Basilisk
CreatureDMG
Breeding calculator
Basilisk
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
- 6h 14m 58s
- Maturation
- 185h 11m 6s
- Incubation temperature
- 32 - 38 °C
- Food at birth
- 47.22/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 175:55:32
- Total Time:
- 185:11:06
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 6h 14m 58s
- Elapsed Time
- 9h 15m 34s
- Maturation Time Left
- 175h 55m 33s
Time to Juvenile- 9h 15m 33s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 5247items
- Food to Adult
- 3424items
- Food Per Hour
- 54
Food Capacity- 400items
Baby Hand Feed For- 1h 14m 53s5.7% 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%
- 44.86 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 | 24,264 | 486 | 13 | 48.6 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 74h 4m 26s | 146,894 | 2,938 | 74 | 293.8 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 92h 35m 33s | 65,577 | 1,312 | 33 | 131.2 |
| Total | 175h 55m 33s | 4,736 | 120 | 473.6 |
Total: 4,736 Raw Meat
- Feeding Trough
- 2,400 items (60 slots)Need 2 full loads
Tek Trough- 4,000 items (100 slots)Need 2 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
At birth, baby holds ~25 food - refill every ~1 min
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 Basilisk
Breeding the Basilisk produces fertilized eggs that require careful temperature control. Incubation temperature must stay between 32°C and 38°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 6 hours and 14 minutes.
The baby Basilisk takes approximately 7 days and 17 hours to fully mature at default rates - over many real-world days, demanding serious time investment. The most labor-intensive part is the baby phase (0–10% maturation) when it can't use a Feeding Trough yet.
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.
Maturation has three 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 Basilisk's stats, and hitting 100% grants a 30% combat bonus when the imprinter rides it. Keep various kibble types on hand, as imprint requests are randomized between cuddles, walks, and kibble feeding.
Use the raising calculator to plan food requirements for raising Basilisk babies through all three growth stages. The Baby phase (0–10%) takes ~1111 minutes and is the most hands-on, requiring direct feeding or a Maewing.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Basilisk 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 Basilisk is a tamable, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. Classified under the DMG group.
Starting at 2,750 Health, it's extremely durable. Melee starts at 100% - solid damage output that scales with level-ups. Its base Stamina of 650 gives it exceptional endurance. Weight capacity starts at 800, giving it massive inventory space.
As a tame, the Basilisk pulls double duty as both a capable resource harvester and pack animal. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a 32°C–38°C temperature window. Killing a wild Basilisk yields 4 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.78 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.