Aberrant Otter
CreatureVariant
Breeding calculator
Aberrant Otter
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 30
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
- 8h 0m 0s
- Maturation
- 21h 2m 37s
- Food at birth
- 70.81/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 19:59:29
- Total Time:
- 21:02:37
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 8h 0m 0s
Elapsed Time- 1h 3m 8s
- Maturation Time Left
- 19h 59m 29s
Time to Juvenile- 1h 3m 8s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 895items
- Food to Adult
- 584items
- Food Per Hour
- 81
Food Capacity- 15items
Baby Hand Feed For- 45m 0s8.6% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 42%
- Maximum imprint
- 84.0% (2 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
- Food per item
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 67.27 food/min
- Maturation
- 21h 2m 37s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 1h 3m 7s | 4,135 | 83 | 3 | 8.3 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 8h 25m 3s | 25,033 | 501 | 13 | 50.1 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 10h 31m 18s | 11,176 | 224 | 6 | 22.4 |
| Total | 19h 59m 29s | 808 | 22 | 80.8 |
Total: 808 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 - 13x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 16x 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 Aberrant Otter
The Aberrant Otter gives live birth after mating, skipping the egg-incubation step entirely. Gestation takes approximately 8 hours at default rates.
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~21 hours and 2 minutes (1x rate), progressing over the course of several hours. 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 Aberrant Otter's growth progresses through three stages: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~126 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~8h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~11h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Imprinting during maturation provides permanent stat bonuses. At 100% imprint, the Aberrant Otter gains 30% bonus damage and resistance when ridden by the imprinter. Keep various kibble types on hand, as imprint requests are randomized between cuddles, walks, and kibble feeding.
The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Aberrant Otter. Budget ~126 minutes for the Baby phase - this is when hand-feeding or Maewing nursing is mandatory.
Raising multiple Aberrant Otter 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.
The Aberrant Otter, a tamable, piscivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended, is well-known across multiple maps. Classified under the Variant group.
Dealing 106% base Melee Damage, the Aberrant Otter brings solid damage output to the table. With 38 base Health, the Aberrant Otter is very frail. With 180 base Stamina, the Aberrant Otter has average stamina. A base Weight of 30 means not built for hauling.
As a tame, the Aberrant Otter is valued for its harvesting efficiency, collecting key resources faster than most tools. Breeding is via live birth rather than eggs, simplifying the process. Killing a wild Aberrant Otter yields 4 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.84 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.