Dino Egg rates?

[MrDave]

So far, I've gotten like, 40+ dodo eggs, but my Dilos aren't laying. I have 1 male Dilo, 3 Female.

[Armos]

Dodos lay a lot of eggs, yes. Dilos on the other hand, you need at least 10 females and a lot of patience.

[Amega]

I extended recently Wiki's page on farming eggs: Farming Eggs[ark.gamepedia.com]

Dodos lay eggs much more often than other dinos.

[Raven]

there are two sets of logic when it comes to egg laying currently inthe game.

dodos follow one, where every time they take a poop, theres a chance it will come out as an egg instead. and dodos ♥♥♥♥ A LOT and so ♥♥♥♥ out craploads of eggs.

every other dino follows the other set of logic rules.
to get the most amount of eggs, the dino must stay OUT of stasis (FYI if you dont know, is that when nobody has a dino *rendered*, that particular dino will enter "stasis").
then every 15 rl minutes they have a chance of laying an egg.

tl:dr, go afk in your base with your dinos very close. come back every half an hour, and you are highly likely to find at least a half dozen eggs from dinos other than dodos.

[MrDave]

Whats the distance for eggs in proximity?

Raven, where are you getting your information, because your times are very different from what I was linked.

[Raven]

experience. if i go around collecting eggs, they all have the exact same decay timer, under different dinos, and they are always 15 mins apart.
and being a solo player with a warehouse full of dinos for an egg farm on an official pve (and im talking 120+ dinos here) where no-one can come in to steal eggs off the ground short of glitching through the walls, ive done a lot of afk egg farming when im watching net flix.

[Raven]

as far as proximity goes, i picked up 17 eggs (zero dodo's) after a half hour of afking last week with all my dinos fully rendered, so i dunno what the proximity thing is. my average is at least a dozen eggs, often 13-14.

[Raven]

and all of the eggs always have either the same decay timer or +/- 15. so if the first egg i find is 14.30 left on the decay timer, every other egg i pick up is gonna have the same timer or 29.30
(less the time it takes me to go from dino to dino obviously

[Simulated Humanity]

My dilos absolutely refuse to get up and get freaky... No eggs over 24 hours.

[Raven]

Originally posted by Brimstone Phoenix:

My dilos absolutely refuse to get up and get freaky... No eggs over 24 hours.

that could be a number of things. if youre actively trying to get a specific dinos eggs, you would be better off making a second "breeding" base, where you take all of your dinos of a specific type where they are the only tamed dinos outside of stasis, increasing the chance that you'll get that specific dinos egg.

i did this with my turtles when i was saving for enough for bronto, cause with all my dinos the eggs i would get was a lottery, and some of them (turtle, carno specifically) would never lay any. and i mean i wouldnt get any eggs from them for a week, but id get enough turtle eggs for another 3 120 argents in the same time period.

[t3z001]

I found that if i leave my base for a few mins and return, the dinos end up laying more eggs even if they just laid some before i left. so try leaving your base for a min even if you fly away in any direction and return, see if that helps.

[MrDave]

That might be it. I've been working on expanding my walls to stone walls recently, so I've spent WAY MORE than my fair share of time in my base crafting stones.

[Shadowpaw]

Originally posted by ML Apophis:

That might be it. I've been working on expanding my walls to stone walls recently, so I've spent WAY MORE than my fair share of time in my base crafting stones.

When dinos have been in stasis long enough, and then come out of stasis, they get an immediate egg laying tick, which means, ALL the dinos coming out of stasis have a chance to immediately lay an egg. And thus you get an eggsplosion. It's the same reason you get a poopsplosion.

Unless the time needed in stasis is less than the non-stasis egg ticks, it shouldn't really make a difference.

[VonnexX]

16 female scorps and 1 male in a medium cage. they lay in 1 hour 0-3 eggs. really silly chance-.-

and my raptors (4 f and 1 m) lay every 5 minutes eggs -.-***

[flodoomable]

Dodo's are basically chickens, what did you expect their egg-laying to be? XD

[GaLuXx]

Originally posted by Armos:

Dodos lay a lot of eggs, yes. Dilos on the other hand, you need at least 10 females and a lot of patience.

Thats not quite right. maybe the chance of eggs from Dilos is higher then, but they do lay eggs when u just have 1 male and 1 female. We got just the two and got 2 eggs, in about 6-8 hours. (We dont afk farming eggs tho)