How long do tamed dinosaurs survive without food? Holiday-Question

[Bluebee]

What will happen to our tamed Dinosaurs if we go on Holiday for 2 weeks? Especially the carnivores will not have enough meat, to eat something in this time because of the spoiling.

Any ideas?

[Sperber]

They will slowly drain their food level at probably 2-6 points per hour (never bothered to measure it). Depending on how large their food capacity is they can last for weeks or even months without eating.

[Mark Aber]

One of our tribe members fell trough our base and found a tamed skorpion that we had been missing for 2 weeks and brought him back his food wasn't empty

[Chocobro]

Try jerky. That stuff has a two week or better spoil timer on a dino. Put oil and cooked meat in a preserving bin takes an hour to make one jerky. A half dozen of those would last offline dinos a month at least.

[Rumi]

I had a dodo, it got lost, after a week we found him, his Food bar was half or something, since dinos dont move they dont eat too much, put 3 stacks of meat inside and they will survive the hunger - but the real issue is, will they survive other Players ? hmm

[Nokeel]

I was interested in this too, so I watched each animal listed below lose his food :

raptor : -0,1 / 1min07 sec
sabertooth : -0,1 / 1min11
ptera : -0,1 / 1min07
argentavis : -0,1 / 1min06
spino : -0,1 / 55sec
T-rex : -0,1 / 40sec
carno : -0,1 / 1min04
dilo : -0,1 / 1min54
mammoth : -0,1 / 23sec
trike : -0,1 / 32sec
parasaur : -0,1 / 57sec
stegosaur : -0,1 / 37sec
bronto : -0,1 / 13sec
phiomia : -0,1 / 32sec
scorpion : -0,1 / 50sec


so, for a rator having 1000 food, he would last 10000x67sec = 670000sec = 7 days and 18 hours before starting to lose health.

I didn't watch them losing health, so I let you do the maths for it. As well as for lasting days for any of your dino depending on their foodmeter.

Stacks of 20 meat will all spoil in +- 24H. So you can win one day.
Stacks of 100berries will last +- 2 days.

[JS]

I built a huge fenced off ranch around my base, it includes a natural pond. Originally there was a guy who had a shack by the pond but he didnt use it and I PVE destroyed it so I could expand. His lone dilo "franklin Jr" is still there waiting patiently and very much alive. He's been there for a few real life months

[Nokeel]

Yup i saw a lonely dilo survive quite a few weeks too without being taken care of.
I guess the loss of HP is even slower than the loss of food.

[JS]

Originally posted by dabristi:

Yup i saw a lonely dilo survive quite a few weeks too without being taken care of.
I guess the loss of HP is even slower than the loss of food.

Im talking months, back when the game was new. He hasn't moved at all, he's half in the pond.
I'd feed him if I could, now I just wish he'd die

[Sweatington]

It takes about a week for a dilo to starve it's food bar. Another week for it to die from starvation.

[JS]

The one stuck in my base must be a mutant

[Nokeel]

What I did is simple mathematical facts. We should test how much health/sec each dino loses after losing all his food. Then we'd know for sure. (knowing the game came out 1st june, it couldn't have been monthS anyway ;) )

[Woods]

i say about 2 and a half weeks thats how long the raptor survived

[Sperber]

And keep in mind that those figures count for food level that a level 1 dino comes with. I've tamed level 50 dinos that started out with a stat of 10,000 food.

[Bluebee]

In this point, there would be sense in increasing the food through leveling the dino.

@dabristi: thx, very interesting statistic.

[chad with a dad bod]

I have like 40 dinos, a lot of them are carnivores and i'm worried they're going to die :l