For the slight bonus on your melee. I get that too on mine. The first generation of babies always seems to have their melee rounded up to the next number. Not sure why, but it’s not just you.
I think I have an answer to this - when you tame creatures, their melee (and maybe one other stat?) is tied to taming effectiveness as well as the number of points in that stat. When you breed a baby, it assumes the same number of points but also a perfect taming effectiveness. At least, this is what this guide on Dododex says: help.dododex.com/en/article/ark-breeding-mutations-guide
dude, thank you so much for doing this video! trying to find a decent video that explains the basics that isn't just people reeling off stats at 100 mph has been a nightmare. So many people forget when they do "beginner videos" what beginner really means, but you nail it! thanks man, much appreciated
I am actually very new to Ark (just bought it yesterday while on sale) and I had NO idea how to play. Your beginners guides and such have helped me massively, I really appreciate your videos and content. Definitely gonna subscribe!
For console controls (XBox) to drop an egg from your inventory, use the Left Trigger to drop. Right Trigger will use/eat! That’s why a running joke in Xbox Ark players is, “how do you react to accidentally eating your L150 Wyvern egg? You get Right Triggered!”
@@00matthewrayment00 on one hand i feel sorry for you on the other i loled så hard XD hope it was a joke if not at least one person got a laugh out of it XD
It's been a year and these vids are still entertaining. Could U do another series like this, that way it's more updated (Ur the first ark TH-camr I've watched, love Ur energy)
I don't use air conditioners. I use the dinosaur that looks like a small version of the Spino found in the swamp. This is a tip if you are not at the level to unlock air conditioners but want to start breeding.
Jep i use them for a penguim farm on my solo playthrough it one of then next to 5 or so pinguins just not claiming the harchling grat way to get alot of organic polymer
They're Dimetrodons, and actually, despite laying eggs, they're a mammal ancestor, not a dinosaur. In addition, if you don't have S+ and the electrical, or don't want to go that route...they are really a good tame, as they are basically portable Air Conditioners. You can safely get them as soon as you get an Argy, as Argies can carry them, so you can just set up your taming pen, get an Argy, grab a male and female Dimetrodon, so you can breed more if you need them, and weigh them down to where they can't move with stone. Then you stick eggs near them, and they're more affordable for resources: Normally, without electrical, you need a lot of gasoline, and if you can't get the oil that easily, if the ARK Gods are cruel, you have to deep Dive for oil nodes, or go to the dangerous cold regions for it. For Dimetrodons, just plop a feeding trough near them with meat.
Someone on a server I play explained to me that the weird stat boost is the stat that one of your parents would have had but was damaged at some point during taming
Babies get a bonus, usually to melee or food, so that they have stats like they would have tamed at 100%. Because even your perfect tame whatever will probably never tame at 100%; you usually lose at least a level. I hope that makes sense.
@@RoyaleWithCheese It's in the wiki: "The stat-values (not the stat-levels) of the offspring are calculated like for a creature that was just tamed with a 100% taming effectiveness with the taming effectiveness bonuses applied. This means that an offspring can have higher values than its parents in stats that get a bonus from taming effectiveness (for most creatures this is Melee Damage and sometimes Food). See also Creature Stats Calculation for how the values are calculated from the stats. " ark.gamepedia.com/Breeding
@@-Trespasser- the wiki also says you can use vegetables for one of those big foot guys. It doesn’t work with vegetables. This is on the official wiki btw.
So thats how mating works xD when you said they were doing the nasty i was like, if this is how it worked in real life... if people just stood therre then... o.0
I know this vid is quite a while ago.. but how long and how many babies were fed to the sabercat before you got your perfect pair? like I can tell at the beginning of the vid it was day 69, and when you got your female it was day 76
Guess I don't understand why you do not imprint babies. Fairly new at game myself. So what does imprinting do that is not desirable with a breading set?
For the pair you're just gonna keep as breeders imprinting will just change the stats which makes it harder to try and figure out if your baby has a mutation and on what stat. Because the imprinting bonus doesn't transfer over from the parents to the babies
A tip I've found: If you get a baby that's got better stats than one of its parents, you can keep mating the 2 parents until the first one grows up, then you can swap out/add in the male/female (respectively) child to the original breeding stock. I did this when I was going for my Theri Breeding Stock. Whenever I got a male with all of the best of the father, and some of the best of the mother, I swapped him for the old father. Whenever I got a female with the best of the mother, and some of the best of the mother, I added her to the mix, adding another egg producer, to speed up the process. It worked out nicely, and I got viable breeding stock at level 250. They've got awesome stats. They're ready to start populating the Ryoden inspired "Studevator 1000" with hens.
