The COMPLETE ARK Ascended BREEDING GUIDE For Mutations 

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Out of all the guides, yours is definitely the best, because of the cute carno drawing haha. I think the biggest change to breeding I’m grateful for is that movement speed is no longer a stat that can be leveled. The stat distribution is much higher now on newly tamed Dino’s, and it also improves chance of getting a favorable mutation slightly.

I have a feeling I'm gonna be referring to this video for a long time. Thank you for all your work developing the most complete yet concise and digestible guide available.

Great guide, thank you so much Tiia for putting so much time and effort into testing the new breeding process.

The Ultimate Ark Ascended breeding guide, Love to see it out finally!

Thank you so much, been waiting for this!

Amazing guide. I think this might be the most informative. I was having an issue with how new mutations work with passing and you answered that very well. So now I think I understand it fully.

Amazing video! Thanks so much for all the testing 🙏

I've only just found this channel, and this breeding guide genuinely *_is_* the best 👏

This was very clear and thorough. Thank you for this.

Been waiting for this to drop! :)

Great guide, it can be a boring topic but listening to your voice and accent explain it all made it interesting ❤

Going to watch this guide a lot when starting to breed to slowly get a better understanding of the mechanic.

What a well put together video! Thanks a lot Tiia.

Very well put together

Thanks for sharing your hard work.

Very well put together video

keep up the great work ! :)

thanks for all this well done job

Thanks for the hard work you did.

Thank you for the amazing guide

Just started playing, great timing

Great job. Thank you

This is so awesome!

Excellent job. 👍

I'd say this was an instant sub. But it definitely took me a lot longer than that to understand everything well

Excellent video and confirmed I was breeding correctly. I will say that for me, using PureRef to take snips of the stats (after naming them something like F228-M1-Melee or something similar) makes it quick and easy to generate a family tree essentially to track mutation lines. You can also add notes to the images so I highly recommend it in addition what's listed here.

Excellent video, will share to anyone I see asking about ASA breeding. I would like to add one simple helpful tip to make keeping track of stats easier - simply name your breeders after their stats, or at least their key ones. That way you can simply check a baby's ancestry, or look over at the father, and see what stats have changed when you get a mutation. Also makes it easier to tell if a new tame has a higher base stat than what you currently have - you can use the new tame tracker to show you the names of all your creatures; just include base stat or wild tame or something for non-mutated creatures.

Nice vid.

When i complete my mutations in dmg on a male x And completed mutations in hp on male y How to get the final dino that have both dmg and hp mutations on it ? Plz answer

Great guide and explanation. Any chance you can test if it's still possible to get a negative mutation counter?

Great video thanks and dont try and keep evryone in your community happy just do what you want and the people that want to watxh and support you will do so.

You are the best!!

Nicely done! Clear, concise and covers all relevant concepts (that I'm aware of at least). Much appreciate all the probability info, I know how much work it takes to gather that stuff. Also appreciate coverage of the changes with ASA. Subbed! 😁

Wow thanks for this guide! I almost didn't click on it bc i played ASE and figured nothing really changed. I have been holding off on breeding but after this vid i have been wasting time.

Amazing guide. What's the purple potions in your inventory

thank you for this

Something that I don't think was covered in this great video, and when explaining mutations I find it's the MOST confusing part to people, is how the paternal/maternal mutation numbers work (the x/20 numbers in the ancestry page of the Dinos stats). A lot of people think that the baby inherits the sum of the maternal values of its parents as the maternal value, and the sum of the paternal values of its parents as the maternal value, and this is where a lot of the confusion comes in: The baby gains the sum of the FATHER's maternal + paternal mutation values as the baby's PATERNAL values, and the sum of the MOTHER's maternal + paternal mutation values as the baby's MATERNAL values. This is how you are able to force mutations to keep occurring indefinitely, because we keep the mutations ONLY on the male breeder, meaning the baby only inherits paternal mutation values (and maybe one maternal value if it happens to be a mutated baby). You will only ever see 0 or 1 for the maternal value in the ancestry if you keep clean females, and the paternal values will continue to increase, and even increase beyond 20 (after the paternal stacks reach 20+, the male breeder will ALWAYS have 1 in the maternal mutation stack, because mutations will only come from the mothers, this is the 4% break point that Tiia was talking about). Quick example: The father has 7 paternal and 2 maternal mutations, the mother has 5 paternal and 1 maternal mutation. The baby's inherited mutation values (regardless of if it inherits whatever parent's stats) will be 9 paternal (7 + 2) and 6 maternal (5 + 1), with maybe 1 more stack if it got a NEW mutation. Again, no matter what stats the baby inherits, it will ALWAYS be 9/6. If, say, that baby was a male, and you use that baby to breed a new baby, that new baby's paternal mutation value will be 15, if you used the same mother from before, it will be 15/6, and if you use THAT (male again, just for simplicity) baby to breed a new baby, it will inherit 21 paternal stacks, and it CANNOT produce a mutated offspring (though the mother still can, the mutation will not ever come from the paternal line at this point). So even though it was only a few generations down the line (certainly not 20), it has reached the cap because of how mutation values work. This is why it's important to use clean females so the male breeder never inherits "extra" mutation values causing you to reach the cap earlier than necessary.

