Sarco
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Sarco
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SettingsHatch 2× · Mature 2× · Food 1× · Weight 300
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
- 1h 14m 59s
- Maturation
- 23h 8m 53s
- Incubation temperature
- 30 - 34 °C
- Food at birth
- 48.29/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 21:59:26
- Total Time:
- 23:08:53
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 1h 14m 59s
- Elapsed Time
- 1h 9m 27s
- Maturation Time Left
- 21h 59m 26s
Time to Juvenile- 1h 9m 27s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 671items
- Food to Adult
- 438items
- Food Per Hour
- 56
Food Capacity- 150items
Baby Hand Feed For- N/A3.1% 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
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 45.87 food/min
- Maturation
- 23h 8m 53s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 1h 9m 26s | 3,102 | 63 | 2 | 6.3 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 9h 15m 33s | 18,778 | 376 | 10 | 37.6 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 11h 34m 26s | 8,383 | 168 | 5 | 16.8 |
| Total | 21h 59m 26s | 607 | 17 | 60.7 |
Total: 607 Raw Meat
- Feeding Trough
- 2,400 items (60 slots)Fits in one load
Tek Trough- 4,000 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 Sarco
After a successful mate, the Sarco lays a fertilized egg. Incubation temperature must stay between 30°C and 34°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 2 hours and 29 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 Sarco 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 Sarco'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 Sarco. Budget ~278 minutes for the Baby phase - this is when hand-feeding or Maewing nursing is mandatory.
Raising multiple Sarco 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 Sarco as a tamable, carnivore creature that survivors will encounter in the wild. Classified under the Water group.
Stamina sits at 450 base, providing respectable staying power. Its base Melee Damage sits at 100%, giving it decent hitting power. The Sarco has 400 base Health - reasonably durable. A base Weight of 300 means a solid weight pool.
To tame the Sarco, you need to knock it unconscious using torpor weapons, then feed it while it's down. For best results, use Regular Kibble - it gives the highest taming efficiency.
Once tamed, the Sarco earns its keep through resource gathering, making tedious farming runs much faster. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a 30°C–34°C temperature window. Defeating one in the wild grants 5 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.22 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.