Dino Babies

[Enstinct]

I had a 120 female anky and 116 male anky mate and have a baby egg incubating and on the way to hatching (YAY!), I'm trying to be as prepared as possible for when it hatches. Should I even hatch it? How hard is it to raise a baby? Has the baby dino eating berries like crazy been fixed or at least bearable? Any answer helps : D

[Myst?c]

are you on officials? if so breeding is not worth doing solo

[Enstinct]

Originally posted by blade.blaster56745:

are you on officials? if so breeding is not worth doing solo

Yes I am on Official and while I am doing it solo I am trying to prep up for the task. So far I have 1 refrigerator full of berries.

[Jiala]

Originally posted by Enstinct:

Originally posted by blade.blaster56745:

are you on officials? if so breeding is not worth doing solo

Yes I am on Official and while I am doing it solo I am trying to prep up for the task. So far I have 1 refrigerator full of berries.

If my brief screw arounds with the breeding are any indication... you'll go through the entire fridge of berries before the creature hits 10%.

If you want to wait a while before hatching, you can stick the egg in the fridge and keep it in there and it will halt its progress till you take it out and drop it on the floor again.

I would recommend having about 4-5 feeding troughs filled to the brim with berries, just to be on the safe side.

[Bluefairy]

I did my anklyos when they first came out so obviously it took 3 days for them to mature. 2 Troughs full of berries and a load in the inventory should do it for the night. A neat trick is that if noone goes by your pass or phases it..the baby would completely stop eating. Also if your not online it would eat generally slower.

[pkrhymes]

Unless you really are bent in getting some super leveled dino I would not breed it takes forever it requires to much attention and too much resources.. I did a ptera and will never do it again after feeding for 4 hours to make it pass the 10% ( juvenile stage ) leaving a troff full of meat and the bird stuffed of raw meat I logged off for a few hours and it was dead

[SirCollin]

It's not hard. At all. I've raised multiple babies now solo. You just have to learn how to do it correctly. (Does not mean this is a permanent solution devs!)

Before you hatch the little bugger, make sure you have about 1,000 berries or so. Hand feed it after it hatches. Hand feed it until it can hold about 100 berries or so. After this, don't stick around your base. This includes tribemates/friends/enemies. This will allow your baby to enter stasis mode where it eats very little. You could do a lap around the island and come back to check on it and see that more food spoiled than was eaten.

Ankylos only take 5 hours to get to 10%, so after you get the 100 berries on it you could probably even log off with the rest of the food in the feeding trough. It will progress until it can eat out of the trough. At this point, until it is an adult just make sure there is a decent amount of berries in the trough.

This is only annoying when you're raising something like a Quetz where it takes 8 damn days to mature. So 8 days of not being able to stick around our base for a long period of time.

[123]

just criopod it lol

[Sans]

Um, 2015 post lol?

[Dradiin]

yay another necro, thanks 123 dork

[Anubis]

How do ppl find thoses post so old and do not look at Last post date 😮

[Bulborb87]

just be warned that some creatures are harder to raise from a hatchling then other's.....the worst easily being a giga cause no joke: baby giga's take nearly 2 weeks to fully mature into an adult

still your in for the long haul with breeding as babies need to be hand fed and will only eat from a trough once they are a juvenile & adolescent, there's also imprinting which is very good as it does apply some good perks

[margalus]

While it's a baby you have to sit there and hand feed it 100% of the time or it will die. It cannot start feeding itself out of the feeding trough until it hits juvenile status. So be prepared to stay online for a long time once it hatches.

[A man]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1741156088

If you plan on imprinting just prepare to have some of every kind of kibble around. Any kind of dino can demand any kind of kibble...