Diplodocus
CreatureMisc
Breeding calculator
Diplodocus
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 800
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
- 4h 59m 58s
- Maturation
- 92h 35m 33s
- Incubation temperature
- 26 - 29 °C
- Food at birth
- 236.11/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 87:57:46
- Total Time:
- 92:35:33
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 4h 59m 58s
- Elapsed Time
- 4h 37m 47s
- Maturation Time Left
- 87h 57m 46s
Time to Juvenile- 4h 37m 47s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 13118items
- Food to Adult
- 8559items
- Food Per Hour
- 270
Food Capacity- 400items
Baby Hand Feed For- 2h 27m 58s7.7% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 8.8%
- Maximum imprint
- 96.8% (11 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
Food per item- 30
Stack size- 100
- Eats at 5%
- 224.3 food/min
- Maturation
- 92h 35m 33s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Mejoberry | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 4h 37m 46s | 60,667 | 2,023 | 21 | 202.3 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 37h 2m 13s | 367,282 | 12,243 | 123 | 1,224.3 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 46h 17m 46s | 163,965 | 5,466 | 55 | 546.6 |
| Total | 87h 57m 46s | 19,732 | 199 | 1,973.2 |
Total: 19,732 Mejoberry
- Feeding Trough
- 6,000 items (60 slots)Need 4 full loads
Tek Trough- 10,000 items (100 slots)Need 2 full loads
- Maewing / Maeguana
- 300 slots50% weight reduction on meat & berries
- Baby - 7x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 56x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 70x 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 Diplodocus
Breeding the Diplodocus produces fertilized eggs that require careful temperature control. Incubation temperature must stay between 26°C and 29°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.
After hatching or birth, the baby Diplodocus matures over an extremely long period, one of the longest in the game, reaching adulthood in about 3 days and 20 hours at 1x maturation. The most labor-intensive part is the baby phase (0–10% maturation) when it can't use a Feeding Trough yet.
Offspring inherit parental stats and have a small chance to mutate, gaining +2 levels in a random stat. Use the breeding calculator to plan food requirements, incubation timers, and maturation phases.
The Diplodocus'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 Diplodocus 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.
Use the raising calculator to plan food requirements for raising Diplodocus babies through all three growth stages. The Baby phase (0–10%) takes ~556 minutes and is the most hands-on, requiring direct feeding or a Maewing.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Diplodocus raises by totaling food across all babies. Consider food spoilage when choosing what to feed: Kibble lasts days, while Raw Meat spoils in minutes.
ARK: Survival Ascended features the Diplodocus as a tamable, herbivore creature that survivors will encounter in the wild. It falls within the Misc classification.
Its base Melee Damage sits at 100%, giving it decent hitting power. The Diplodocus has 1,700 base Health - among the tougher creatures. With 550 base Stamina, the Diplodocus has solid stamina reserves. Weight capacity starts at 800, giving it excellent carrying capacity.
The Diplodocus is passively tamed - approach it carefully and feed it by hand without knocking it out. Its preferred food is Regular Kibble.
Once tamed, the Diplodocus combines solid harvesting capability with generous carrying capacity. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a 26°C–29°C temperature window. A wild Diplodocus is worth 6 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.23 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.