The only breeding guide you ever need.

Ur amazing, thanks!

Thank you for all of your hard work! I have a question. I work on the base pair and while waiting for the fem. of a certain level, I have a male egg with a mutation in melee, but it is on the maternal site. Is it important if a mutation is on the maternal site though the egg is for the male dino? In other words, should I discard this egg, or keep it since mutations are now transferable? I did breeding in Ark evolved and the mutation staking is a bit confusing to me.

all the math and game code really loses me in these videos. i’m sure some people find it helpful but i really just want someone to show how to do this IN GAME and show WHAT to do how to set it up and what to look for. simple people like me really just need a tutorial not always an explanation. great video just find it hard to follow with all the diagrams and probabilities.

10 hours... Hardcore. x.x Thank you. Subbed.

Currently waiting on a new 4070 gpu and can't wait to put this guide into practice

Hey 😊 for the creatures going over ase cal why is the photo cropped down so much, and is it also definitely confirmed by that extension not just a visual of the mut point cap + the base but the points to stat still = 254 ?

Ty

Hi iv mite have missed part of this but, I have bred High lv raptors non leveled then raised the babys now are adults. So should i put levels in to them to get good stats or do i just breed them again as they will just have the base lv as the adult again?

good video

Great work ! Well explained, thanks a lot Tiia.

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Great guide, well done for all the hard work. I've done extensive stacking over the years in ASE so have intimate knowledge of the workings of stacking and combining for stats and colours. It appears to be not all that different in ASA or am I completely wrong because of knowledge bias from the previous version?

Great video, the best breeding guide out there! I've shared this with my community 😊

Im still confused so i tamed a level 100 male Andrewsarchus and a female on that is level 125. So i breed them together to get a 128 base level to start breeding for Mutation so my next one would be a 130 right i got it it was male. I switched them but know i see on all the baby that are being breeded i see the mutation stat so now my 132 are 2 points in to health as well as 2 points in to melee. Im confused do i need to worry about the stats on health that was the 130 i got. Would in need to wait for a 134 to get another stat in health or would it be a 132 ive never really breed before on ase im still lost im on Xbox

Tiia, are the chances of stacking for one specific stat higher with one mutated+clean or mutated+mutated. Ex: Mutated of 2 in melee + clean or both mutated of both parents (dad) 2 melee + (mom) 2 melee. Or does this make a difference in the percentage rate for stacking?

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Hey, lovely vid, I just have a question. Once dino reaches 60|254|0 can it level up? Previosly in ASE dinos with 255 base points couldn't even lvl. What about now? You can level them up?

Hello, Im currently doing mutations. And i have a better 0/0 pair, can i breed in the current mutations i have and continue breeding for mutations? Or should i stack my mutations first then breed in the higher stats?

so if you get 10 mutations in melee on a rex and 10 mutations in health on another do you just combine them into a male and use it for breeding into clean females?

what about - mutation? does it work in asa?

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With mutation and wild points being separated now, does the 254 point limit still apply between both points or the 254 only applies to the mutation points. If so can you still add experience points into a tame with 254 mutation points?

hi, so i need to stack like 20 mutations in HP; later i need to stack (with original perfect parent) 20 mutations in damage. After this, i need to combine the dino with 20 mutations in HP and the dino with 20 mutations in damage, in order to have a dino with 40 total mutations (20 in HP and 20 in damage), right? And is uncorrect if i stack 2 type of mutations in a single dino, like damage and HP in a dino (so 10 mutation in HP and 10 in damage), and another dino with other 2 stack mutations in weight and stamina (so 10 in stamina and 10 in weight). Later combine the 2 dino with the 2 stacks. This is wrong? It's better the first option? Thanks in advance 🙂

So i have two questions one , i have a tuso with a single mutation point in the ancestery father line but , 0 mutations in the stats (im using tek binocs) what happened there is it a movement speed mutation? Second question in your earlier math you say all tames have a minimum level of 1 but i have seen babies with a level of 0 stat points in a stat does that change anything ?

