Lamprey
CreatureMisc
Breeding calculator
Lamprey
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 10
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- 5items
Baby Hand Feed For- 4h 28m 32s9.8% 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 Lamprey
After hatching or birth, the baby Lamprey matures over many real-world days, demanding serious time investment, 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.
Imprint bonuses are significant: a fully imprinted Lamprey gains 30% extra damage and damage resistance with its imprinter mounted. You'll be asked to cuddle, walk, or feed specific kibble at regular intervals during maturation.
Use the raising calculator to plan food requirements for raising Lamprey 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 Lamprey 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 Lamprey is an aquatic, herbivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended.
Health-wise, the Lamprey sits at 40 base, making it very frail. Melee starts at 100% - respectable melee power that scales with level-ups. With 100 base Stamina, the Lamprey has limited endurance. A base Weight of 10 means very limited carrying capacity.
The Lamprey is a wild creature that cannot be tamed through conventional methods. A wild Lamprey is worth 1 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0 Element plus 0 Element per level.