Pirate Pegomastax
CreatureVariant
Breeding calculator
Pirate Pegomastax
SettingsHatch 1× · Mature 1× · Food 1× · Weight 140
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.
- Incubation
- 1h 8m 10s
- Maturation
- 30h 51m 51s
- Incubation temperature
- 28 - 32 °C
- Food at birth
- 47.22/min
Maturation Progress
- Status:
- Baby
- Time Left:
- 29:19:15
- Total Time:
- 30:51:51
Maturation
- Incubation Time
- 1h 8m 10s
- Elapsed Time
- 1h 32m 36s
- Maturation Time Left
- 29h 19m 15s
Time to Juvenile- 1h 32m 36s
Food
- Total Food Items
- 875items
- Food to Adult
- 571items
- Food Per Hour
- 54
Food Capacity- 70items
Baby Hand Feed For- 10m 16s5.6% maturation
Imprinting
- Cuddle interval
- 8h
- Imprint per cuddle
- 27.7%
- Maximum imprint
- 83.1% (3 cuddles)
Settings8 h · interval ×1 · amount ×1
Raising food
Food per item- 30
Stack size- 100
- Eats at 5%
- 44.86 food/min
- Maturation
- 30h 51m 51s
| Stage | Time remaining | Food points | Mejoberry | Stacks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BabyNeed this much for 5% to 10% | 1h 32m 35s | 4,044 | 135 | 2 | 13.5 |
| JuvenileNeed this much for 10% to 50% | 12h 20m 44s | 24,482 | 817 | 9 | 81.7 |
| AdolescentNeed this much for 50% to 100% | 15h 25m 55s | 10,930 | 365 | 4 | 36.5 |
| Total | 29h 19m 15s | 1,317 | 15 | 131.7 |
Total: 1,317 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 - 3x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Juvenile - 19x trough refills needed (food spoils before phase ends)
- Adolescent - 24x 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 Pirate Pegomastax
After a successful mate, the Pirate Pegomastax lays a fertilized egg. Incubation temperature must stay between 28°C and 32°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 1 hour and 8 minutes.
After hatching or birth, the baby Pirate Pegomastax matures over a lengthy period, reaching adulthood in about 1 day and 6 hours at 1x maturation. Hand-feeding is required until 10% maturation. After that, a Feeding Trough handles the rest.
Mutations can add +2 levels to any stat and change colors. Stacking mutations across generations is the key to min-maxed breeding lines. Use the breeding calculator to plan food requirements, incubation timers, and maturation phases.
Raising a baby Pirate Pegomastax involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~185 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~12h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~15h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.
Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Pirate Pegomastax's stats, and hitting 100% grants a 30% combat bonus when the imprinter rides it. Imprint requests include cuddling, walks, and specific kibble - check the wiki for which kibble to stockpile.
Planning a mass raise? The Pirate Pegomastax raising calculator breaks down food needs per phase so nothing goes to waste. The Baby phase (0–10%) takes ~185 minutes and is the most hands-on, requiring direct feeding or a Maewing.
Raising multiple Pirate Pegomastax simultaneously? Set the dino count and the calculator scales food requirements automatically. Match your food choice to your play schedule - longer spoil timers mean less babysitting.
ARK: Survival Ascended features the Pirate Pegomastax as a herbivore creature that survivors will encounter in the wild. It falls within the Variant classification.
Health-wise, the Pirate Pegomastax sits at 6,000 base, making it an absolute bullet sponge.
The Pirate Pegomastax cannot be tamed and must be dealt with through combat or avoidance. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a 28°C–32°C temperature window. A wild Pirate Pegomastax is worth 0.5 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.28 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.