Thorny Dragon
CreatureMisc
Breeding calculator
Thorny Dragon
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 300
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
- 2h 29m 59s
- Maturation
- 48h 43m 58s
- Incubation temperature
- 22 - 28 °C
- Food at birth
- 47.22/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 46:17:46
- Total Time:
- 48:43:58
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 2h 29m 59s
- Elapsed Time
- 2h 26m 12s
- Maturation Time Left
- 46h 17m 46s
Time to Juvenile- 2h 26m 12s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 1381items
- Food to Adult
- 901items
- Food Per Hour
- 54
Food Capacity- 150items
Baby Hand Feed For- N/A4.8% 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
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 44.86 food/min
- Maturation
- 48h 43m 58s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 2h 26m 11s | 6,385 | 128 | 4 | 12.8 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 19h 29m 35s | 38,656 | 774 | 20 | 77.4 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 24h 21m 59s | 17,257 | 346 | 9 | 34.6 |
| Total | 46h 17m 46s | 1,248 | 33 | 124.8 |
Total: 1,248 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 - 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 Thorny Dragon
After a successful mate, the Thorny Dragon lays a fertilized egg. Incubation temperature must stay between 22°C and 28°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 2 hours and 29 minutes.
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~2 days (1x rate), progressing over a lengthy period. 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 Thorny Dragon 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 Thorny Dragon'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 Thorny Dragon. 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 Thorny Dragon raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
The Thorny Dragon, a tamable, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended, is a notable presence across multiple maps. It falls within the Misc classification.
Stamina sits at 350 base, providing respectable staying power. With 100% base Melee Damage, the Thorny Dragon has solid damage output. Starting at 260 Health, it's not particularly tanky. It carries 300 base Weight - generous inventory space.
Taming the Thorny Dragon requires rendering it unconscious first - use Tranq Arrows, Darts, or Shocking Tranq Darts to apply torpor. Feed it Regular Kibble for the fastest tame and highest effectiveness bonus.
After taming, the Thorny Dragon earns its keep through resource gathering, making tedious farming runs much faster. It reproduces by laying eggs, which must be incubated between 22°C and 28°C. A wild Thorny Dragon is worth 6 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.48 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.