Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~5 days and 12 hours (1x rate), progressing over an extremely long period, one of the longest in the game. Hand-feeding is required until 10% maturation. After that, a Feeding Trough handles the rest.

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.

Maturation has three phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~794 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~53h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~66h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.

Don't skip imprinting - each successful imprint boosts the Zeppelin'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.

The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Zeppelin. Expect ~794 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.

The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Zeppelin 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 Zeppelin is a tamable, flying creature in ARK: Survival Ascended. Classified under the Ignore group.

At 20,000 base HP, the Zeppelin is extraordinarily tanky. A base Weight of 1800 means massive inventory space.

The Zeppelin is passively tamed - approach it carefully and feed it by hand without knocking it out.

Once tamed, the Zeppelin serves as a powerful aerial pack animal for transporting resources across the map. Defeating one in the wild grants 18 base XP. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.98 Element plus 0.1 Element per level.