Dodo
CreatureMisc
Breeding calculator
Dodo
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 50
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
- 49m 59s
- Maturation
- 15h 25m 55s
- Incubation temperature
- 22 - 30 °C
- Food at birth
- 26.56/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 14:39:37
- Total Time:
- 15:25:55
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 49m 59s
- Elapsed Time
- 46m 18s
- Maturation Time Left
- 14h 39m 37s
Time to Juvenile- 46m 18s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 246items
- Food to Adult
- 161items
- Food Per Hour
- 31
Food Capacity- 25items
Baby Hand Feed For- N/A5.0% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 59.6%
- Maximum imprint
- 59.6% (1 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
Food per item- 30
Stack size- 100
- Eats at 5%
- 25.23 food/min
- Maturation
- 15h 25m 55s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Mejoberry | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 46m 17s | 1,137 | 38 | 1 | 3.8 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 6h 10m 22s | 6,886 | 230 | 3 | 23 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 7h 42m 57s | 3,074 | 103 | 2 | 10.3 |
| Total | 14h 39m 37s | 371 | 6 | 37.1 |
Total: 371 Mejoberry
- Feeding Trough
- 6,000 items (60 slots)Fits in one load
Tek Trough- 10,000 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 - 10x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 12x 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 Dodo
Breeding the Dodo produces fertilized eggs that require careful temperature control. Incubation temperature must stay between 22°C and 30°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 49 minutes.
The baby Dodo takes approximately 15 hours and 25 minutes to fully mature at default rates - over the course of several hours. The most labor-intensive part is the baby phase (0–10% maturation) when it can't use a Feeding Trough yet.
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 Dodo involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~93 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~6h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~8h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Imprinting during maturation provides permanent stat bonuses. At 100% imprint, the Dodo 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 Dodo. Expect ~93 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Dodo raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
The Dodo is a tamable, herbivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. It belongs to the Misc category.
Stamina sits at 100 base, providing tires quickly. Melee starts at 100% - solid damage output that scales with level-ups. The Dodo has 40 base Health - extremely fragile. Weight capacity starts at 50, giving it minimal inventory space.
The Dodo is a knockout tame: apply enough torpor to knock it out, then place food in its inventory. Feed it Basic Kibble for the fastest tame and highest effectiveness bonus.
After taming, the Dodo earns its keep through resource gathering, making tedious farming runs much faster. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a 22°C–30°C temperature window. A wild Dodo is worth 0.5 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.01 Element plus 0 Element per level.