Shinehorn
CreatureShoulder Pet
Breeding calculator
Shinehorn
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 100
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
- 4h 12m 37s
- Maturation
- 48h 43m 58s
- Food at birth
- 26.56/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 46:17:46
- Total Time:
- 48:43:58
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 4h 12m 37s
Elapsed Time- 2h 26m 12s
- Maturation Time Left
- 46h 17m 46s
Time to Juvenile- 2h 26m 12s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 777items
- Food to Adult
- 507items
- Food Per Hour
- 31
Food Capacity- 50items
Baby Hand Feed For- 31m 41s6.1% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 17.1%
- Maximum imprint
- 100.0% (6 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
Food per item- 30
Stack size- 100
- Eats at 5%
- 25.23 food/min
- Maturation
- 48h 43m 58s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Mejoberry | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 2h 26m 11s | 3,592 | 120 | 2 | 12 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 19h 29m 35s | 21,746 | 725 | 8 | 72.5 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 24h 21m 59s | 9,708 | 324 | 4 | 32.4 |
| Total | 46h 17m 46s | 1,169 | 14 | 116.9 |
Total: 1,169 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 - 4x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 30x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 37x 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 Shinehorn
The Shinehorn gives live birth after mating, skipping the egg-incubation step entirely. Gestation takes approximately 4 hours and 12 minutes at default rates.
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~2 days (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.
Raising a baby Shinehorn involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~292 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~19h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~24h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Shinehorn'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 Shinehorn. Expect ~292 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Shinehorn raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
The Shinehorn is a tamable, herbivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. It belongs to the Shoulder Pet category.
Melee starts at 100% - solid damage output that scales with level-ups. Health-wise, the Shinehorn sits at 115 base, making it glass-cannon fragile. With 180 base Stamina, the Shinehorn has decent staying power. A base Weight of 100 means average weight tolerance.
This is a passive tame: no tranquilizers needed. Get close without startling it, then offer food from your last hotbar slot. Its preferred food is Plant Species Z Seed.
As a tame, the Shinehorn earns its keep through resource gathering, making tedious farming runs much faster. It gives live birth after a gestation period, making breeding straightforward. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.05 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.