The males, maybe not. The females, it gives you more rolls of the dice. Either way, reducing the number of coin flips (stats), and increasing the number of tries per cycle (more females) will give you a better chance of getting the perfect roll. It does increase the effort you have to put in to it, though, and inevitably it is random.
By breeding multiple babies with the original 2 he had until he bred 2 that has the exact same good stats male & female. Then bred those 2 until he got a baby with what was perfect stats to him or close to what he wanted out of those 2.
I did not know it was that easy i bread these two parasours as a test and it just instantly started hatching only when it was at 50 percent incubation I had to but it near fire
I lowered the mating to 0.0 and I was able to breed back to back - Now all of a sudden a 3 hour reset showed up - Is there some way to get around this?
Hey man you prolly won’t even see this but I recently started playing ark on ps4 and When I try to get the pokeball things my game will crash while I’m crafting and I loose my progress for the day if you have any answers I’d appreciate it
Am I the only one who likes the jokes? I like that some require thought. Very informative video. My tribe leader is less teacher more 'Attack the sarco with no armor and a spear'.
How are they mating again immediately after mating, it said in the tooltip that they could mate again in another 25 hours, real time hours. How are they suddenly able to mate again?
He says he's not bothered about swimming/oxygen then continues killing babies because their oxygen stats were low? Am I missing something? Seems crazy to me ... but what do I know? LOL Just out of curiousity, why do you need so many Argys? Are you able to sell or trade them someplace?
@@RoyaleWithCheese ok, cool! Thanks for the quick response! By some luck I found two Parasaurs that had very high health stats pre-tame, and am hoping to breed them to get a good breeder dino. I kinda goofed on the female when I tamed her and only got a 97% tame effectiveness, but hopefully it won't mess it up too bad.
RoyaleWithCheese, oh ok. And btw, I’m doing it rn, I found out you can throw the egg in water and it’ll still work. You know, because the water is cold.
Imprint bonus has no effect on breeding stats. That would be way too OP. Just think about it, you could theoretically increase the stats by 20% every time you make a baby that way. This is also why cheese didn't imprint the first perfect pair that he was gonna breed more perfect ones with.
Wouldn't it be better to not get the higher Oxygen stat? Because if the server limits levels of dinos then that would cause it to be higher wouldn't it? And then you wouldn't be able to get the most in the stats you cared about for the dino. Likely I'm not understanding something here, so sorry for the confusion.
RoyaleWithCheese I just googled “ark 450 dino” and there was info on it. In fact (if my memory is correct) Syntac won’t level his crazy mutated mana on the cluster server past 449 cause he’s worried it might get deleted.
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It’s LT on xbox and L2 on ps4
For the slight bonus on your melee. I get that too on mine. The first generation of babies always seems to have their melee rounded up to the next number. Not sure why, but it’s not just you.
Weird
Its to give non alpha tribes a head start
I think I have an answer to this - when you tame creatures, their melee (and maybe one other stat?) is tied to taming effectiveness as well as the number of points in that stat. When you breed a baby, it assumes the same number of points but also a perfect taming effectiveness. At least, this is what this guide on Dododex says:
help.dododex.com/en/article/ark-breeding-mutations-guide
@@RoyaleWithCheese but is that a bad thing???
dude, thank you so much for doing this video! trying to find a decent video that explains the basics that isn't just people reeling off stats at 100 mph has been a nightmare. So many people forget when they do "beginner videos" what beginner really means, but you nail it! thanks man, much appreciated
I am actually very new to Ark (just bought it yesterday while on sale) and I had NO idea how to play. Your beginners guides and such have helped me massively, I really appreciate your videos and content. Definitely gonna subscribe!
Sames
18:00 I literally noticed that yesterday as I’m building my Rex army.
I’m hoping it’s a feature and not a bug...
For console controls (XBox) to drop an egg from your inventory, use the Left Trigger to drop. Right Trigger will use/eat! That’s why a running joke in Xbox Ark players is, “how do you react to accidentally eating your L150 Wyvern egg? You get Right Triggered!”
@@00matthewrayment00 on one hand i feel sorry for you on the other i loled så hard XD hope it was a joke if not at least one person got a laugh out of it XD
Baxters Buddy this is good
I once did that but animal poop instead of an egg 🤮😂
Baxters Buddy lol
Baxters Buddy I did that with a 340 spino egg and 270 Rex egg
The thumbnail on this is so cute! Love it.