Using the formula you provided at 7:05 Odds of a mutation on either of health/melee and retain both health/melee muts: .0731/6*2*.55^2 = .74% Odds of a mutation on specifically melee and retain just melee mut: .0731/6*1*.55^1 = .67% As you can see, it is better to do 2 stats combined rather than separate. The extra benefit is it requires moving the male in half as often. The extra downside though is that when you reach the maximum number of females you can fit to 1 male and want to expand, you will need another male for another batch of females. So whenever you get a new male you will need to wait another breeding period until you can replace the second male in the other room with the other half of the females. With running the lines separate, you can just have 1 room for health and the other room for melee, saving 1 breeding period per mutation increase. However, repeating this comparison for doing 3 stats combined vs separate: Odds of a mutation on either of health/melee/weight and retain all health/melee/weight: .0731/6*3*.55^3 = .608% Odds of a mutation on specifically melee and retain just melee mut: still .67% If the odds were 50/50 instead of 55/45, then the first two %'s displayed would match, the reasoning is because 2*2 is the same as 2^2. However, 2*3 isnt the same as 2^3, this is why breeding 3 lines combined is less effective, but breeding 2 lines combined is more effective.

Great vid tiia :) just a question i want to clarify, at 11:36 you mention the stat cap, saying we can acheive 254 muta, and also have a base stat that can be any number? is the base value capped to 60 like you showed in your example? or does this mean we get 254 mutations, and then keep taming in search of a higher base stat? or is 60 the base cap, and 254 muta cap?

Holy cow, mutation stacks can be transferred directly to clean offspring independently from their base stats?

Hi thanks for this good video. But it’s missing negative mutations are they still a thing?

Wait so asa now can boost newer base stats through breeding old lines? Did i unstand that? So if i have a base giga with 30 pts and 14 mutation points. And tame a new one with 50 base and breed them i could get a 64 mel giga?

one thing i noticed is when you have a higher damage, lvling the damage when the dino lvls the higher it goes up. does this work with every stat? does lvling more in oxygen make more lvl in damage go up too? or is there no point in finding high dinos besides hjealth and damage?

This is the first video I found that explained the wild mutation points. As far as setting up breeding, I went out and tamed the lowest level Rex I could find both male and female. I made sure the taming effectiveness was under 43% so that they gained no levels. Then reverse bred them until I got a level 1 female. Then I clone about 20-30 of them and mate them to the male with the stat I need until I clean off all the unwanted stats. So say for Rex I only want health and melee, so I keep a male that pops with only the Health Stat, and a separate one that pops with only the melee stat. Then I set up both males to breed with separate groups of level 1 females. This increases the chances of only getting the stat mutation that I need on both lines. It also makes it easier to see all mutations when the mother is all zeros on stats and mutations. In just one day I have moved my Rex line up in health by 4 mutations while keeping all other stats clean. It also keeps the max level down on the dino allowing for more points to be added as it levels up. My starter Rex was a level 225 when I lotto picked it from the F1 shop. I have been able to increase the stats I need and lowered the dino to a level 46

Great work! Do we know if mutation stacks can be additive at all? Can a baby inherit 10 stacks from the mother and 10 stacks from the father to get 20 stacks?

I'm still confused a bit. So if both the female and male have over 20 mutations is it still lower to 4% chance to have mutations? Or is there a 0% chance of ever getting any more mutations

Ok, I understand most everything about the breeding process, but have one question. How is it more efficient to have separate "breeder males"- one for each stat? So mega tribes only breed for one stat at a time? What if Im currently breeding for HP and I get a melee mutation? Just throw it away? Seems like going one stat at a time is MAJORLY inefficient as far as time goes. Or am I not getting it right? So confused on the end game breeding

One question. If i have a Argentarvis with 14Points in HP Mutation and a other Argentarvis from diffrent breedline with other mutations with 10Points HP Mutation. Can i breed the Mutations togehter and can get a Argentarvis with 24 Points HP mutations. Can i breed a Mut Stack in an other Mut stack to stack them together?

Is there a reason I should only work on 1 mutation at a time?

Here's what Im curious about... We can keep stacking by keeping a side pure but what happens to the Middle Number on Official? Will we be hard capped at base state / 20 / levels?

