Meat Run Caves?

[Veeshan]

Sorry, talking about PVE ;)

I'm about to plop down about 17 Rex eggs with another 10ish miscellaneous carnivores, making sure I can gather enough meat solo. This is on Olde School Rates, so it'll matter. Crumplecorn says 1500 meat per hour for just the rexes.

Think Lava Cave on Island could respawn that much, maybe supplement with nearby Swamp + Rare Flower runs?

I'm using Direwolves and was able to pull 10ish stacks from just the first few rooms... though I've heard Rexes get bonus to meat harvest? I do have Power Harvesting Theris as well.

Edit: Yeah... Nevermind. That's a full trough every hour at least for 96 hours. Mod time.

[Rotiart]

I don't think that math checks out at all. One trough should last you for a couple of hours at least.

In any case, for meat runs either hop on a Carcha/Giga and hit the Swamps, or take a podded Megatherium and hit the Swamp Cave. Bring a gas mask.

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by Rotiart:

I don't think that math checks out at all. One trough should last you for a couple of hours at least.

In any case, for meat runs either hop on a Carcha/Giga and hit the Swamps, or take a podded Megatherium and hit the Swamp Cave. Bring a gas mask.

Quite possible I'm doing something wrong on Crumplecorn. Got it set to Rex eating Raw Meat, I swap Food per period (E) to Hour and it says 84.97. That's 85 meat per Rex per hour, so 85x17=1445 food per hour.

Oh wait does that mean 85 Food Points per hour maybe? So divide by raw meat food value. But then why select food type...

I'll keep the other advice in mind, don't have either of those yet however.

Edit: yeah, the values aren't adding up. Says 92.5 hours until adult, takes 4200 food. That's 43 per hour, not 85.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

Originally posted by Rotiart:

I don't think that math checks out at all. One trough should last you for a couple of hours at least.

In any case, for meat runs either hop on a Carcha/Giga and hit the Swamps, or take a podded Megatherium and hit the Swamp Cave. Bring a gas mask.

Quite possible I'm doing something wrong on Crumplecorn. Got it set to Rex eating Raw Meat, I swap Food per period (E) to Hour and it says 84.97. That's 85 meat per Rex per hour, so 85x17=1445 food per hour.

Oh wait does that mean 85 Food Points per hour maybe? So divide by raw meat food value. But then why select food type...

I'll keep the other advice in mind, don't have either of those yet however.

Edit: yeah, the values aren't adding up. Says 92.5 hours until adult, takes 4200 food. That's 43 per hour, not 85.

I may be mistaken but:

Written by Crumplecorn
Last Updated 23/11/2015

Very possibly since that site seemingly hasn't been updated for 7 years through all the game changes and dlc's with the game, that the information it presents is no longer accurate.

[Rotiart]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

Originally posted by Rotiart:

I don't think that math checks out at all. One trough should last you for a couple of hours at least.

In any case, for meat runs either hop on a Carcha/Giga and hit the Swamps, or take a podded Megatherium and hit the Swamp Cave. Bring a gas mask.

Quite possible I'm doing something wrong on Crumplecorn. Got it set to Rex eating Raw Meat, I swap Food per period (E) to Hour and it says 84.97. That's 85 meat per Rex per hour, so 85x17=1445 food per hour.

Oh wait does that mean 85 Food Points per hour maybe? So divide by raw meat food value. But then why select food type...

I'll keep the other advice in mind, don't have either of those yet however.

Edit: yeah, the values aren't adding up. Says 92.5 hours until adult, takes 4200 food. That's 43 per hour, not 85.

Raw meat stacks in 40s. 1445 raw meat is just over 36 stacks of meat.

[Liralen]

Species X plants outside your base. Dire wolves to harvest them to make sure you don't miss any dead dinos.

If you're going to use a mod, the Structures Plus mod has a Vivarium https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Mod:Structures_Plus/S%2B_Vivarium

where essentially you put cryopodded dinos in it, where they produce resources, similar to the Matrix. You will also need an S+ Item Aggregator to collect it.

Perhaps a "let them eat cake" solution, but as a breeder type, Species X and dire wolves sufficed for years. I just stocked up on the meat before hatching too many and refrained from hatching that many until I was sure I could feed them.

[Liralen]

Even so, I would never dream of hatching 27 carnivore eggs at the same time, and expect to raise them all. And I currently have well over a million meat, 4 S+ nannies with 100 stacks each of inventory space to feed babies, and troughs with the capacity 1200 stacks.

I probably could, if I wanted to (by expanding the automated feeding infrastructure, I'd never bother with hand feeding 27 infants at once), just not sure why I would want to.

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by Liralen:

Even so, I would never dream of hatching 27 carnivore eggs at the same time, and expect to raise them all. And I currently have well over a million meat, 4 S+ nannies with 100 stacks each of inventory space to feed babies, and troughs with the capacity 1200 stacks.

I probably could, if I wanted to (by expanding the automated feeding infrastructure, I'd never bother with hand feeding 27 infants at once), just not sure why I would want to.

Hm, I see. I thought I saw tribes do that regularly, huge crowds of babies. Maybe that was a feat even for them.

I think mod-wise I'd go the ever flowing trough route, just pretend I have a few tribe mates delivering meat.

And yeah, I too see no fun in hand feeding babies for several hours. Ark is a game of timers and I'm a Base Betty anyway but that's too much even for me.

[Liralen]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

Originally posted by Liralen:

Even so, I would never dream of hatching 27 carnivore eggs at the same time, and expect to raise them all. And I currently have well over a million meat, 4 S+ nannies with 100 stacks each of inventory space to feed babies, and troughs with the capacity 1200 stacks.

I probably could, if I wanted to (by expanding the automated feeding infrastructure, I'd never bother with hand feeding 27 infants at once), just not sure why I would want to.

Hm, I see. I thought I saw tribes do that regularly, huge crowds of babies. Maybe that was a feat even for them.

I think mod-wise I'd go the ever flowing trough route, just pretend I have a few tribe mates delivering meat.

And yeah, I too see no fun in hand feeding babies for several hours. Ark is a game of timers and I'm a Base Betty anyway but that's too much even for me.

Well, I'm not in a huge tribe. At our peak, we probably rarely had more than 5 concurrent players, now it's just me. I probably could raise 27 carnivores at once but my eye starts twitching remembering the time my son and his best friend hatched 30 baby wyverns, then said "Hey, Mom, can you check on them every now and then?"

It turned out OK though, since they had left enough wyvern milk. On the other hand, it only takes about 4 milk to feed a baby wyvern to adulthood.

I probably could raise 27 carnivores with my current meat stock, but I would not want to feed that many by hand until they could eat from a trough, but the last carnivores I raised were Rexes and Yuts, both of which take a long time to reach juvenile stage. But I can make more S+ nannies to do that, except it requires 40 human hair to make one.

So it's more a practical limit on how much work I want to do. Your mileage may vary. I'm also mutation breeding, but with the mods I have, I can see whether or not an egg is worth hatching. Back in the old days without mods, you had to hatch them all and select the ones with the desired mutation, then kill the rest. See for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL4fDTRg4Ig, at about the 18 minute mark, i.e. lots of babies were hatched, but only 1 selected to raise.

So for me, I can't imagine why I would want to raise 27 carnivores at once. I probably could given the amount of meat I currently have, but it's more work than I want to do now in a game.

Cool username by the way (I'm a former EQ player who once watched a stump for days, for a class quest. Never again, which probably also factors into my decision not to raise 27 carnivores at the same time).