Thanks MJ
That’s awesome I didn’t know cryopoding the Dino can change what the want to be feed, thanks for the info
Definitely helpful
Especially if you don't have what they want
I will never forget when my Rex wanted an Azulberry
love the video. Breeding on ark has always confused me and your video helped alot. thx King Cheese
Glad I could help
I've watched and read so many things on breeding for perfection and your video was the only one that actually helped me get it! Thanks!!
It's been a year and these vids are still entertaining. Could U do another series like this, that way it's more updated
(Ur the first ark TH-camr I've watched, love Ur energy)
about to breed some pteras, always good to refresh what to do before I do it, and you explain it so well! thanks!
Thanks wannsa
13:28 They can theoretically produce lvl 291 and even lvl 293 argies. It's extremely rare, but possible nonetheless.
Wow I JUST searched to see if you made a video about breeding and imprinting, then you make one the next day! Thanks
Haha magic
Thanks cheese my mum walked in on me as i was killing baby argys and she didnt like that
This channel is way to Underrated
I love how the bird took a huge crap then pushed an egg out on top of it. What a way to introduce an egg to the world.
cheese u and jenny just make my day and I always smile even when I don't want to and ur just the best guys too and a happy 2020 from uk
Happy to make you smile any day!
This man is clinically insane and I love it.
I got my grandchildren ark for xmas they love theses helpful vids
That's awesome! Hope the grandkids are loving the game!
Bro, I saw a two hour video on stats and mutations that made this sooo much more complex lol thank you for this
Yo cheese thx for the tutorials
You're most welcome
I don't use air conditioners. I use the dinosaur that looks like a small version of the Spino found in the swamp. This is a tip if you are not at the level to unlock air conditioners but want to start breeding.
Sith Shi they are called dimetrodons
Jep i use them for a penguim farm on my solo playthrough it one of then next to 5 or so pinguins just not claiming the harchling grat way to get alot of organic polymer
They're Dimetrodons, and actually, despite laying eggs, they're a mammal ancestor, not a dinosaur. In addition, if you don't have S+ and the electrical, or don't want to go that route...they are really a good tame, as they are basically portable Air Conditioners. You can safely get them as soon as you get an Argy, as Argies can carry them, so you can just set up your taming pen, get an Argy, grab a male and female Dimetrodon, so you can breed more if you need them, and weigh them down to where they can't move with stone. Then you stick eggs near them, and they're more affordable for resources: Normally, without electrical, you need a lot of gasoline, and if you can't get the oil that easily, if the ARK Gods are cruel, you have to deep Dive for oil nodes, or go to the dangerous cold regions for it. For Dimetrodons, just plop a feeding trough near them with meat.
Someone on a server I play explained to me that the weird stat boost is the stat that one of your parents would have had but was damaged at some point during taming
That's not true
@@RoyaleWithCheese *shrug* seemed a plausible answer at the time as the gasbag with the closest to the weird stat had been hit once while taming
It doesn't necessarily need to be hit to lose levels. If you tame with non-optimal food you also lose levels.
this guy is underrated on youtube
Babies get a bonus, usually to melee or food, so that they have stats like they would have tamed at 100%. Because even your perfect tame whatever will probably never tame at 100%; you usually lose at least a level. I hope that makes sense.
From what I know that's not true...
@@RoyaleWithCheese
It's in the wiki:
"The stat-values (not the stat-levels) of the offspring are calculated like for a creature that was just tamed with a 100% taming effectiveness with the taming effectiveness bonuses applied. This means that an offspring can have higher values than its parents in stats that get a bonus from taming effectiveness (for most creatures this is Melee Damage and sometimes Food). See also Creature Stats Calculation for how the values are calculated from the stats. "
ark.gamepedia.com/Breeding
@@-Trespasser- the wiki also says you can use vegetables for one of those big foot guys. It doesn’t work with vegetables. This is on the official wiki btw.
Great vid it’s helpful and funny!!! I subbed
Thanks for the video. I'll no longer need to lvl dinos b4 breeding. Now I know.
Glad I could help
So thats how mating works xD when you said they were doing the nasty i was like, if this is how it worked in real life... if people just stood therre then... o.0
Did I miss what the AC was for? I didnt see him out an egg in there.
The eggs need an specific temperature to hatch 🐣, he left the egg close to the air conditioners
Thank you sir, you made it very clear
Thank you for this awesome explanation!!
