♦️ TOP 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BREEDING IN ARK! Ark: Survival Evolved Breeding Tips 

I Hope you all enjoyed this Breeding Tips Video! If you want to go more in depth into breeding for stats or colors check out these two videos! ♦️ How To Breed For Colors! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YOJmA7W27rU.html ♦️ How To Breed For Colors! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YOJmA7W27rU.html

few glaring issues with this video. ill explain it for you even tho this is an old video. 1.) for dinos that are not going into the water ignore oxygen stat. 2.) ark does not have recessive genes. if you see a mutation and no stat changes it means you have mutated speed. speed levels exist as a way of showing genetic variation and are essentially hidden. all wild tames will have some stat points allocated into speed that bumps up their level. as for colours its possible to mutate the same colour as the parents, a colour mutation takes a segment colour and rolls in a (wider than wild) spectrum of colours and picks it. 3.) torpidity is different from all other stats it cannot directly mutate but every level a dino has also adds a level of torpidity, basically higher lv higher torpidity. (including speed levels) 4.) if you wanna make super dinos you wanna mutate, and ark has a level cap for dinos on official servers (450). as i mentioned earlier speed lvs are wasted lvs that do nothing but bump up lv and torpidity, so why not remove them? i do this on all of my tames i breed and it verifies almost everything i mentioned earlier. this is done by finding a lv 5 wild dino knocking it out and looking for 4 distinct lvs allocated (eg .1 health 1 stam 2 melee) that means that it has 0 speed stat, tame it with no bonus lvs by punching it a few times. breed this into the line making sure that the 0 is taken by the kids. can also remove oxygen for non marine dinos. example: I breed aberrant Spinos on a legacy server (cos i didnt wanna migrate :p) 901 so i can prove all this is you want. I got my spinos to lv 258 when born with high speed and oxy levels, so i tamed a lv 5 Spino and got lucky it had no oxygen or speed, bred this into the line and got myself a 225 Spino with the exact same stats as the 258. at this point the speed was gone so i bred it back again with the child and got 192 with 650 oxygen. This Spino can mutate much further than the 258 by always breeding it with a 0 mutant parent. it also could be useful on pvp servers for being underestimated. sorry for the long post if you read this far hope it makes sense and helps.

Hi Tag, Thanks for the Video. Torpor doesn't mutate though. Its always bound to the level. But it's higher for mutated "dinos" because their levels are higher :) When u don't see a mutated stat but torpor increase, it's a movespeed mutation.

You explained almost everything but I don't understand how baby dinos are made. Where do they come from? Can you explain that process please?

What I learned from the video 1. You can hitch dinos to fence foundations

I always thought breeding was just to get more of a specific animal, no those babies are so much stronger than tameables

1:55 Perfect tame (Kibble + Undamaged) 150 = 220-224 in resault. 225= GM tame.

Bred troodons yesterday for the first time, and got a vibrant pink baby, I can’t wait to breed him with his mother for more pink babies, also got twin oviraptor with a purple mutation, still waiting on a vibrant theri mutation and not a black belly. Edit: it’s actually a 30% buff in damage and resistance.

Did he explain imprinting twice or did my video just lag.....?O.o

You can level up tames, and keep track of stats easily, by adding a folder in their inventory with the stats as the folder’s name.

Lmao!! 10:55 ALL THE PUPPIES!! That’s hilarious, look at them all. XD

Just to add a remark in, some mods like superglass shows the wild levels put into dinos, these are the levels that they also got from the tame boost, allowing people to use and level their dinos without worrying about not knowing the better stats on them for breeding purposes.

the explosion of baby wolves had me laughing so hard XD so funny

Great video, just want to add that a fully imprited dino gets 30% bonus to damage and resistance not 20%. Also the value scales with your imprinting progression so for 30% you gonna need 100% imprinting.

Great video on breeding Tag!! Everyone plz check out all of Tag's breeding how to videos! He really is the best I have seen at explaining how it all works :)

I just got some low level (20 and 35) carnos then mass bred them, I now have an army of about 40 lvl 50 to 80 carnos and one lvl 147 pack leader carno! Just started to do the same with rexes, I have 4 so far!

I got a really nice Tip from one of my server colleagues - they create folders in the dino inventory with the names of the stats directly after taming. this way they can level them and still always know what the base stats were, in order to breed properly. Ofc you could just do an axcel List, but this way it's always referring directly to the dino. Bit of work though.

