Need some info on incubation/ breeding/ leveling.

[Machyna]

So after going through the wikis and some other forums im still a little bit confused about a few things.

How much A/C's approximately would i need to incubate a giganoto /quetz egg in the snow biome (Or any dino really those 2 are just more important)?

Where do baby dinos get there level from, parents wild level? level after tamed? level after using the dino for while?

How exactly does getting a higher level dino baby than 120 work? i have done it before but i dont know the mechanics behind it.

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What do people level on their gigantopithecus?

Does melee affect their gather rate?

[AOF | Scream.X]

I can't really help much but, have you looked at the website?

http://www.ark-survival.net/en/2015/10/14/instructions-for-perfect-breeding-basic-informations-on-babies/

[erra godofmayhem]

1. Not all animal eggs like the same temp. The Ark Wiki's Breeding page has a table with all the temps. Also, amount of AC's will depend on your location, they don't actually change the temp, they just improve the hypo and hyper thermal insulation numbers so anybody (thing) sitting close to the AC's don't feel the heat or cold as much. Plus everything's different at the moment with the Winter Wonderland.

2. If you haven't done any breeding yet, you do not want to start with Gigano and Quetzals, they have the longest breeding times ... up to 15 days for the Gigano for example, compared to about 30 hours on a Pteranadon.

3. The babies levels and stats are based on the parents immediately after tame, before you have leveled them up. So if you breed a tamed 120 Pteranadon with another 120 Pteranadon, if they were perfect tames you've got two 171 level parents. The babies I've seen for these parents will range between 155 and 185. If you had two 185 babies and bred them once they're adult, that range of possible offspring will increase to proably 165 - 195 and so on and so on.

4. To be clear: it does not matter what stats you've given the animal, the babies stats will be based on the parents original stats after tame (or at time of hatching).

5. Yes, higher melee on the Giganto (and any animal) increases their yield of whatever they gather.

[Machyna]

Originally posted by AOF | Dr. Scream.X:

I can't really help much but, have you looked at the website?

http://www.ark-survival.net/en/2015/10/14/instructions-for-perfect-breeding-basic-informations-on-babies/

Yeah, but its still a bit confusing to me.

[Chop]

the level the baby comes out with is based on how many of the stats the baby took from parents. if you have 2 max dinos that tamed out at 171, and the baby inherited all "max" stats from both parents, the baby will come out at a higher level than the parents tamed at. my latest breeds were 2 116 pteras that tamed out at 165. bred them and the babies came out at 171 because they inherited the parents higher melee damage and stamina. now I'm going to try breeding the baby with another ptera I have to hopefully get a higher level. also just bred 2 lvl 120 carnos that tamed out at 171. the twins that hatched came out at lvl 172.
hopefully that makes sense to you. also as far as a/c units, we use 9 but aren't in the snow biome. but through the winter wonderland event with lower temps, we haven't had an issue hatching our gigas or quetzals

[HerrFaul]

When breeding, babies have a 70% chance (I think) to inherit the higher stat between the two parents for each stat category. When taming, go to the wiki and plug the numbers into the taming stat calculator and it will tell you how many levels the wild dino put into each stat. If one level 179 parent has 20 levels of health and stamina and the other perfect tamed level 179 parent has 20 levels of melee damage and carry weight and the baby manages to get all 4 of the better stats, then the baby will be a higher level than either parent. The actual stats it inherits will be the improved stats from the taming bonus.

Side note: if you plug in the stats and the calculator tells you that the level 120 wild you're taming only has 95 levels of stats, then there are 25 levels of uninheritable movement speed burned.

E.G.
L120 Wild stats Father has:
20 levels of health
20 levels of stam
10 Oxygen
10 Food
10 Weight
10 Damage
Total: 80 wild (40 burned in speed), perfect tame to L179

L120 Wild stats Mother has:
10 levels of health
10 levels of stam
10 Oxygen
10 Food
20 Weight
20 Damage
Total: 80 wild (40 burned in speed), perfect tame to L179

Best possible scenario baby inherits:
20 levels of health
20 levels of stam
10 Oxygen
10 Food
20 Weight
20 Damage
Total: 100 wild, inherited perfect tame stats of Level 199

If you're looking to max out some breeding, you'll have to knockout and check the base wild stats of a bunch of different dinos before you get ones you actually want. A wild level 120 that burned a lot of points into food, oxygen and stamina isn't all that useful and it's totally random from dino to dino, so you'll likely have to kill off a bunch that don't have the stats you want for breeding.

As far as A/C units go, I had 3 in my breeding pen and had no issues with any of the eggs at either end of temperature spectrum during the coldest parts of the winter wonderland event, so that should cover you for basically anything.

I hope this helps!

[Machyna]

^ I think i understand that makes more sense that the other things ive read thats for sure lol.

[EllyBeeShaped]

6 ACs is enough for me to hatch Dimorphodons during the coldest part of the Winter event.

The wiki says that 8 is enough for the highest requirement dinos (gigas) during blizzards.

You coudl get by with fewer depending on what you want to breed and what the temperature is outside.