Hey man great video what stack mod are you using?
We're using the different variations of the HG stacking mods on all our servers
I know this vid is quite a while ago.. but how long and how many babies were fed to the sabercat before you got your perfect pair?
like I can tell at the beginning of the vid it was day 69, and when you got your female it was day 76
Thank you cheese for making these videos! 🙂
Thank you for watching
Thanks this video helped a lot!!
I try to breed some but for some reason they don’t take the food when I try to give it to them…. And die…😢
LT on console to throw it out then to eat them witch u don’t want is RT also make sure your egg is fertilized not just a normal egg 🥚
Aaaaand we're baaaack. Yes i flex on that like button
Could you maybe teach us how to tame a thylacoleo soon?
I can do that. I just don't like going for them too early on
Baby Dodo would like Giga Kibble for comfort food.
Man, imprinting is a full time job. Luckily our tribe has a member that likes breeding
Yeah it sure is
4:17 look 😳😏
Thanks bro that helped a lot
Guess I don't understand why you do not imprint babies. Fairly new at game myself. So what does imprinting do that is not desirable with a breading set?
For the pair you're just gonna keep as breeders imprinting will just change the stats which makes it harder to try and figure out if your baby has a mutation and on what stat. Because the imprinting bonus doesn't transfer over from the parents to the babies
@@RoyaleWithCheese Oooo I C. Ty and keep up the great work.
This was rly good
Why did you put the acs inside and then drop the egg outside?
A tip I've found: If you get a baby that's got better stats than one of its parents, you can keep mating the 2 parents until the first one grows up, then you can swap out/add in the male/female (respectively) child to the original breeding stock.
I did this when I was going for my Theri Breeding Stock. Whenever I got a male with all of the best of the father, and some of the best of the mother, I swapped him for the old father. Whenever I got a female with the best of the mother, and some of the best of the mother, I added her to the mix, adding another egg producer, to speed up the process.
It worked out nicely, and I got viable breeding stock at level 250. They've got awesome stats. They're ready to start populating the Ryoden inspired "Studevator 1000" with hens.
Works but it might not necessarily make it any faster
The males, maybe not.
The females, it gives you more rolls of the dice.
Either way, reducing the number of coin flips (stats), and increasing the number of tries per cycle (more females) will give you a better chance of getting the perfect roll.
It does increase the effort you have to put in to it, though, and inevitably it is random.
I'm still not able to get rid of the offspring with bad stats. Then again, I play single player, so it's no issue. I just have too many dinos.
You either need to claim them and then kill them or you need to have pvp enabled to kill unclaimed dinos.
That's pretty much the reason I used to run all my servers on pvp settings even tho we only played pve
Thanks, awesome breeding!
How do u have those high stats from the parents and it carried over how did he get the stats to carry over to the baby
By breeding multiple babies with the original 2 he had until he bred 2 that has the exact same good stats male & female. Then bred those 2 until he got a baby with what was perfect stats to him or close to what he wanted out of those 2.
Awesome video 💛
Thanks
how do i get rid of the babies? do I feed any dino with them or what?
Wait so do their base states add together then divide by 2?
I did not know it was that easy i bread these two parasours as a test and it just instantly started hatching only when it was at 50 percent incubation I had to but it near fire
I lowered the mating to 0.0 and I was able to breed back to back - Now all of a sudden a 3 hour reset showed up - Is there some way to get around this?
lol ur intro is the best
Does anyone know what his settings are for his maturation and imprinting values
why won't you imprint the first perfect bird, but their offspring?
Some one has cached himself saying " WERE BAAACKK !! " at the same time he did ? 🤔😂😂
Hahaha
How do you have that much time to do all that it takes me like 4 hours for the Dino to hatch?
Hey man you prolly won’t even see this but I recently started playing ark on ps4 and When I try to get the pokeball things my game will crash while I’m crafting and I loose my progress for the day if you have any answers I’d appreciate it
Hey sorry unfortunately I’ve not heard of that bug but thanks for watching
Am I the only one who likes the jokes? I like that some require thought. Very informative video. My tribe leader is less teacher more 'Attack the sarco with no armor and a spear'.
How are they mating again immediately after mating, it said in the tooltip that they could mate again in another 25 hours, real time hours. How are they suddenly able to mate again?
The timer is a server setting. AND video editing is a thing :)
Which settings do you use ???
Do this works on ark mobile?
