Aberrant Megalania
CreatureVariant
Breeding calculator
Aberrant Megalania
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 400
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 59m 59s
- Maturation
- 37h 2m 13s
- Incubation temperature
- 29 - 35 °C
- Food at birth
- 53.12/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 35:11:06
- Total Time:
- 37:02:13
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 1h 59m 59s
- Elapsed Time
- 1h 51m 7s
- Maturation Time Left
- 35h 11m 6s
Time to Juvenile- 1h 51m 7s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 1181items
- Food to Adult
- 771items
- Food Per Hour
- 61
Food Capacity- 200items
Baby Hand Feed For- N/A3.7% 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%
- 50.47 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 | 5,460 | 110 | 3 | 11 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 14h 48m 53s | 33,053 | 662 | 17 | 66.2 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 18h 31m 6s | 14,756 | 296 | 8 | 29.6 |
| Total | 35h 11m 6s | 1,068 | 28 | 106.8 |
Total: 1,068 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 Aberrant Megalania
Breeding the Aberrant Megalania produces fertilized eggs that require careful temperature control. Incubation temperature must stay between 29°C and 35°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 1 hour and 59 minutes.
After hatching or birth, the baby Aberrant Megalania matures requiring significant patience, reaching adulthood in about 1 day and 13 hours 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.
Maturation has three phases: 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 Aberrant Megalania gains 30% extra damage and damage resistance with its imprinter mounted. You'll be asked to cuddle, walk, or feed specific kibble at regular intervals during maturation.
Use the raising calculator to plan food requirements for raising Aberrant Megalania babies through all three growth stages. The Baby phase (0–10%) takes ~222 minutes and is the most hands-on, requiring direct feeding or a Maewing.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Aberrant Megalania raises by totaling food across all babies. Consider food spoilage when choosing what to feed: Kibble lasts days, while Raw Meat spoils in minutes.
The Aberrant Megalania is a tamable, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. It belongs to the Variant category.
Starting at 461 Health, it's moderately tough. Melee starts at 106% - decent hitting power that scales with level-ups. With 400 base Stamina, the Aberrant Megalania has good endurance. A base Weight of 400 means good carrying capacity.
The Aberrant Megalania is a knockout tame: apply enough torpor to knock it out, then place food in its inventory. Extraordinary Kibble is the most effective food for taming, offering the highest affinity per feeding.
After taming, the Aberrant Megalania is primarily used for resource harvesting, excelling at gathering specific materials. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a 29°C–35°C temperature window. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.85 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.