Palaeoctopus
CreatureWater
Breeding calculator
Palaeoctopus
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 1,000
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
- 37h 2m 13s
- Incubation temperature
- -75 - 75 °C
- Food at birth
- 96.57/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 35:11:06
- Total Time:
- 37:02:13
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 4h 59m 58s
- Elapsed Time
- 1h 51m 7s
- Maturation Time Left
- 35h 11m 6s
Time to Juvenile- 1h 51m 7s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 2147items
- Food to Adult
- 1401items
- Food Per Hour
- 111
Food Capacity- 500items
Baby Hand Feed For- N/A3.0% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 22.8%
- Maximum imprint
- 91.2% (4 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
- Food per item
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 91.74 food/min
- Maturation
- 37h 2m 13s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 1h 51m 6s | 9,926 | 199 | 5 | 19.9 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 14h 48m 53s | 60,090 | 1,202 | 31 | 120.2 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 18h 31m 6s | 26,826 | 537 | 14 | 53.7 |
| Total | 35h 11m 6s | 1,938 | 50 | 193.8 |
Total: 1,938 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 - 3x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 23x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 28x 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 Palaeoctopus
After a successful mate, the Palaeoctopus lays a fertilized egg. Incubation temperature must stay between -75°C and 75°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.
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~1 day and 13 hours (1x rate), progressing slowly. 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 Palaeoctopus's growth progresses through three stages: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~222 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~15h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~19h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Imprint bonuses are significant: a fully imprinted Palaeoctopus 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 Palaeoctopus. Budget ~222 minutes for the Baby phase - this is when hand-feeding or Maewing nursing is mandatory.
Raising multiple Palaeoctopus 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.
ARK: Survival Ascended features the Palaeoctopus as a tamable, carnivore creature that survivors will encounter in the wild. It falls within the Water classification.
Its base Melee Damage sits at 100%, giving it decent hitting power. With 1,050 base Health, the Palaeoctopus is solidly tanky. Stamina sits at 400 base, providing solid stamina reserves. A base Weight of 1000 means an enormous weight pool.
To tame the Palaeoctopus, you need to knock it unconscious using torpor weapons, then feed it while it's down. For best results, use Raw Mutton - it gives the highest taming efficiency.
Once tamed, the Palaeoctopus combines solid harvesting capability with generous carrying capacity. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a -75°C–75°C temperature window. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.85 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.