums. It isn't new and people like you for years have learned the hardway.

2. If you want to ensure a baby wyvern matures to adulthood, you need to be feeding it the bare minimum milk or a similar maturation use system. If you have to go offline, and only have the ability to put milk in the inventory of the baby, keep in mind they'll eat when immediately hungry enough to drink the milk and that actually is less efficient and will cause faster drain of a milk inventory in the baby. It can thus, if you dont have enough milk, still result in the baby starving due to eating the inventory too quick and then starving over the remaining time until your return.

3. It was mostly obvious that you were on an official server. Many unofficial servers have settings, mods and more to make this problem you're experience a non issue. Not all of them but when there are 70,000+ unofficial servers to the 1700ish official ones, most of them do.
zerassar May 23, 2022 @ 3:54am 
Originally posted by Chaka (FR):

By the way what is this "stasis" state? If i remember well i saw a base with dinos laying eggs and i think the player was not online so i could take some normal eggs and one time a fertilized one. (everytime i gone there i took some eggs)
.
You could have googled that one lol.
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Stasis

Dino's dont poo, wander, lay eggs. A whole bunch of their actions dont happen in stasis. This isnt a secret.

If you "see" a base then it is not in stasis and thus dinos behave normally. I did specifically say within render in my earlier response. Any player in the area takes that zone out of stasis.

But you cant rely on the movements of other players to maintain this. So you must do it yourself.

Get naked.
Empty your inventory.
Lay down on a bed, that is inside.
This will extend your AFK time period before you eventually die or you return and come back.
Last edited by zerassar; May 23, 2022 @ 3:55am
darcek May 23, 2022 @ 4:13am 
Originally posted by Chaka (FR):
One last question: do i need to feed the baby with milk until he becomes juvenile or adult? Thx.
ps: i play official pve.

I cant help you with pig mechanics or stasis etc.
I never used them,and back at the time I did raised many on my own we didnt have stasis.

Its really simple mechanic of ARK that if youll keep in mind youll have much less mistakes.

The lower level of the dinos egg is,the harder they are to raise

This rule is with all dinos especially the hard ones to raise like Wyvrens and Drakes to name a few.
Level 150< means you need less food or even dont need to feed..the baby automatically has plenty of food and will take long time to grow without feeding (mostly to Juvi or Ado) Plus it will have a large amount of health keeping it alive even further without any feed.

When your playing with 150> your playing with fire.
Basically babys will have less Health and food making them suitable for death by starvation.

Your baby was level 60!!
Thats a very hard difficulty to raise level,and most likely it will die and also its adult stats would have been garbage,meaning it wont be good at anything like flying stamina or attack power etc and even health it will be much squishier then normal..
So its not really smart to try to raise such levels its better to have a rich lunch with such an egg..
If you still want to try raising such garbage considered level,its np,you just cant go AFK or accept in advance most likely it will die.
Last edited by darcek; May 23, 2022 @ 4:17am
Chaka (FR) May 23, 2022 @ 5:01am 
Originally posted by zerassar:
Originally posted by Chaka (FR):

By the way what is this "stasis" state? If i remember well i saw a base with dinos laying eggs and i think the player was not online so i could take some normal eggs and one time a fertilized one. (everytime i gone there i took some eggs)
.
You could have googled that one lol.
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Stasis

Dino's dont poo, wander, lay eggs. A whole bunch of their actions dont happen in stasis. This isnt a secret.

If you "see" a base then it is not in stasis and thus dinos behave normally. I did specifically say within render in my earlier response. Any player in the area takes that zone out of stasis.

But you cant rely on the movements of other players to maintain this. So you must do it yourself.

Get naked.
Empty your inventory.
Lay down on a bed, that is inside.
This will extend your AFK time period before you eventually die or you return and come back.

Indeed i googled it and saw that it is said that dinos doen't lay eggs.
That's why i said it is strange that i could take eggs from other base outside maybe the fact that i came and as i am a player i deactivated the "stasis" mode.

Very disappointed to have lost this wyvern just because noone said me all that even if it was a garbage lvl as said previously.

edit: I wanted to ask another thing... I used an incubator given by a player.
At the end of the incubation process the machine asks me to hatch or break the egg. Why it is asking to break it? Like if i suddenly decided to not keep it lol ?
Last edited by Chaka (FR); May 23, 2022 @ 5:05am
Senpaija May 24, 2022 @ 3:12am 
Originally posted by Chaka (FR):
Originally posted by zerassar:
You could have googled that one lol.
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Stasis

Dino's dont poo, wander, lay eggs. A whole bunch of their actions dont happen in stasis. This isnt a secret.

If you "see" a base then it is not in stasis and thus dinos behave normally. I did specifically say within render in my earlier response. Any player in the area takes that zone out of stasis.

But you cant rely on the movements of other players to maintain this. So you must do it yourself.

Get naked.
Empty your inventory.
Lay down on a bed, that is inside.
This will extend your AFK time period before you eventually die or you return and come back.

Indeed i googled it and saw that it is said that dinos doen't lay eggs.
That's why i said it is strange that i could take eggs from other base outside maybe the fact that i came and as i am a player i deactivated the "stasis" mode.

Very disappointed to have lost this wyvern just because noone said me all that even if it was a garbage lvl as said previously.

edit: I wanted to ask another thing... I used an incubator given by a player.
At the end of the incubation process the machine asks me to hatch or break the egg. Why it is asking to break it? Like if i suddenly decided to not keep it lol ?

It's normal to break eggs with undesirable stats, you don't want to keep every egg you get.

Also, if you're gonna get milk, might as well raise a high level wyvern, since they technically need to eat less.
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Date Posted: May 22, 2022 @ 5:00pm
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