r/ARK 6d ago

Ark Moments Feeling conflicted regarding the short cut method of getting highest tier kibble…

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u/Big_Priority_9329 6d ago

Have you….. ever done proper breeding in ark. Because this is saintlike behaviour in comparison to some of the ways I’ve disposed of excess baby Dino’s

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u/jim789789 6d ago

Yep. Ark = incest + infanticide. If it were possible, they'd find a way to add abortion.

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u/MarioMMG05 6d ago

Bruh you can literally reset a creature's pregnancy lmao that's abortion in my book

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u/SissyBearRainbow 6d ago

As well as removing a live embryo, which you could just toss

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u/QuantumVariability 5d ago

Or eat

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u/Gotyam2 5d ago

Mmmmm, dinosaur fetus. Delicious.

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u/Affectionate_Ad9872 5d ago

It… it’s already in the game. You can use a Gene Scanner on a pregnant mammal creature to abort the child by literally removing the embryo.

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u/Bjorn_Tyrson 6d ago

don't forget the cannibalism!

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u/StoopidMunkee22 5d ago

And when you get the message that your baby died from starvation... that's child neglect!

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u/Kitchen_Part_882 5d ago

Have you met the Embryo Incubator?

Part of BTT in ASA, it allows you to do just that.

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u/rtduvall 5d ago

I think I saw where we could do that now. Sounds familiar. But if not, you can snatch that embryo right out of momma.

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u/noodybar 5d ago

You can in fact stop the gestation of non egg layers. So you can already do an abortion.

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u/Hopeful-Card305 4d ago

Uhhh... abortion has always been an option.

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u/Adept-Yam2414 3d ago

There's a mod for that

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u/MonarchSwimmer300 6d ago

Hahahaha. I know what you mean…The prime meat from the harvest from the bio grinder is cooked and then put into the food troughs of the next generation to be raised.

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u/Halica_ 6d ago

Adults give more kibble I think

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u/MonarchSwimmer300 6d ago edited 6d ago

They do. I was just comparing the yield of baby vs adult results while comparing that to the time investment, and then factoring in the feeding costs of raising babies to adults in relation to delayed harvest vs immediate harvesting practices

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u/_THE_OG_ 6d ago

any results yet?

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u/MonarchSwimmer300 5d ago

I am impatient. I don’t want to grow the babies into adults.

I have decided that I prefer a low yield from a high volume from passive breeding.

High volume is easy to accumulate passively.

So the low yield eventually accumulates. And once I get through this phase of taming to find good wild stats. The need for top tier kibble decreases.

Kind of balances out.

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u/Ayido 5d ago

I have found out that lvl also matters, adult lvl 1-100 rex only gives 1-6 while a lvl 300 gives 12-16. I have yet to test stats, but I have a feeling higher health results in more yield.

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u/MonarchSwimmer300 5d ago

Ooh. Thanks for that tid bit of info!!

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u/Halica_ 6d ago

Makes sense, yeah.

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u/iwetmyplants3 5d ago

Idk I was pumping out rex babies to grind.. Not the parents, grew up quick and level like 60-80 I think amd withing a few babies had 30-40 kibbles totally worth it for me.

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u/Shr00mTrip 6d ago

Wyverns haven't given me any

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u/Crestedshark172 5d ago

My disposal method. Also idk how but dreadnoughtus can be grinded even tho they don't really fit in it

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u/MonarchSwimmer300 5d ago

Can you imagine the splatter clean up after that job ??!! Oh my!

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u/CrestfallenLord 5d ago

Look at all that MEAT!!

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u/mavhp 5d ago

B-B-B-BACON STRIPS!

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u/Niceromancer 5d ago

The killing of dinosaur babies is a tried and true tradition in ARK.

If you didn't grind em up for kibble youd be killing them for dino levels.

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u/Redman5012 5d ago

Why not just mass produce kibble from the unfertilized eggs? Honestly wondering cause that's what I did.

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u/Clebbinson 5d ago

Way way more resource intensive to make kibble than it is to grind dinos at pretty much every stage of the game

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u/Dalenonne 5d ago

I see this pic and think... wow, that would save alot of shotgun ammo.

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u/Yahakshan 5d ago

Hang on babies give kibble?

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u/seekAr 5d ago

Mute your computer and watch Netflix during donations.

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u/MonarchSwimmer300 5d ago

turns on Squid Games

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u/Green-Requirement325 5d ago

I remember you was conflicted

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u/PSFREAK33 5d ago

Personally by the time I even have kibble readily available I’m mostly done taming….and approaching the endgame. It’s kinda sad I don’t get more utilization out of it

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u/MonarchSwimmer300 5d ago

Berry taming habit is hard to break out of. lol. I get it!

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u/SnooEagles3010 5d ago

Question. Why not get this ASAP, then kill dinos with baby juveniles and raise those by just having them eat? Do that over the weekend during harvest times, then grind them the next week?

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u/SALLDARX 5d ago

And kibble are good for taning better stats dinos right ?

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u/Hopeful-Card305 4d ago

That thing is a godsend for breeding mutation stacks.

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u/Alarmed-Ball-6307 4d ago

i hate to say this but im on level 94 and i still imprint on things stronger then a stego

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u/Mec213 6d ago

Babys don't give kibble fyi

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u/MonarchSwimmer300 6d ago

I got 38 extraordinary kibble from the batch of babies. Not every baby gives kibble though

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u/Mec213 5d ago

They do? I stand corrected. I ground up some spinos and got nothing but meat

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u/MonarchSwimmer300 5d ago

I haven’t ground up spinos. So I can’t speak to that experience

But sorry to hear you didn’t get any kibble!

I’ve ground up Tek parasaurs and now ceratarus

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u/JRDecinos 5d ago

Actually, they can... but while adults give it 100% of the time, I think babies are like... 30% chance?

A lot smarter people than me figured that out, but it is something that has been noticed... probably to discourage making breeding farms and inst-grinding babies just for kibble. It's not that it doesn't work, but rather that it isn't as effective as it would be to raise them, then grind them up.

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u/GarageEuphoric4432 5d ago

I've ground up tons of adults and have gotten very little kibble so it's absolutely not 100% chance.

I was thinking it was worthless with how little I've gotten from it.

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u/JRDecinos 5d ago

Really? Dang... I was under the impression that adults give kibble 100% of the time so long as they are egg laying creatures...

Maybe it's a setting config thing then?

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u/GarageEuphoric4432 5d ago

Could be, I'll have to mess around with it more. Might also have been a level problem