Super loved this! Extremely helpful and making me even more excited to breed. Waiting for 2x or more gaming on official server right now, but now I know why my megalosaurus came out the way it did. Thanks so much Tag! Love your videos.

10:55 this happened to me... um not with the costumer service I was taking care of a baby iguanodon and I got an army

Another tip is that you should give those dinos you want to breed proper names. In a system you understand. For example, I named some Rex "Gen3 F Melee 2MutHS", which means Generation 3 Female, good base melee damage, 2 mutations on health and stamina. So you can spot them much easier in that cloud of dinos without having to crawl through their stats and folders.

You can also create a folder in the dinos inventory with its base stats if you want to level it up

Probably should have suggested to do one of two things in place of "jotting down stats", either create folders in the dino inventory to label the base stats or just use the Smart Breeding app to record dino's into the library, why is there never mention from you about this app, it saves sooooo much of the guess work

I have a question- so when you tame something, there is usually levels gained and levels are added to stats randomly once tamed so, when breeding, will the dinos pass down the stats from before the tame or after the tame?

Use dino folders and write the tamed or newborn stats numbers in there, then you can go crazy and apply whatever levels they earn because you'll always know the original stats and level from the folders you created inside the dinos

Man, wish I woulda found you back when you covered this stuff. At least Atlas is coming soon :D

Ya know the way I said u should breed 2 same lvl dinos? I'm breeding megalosaurus on an unofficial server (max wild Dino 300 and perfect tame is like 450) but while using the same lvls my stud breeders were twins and now their offspring and their children's are just lvl 404, the same as the parents

I love Ur breeding vids. I plan to let my breeders passively level like Urs, and once their breeding days are over ill turn them into work animals and either neuter+sell with the levels available for the new owner to allocate themselves, or ill then level and use them myself as expendables/sacrifices such as for those test runs against an alpha, for example, or to gather meat/metal/anything when its super dangerous out and I just don't want to risk my good dinos. Which may help others who can't as readily breed. Thanks so much for these videos.

You don't wanna know what i was typing in the search bar to get to this vid. lol Had nothing to do with ark

You kept saying to "jot down stats" and someone else mentioned a folder in the dino itself. I'm assuming you've already been told a thousand times, but just in case, there's a program called ARK Smart Breeding that keeps all that information organized for you (plus a lot more utility). It always drove me absolutely nuts when people would use a wild dino stat calculator and say "my baby has 56 points in such and such" and I'd have to respond "no, it doesn't" and attempt to explain lol. This will also give you the real tamed point values.

It's not a mutation on torpor on the poop green one, it's a mutation on the movement speed stat but wild Dino's movement speed is fixed and doesnt raise Also there is a possibility of getting 3 mutations on a single baby not 2 but the chances are lower then winning the lottery

Hey Tag another good tip is to put folderers with the base stats when the baby are born. Keep up good work buddy

Thank you I’m new to ark and this was the only guide I understood to make higher levels, I’m going to check out your super Dino vid

You realise you can put stats in folders?

Hey late question but I breed my highest level ravager and lowest level level 7 only because of color is it possible for the baby to be the mothers color and fathers level

Very awesome video! I dont even play ARK but watch your videos everyday! Once i finally get ARK , I'm gunna be having so much fun breeding! You do such a great job of explaining everything that i shouldn't have any trouble starting out. Thank you good sir!

I once had twin Doed's that I ended up breeding. I named them Jamie and Cersei. :)

Great video! Confusing but when I re watch it it’s very simple thanks!

Good way to keep track of the stats is create folders inside their inventory, H1800 S1400 M250 etc. :)

4:18 No I believe it can happen, I tamed two 150 turtles and bred them and all the babies had the exact same stats. Maybe they changed turtles or I got a two rare turtles idk

Nice video and a plus your character kinda reminds me of Thick44

Great video Tag! I would point couple stuff but Jan already did it. Keep it coming!

What if you no longer have the original parents. A raid wiped out all but 2 from x amount of generations. They are a male and a female maxed out on mutations. Both are the same level, stats, and colors. Should I tame a few max level and breed which ever has the best stats with one of the 2 I already have?

You can also name the dino the main base stats so if you level them you know what stats the baby will have

It's not torpor mutation it's it being a higher level lmao

I think torpor isn't a stat that the dino gain stats in so you can't mutation it. Only the lvl of the dino

I'm pretty new to breeding for stats so this was really helpful! Thank you!

