Iguanodon
CreatureMisc
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Iguanodon
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SettingsHatch 2× · Mature 2× · Food 1× · Weight 375
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.
- Incubation
- 42m 51s
- Maturation
- 23h 8m 53s
- Incubation temperature
- 24 - 28 °C
- Food at birth
- 59.03/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 21:59:26
- Total Time:
- 23:08:53
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 42m 51s
- Elapsed Time
- 1h 9m 27s
- Maturation Time Left
- 21h 59m 26s
Time to Juvenile- 1h 9m 27s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 1367items
- Food to Adult
- 892items
- Food Per Hour
- 113
Food Capacity- 188items
Baby Hand Feed For- N/A4.2% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 4h 48m
- Imprint per cuddle
- 43.7%
- Maximum imprint
- 100.0% (4 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×0.6 · amount ×2
Raising food
- Food per item
- 30
Stack size- 100
- Eats at 5%
- 56.08 food/min
- Maturation
- 23h 8m 53s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Mejoberry | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 1h 9m 26s | 3,792 | 127 | 2 | 12.7 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 9h 15m 33s | 22,955 | 766 | 8 | 76.6 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 11h 34m 26s | 10,248 | 342 | 4 | 34.2 |
| Total | 21h 59m 26s | 1,235 | 14 | 123.5 |
Total: 1,235 Mejoberry
- Feeding Trough
- 6,000 items (60 slots)Fits in one load
Tek Trough- 10,000 items (100 slots)Fits in one load
- Maewing / Maeguana
- 300 slots50% weight reduction on meat & berries
- Baby - 2x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 14x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 18x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
Spoils in 10m | Trough / Maewing: 40m | Tek Trough: 16h 40m
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 Iguanodon
After a successful mate, the Iguanodon lays a fertilized egg. Incubation temperature must stay between 24°C and 28°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes.
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~1 day and 22 hours (1x rate), progressing over a lengthy period. 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.
Raising a baby Iguanodon involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~278 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~19h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~23h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Iguanodon'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.
The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Iguanodon. Budget ~278 minutes for the Baby phase - this is when hand-feeding or Maewing nursing is mandatory.
Raising multiple Iguanodon 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.
ARK: Survival Ascended features the Iguanodon as a tamable, herbivore creature that survivors will encounter in the wild. It falls within the Misc classification.
With 250 base Health, the Iguanodon is on the squishy side. Its base Melee Damage sits at 100%, giving it solid damage output. Its base Stamina of 200 gives it decent staying power. A base Weight of 375 means a solid weight pool.
To tame the Iguanodon, you need to knock it unconscious using torpor weapons, then feed it while it's down. Feed it Simple Kibble for the fastest tame and highest effectiveness bonus.
After taming, the Iguanodon earns its keep through resource gathering, making tedious farming runs much faster. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a 24°C–28°C temperature window. A wild Iguanodon is worth 1 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.32 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.