Bloodstalker
CreatureClimber
Breeding calculator
Bloodstalker
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 350
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 56m 27s
- Maturation
- 54h 27m 58s
- Incubation temperature
- 27 - 30 °C
- Food at birth
- 47.22/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 51:44:34
- Total Time:
- 54:27:58
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 2h 56m 27s
- Elapsed Time
- 2h 43m 24s
- Maturation Time Left
- 51h 44m 34s
Time to Juvenile- 2h 43m 24s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 1543items
- Food to Adult
- 1007items
- Food Per Hour
- 54
Food Capacity- 175items
Baby Hand Feed For- N/A4.7% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 15.2%
- Maximum imprint
- 91.2% (6 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
- Food per item
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 44.86 food/min
- Maturation
- 54h 27m 58s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 2h 43m 23s | 7,136 | 143 | 4 | 14.3 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 21h 47m 11s | 43,204 | 865 | 22 | 86.5 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 27h 13m 59s | 19,287 | 386 | 10 | 38.6 |
| Total | 51h 44m 34s | 1,394 | 36 | 139.4 |
Total: 1,394 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 - 5x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 33x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 41x 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 Bloodstalker
After a successful mate, the Bloodstalker lays a fertilized egg. Incubation temperature must stay between 27°C and 30°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 2 hours and 56 minutes.
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~2 days and 6 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 Bloodstalker involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~327 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~22h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~27h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Bloodstalker'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 Bloodstalker. Expect ~327 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Bloodstalker raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
The Bloodstalker is a tamable, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. Classified under the Climber group.
Its base Stamina of 600 gives it outstanding staying power. Melee starts at 100% - solid damage output that scales with level-ups. Health-wise, the Bloodstalker sits at 450 base, making it reasonably durable. Weight capacity starts at 350, giving it a solid weight pool.
This is a passive tame: no tranquilizers needed. Get close without startling it, then offer food from your last hotbar slot. Its preferred food is Blood Pack.
As a tame, the Bloodstalker earns its keep through resource gathering, making tedious farming runs much faster. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a 27°C–30°C temperature window. Defeating one in the wild grants 1 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.35 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.