Ossidon
CreatureDMG
Breeding calculator
Ossidon
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 500
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
- 7h 56m 11s
- Maturation
- 92h 35m 33s
- Food at birth
- 70.81/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 87:57:46
- Total Time:
- 92:35:33
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 7h 56m 11s
Elapsed Time- 4h 37m 47s
- Maturation Time Left
- 87h 57m 46s
Time to Juvenile- 4h 37m 47s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 3934items
- Food to Adult
- 2567items
- Food Per Hour
- 81
Food Capacity- 250items
Baby Hand Feed For- 1h 1m 55s6.1% 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
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 67.27 food/min
- Maturation
- 92h 35m 33s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 4h 37m 46s | 18,194 | 364 | 10 | 36.4 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 37h 2m 13s | 110,146 | 2,203 | 56 | 220.3 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 46h 17m 46s | 49,172 | 984 | 25 | 98.4 |
| Total | 87h 57m 46s | 3,551 | 91 | 355.1 |
Total: 3,551 Raw Meat
- Feeding Trough
- 2,400 items (60 slots)Need 2 full loads
Tek Trough- 4,000 items (100 slots)Fits in one load
- 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 Ossidon
The Ossidon gives live birth after mating, skipping the egg-incubation step entirely. Gestation takes approximately 7 hours and 56 minutes at default rates.
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~3 days and 20 hours (1x rate), progressing at a glacially slow pace - plan for a multi-day commitment. 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.
The Ossidon'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 Ossidon 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.
The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Ossidon. Budget ~556 minutes for the Baby phase - this is when hand-feeding or Maewing nursing is mandatory.
Raising multiple Ossidon 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.
Found throughout the ARKs, the Ossidon is a tamable, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. It belongs to the DMG category.
The Ossidon has 1,430 base Health - extremely durable. With 100% base Melee Damage, the Ossidon has decent hitting power. Stamina sits at 420 base, providing solid stamina reserves. Weight capacity starts at 500, giving it an enormous weight pool.
After taming, the Ossidon is valued for its harvesting efficiency, collecting key resources faster than most tools. Breeding is via live birth rather than eggs, simplifying the process. Defeating one in the wild grants 60 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.89 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.