Always been a Syntac subscriber, but subbing here as well because these tips are fantastic!!

Create Folders with each starting stats Ex = HP 11345 - STM 560 etc.. So you will be able to level up the dinos :D

when we breed, we put folders into the dinos we want to breed later. it helps us keep track of the stats especially after imprinting since imprint stats dont carry over to offspring. otherwise we would have rex's that are 15k health and 500 melee out of the egg.

you have helped me and my tribe a lot. i started playing around thanksgiving 2017 my tribe mates have been playing since beta......i am the keeper of the stats.....i pick who breeds with who and am the den mother when raising babies. (yay tribe imprints)- 99% of our babies we do imprint as we try to make sure we can use them if needed. Example our rexes all go to the boss fight minus the head of a mutation line. and my yuti bolted on me before i could mount up....ended up on one of my rexes so got the boosts. :) our rex lines though are fun. Got a stam mutation....first egg from him hatched with the stam mutation and a new melee mutation on top of it. then another line popped with another mutation (passive stat currently) and we have 1 other color mutation we were give but 0 info on base stats so we havent used it yet.

Bit late for the video just 1 thing I think you got wrong is Torpidity doesn't get a mutation that goes by dino level so checking a 247 and the 249 like you did makes it seem like it got the mutation but it doesn't it's all about that dino level also if it's private server where you aren't uploading or downloading Dino you can actually create a folder saying like H2421 S483 so on and so forth so you can level up your dinos and just keep it noted down also a very easy way to remember who you are breeding is rename dinos to Breeder F and Breeder M another thing is if you are doing stats name it S Breeder for Stam Breeder H Breeder for Health so on so forth and 1 step further is All Breeder 0/10 Meaning it's an all Stat Breeder 0 Mutations on Father Side and 10 Mutations on Mothers Side. so you go by the name of the dinos instead of checking every wolf you have to find the right one

Or you could download Ark Smart Breeding and use unneeded dinos as throwaways. 100% imprinting bonus is 20% to stats and 30% rider only damage/ resistance bonus.

Thx Tag , i learn alot from you! This explained all for me. I just don't get any mutation :(

I’ve seen ppl say male gives the stats and female gives color, can some1 reply here so I can prove they’re wrong plz.

When the video has a shitty click bait title, but u watch cuz u want the best aberrant paracer ever.

On official servers, max dino level is 449 for tribe dinos, if it hits 450 or higher, it will despawn on next server restart due to a dev spawning a lvl1000 giga on a server and fertilized eggs being mass produced. So even though it would take a long time to mutate your levels to hit that cap, it would be pointless to breed high oxygen food or movement speed, since the levels it takes would actually mean less mutations to breed into that dino on stats like dmg and health. Food can be just stored in the dinos inventory anyway, and oxygen is pointless on land dinos, and movement speed, doesn't actually effect the base speed of the dino unless put in by the tribe in levels. So really hitting lvl 378 from a new born dino, you wouldn't really want to breed it anymore unless its just for dupes. Then you can level it the 71 levels.

Theres a merstake u never pump points into them.. not for breeders. As it instantly fks there states up

Thanks for the video. But how many times are you gonna tell us that imprinting gives 20% damage/damage resistance! I clicked fast forward about 3 times and you said the same info constantly 😂

So I decided to ignore my own advise for a test run of mutation breeding in Ark Mobile by breeding dilos. I can tell what it inherited directly from mom and directly from dad, but there's one stat that's off by a bit. Level 27 Dad has 216.5 melee damage. Level 3 mom has 187.5 melee damage. Level 16 baby has 224 melee damage, 7.5 points more than dad. Ark Mobile doesn't have anything that says if it got any mutations or not. So that's why I am asking you if I got a stat mutation or is this to be expected?

I clicked the perfect vid cuz i was trying to breed dire wolfs aswell

guys I need help breeding! I got 2 lvl 150 Dire wolfs and bred them. Got a baby with highest hp stam weight and dmg from parents. I also imprinted it once bcs why not and after it grew up it now has 200 hp more and more dmg?! Now my second baby hatched. Highest Hp stamina weight but not dmg. Why is this baby lvl 237 and the first one lvl 240?? did I get a mutation or how do I get both same dire wolfs??

