Drakeling
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Drakeling
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 65
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
- 1h 14m 59s
- Maturation
- 25h 1m 30s
- Incubation temperature
- 17 - 20 °C
- Food at birth
- 39.84/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 23:46:25
- Total Time:
- 25:01:30
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 1h 14m 59s
- Elapsed Time
- 1h 15m 5s
- Maturation Time Left
- 23h 46m 25s
Time to Juvenile- 1h 15m 5s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 599items
- Food to Adult
- 391items
- Food Per Hour
- 46
Food Capacity- 33items
Baby Hand Feed For- 22m 14s6.5% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 34.7%
- Maximum imprint
- 100.0% (3 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
- Food per item
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 37.85 food/min
- Maturation
- 25h 1m 30s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 1h 15m 4s | 2,767 | 56 | 2 | 5.6 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 10h 0m 36s | 16,750 | 336 | 9 | 33.6 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 12h 30m 45s | 7,478 | 150 | 4 | 15 |
| Total | 23h 46m 25s | 542 | 15 | 54.2 |
Total: 542 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 - 16x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 19x 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 Drakeling
Breeding the Drakeling produces fertilized eggs that require careful temperature control. Incubation temperature must stay between 17°C and 20°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 1 hour and 14 minutes.
The baby Drakeling takes approximately 1 day and 1 hour to fully mature at default rates - slowly. 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.
Maturation has three phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~150 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~10h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~13h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Drakeling's stats, and hitting 100% grants a 30% combat bonus when the imprinter rides it. 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 Drakeling. Expect ~150 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Drakeling raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
Found throughout the ARKs, the Drakeling is a tamable, flying, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. It falls within the Ignore classification.
Starting at 150 Health, it's on the squishy side. With 100% base Melee Damage, the Drakeling has solid damage output. Stamina sits at 150 base, providing moderate endurance. Weight capacity starts at 65, giving it very limited carrying capacity.
As a tame, the Drakeling is a versatile flyer useful for scouting, traversal, and light transport. It reproduces by laying eggs, which must be incubated between 17°C and 20°C. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.28 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.