If the tend timer or item doesn’t show just take 1 fertilizer out of the plot and it will show.

Keep an empty spot in the large plot to temd to it

Just find a baby and claim it after Killing its parent. Don't bother with growing it.

I'm not sure if this is known, but whenever you place down a totem and detonate it with 100 or more charges it damages every creature in it's radius. I'm assuming the more charges the more damage they take, more testing needs to be done.

If timer is missing from crop plot just open and close inventory of plot. Hope this helps.

These things are great for getting berries, buffing your animals, and getting other resources

When trying to gather thatch it seems best to use the root burst (C on keyboard). It gathers more wood with normal attacks.

Kill an adult - quickest way is flamethrower, grab the seed off its body. Plant the seed in a plot. Will ask you to use the following to “tend” - this is the taming. It will ask for any number of any of them throughout the process so have many prepared.

- Leech Blood

- Bio Toxin

- Sap

- Ammonite Bile

- Giant Bee Honey

- Black Pearls

If you tame Elderclaws and breed them: the seed you plant will not ask for anything and will just grow.

If tending requirement item isn’t showing up but the timer started, carry a piece of fertilizer or feces and it will show.

Easy Tame. Find an adult and kill it. In its inventory will be a seed. Take the seed and put in a large crop plot or Oasisaur. Fertilizer, water, and till soil. Have in your inventory sap, black pearls, animate bile, leech blood, honey, and biotoxon. Watch the seedling it will ask for one of the above like the bug does. Feed it. It does not have to be in the last spot on ur hotbar. Stay near the seedling and do this process over and over and over. The seedling will grow to a medling and this will happen 2X. It will then become a hatchling. Hatch ur baby elderclaw. Now raise like any other baby. It eats both meat and berries and will feed off of the maeguana.

Do not beat him up or he'll kill you instantly.

To anyone wanting to do like i did and use an oasisaur. Build fountain then pillars then ceiling then place graden plot. That way they don't disappear when you hatch them.

If there is no timer, open inventory of crop plot then close. Timer fixed 😊

When tending to the crop you will get one of these items. There’s possibly more but this is all I’ve come across so far.

Leech blood

Biotoxin

Sap

Black pearl

Giant bee honey

Ammonite bile

If you’re going to raise it from seedling you need to have a large crop plot, it requires 300% green house effect so you need a green house that is 2 by 4, fertilizer, all the required stuff the seedling will ask for and of course make sure it’s irrigated. In between growth spurts the seedling will ask for things back to back. It is ready to harvest when it is fruiting. You have to use the command wheel to give the stuff. I had a 135 seedling harvest out to a 207 baby. It was a fun process!

kill them to get a seed and put it into a large plot to grow must have water and fertilizer

Plant Elderclaw seed in large crop plot. Must be fertilized, irrigated and max greenhouse effect in order to grow. Make sure you have plenty of biotoxin, ammonite bile, leech blood, black pearls, honey and sap. Seedling wants tending every 5 min or efficiency goes down. Once it reaches fruiting, you can harvest your little Elderclaw cub by opening the menu.

Spawns on Aberration with babies in tow at times. While tending it on Ab, it will not ask for ammonite bile. As of now, it’s also blocked on Ab from being retrieved once cryo’d (disabled dino class) so avoid doing until Wildcard fixes the issue.

Don’t get near it when it’s angry or it will attack you too

For breeding they drop seeds for their egg form.

You plant it in a crop plot I used large as anyone should for crops.

It will consume a good amount of fertilizer so do not use base unless you want to babysit it constantly.

3-4 stages of growth if you want to count "fruiting" as a stage like traditional plants and takes a few ARK DAYS. When it hits this stage walk up to the gigantic bud and you can kick out the baby and claim it.

They eat MEAT and BERRIES like Direbears so it makes it easier to keep fead.

Have fun!