Zeppelin
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~5 days and 12 hours (1x rate), progressing over an extremely long period, one of the longest in the game. 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
3h 18m 25s
Maturation Time Left
62h 49m 50s
Time to Juvenile
3h 18m 25s
Total Food Items
0
items
Food to Adult
N/A
Food Per Hour
0
Food Capacity
900
items
Baby Hand Feed For
N/A
0.0% 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 Zeppelin. Expect ~794 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Zeppelin raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
Food per item
30
Stack size
100
Eats at 5%
0 food/min
Maturation
66h 8m 15s
| Phase | Duration | |
|---|---|---|
| 3h 18m 24s | 0 | |
| 26h 27m 18s | 0 | |
| 33h 4m 7s | 0 | |
| 62h 49m 50s | 0 |
Feeding Trough
6,000 items(60 slots)
Tek Trough
10,000 items(100 slots)
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.
Maturation has three phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~794 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~53h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~66h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Zeppelin's stats, and hitting 100% grants a 30% combat bonus when the imprinter rides it. Keep various kibble types on hand, as imprint requests are randomized between cuddles, walks, and kibble feeding.
Found throughout the ARKs, the Zeppelin is a tamable, flying, unknown creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. Classified under the Ignore group.
At 20,000 base HP, the Zeppelin is extraordinarily tanky. A base Weight of 1800 means massive inventory space.
The Zeppelin is passively tamed - approach it carefully and feed it by hand without knocking it out.
Once tamed, the Zeppelin serves as a powerful aerial pack animal for transporting resources across the map. Defeating one in the wild grants 18 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.98 Element plus 0.1 Element per level.