Golden Striped Megalodon
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Golden Striped Megalodon
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 250
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
- 6h 9m 13s
- Maturation
- 71h 13m 30s
- Food at birth
- 56.67/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 67:39:49
- Total Time:
- 71:13:30
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 6h 9m 13s
Elapsed Time- 3h 33m 41s
- Maturation Time Left
- 67h 39m 49s
Time to Juvenile- 3h 33m 41s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 2422items
- Food to Adult
- 1581items
- Food Per Hour
- 65
Food Capacity- 125items
Baby Hand Feed For- 1h 8m 12s6.6% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 11.6%
- Maximum imprint
- 92.8% (8 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
- Food per item
- 50
Stack size- 40
- Eats at 5%
- 53.84 food/min
- Maturation
- 71h 13m 30s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Raw Meat | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 3h 33m 40s | 11,201 | 225 | 6 | 22.5 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 28h 29m 24s | 67,812 | 1,357 | 34 | 135.7 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 35h 36m 45s | 30,273 | 606 | 16 | 60.6 |
| Total | 67h 39m 49s | 2,188 | 56 | 218.8 |
Total: 2,188 Raw Meat
- Feeding Trough
- 2,400 items (60 slots)Fits in one load
Tek Trough- 4,000 items (100 slots)Fits in one load
- Maewing / Maeguana
- 300 slots50% weight reduction on meat & berries
- Baby - 6x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 43x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 54x 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 Golden Striped Megalodon
The Golden Striped Megalodon gives live birth after mating, skipping the egg-incubation step entirely. Gestation takes approximately 6 hours and 9 minutes at default rates.
The baby Golden Striped Megalodon takes approximately 2 days and 23 hours to fully mature at default rates - requiring significant patience. 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.
Raising a baby Golden Striped Megalodon involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~427 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~28h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~36h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Imprinting during maturation provides permanent stat bonuses. At 100% imprint, the Golden Striped Megalodon gains 30% bonus damage and resistance when ridden by the imprinter. You'll be asked to cuddle, walk, or feed specific kibble at regular intervals during maturation.
The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Golden Striped Megalodon. Expect ~427 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.
The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Golden Striped Megalodon raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.
The Golden Striped Megalodon is an aquatic, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended.
Melee starts at 100% - solid damage output that scales with level-ups. At 600 base HP, the Golden Striped Megalodon is solidly tanky. Its base Stamina of 320 gives it decent staying power. A base Weight of 250 means good carrying capacity.
The Golden Striped Megalodon cannot be tamed and must be dealt with through combat or avoidance. It gives live birth after a gestation period, making breeding straightforward. A wild Golden Striped Megalodon is worth 12 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.37 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.