Hatching a trike!

[Gork]

Hey, will a normal wooden hut do for hatching a baby trike? Or will i need the air conditioner?

[ELITE-OSIRIS]

That depends in what area you are, but eggs get hot or cold very quick, there is a small line to stay in, in my opinion for good breeding you'll need multiple airco's and a couple standing tourches, the building itself will do nothing for the tempature.

[Arya]

Need? No, but definitely want. If possible have more than one.

[AD33L]

Just build 10 aircos and you will be able to hatch anything in it. Including giganoto.

[Arya]

Assuming you'd actually want a Giganoto, ofcourse. Myself, I'd really rather not. They're big, they're ugly, they eat like a bad American stereotype and frankly they don't really do much if you're not in the conquering business. And I'm not.

[Unknown Zombie]

You won't need an air conditioner. Just build a fireplace or few campfires because you might have to light them to keep the egg warm at night or if it gets foggy. If the egg gets too hot just pick it up for a few minutes until the temperature goes back down.

[HawthornThistleberry]

For a more general answer, check out http://ark.gamepedia.com/Incubation for the range of temperatures the egg has to stay in. In the case of a trike, it's 22-28C.

Now check the temperature in your region (it's in your inventory screen). If it tends to get higher than that, you won't be able to do without ACs or similar solutions (dimetrodons, kairuku), but that's not likely.

If it's much lower than that at the coldest time of a typical day, start putting up standing torches near one another until you see the temperature hit the middle of that range, or a little higher. Now you can put the egg in the middle of the torches and then light them, and if it starts to get warm, put one or two out.

The egg won't die immediately if the temperature gets out of that range, it just loses some health. And it has a fair amount. So you have to keep an eye on it, but you don't have to be constantly staring at the temperature and panicking once it drops or rises. Also, if it gets colder than your torches can handle, pick up the egg, and that pauses the incubation for a bit while you figure out a better solution -- perhaps as simple as waiting for it to warm up again.

In the end, though, a few ACs will eliminate nearly all this work and will help with any range of temperatures for any egg, since they provide insulation against both heat and cold, they don't only cool things off.