The Rift Dunkleosteus gives live birth after mating, skipping the egg-incubation step entirely.Gestation takes approximately 8 hours at default rates.

Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~3 days and 10 hours (1x rate), progressing over many real-world days, demanding serious time investment.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.

Raising a baby Rift Dunkleosteus involves three maturation phases: Baby (0–10%) lasts ~494 min and requires constant hand-feeding.Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~33h - it can eat from a Trough now.Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~41h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.

Imprinting during maturation provides permanent stat bonuses.At 100% imprint, the Rift Dunkleosteus 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 Rift Dunkleosteus.Expect ~494 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.

The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Rift Dunkleosteus 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 Rift Dunkleosteus is an aquatic, carnivore creature in ARK: Survival Ascended.Classified under the Variant group.

With 100% base Melee Damage, the Rift Dunkleosteus has solid damage output.Starting at 710 Health, it's quite durable.With 200 base Stamina, the Rift Dunkleosteus has decent staying power.Weight capacity starts at 910, giving it an enormous weight pool.

The Rift Dunkleosteus cannot be tamed and must be dealt with through combat or avoidance.Breeding is via live birth rather than eggs, simplifying the process.Killing a wild Rift Dunkleosteus yields 12 base XP.It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.43 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.