Breeding a Bronto, what am I doing wrong?

[Vixsy]

Started with a fertile bronto egg, took it to the hatchery I had previously made. Proceeded to let the egg incubate, roughly every 10-20mins I would have to move the egg due to Too Hot/Too Cold. After 4½ hrs the egg finally hatched. So now feeding the baby bronto, not much since it can hold very little. This has been increasing very slowly, time has been passing... Now 7 hrs have passed with hand feeding during the Maturation Period. All this has been going on for a total of 11½ hrs since starting the egg incubation.

So is there something I am doing wrong? It seems I must be doing something wrong as all this time sink and more yet to come. It seems insane for a level 150 bronto. Sure 30 levels higher than a wild one, but I could tame a 120 with +58 levels in 2hrs. Again time sink in hatching/maturation seems way too great hence I have got to be screwing this up, please help.

Extra: I am hoping by some miracle that forums are right and that at 10% total weight allowance the dino can eat from the trough. At 113.6 out of 1350 at the moment, so need 135 to hopefully have it self feed and let me got to sleep, *fingers crossed*. 12hrs since egg incubation and counting....

[Crumplecorn]

You are doing it right and you are right that taming is vastly easier.

It will be able to eat out of the trough when weight hits 10% of max. For a bronto this takes a bit over 9 hours from when the egg hatches. Total maturation time is about 4 days.

[Vixsy]

Dang Crumplecorn I was hoping I was messing it up and wanting a few lol's at what I was doing :S All up from the egg hitting the floor for incubation till self feed, 13½ hrs. Sorry that just isn't fun. That's watching a bar move a little every other ice age, well feels like it. Won't be doing that again in a hurry :S If Ark had that as a headline selling point the game would never leave the shelves. Oh well, repeat the mantra "It's still in alpha".

[Team Israel]

If you had proper setup you would never have to watch the egg -_-

[Official Overwatch Investigator]

You can change the speed if you are on a private server.

[Mars]

Did a bronto before they screwed it up again wasnt too bad. I and my tribe have been playing with breeding, we have raised, trikes, steggos, a few argents and raptors, a couple rexes and as of now 3 great spinos. Yesterday afternoon we hatched our first Quetz egg.. and got twins identical lvl 49's a male and a female. The Egg hatched at 11:30am eastern, and it was a struggle to keep em both goin, we did it but it got old REALLY fast. We took turns and the birds finally hit Juvie at around 7:30am. And sadly the food consumption didnt reallly slow down. At what point do you throw in the towel? Because it sure didnt feel like a game.. or even remotely fun. It felt like we were being punished for daring to hatch that egg. I saw on another thread where a DEV said they would not budge on this maturation time and how much it cost. I've seen thread after thread where people are complaining. I didnt say much until I tried it and I agree this needs to change. I will also state that drawing lines in the sand about what you will and won't do as someone speaking to CUSTOMERS is stupid. As of right now those two are still powering through every bit of meat we can toss at them. By the math it looks like this is gonna take a week. Could be worse OP :)

[Ronin Vector]

Originally posted by Boxer:

If you had proper setup you would never have to watch the egg -_-

Elaborate?

[Mars]

Originally posted by Impetus Wrath:

Originally posted by Boxer:

If you had proper setup you would never have to watch the egg -_-

Elaborate?

Circle of AC units to regulate temps, drop the egg and forget about it for a few hours.
My spot has 8 AC units (Up on the hill near red spire on the edge of the swamp biome)

[Waveform]

Originally posted by Mars:

Originally posted by Impetus Wrath:

Elaborate?

Circle of AC units to regulate temps, drop the egg and forget about it for a few hours.
My spot has 8 AC units (Up on the hill near red spire on the edge of the swamp biome)

That and a feeding trough.

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by Vixsy:

Dang Crumplecorn I was hoping I was messing it up and wanting a few lol's at what I was doing :S All up from the egg hitting the floor for incubation till self feed, 13½ hrs. Sorry that just isn't fun. That's watching a bar move a little every other ice age, well feels like it. Won't be doing that again in a hurry :S If Ark had that as a headline selling point the game would never leave the shelves. Oh well, repeat the mantra "It's still in alpha".

Your mistake was trying to do everything in one sitting. You could have frozen the egg progress just before it hatched and rest, then when you have time hatch it and feed the bronto.

[Mars]

Originally posted by Nizidramaniiyt:

Originally posted by Vixsy:

Dang Crumplecorn I was hoping I was messing it up and wanting a few lol's at what I was doing :S All up from the egg hitting the floor for incubation till self feed, 13½ hrs. Sorry that just isn't fun. That's watching a bar move a little every other ice age, well feels like it. Won't be doing that again in a hurry :S If Ark had that as a headline selling point the game would never leave the shelves. Oh well, repeat the mantra "It's still in alpha".

Your mistake was trying to do everything in one sitting. You could have frozen the egg progress just before it hatched and rest, then when you have time hatch it and feed the bronto.

This^

[Grizzly]

well atleast your baby bronto didn't dissapear like mine did after it was about 6% grown....