Giant Bee
CreatureVariant
Breeding calculator
Giant Bee
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 150
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
- 8h 0m 0s
- Maturation
- 92h 35m 33s
- Food at birth
- 53.12/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 87:57:46
- Total Time:
- 92:35:33
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 8h 0m 0s
Elapsed Time- 4h 37m 47s
- Maturation Time Left
- 87h 57m 46s
Time to Juvenile- 4h 37m 47s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 2952items
- Food to Adult
- 1926items
- Food Per Hour
- 61
Food Capacity- 75items
Baby Hand Feed For- 2h 45m 13s8.0% 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%
- 50.47 food/min
- Maturation
- 92h 35m 33s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Mejoberry | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 4h 37m 46s | 13,649 | 455 | 5 | 45.5 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 37h 2m 13s | 82,634 | 2,755 | 28 | 275.5 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 46h 17m 46s | 36,890 | 1,230 | 13 | 123 |
| Total | 87h 57m 46s | 4,440 | 46 | 444 |
Total: 4,440 Mejoberry
- Feeding Trough
- 6,000 items (60 slots)Fits in one load
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 Giant Bee
The baby Giant Bee takes approximately 3 days and 20 hours to fully mature at default rates - over an extremely long period, one of the longest in the game. 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 Giant Bee's growth progresses through three stages: 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.
Imprint bonuses are significant: a fully imprinted Giant Bee 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 Giant Bee. Expect ~556 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Giant Bee raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
Found throughout the ARKs, the Giant Bee is a tamable, flying, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. Classified under the Variant group.
Its base Stamina of 200 gives it average stamina. With 100% base Melee Damage, the Giant Bee has solid damage output. At 80 base HP, the Giant Bee is very frail. Weight capacity starts at 150, giving it modest carrying capacity.
After taming, the Giant Bee works well as a reconnaissance mount, offering fast travel and a bird's-eye view of the terrain. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0 Element plus 0 Element per level.