So even if u hit 254 mutations in a stat, the base points get added on to that too so it goes to like say 280lvls from just a single stat?

How do you combine mutations stacks from different lines say I have a 73[34[0 and a 73[56[0 from different lines can I add the mutations for a total of 90 mutations

How can you see the base stats for the dino? and where the AI placed their stat points? or can this only be done with the Tek binoculars? which is only gain from killing the Alpha Overseer? :/

Super video🫶🏼 Bin gerade auf die Idee gekommen meine Dino stats in java klassen einzutragen weil ich sowieso java für eine Prüfung lernen muss. Also einfach zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen🤠

Does dino level effect the mutation rate? Am I better mutating low level to stack mutations and then transferring to a high base stat later, or just stacking on the high base stat to start with?! Great guide, bravo!

I have 30/20 and 22/20 mutations in one thyla but I don’t see any difference in starts even from all the other babys i had🤔

What about mutations after 20? Is your plan to just keep going with half the chance of a mutation or are you doing negative mutations?

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Please correct me if I am wrong but I believe it is more efficient to breed for mutations in two stats simultaneously as long as you do not care how the total number of mutations is distributed between the two stats. In other words, say breed for health and melee together as long as you do not care how the mutations are distributed between health and melee. Say the probability of a mutation is P_mutation equally distributed between N stats when hatching an egg. When focusing on: - one stat only the probability of a favorable muation is P_one = 0.55 * P / N. - two stats simultaneously the probability of a favorable mutation is P_two = 0.55^2 * 2 * P/N = 1.1 * P_one - three stats simultaneously the probability of a favorable mutation is P_tree = 0.55^3 * 3 * P/N = 0.9075 * P_one - four stats simultaneously the probability of a favorable mutation is P_four = 0.55^4 * 4 * P/N = 0.6655 * P_one So if the above calculations are correct, when mutating two stats simultaneously the chance of a favorable mutation is 10% more than when doing a single stat mutation line. It may not seem like much but if you shoot for 40 mutations overall it will take you 1.1 ^ 40 = 45.3 times longer if you do one stat at a time then if you were doing two simultaneously.

So if I was mutating a level 450 rex and it got to 490 with 20 melee mutations I wouldn’t be able to pass that mutation stack on to let’s say a 300 level Rex because it’s base stat melee is lower than the original 450 level rex I started with?

Is there a phone app for stats? Dododex doesn't work as well for asa

This is crazy

great guide i am wondering ,how many females should we start out with? 10? 12? 20? whats the good number before we DOUBLE when we hit the 20 cap.

Do you guys know what negative mutation does?

Hi Tiia not sure if you covered it already but are wild baby Dinos copies of their parents stat wise?

Is it worth starting your line with all lv 5 dinos and stacking mutations till you hit cap, or is it better just using high lvl dinos?

Great explanation! I just have few questions. 1. If my first mutation is on a female, do I get rid of that female? For example hp 5/2/0 on that first female baby, do I keep for future stacking on maternal side? Or should I keep mutated males only and keep replacing dad with new mutated males? 2. If I hatch a non mutated female, can I use that hatched female for the breeding process or do all the moms need to be wild tamed? Thanks in advance!

So for mutation stacking we should intentionally keep and combine lower stat for clean females; and have higher stat male because then high mutation stack will always be carried with higher stat(from male)?

I've been running a lot of numbers on the most efficient way to push mutations as quick as possible for single stat lines, double stat lines, and 3+ stat lines and all my calculations tell me that the only advantage to keeping your first 20 mutations on the same stat is if you only plan on seriously pushing a single stat. I'm getting it slightly more efficient to push for 2 priority stats within your first 20 mutations, and dramatically more efficient if you're trying to push for 3+. I'd love to get an opportunity to chat with you on the statistics side of thing if you're interested. Hoping there's not something that I'm completely overlooking.

I don’t get it , please can somone tell me how i see in wich stat i got a mutation ? (In ark smart breeding)

So what happens if lets say you have two dinos, both got 10 Base + 1 mutation in melee which means they have the exact same melee, can you breed does 2 to get 10 + 2? Encountered this now, they were not twins so its "different" mutations

As a tip, put the stats in folders in the tame, just don't cryo it or you lose the folders.

Great vid, easily explained and seem just as informative if not more than sytacs old ase mut guides. Thank you for making this content

Trying to understand this is like studying maths lol, I don't know how it can be so complicated. Great video though!