Vulture
CreatureShoulder Pet
Breeding calculator
Vulture
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 50
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
- 1h 21m 4s
- Maturation
- 25h 1m 30s
- Incubation temperature
- 35 - 38 °C
- Food at birth
- 39.84/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 23:46:25
- Total Time:
- 25:01:30
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 1h 21m 4s
- Elapsed Time
- 1h 15m 5s
- Maturation Time Left
- 23h 46m 25s
Time to Juvenile- 1h 15m 5s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 599items
- Food to Adult
- 391items
- Food Per Hour
- 46
Food Capacity- 25items
Baby Hand Feed For- 30m 50s7.1% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 34.7%
- Maximum imprint
- 100.0% (3 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
- Food per item
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 37.85 food/min
- Maturation
- 25h 1m 30s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 1h 15m 4s | 2,767 | 56 | 2 | 5.6 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 10h 0m 36s | 16,750 | 336 | 9 | 33.6 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 12h 30m 45s | 7,478 | 150 | 4 | 15 |
| Total | 23h 46m 25s | 542 | 15 | 54.2 |
Total: 542 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 - 2x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 16x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 19x 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 Vulture
Breeding the Vulture produces fertilized eggs that require careful temperature control. Incubation temperature must stay between 35°C and 38°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 1 hour and 21 minutes.
After hatching or birth, the baby Vulture matures slowly, reaching adulthood in about 1 day and 1 hour at 1x maturation. The most labor-intensive part is the baby phase (0–10% maturation) when it can't use a Feeding Trough yet.
Offspring inherit parental stats and have a small chance to mutate, gaining +2 levels in a random stat. Use the breeding calculator to plan food requirements, incubation timers, and maturation phases.
The Vulture's growth progresses through three stages: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~150 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~10h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~13h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Imprint bonuses are significant: a fully imprinted Vulture 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.
Use the raising calculator to plan food requirements for raising Vulture babies through all three growth stages. The Baby phase (0–10%) takes ~150 minutes and is the most hands-on, requiring direct feeding or a Maewing.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Vulture raises by totaling food across all babies. Consider food spoilage when choosing what to feed: Kibble lasts days, while Raw Meat spoils in minutes.
Found throughout the ARKs, the Vulture is a tamable, flying, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. It belongs to the Shoulder Pet category.
Stamina sits at 150 base, providing average stamina. With 100% base Melee Damage, the Vulture has decent hitting power. Health-wise, the Vulture sits at 125 base, making it extremely fragile. A base Weight of 50 means minimal inventory space.
The Vulture is passively tamed - approach it carefully and feed it by hand without knocking it out. Its preferred food is Spoiled Meat.
Once tamed, the Vulture works well as a reconnaissance mount, offering fast travel and a bird's-eye view of the terrain. It reproduces by laying eggs, which must be incubated between 35°C and 38°C. Defeating one in the wild grants 3 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.32 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.