Hover Skiff
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~3 days and 20 hours (1x rate), progressing over many real-world days, demanding serious time investment. Hand-feeding is required until 10% maturation. After that, a Feeding Trough handles the rest.
Each baby inherits stats from both parents with a chance of mutation - +2 wild levels to a random stat plus a color change. Use the breeding calculator to plan food requirements, incubation timers, and maturation phases.
Incubation Time
4h 0m 0s
Elapsed Time
2h 18m 54s
Maturation Time Left
43h 58m 53s
Time to Juvenile
2h 18m 53s
Total Food Items
8500
items
Food to Adult
5547
items
Food Per Hour
350
Food Capacity
8000
items
Baby Hand Feed For
N/A
1.0% maturation
Cuddle Interval
0s
Imprint Per Cuddle
0%
Max Imprint
0.0%
The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Hover Skiff. Budget ~556 minutes for the Baby phase - this is when hand-feeding or Maewing nursing is mandatory.
Raising multiple Hover Skiff simultaneously? Set the dino count and the calculator scales food requirements automatically. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
Food per item
30
Stack size
100
Eats at 5%
290.7 food/min
Maturation
46h 17m 46s
| Phase | Duration | |
|---|---|---|
| 2h 18m 53s | 1,311 | |
| 18h 31m 6s | 7,934 | |
| 23h 8m 53s | 3,542 | |
| 43h 58m 53s | 12,787 |
Feeding Trough
6,000 items(60 slots)
Need 3 full loads
Tek Trough
10,000 items(100 slots)
Need 2 full loads
Maewing / Maeguana
300 slots
50% weight reduction on meat & berries
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.
Raising a baby Hover Skiff involves three maturation phases: 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.
Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Hover Skiff's stats, and hitting 100% grants a 30% combat bonus when the imprinter rides it. Imprint requests include cuddling, walks, and specific kibble - check the wiki for which kibble to stockpile.
Found throughout the ARKs, the Hover Skiff is a tamable, flying, unknown creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. Classified under the Ignore group.
It carries 16000 base Weight - excellent carrying capacity. With 10,000 base Health, the Hover Skiff is extraordinarily tanky.
As a tame, the Hover Skiff is prized as a flying transport, capable of hauling large inventories over long distances. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.8 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.