Boaratos
CreatureDMG
Breeding calculator
Boaratos
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 500
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.
- Gestation
- 7h 56m 11s
- Maturation
- 82h 18m 16s
- Food at birth
- 275.4/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 78:11:21
- Total Time:
- 82:18:16
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 7h 56m 11s
Elapsed Time- 4h 6m 55s
- Maturation Time Left
- 78h 11m 21s
Time to Juvenile- 4h 6m 55s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 13600items
- Food to Adult
- 8874items
- Food Per Hour
- 315
Food Capacity- 250items
Baby Hand Feed For- 2h 50m 14s8.4% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 10%
- Maximum imprint
- 100.0% (10 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
- Food per item
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 261.63 food/min
- Maturation
- 82h 18m 16s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 4h 6m 54s | 62,900 | 1,258 | 32 | 125.8 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 32h 55m 18s | 380,800 | 7,616 | 191 | 761.6 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 41h 9m 8s | 170,000 | 3,400 | 85 | 340 |
| Total | 78h 11m 21s | 12,274 | 308 | 1,227.4 |
Total: 12,274 Raw Meat
- Feeding Trough
- 2,400 items (60 slots)Need 6 full loads
Tek Trough- 4,000 items (100 slots)Need 4 full loads
- Maewing / Maeguana
- 300 slots50% weight reduction on meat & berries
- Baby - 7x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 50x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 62x 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 Boaratos
The Boaratos gives live birth after mating, skipping the egg-incubation step entirely. Gestation takes approximately 7 hours and 56 minutes at default rates.
The baby Boaratos takes approximately 3 days and 10 hours to fully mature at default rates - at a glacially slow pace - plan for a multi-day commitment. 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.
The Boaratos's growth progresses through three stages: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~494 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~33h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~41h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Imprint bonuses are significant: a fully imprinted Boaratos 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.
The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Boaratos. Expect ~494 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Boaratos raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
The Boaratos, a tamable, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended, is a notable presence across multiple maps. It falls within the DMG classification.
Health-wise, the Boaratos sits at 1,050 base, making it quite durable. With 100% base Melee Damage, the Boaratos has decent hitting power. Its base Stamina of 400 gives it solid stamina reserves. It carries 500 base Weight - an enormous weight pool.
You'll need to knock the Boaratos unconscious before taming it. Tranquilizers are the standard approach. Extraordinary Kibble is the most effective food for taming, offering the highest affinity per feeding.
After taming, the Boaratos is valued for its harvesting efficiency, collecting key resources faster than most tools. Breeding is via live birth rather than eggs, simplifying the process. Killing a wild Boaratos yields 18 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.26 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.