If not could you make a view on it?
Pls
What’s the green Dino following you?
What settings do you use for maturation and imprinting? (I'm trying to breed an argy)
Oh I found the video that Jenny shows the settings! (I knew there was a link on one of the videos, nevermind!)
14:20 that indeed got weird
1:28
Wait the levels they u put in DONT carry
BRUH THEN MY BABY GOT INSANE STATS COMPARED TO HIS PARENTS
So are the AC just an area effect? Does it even matters if the building is enclosed or open?
Just an area walls don’t matter it will work through them as well
He says he's not bothered about swimming/oxygen then continues killing babies because their oxygen stats were low? Am I missing something? Seems crazy to me ... but what do I know? LOL Just out of curiousity, why do you need so many Argys? Are you able to sell or trade them someplace?
Thank you soon much for this video
My pleasure
How do you raise the imprint percentage?
What are your server settings? My dinos grow faster than they want attention? Im new by the way
Hay can you help me can you just show us the settings you use pls
I have a video up on server settings etc. Those are basically exactly the settings I run for this guide
Can you pls put all the ark guide videos into a playlist?
They are
So wait. Is it Post-Tame stats that carry over or is it wild stats?
Post tame but not leveled just base stats after tame
@@RoyaleWithCheese ok, cool! Thanks for the quick response! By some luck I found two Parasaurs that had very high health stats pre-tame, and am hoping to breed them to get a good breeder dino. I kinda goofed on the female when I tamed her and only got a 97% tame effectiveness, but hopefully it won't mess it up too bad.
What is S+? Is it a mod of some sort?
How long did that take :P
Why did you make the air conditioner to just take the egg outside?
Air conditioning is area affect walls don’t matter so I’m still using them just outside
RoyaleWithCheese, oh ok. And btw, I’m doing it rn, I found out you can throw the egg in water and it’ll still work. You know, because the water is cold.
Question, if you breed off the imprinted dino. Can you get the stats to go higher?
Imprint bonus has no effect on breeding stats. That would be way too OP. Just think about it, you could theoretically increase the stats by 20% every time you make a baby that way. This is also why cheese didn't imprint the first perfect pair that he was gonna breed more perfect ones with.
another great video
Thanks man
Do you need air conditioners to hatch an egg or is there a way to hatch eggs at lower levels without air conditioners.
You can use torches and campfires for higher Temps and you can try hatching at night and in shallow water on the beach for lower Temps.
@@RoyaleWithCheese thanks. How do you know whether the egg needs to be hotter or colder
It will tell you if it's too hot or too cold when you drop the egg
@@RoyaleWithCheese ok, thanks
Cheese, who was the argy in the thumbnail?
thank you for this.
Then there's me that just started and has only tamed level 10s and lower 😭
Everyone starts somewhere
I stole a few rex eggs from my neighbor and now I've got an army of rex's my first time playing ark
Cheese how to feed your Baby dinoz in mobile i only got +7 melee damage
Mobile works totally different my friend, sorry I don’t know about mobile
I dont understand why you need AC units when you just drop the eggs on the ground outside.
So does the level of the parents to begin with have to be high?
The higher the stats the better, yes.
I low key have an fertilized Argy egg and I’m gonna name it Chargy the Argy 😂LOL
Ya love to hear it
Wouldn't it be better to not get the higher Oxygen stat? Because if the server limits levels of dinos then that would cause it to be higher wouldn't it? And then you wouldn't be able to get the most in the stats you cared about for the dino. Likely I'm not understanding something here, so sorry for the confusion.
The server only had a max level on wild dinos you can breed stats together to the skies there’s no limit
RoyaleWithCheese Well official servers have a tamed dino level limit of 450. Not sure if that affects single player or non official though.
Where did you hear that? I’ve never seen that posted and couldn’t find it when I just searched
RoyaleWithCheese I just googled “ark 450 dino” and there was info on it. In fact (if my memory is correct) Syntac won’t level his crazy mutated mana on the cluster server past 449 cause he’s worried it might get deleted.
Hmmm see some forum things but nothing from wildcard on it and I’ve had dinos well over 450 and when extinction came out the cave dinos were tamable
So is 290 the highest you can breed dinos? I don't understand why he's saying that's perfect
That was very helpful....
Glad I could help
How do you get your argies so high level for the video?
Taming high levels, breeding, leveling.
how do i get my argie to be ready to mate faster
That is a server setting.
Tysm
DROP BUTTON CONSOLE , LT, left trigger