Aberrant Achatina
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Aberrant Achatina
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SettingsHatch 2× · Mature 2× · Food 1× · Weight 60
Baby: The hatched dinosaur, now a baby, needs constant attention and food placed directly in its inventory to survive, or a nearby Maewing to take care of its needs.
- Gestation
- 4h 0m 0s
- Maturation
- 46h 17m 46s
- Food at birth
- 21.25/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 43:58:53
- Total Time:
- 46:17:46
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 4h 0m 0s
Elapsed Time- 2h 18m 54s
- Maturation Time Left
- 43h 58m 53s
Time to Juvenile- 2h 18m 53s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 60items
- Food to Adult
- 39items
- Food Per Hour
- 3
Food Capacity- 1items
Baby Hand Feed For- 1h 57m 12s9.2% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 4h 48m
- Imprint per cuddle
- 21.3%
- Maximum imprint
- 100.0% (9 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×0.6 · amount ×2
Raising food
- Food per item
- 500
Stack size- 10
- Eats at 5%
- 20.19 food/min
- Maturation
- 46h 17m 46s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Sweet Vegetable Cake | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 2h 18m 53s | 2,730 | 6 | 1 | 36 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 18h 31m 6s | 16,527 | 34 | 4 | 204 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 23h 8m 53s | 7,378 | 15 | 2 | 90 |
| Total | 43h 58m 53s | 55 | 7 | 330 |
Total: 55 Sweet Vegetable Cake
- Feeding Trough
- 600 items (60 slots)Fits in one load
Tek Trough- 1,000 items (100 slots)Fits in one load
- Maewing / Maeguana
- 300 slots
- Juvenile - 4x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 5x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
Spoils in 1h 20m | Trough / Maewing: 5h 20m | Tek Trough: 5d 13h
During the Baby phase (0-10%), you must hand-feed or use a Maewing to nurse. From Juvenile (10%+), dinos can eat from a Feeding Trough on their own. Use Preserving Salt in troughs to double spoil times.
More about breeding the Aberrant Achatina
Instead of laying eggs, the Aberrant Achatina carries its young through a gestation period. Gestation takes approximately 8 hours at default rates.
The baby Aberrant Achatina takes approximately 3 days and 20 hours to fully mature at default rates - over many real-world days, demanding serious time investment. During the baby phase (0–10%), hand-feed it directly. From 10% onward (juvenile), it can eat from a Feeding Trough.
Mutations can add +2 levels to any stat and change colors. Stacking mutations across generations is the key to min-maxed breeding lines. Use the breeding calculator to plan food requirements, incubation timers, and maturation phases.
The Aberrant Achatina's growth progresses through three stages: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~556 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~37h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~46h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Imprint bonuses are significant: a fully imprinted Aberrant Achatina gains 30% extra damage and damage resistance with its imprinter mounted. Imprint requests include cuddling, walks, and specific kibble - check the wiki for which kibble to stockpile.
Planning a mass raise? The Aberrant Achatina raising calculator breaks down food needs per phase so nothing goes to waste. Expect ~556 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
Adjust the dino count to calculate food for multiple Aberrant Achatina babies at once - essential for batch breeding operations. Match your food choice to your play schedule - longer spoil timers mean less babysitting.
ARK: Survival Ascended features the Aberrant Achatina as a tamable, herbivore creature that survivors will encounter in the wild. Classified under the Variant group.
Its base Melee Damage sits at 106%, giving it solid damage output. Starting at 75 Health, it's glass-cannon fragile. With 100 base Stamina, the Aberrant Achatina has low stamina reserves. Weight capacity starts at 60, giving it very limited carrying capacity.
To tame the Aberrant Achatina, you need to knock it unconscious using torpor weapons, then feed it while it's down. Feed it Sweet Vegetable Cake for the fastest tame and highest effectiveness bonus.
After taming, the Aberrant Achatina is valued for its harvesting efficiency, collecting key resources faster than most tools. It gives live birth after a gestation period, making breeding straightforward. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.69 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.