Gigantopithecus
CreatureMisc
Breeding calculator
Gigantopithecus
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 220
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
- 6h 39m 59s
- Maturation
- 77h 9m 37s
- Food at birth
- 127.17/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 73:18:08
- Total Time:
- 77:09:37
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 6h 39m 59s
Elapsed Time- 3h 51m 29s
- Maturation Time Left
- 73h 18m 8s
Time to Juvenile- 3h 51m 29s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 5888items
- Food to Adult
- 3842items
- Food Per Hour
- 146
Food Capacity- 110items
Baby Hand Feed For- 2h 38m 37s8.4% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 10.6%
- Maximum imprint
- 95.4% (9 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
Food per item- 30
Stack size- 100
- Eats at 5%
- 120.81 food/min
- Maturation
- 77h 9m 37s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Mejoberry | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 3h 51m 28s | 27,230 | 908 | 10 | 90.8 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 30h 51m 51s | 164,855 | 5,496 | 55 | 549.6 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 38h 34m 48s | 73,596 | 2,454 | 25 | 245.4 |
| Total | 73h 18m 8s | 8,858 | 90 | 885.8 |
Total: 8,858 Mejoberry
- Feeding Trough
- 6,000 items (60 slots)Need 2 full loads
Tek Trough- 10,000 items (100 slots)Fits in one load
- Maewing / Maeguana
- 300 slots50% weight reduction on meat & berries
- Baby - 6x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 47x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 58x 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 Gigantopithecus
The Gigantopithecus gives live birth after mating, skipping the egg-incubation step entirely. Gestation takes approximately 6 hours and 39 minutes at default rates.
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~3 days and 5 hours (1x rate), progressing over many real-world days, demanding serious time investment. 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 Gigantopithecus involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~463 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~31h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~39h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Gigantopithecus'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 Gigantopithecus. Budget ~463 minutes for the Baby phase - this is when hand-feeding or Maewing nursing is mandatory.
Raising multiple Gigantopithecus simultaneously? Set the dino count and the calculator scales food requirements automatically. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
The Gigantopithecus is a tamable, herbivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. Classified under the Misc group.
Starting at 640 Health, it's solidly tanky. Melee starts at 100% - decent hitting power that scales with level-ups. Stamina sits at 300 base, providing decent staying power. Weight capacity starts at 220, giving it a reasonable inventory size.
The Gigantopithecus is passively tamed - approach it carefully and feed it by hand without knocking it out. Its preferred food is Regular Kibble.
Once tamed, the Gigantopithecus earns its keep through resource gathering, making tedious farming runs much faster. It gives live birth after a gestation period, making breeding straightforward. Killing a wild Gigantopithecus yields 20 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.35 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.