Elderclaw
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Breeding calculator
Elderclaw
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 650
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.
- Maturation
- 92h 35m 33s
- Incubation temperature
- 24 - 28 °C
- Food at birth
- 96.57/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 87:57:46
- Total Time:
- 92:35:33
Maturation
- Elapsed Time
- 4h 37m 47s
- Maturation Time Left
- 87h 57m 46s
Time to Juvenile- 4h 37m 47s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 5366items
- Food to Adult
- 3501items
- Food Per Hour
- 111
Food Capacity- 325items
Baby Hand Feed For- 1h 8m 12s6.2% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 8.8%
- Maximum imprint
- 96.8% (11 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
Food per item- 30
Stack size- 100
- Eats at 5%
- 91.74 food/min
- Maturation
- 92h 35m 33s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Mejoberry | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 4h 37m 46s | 24,814 | 828 | 9 | 82.8 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 37h 2m 13s | 150,226 | 5,008 | 51 | 500.8 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 46h 17m 46s | 67,065 | 2,236 | 23 | 223.6 |
| Total | 87h 57m 46s | 8,072 | 83 | 807.2 |
Total: 8,072 Mejoberry
- Feeding Trough
- 6,000 items (60 slots)Need 2 full loads
Tek Trough- 10,000 items (100 slots)Fits in one load
- Maewing / Maeguana
- 300 slots50% weight reduction on meat & berries
- Baby - 7x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 56x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 70x 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 Elderclaw
Breeding the Elderclaw produces fertilized eggs that require careful temperature control. Incubation temperature must stay between 24°C and 28°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range.
After hatching or birth, the baby Elderclaw matures at a glacially slow pace - plan for a multi-day commitment, reaching adulthood in about 3 days and 20 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 ~556 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~37h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~46h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Elderclaw'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 Elderclaw babies through all three growth stages. The Baby phase (0–10%) takes ~556 minutes and is the most hands-on, requiring direct feeding or a Maewing.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Elderclaw raises by totaling food across all babies. Consider food spoilage when choosing what to feed: Kibble lasts days, while Raw Meat spoils in minutes.
Found throughout the ARKs, the Elderclaw is a tamable, omnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. It belongs to the Support category.
With 100% base Melee Damage, the Elderclaw has solid damage output. At 800 base HP, the Elderclaw is solidly tanky. Its base Stamina of 350 gives it good endurance. It carries 650 base Weight - an enormous weight pool.
As a tame, the Elderclaw pulls double duty as both a capable resource harvester and pack animal. It reproduces by laying eggs, which must be incubated between 24°C and 28°C. Defeating one in the wild grants 4 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.66 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.