Brute Plesiosaur
CreatureVariant
Breeding calculator
Brute Plesiosaur
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 1,200
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
- 115h 44m 26s
- Food at birth
- 118.05/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 109:57:12
- Total Time:
- 115:44:26
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 8h 0m 0s
Elapsed Time- 5h 47m 14s
- Maturation Time Left
- 109h 57m 13s
Time to Juvenile- 5h 47m 13s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 8199items
- Food to Adult
- 5350items
- Food Per Hour
- 135
Food Capacity- 600items
Baby Hand Feed For- 53m 46s5.8% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 7%
- Maximum imprint
- 98.0% (14 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
- Food per item
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 112.15 food/min
- Maturation
- 115h 44m 26s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 5h 47m 13s | 37,917 | 759 | 19 | 75.9 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 46h 17m 46s | 229,551 | 4,592 | 115 | 459.2 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 57h 52m 13s | 102,478 | 2,050 | 52 | 205 |
| Total | 109h 57m 13s | 7,401 | 186 | 740.1 |
Total: 7,401 Raw Meat
- Feeding Trough
- 2,400 items (60 slots)Need 4 full loads
Tek Trough- 4,000 items (100 slots)Need 2 full loads
- Maewing / Maeguana
- 300 slots50% weight reduction on meat & berries
- Baby - 9x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 70x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 87x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
Spoils in 10m | Trough / Maewing: 40m | Tek Trough: 16h 40m
At birth, baby holds ~75 food - refill every ~1 min
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 Brute Plesiosaur
The Brute Plesiosaur 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 ~4 days and 19 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.
Raising a baby Brute Plesiosaur involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~694 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~46h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~58h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Imprinting during maturation provides permanent stat bonuses. At 100% imprint, the Brute Plesiosaur gains 30% bonus damage and resistance when ridden by the imprinter. You'll be asked to cuddle, walk, or feed specific kibble at regular intervals during maturation.
The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Brute Plesiosaur. Expect ~694 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Brute Plesiosaur raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
The Brute Plesiosaur, an aquatic, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended, is well-known across multiple maps.
Health-wise, the Brute Plesiosaur sits at 5,100 base, making it extraordinarily tanky. Dealing 100% base Melee Damage, the Brute Plesiosaur brings solid damage output to the table. Its base Stamina of 1200 gives it outstanding staying power. Weight capacity starts at 1200, giving it massive inventory space.
The Brute Plesiosaur cannot be tamed and must be dealt with through combat or avoidance. Defeating one in the wild grants 30 base XP.