Megaloceros
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Megaloceros
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SettingsHatch 2× · Mature 2× · Food 1× · Weight 220
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
- 3h 4m 36s
- Maturation
- 35h 36m 45s
- Food at birth
- 47.22/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 33:49:54
- Total Time:
- 35:36:45
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 3h 4m 36s
Elapsed Time- 1h 46m 51s
- Maturation Time Left
- 33h 49m 54s
Time to Juvenile- 1h 46m 50s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 1682items
- Food to Adult
- 1098items
- Food Per Hour
- 90
Food Capacity- 110items
Baby Hand Feed For- 22m 21s6.0% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 4h 48m
- Imprint per cuddle
- 27.9%
- Maximum imprint
- 100.0% (7 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×0.6 · amount ×2
Raising food
- Food per item
- 30
Stack size- 100
- Eats at 5%
- 44.86 food/min
- Maturation
- 35h 36m 45s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Mejoberry | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 1h 46m 50s | 4,666 | 156 | 2 | 15.6 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 14h 14m 42s | 28,249 | 942 | 10 | 94.2 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 17h 48m 22s | 12,611 | 421 | 5 | 42.1 |
| Total | 33h 49m 54s | 1,519 | 17 | 151.9 |
Total: 1,519 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 - 3x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 22x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 27x 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 Megaloceros
Instead of laying eggs, the Megaloceros carries its young through a gestation period. Gestation takes approximately 6 hours and 9 minutes at default rates.
After hatching or birth, the baby Megaloceros matures requiring significant patience, reaching adulthood in about 2 days and 23 hours at 1x maturation. Hand-feeding is required until 10% maturation. After that, a Feeding Trough handles the rest.
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.
Raising a baby Megaloceros involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~427 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~28h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~36h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Imprinting during maturation provides permanent stat bonuses. At 100% imprint, the Megaloceros gains 30% bonus damage and resistance when ridden by the imprinter. You'll be asked to cuddle, walk, or feed specific kibble at regular intervals during maturation.
Planning a mass raise? The Megaloceros raising calculator breaks down food needs per phase so nothing goes to waste. Expect ~427 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 Megaloceros babies at once - essential for batch breeding operations. Match your food choice to your play schedule - longer spoil timers mean less babysitting.
Found throughout the ARKs, the Megaloceros is a tamable, herbivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. It belongs to the Farmer category.
Dealing 100% base Melee Damage, the Megaloceros brings respectable melee power to the table. Health-wise, the Megaloceros sits at 300 base, making it reasonably durable. With 280 base Stamina, the Megaloceros has decent staying power. It carries 220 base Weight - a reasonable inventory size.
Taming the Megaloceros requires rendering it unconscious first - use Tranq Arrows, Darts, or Shocking Tranq Darts to apply torpor. Feed it Simple Kibble for the fastest tame and highest effectiveness bonus.
Once tamed, the Megaloceros earns its keep through resource gathering, making tedious farming runs much faster. Breeding is via live birth rather than eggs, simplifying the process. A wild Megaloceros is worth 4 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.36 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.