Xiphactinus
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Xiphactinus
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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
- 2h 29m 59s
- Maturation
- 46h 17m 46s
- Incubation temperature
- -75 - 75 °C
- Food at birth
- 48.29/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 43:58:53
- Total Time:
- 46:17:46
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 2h 29m 59s
- Elapsed Time
- 2h 18m 54s
- Maturation Time Left
- 43h 58m 53s
Time to Juvenile- 2h 18m 53s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 1342items
- Food to Adult
- 876items
- Food Per Hour
- 56
Food Capacity- 150items
Baby Hand Feed For- N/A4.7% 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
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 45.87 food/min
- Maturation
- 46h 17m 46s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 2h 18m 53s | 6,204 | 125 | 4 | 12.5 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 18h 31m 6s | 37,556 | 752 | 19 | 75.2 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 23h 8m 53s | 16,766 | 336 | 9 | 33.6 |
| Total | 43h 58m 53s | 1,213 | 32 | 121.3 |
Total: 1,213 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 - 4x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 28x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 35x 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 Xiphactinus
After a successful mate, the Xiphactinus lays a fertilized egg. Incubation temperature must stay between -75°C and 75°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 4 hours and 59 minutes.
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.
The Xiphactinus'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 Xiphactinus 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.
The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Xiphactinus. Expect ~556 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Xiphactinus raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
ARK: Survival Ascended features the Xiphactinus as a tamable, aquatic, carnivore creature that survivors will encounter in the wild. It belongs to the Water category.
Starting at 450 Health, it's moderately tough. Its base Melee Damage sits at 100%, giving it respectable melee power. Its base Stamina of 420 gives it solid stamina reserves. Weight capacity starts at 300, giving it good carrying capacity.
To tame the Xiphactinus, you need to knock it unconscious using torpor weapons, then feed it while it's down. Superior Kibble is the most effective food for taming, offering the highest affinity per feeding.
As a tame, the Xiphactinus provides safe and efficient underwater traversal with good utility. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a -75°C–75°C temperature window. A wild Xiphactinus is worth 12 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.37 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.