What are the actual advantages of breeding?

[Astro]

What are the actual advantages of breeding?
I have 2 level 80 rhinos and they mated and made a level 31 baby. Is the benefit of breeding only in the actual level itself? Tbh, if that is the case, tbh, I was expecting a higher level baby from 2 level 80s. I have seen level 29 rhinos in the wild, so only 2 level higher doesn't seem very worth it.
Or maybe I am missing something!?!

[CapGanchoPt]

they will get bether status and motations and more levels when breeded.

[SteelFire]

Origineel geplaatst door Astro:

What are the actual advantages of breeding?
I have 2 level 80 rhinos and they mated and made a level 31 baby. Is the benefit of breeding only in the actual level itself? Tbh, if that is the case, tbh, I was expecting a higher level baby from 2 level 80s. I have seen level 29 rhinos in the wild, so only 2 level higher doesn't seem very worth it.
Or maybe I am missing something!?!

The thing with breeding is that it doesn't include levels you add to critters, it is based on the level and stats of the parents right after you tamed them. That's why, if you're planning to breed them, you want to tame the highest possible level you can, with desirable stats; to start with a good base.

Ideally then, when you breed, you'll get a baby with a mix of the best stats from both parents. For example, you tame one with high health and high carry weight and another with high melee. You'd be trying for a baby (or numerous babies if breeding a fighting unit) with high HP, weight, and melee. On top of that, you can then try to get mutations to those stats to boost them a couple levels higher.

Additionally, when raising babies, you can imprint them, which boosts their stats further, plus gives an additional bonus when you are riding that critter.

[2ugly]

A Pirate game of course....

[Astro]

So can you actually level them up even further when they mature and give points in the stats you want like with normal mounts?
So I had 2 parents both having mixed stats in Health/Strength/Stamina is that a bad idea to make them breed? Should I instead have 1 with max health and 1 with max stamina for instance and then breed?
Btw, how do I start mutations on the new tame?
Thanks for the help

[Thuar]

Mutations happen randomly ( not the much % chance though ).

You need to breed with male and female with the best stats. Being 1 should have ( for instance with bears) the best hp of all your bears, mate with the other gender who could have the best stamina and weight stat.

If you have another bear with great melee stat, you should let that one breed with the offspring of the 2 bears you previously mated. The point is creating offspring which have all the best stats of all your bears.

Later, when you tame a new high lvl bear, this one could have a better stat than your offspring has, so you breed that new bear with your offspring, so your new baby gets even better stats.

And so on, and on, and on,... :)

After the baby matured, you can level it's stats just like normal bears after taming ( but those leveld stats don't contribute to the mating.

[Liatni]

Aye, They only count the levels when tamed (nothing you put into them) And the baby is usually a level between the father and mother.. Sometimes they can get a mutation in level and end up a higher level than both parents.. Other stats have a chance to mutate into a better stat than the parents as well. You create a line of breeding.. keep breeding the ones with the higher (at tame or at birth stats) Many even go as far as making folders inside baby inventory showing the at birth stats they have. .. same with wild tames, right away.

I am going to breed my Stam bear with my weight bear today.. maybe the baby will get both of those high stats.. if it is a male.. it will be my new stud bear.. and so on so forth.

And of course the Base stats/level for any animal will make it a better animal all leveled up .. PLUSS while a baby is growing, it will want special care every few hours or so.. When ever you feed/pet or what ever it wants, while growing, it will get an extra boost to some of its stats..(but those wont be included if breeding, JUST for tha tbear) If you are the person imprinting the baby as well.. it preforms better when you are riding it.

[Liatni]

I have a question for those that may know. I know that Atlas does not have crazy color mutation. The babies will adopt a parent color or a mixture of both parents but, can a new, natural color be seen with a mutation? Say both parrents are black, can the baby with a mutation be black with a new color tossed in?

[SteelFire]

Origineel geplaatst door Astro:

So can you actually level them up even further when they mature and give points in the stats you want like with normal mounts?
So I had 2 parents both having mixed stats in Health/Strength/Stamina is that a bad idea to make them breed? Should I instead have 1 with max health and 1 with max stamina for instance and then breed?
Btw, how do I start mutations on the new tame?
Thanks for the help

OP, it might be a good idea to look up some vids on Ark breeding basics, since it's the same system, apart from what Liatni noted above that Atlas mutations don't get crazy colors like Ark can. That might give you a better understanding of how the parent's stats apply and how much work (how many, many babies you'll go through to get the desired stats/mutations) can be involved to breed up "perfect" animals.

[Astro]

In the Ancestry section I see the two parents and 0/20 for each but not points in either ones. I wasn't lucky and I didn't get them or will the mount get them later on when it will level up more?
I also did the imprint before it matured, which tbh didn't seem to have done much. I am confused. :(

[Liatni]

Only one player can imprint a newborn baby. If this player manages to care for it during the maturing phase, the creature will get stats bonuses and an additional bonus of up to 30% in each damage and resistance when this very player rides it. The player they want to imprint need the skill Breeding for Tier 1, Breeding Tier 2 for Tier 2 or Breeding Tier 3 for Tier 3 Creatures

is what it says about imprinting on the wiki. IF your baby has a mutation thats where you will see those numbers go up.. along the breeding line.

[Liatni]

Any and ALL stat improvements will be there with the baby at birth.. if the baby sucks.. its a dud, thats all..every baby is not born better or with the right stats from each parent that you want :P I bread about 200 bears at one point just trying to get an all black baby with the best stats I could. lol. Ended up with a good amount of nice bears along the way.. all went to Company mates. Kept my best breeders aside for continued progress.

[Astro]

Ok Liatni, I did all that you said in your first post and I had no mutation, I guess that's random, even if I do all that?!
The only thing I am still not sure if I am doing it right is that I haven't had the mother or the father have only points in one stat. I am breeding Rhinos so if I want to put points in health I still have to put some in stamina if not it will totally suck and get stunned constantly.
Thanks for the help

[Liatni]

Muitations are always random. Yes. same with twins and triplets

[Liatni]

You have NO control over what stats the baby will end up with. You can tame a Rhino with a good health stat on it and another with a good stam stat.. Breed those two and MAYBE the baby will have both of those good stats on it. :) Baby uses stats from both parrents, it is not always the best stats of both.. You have to breed a lot to get what you want, if you are looking for a specific thing.. and no problem :)

[Astro]

Oh ok so that 30% it's a chance that it's going to happen or not, I see, I thought it was how much bonus it will get. Got it, do you think if I put more points in only one parent stat will increases the chances?