After a successful mate, the Tek Raptor lays a fertilized egg. Incubation temperature must stay between 20°C and 28°C - use Air Conditioners, Standing Torches, or Dimetrodons to maintain the range. At the correct temperature, the egg hatches in approximately 1 hour and 59 minutes.

Full maturation from baby to adult takes ~1 day and 13 hours (1x rate), progressing requiring significant patience. 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 ~222 min and requires constant hand-feeding. Juvenile (10–50%) spans ~15h - it can eat from a Trough now. Adolescent (50–100%) takes ~19h - continues eating from troughs, nearly fully grown.

Imprint bonuses are significant: a fully imprinted Tek Raptor 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.

The raising calculator above shows exactly how much food you need for each maturation phase of the Tek Raptor. Expect ~222 minutes of active care during the Baby phase before it graduates to trough-feeding as a Juvenile.

The multiplier feature helps plan large-scale Tek Raptor raises by totaling food across all babies. Different food types have different spoil timers - factor that into which food you stockpile.

ARK: Survival Ascended features the Tek Raptor as a tamable, carnivore creature that survivors will encounter in the wild. It belongs to the Variant category.

The Tek Raptor has 200 base Health - relatively fragile. Its base Melee Damage sits at 100%, giving it respectable melee power. Its base Stamina of 150 gives it moderate endurance. It carries 140 base Weight - a reasonable inventory size.

To tame the Tek Raptor, you need to knock it unconscious using torpor weapons, then feed it while it's down. Feed it Simple Kibble for the fastest tame and highest effectiveness bonus.

Once tamed, the Tek Raptor is primarily used for resource harvesting, excelling at gathering specific materials. Breeding produces fertilized eggs that hatch within a 20°C–28°C temperature window. A wild Tek Raptor is worth 3 base experience when killed. It can be cloned at a Cloning Chamber for 0.23 Element plus 0.01 Element per level.