Rex Breeding

[Dragon]

So just so everyone knows, with base incubation and maturation times. (IE official servers) A Rex will take you 65 Hours from start to finish.

5 Hours of Egg incubation.
6 Hours of Baby Stage (Twins hatched yesterday at 4:40 PM, reached Juvenile at 10:40 PM.)

And since Baby Stage is 10% total maturation, 6x10 gives you 60 hours of Maturation until fully grown. Have fun with that.

PS, they were still alive and munching away when I left for work this morning.

[DrathDragoon33]

As long as they are in stasis they are ok.

[[GWJ] Sydhart]

Once you get to Juvenile it is not so bad. I just checked mine every 8 hours and filled up her inventory with meat. Kept lot of extra meat in fridges for quick morning fill up before work. 3 days for maturation and ended up with a 159 Rex (now 176).

[DiksDiezel]

Did they change something? I raised 2 rexs in about 40 hours, 5 hours incubation and about 36 hours for full maturation from hatching.

[Dragon]

Dunno Diezel, I know how long it took mine to get out of Baby. And I know that modifier hasn't been changed on the server I play on yet.

[Rikis]

That's because incubation time depends on the parents' level and maturation time depends on the baby's level.

[Versicolor]

Originally posted by DiksDiezel:

Did they change something? I raised 2 rexs in about 40 hours, 5 hours incubation and about 36 hours for full maturation from hatching.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/9/483368526569658971/

[DrathDragoon33]

Doesn't the growth moddier change how long it takes based on the type of dino and their lvl?

[Dragon]

Originally posted by Rikis:

That's because incubation time depends on the parents' level and maturation time depends on the baby's level.

Source?

[Rikis]

http://ark.gamepedia.com/Incubation

[Dragon]

Well the babies are level 178. The parents were a 100+ and a 120 Perfect Tame.

Also from everyone else, is it just this first egg I hatched or do babies take on the Father's coloration? They both look identical to the dad.

[greatfrito]

My one attempt at breeding was a baby rex on my single player.

I dealt with the bigger for a few hours (apparently when consumption was tolerable for that, what, single day?), turned it off, did real life things, came back on, updated, didn't read the patch notes, and had him starve to death within 30 seconds of starting back up (when I had full minutes between feeds before, and left him with a full inventory before logging off).

:-(

Honestly the whole experience put me off on breeding, at least until it gets normalized a bit more.

[Digital Aura]

Big deal. we have a T Rex that is almost adult. The only real panic was as a baby when you had to hand feed it for a few hours. Same as a tame really. Then you just have to monitor him - but its still easier than taming. You can go about other business and just check in every now and then. It was literally NO BIG DEAL. And now we have a lvl 165 Rex. Sweet.

Benefits of BREED vs TAMING:

You can bring the baby into your own pen.
You can do other things at the same time (requires less monitoring)
You dont need prime/kibble
You get HIGH level and each generation gets better

[Dragon]

Originally posted by LORD Digital Aura:

Big deal. we have a T Rex that is almost adult. The only real panic was as a baby when you had to hand feed it for a few hours. Same as a tame really. Then you just have to monitor him - but its still easier than taming. You can go about other business and just check in every now and then. It was literally NO BIG DEAL. And now we have a lvl 165 Rex. Sweet.

See, difference is you said "WE have a T Rex" I'm sure tribes have no problem handling the babies solo players on the other hand...

And it's not really a huge ordeal after the first hour, I could feed it a full inventory and then haul off for half an hour. But still, that's 11 hours of constant monitoring. First 5 hours for the egg which you can thankfully split up. And then 6 straight hours of hand feeding.

I only hope they don't run out of food while I'm at work.

[Digital Aura]

Originally posted by Dragon:

Originally posted by LORD Digital Aura:

Big deal. we have a T Rex that is almost adult. The only real panic was as a baby when you had to hand feed it for a few hours. Same as a tame really. Then you just have to monitor him - but its still easier than taming. You can go about other business and just check in every now and then. It was literally NO BIG DEAL. And now we have a lvl 165 Rex. Sweet.

See, difference is you said "WE have a T Rex" I'm sure tribes have no problem handling the babies solo players on the other hand...

And it's not really a huge ordeal after the first hour, I could feed it a full inventory and then haul off for half an hour. But still, that's 11 hours of constant monitoring. First 5 hours for the egg which you can thankfully split up. And then 6 straight hours of hand feeding.

I only hope they don't run out of food while I'm at work.

well, then to be fair, SOLO players need to realize the game actually is geared towards 'tribal' play. Ergo, you can't have all the engrams yourself - you will rely on others. Imagine if they simplified it for solo players - what a balancing problem we'd have for multiplayers and pvp servers. geez, everyone would have 12 high level T Rexes and a myriad of every other dino.

[Crumplecorn]

Originally posted by LORD Digital Aura:

well, then to be fair, SOLO players need to realize the game actually is geared towards 'tribal' play. Ergo, you can't have all the engrams yourself - you will rely on others. Imagine if they simplified it for solo players - what a balancing problem we'd have for multiplayers and pvp servers. geez, everyone would have 12 high level T Rexes and a myriad of every other dino.

They could make it require less constant monitoring without making it any faster or easier to acquire dinos.