Now this is somebody that I can subscribe to

What I understand is that I just stack good stats over and over

There is no recessive mutations, when you don't see a mutation in the stats/color, it is a speed mutation. If you check it with a mod like super spyglass, they tend to have 2 extra points in speed. Is stupid, but that's where that invisible mutation is.

23:45 genetic anchor?

Do a full video on stegos please. I cant wait for stego mutations. Great video.

1:20 Not sure if its second when its gestated. Got rollback on official server and baby had different stats than baby before rollback.

So the third generation is the one that really matters. Cause they will have the same stats with the born stats?

If you had to choose between dire Wolf and Saberthoot what do you choose?

So if you level them up they will pop a baby with the original level and stats. The level and stats of when you first tame it. So all the new stats won't cross over to make a higher level or higher stats only when there is a mutation. So if you imprint and level the original tamed one is pointless because the baby's will still come with the original stats and level unless it's mutated?

Have you ever used ark smart breeder? I hear a lot about it but whenever I try to use it I always get errors.

11:10 Rule Number alpha and omega, dont call customer service period, unless you want to sit on a phone for 2 hrs

So I usually play ark mobile- I do have it for the Xbox but my younger brothers never really give me a chance to go on so I am still just starting off for my single player worlds- but it is really hard to breed dinos because you can have a max of 40 tames and I’ve had to kill so many tames just to be able to try to breed for mutations. Plus I usually do single player so I can’t just put my phone down and not have the app open to wait for dinos to be able to either breed again or wait for the dinos to grow up. It’d be soooo much easier if at least there wasn’t the 40 tames max thing on mobile.

LORD, thank you so much for explaining this in a way I could understand, and without making me feel dumb haha

Really helpful video thanks so much

tbh you can take a pic of there states off the start so you know so you can lvl your dino’s up

Thank you so much for this video, I watched it about a week ago and now my Official Rex's are popping out with guaranteed at least 12k+ hp and 410+ melee, on gen 5

Whoa i almost leveling up my dino and breed them...thx this is helpful

Thank you!! I was thinking last night how I could breed better so thank you for the vid

You Guys Know U Can have a male mate with 2 or maybe more females ( I have done it before but, u must have a certain placement)

Is a there a dinsosaur version of Planned Parenthood if the baby doesn't have the stats you want?

can you make two separate animals mate in ark? like a raptor and a saber tooth cat? is there a way to do that? ive wanted to do that but i dont know if you can

It’s 30% damage increase and resistance on the dino for the person that imprinted on it

I've had some super success with my rexs thanks to your videos but I'm stuck in a rut with my Gigas. I finally got a color mute but the only change I've seen is levels. I started with a wild 130 father with 170 melee and a wild 145 mother with 215 melee. My babies are all hatching with 215 melee and my levels keep increasing. Why am I not seeing an increase in stats? Just hatched a 230 with 215 melee from the 217 tamed thrice great grandmother. What should I do to get a higher melee?

You know what would be cool, if you breed relatives something would happen like they’d get horrible stats or have a negative birth defect or something but not all the time so it’s a gamble idk that’d be cool but also suck at the same time

Just a quick question Tag, Im currently breeding quit alot but do you imprint those at the start aswell, whilst breeding for the higher lvls? Or just forget about the imprinting all together untill you get those 2 identical dino's with the exact same stats.

time to learn about the Bee queen and the argentavis

The base stats. Is that the stats after it becomes tamed or when it is still unconscious?

I needed to know about breeding in ark I just got it 👍

i always made folders of the stats that i find important in breeding. I lvl dino into health so they live longer during a raid; or used to.

So when meeting my mutation goal and breeding the final baby, do I have to make multiple attempts at a perfect baby with zero passive mutations? That would mean it came down to a bit of luck and grind at the end, correct?

hi thx for the video but it's partially wrong, babies have a chance to take 70% of the UNLEVELLED BY THE PLAYER stats, meaning if you level it up and put everything into stamina , the baby won't take the current stamina but the one it had after taming , imprinting doesn't count either

This was helpfull

Also the % for a full imprint on a dino when getting a boost from riding is 30% not 20

T hank you for this video

Step 6, use dodo dex to see if stats are amazaing or bad

Helpful

Ok subscribed just bc of the mass wolf breeding accident. I've done that before with thylas xD

Got three mutations that didn’t show up and became recessive and was about to stop breeding my Rex’s then they showed up and all were into melee!!

If you level up a breeding pair does the baby get a higher level to?