Alpha Tusoteuthis
CreatureVariant
Breeding calculator
Alpha Tusoteuthis
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 800
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
- 4h 59m 58s
- Maturation
- 185h 11m 6s
- Incubation temperature
- -75 - 75 °C
- Food at birth
- 153/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 175:55:32
- Total Time:
- 185:11:06
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 4h 59m 58s
- Elapsed Time
- 9h 15m 34s
- Maturation Time Left
- 175h 55m 33s
Time to Juvenile- 9h 15m 33s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 17000items
- Food to Adult
- 11093items
- Food Per Hour
- 175
Food Capacity- 400items
Baby Hand Feed For- 5h 43m 55s8.1% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 4.4%
- Maximum imprint
- 100.0% (23 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
- Food per item
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 145.35 food/min
- Maturation
- 185h 11m 6s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 9h 15m 33s | 78,625 | 1,573 | 40 | 157.3 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 74h 4m 26s | 476,000 | 9,520 | 238 | 952 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 92h 35m 33s | 212,500 | 4,250 | 107 | 425 |
| Total | 175h 55m 33s | 15,343 | 385 | 1,534.3 |
Total: 15,343 Raw Meat
- Feeding Trough
- 2,400 items (60 slots)Need 7 full loads
Tek Trough- 4,000 items (100 slots)Need 4 full loads
- Maewing / Maeguana
- 300 slots50% weight reduction on meat & berries
- Baby - 14x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 112x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 139x 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 Alpha Tusoteuthis
After a successful mate, the Alpha Tusoteuthis lays a fertilized egg. Incubation temperature must stay between -75°C and 75°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 4 hours and 59 minutes.
Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~7 days and 17 hours (1x rate), progressing over many real-world days, demanding serious time investment. 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 Alpha Tusoteuthis involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~1111 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~74h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~93h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Alpha Tusoteuthis'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 Alpha Tusoteuthis. Budget ~1111 minutes for the Baby phase - this is when hand-feeding or Maewing nursing is mandatory.
Raising multiple Alpha Tusoteuthis simultaneously? Set the dino count and the calculator scales food requirements automatically. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
The Alpha Tusoteuthis, an aquatic, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended, is a notable presence across multiple maps. It belongs to the Ignore category.
With 100% base Melee Damage, the Alpha Tusoteuthis has solid damage output. Starting at 30,000 Health, it's one of the toughest creatures in the game. Stamina sits at 300 base, providing decent staying power. It carries 800 base Weight - massive inventory space.
The Alpha Tusoteuthis cannot be tamed and must be dealt with through combat or avoidance. It reproduces by laying eggs, which must be incubated between -75°C and 75°C. A wild Alpha Tusoteuthis is worth 2200 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.87 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.