Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
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!
More Elderclaw Taming & KO Tips
Wild Elderclaw egg tending timers and info while using shovel.
-first you need the 6 tend items: Sap, Giant bee Honey, black pearls, bio toxin, ammonite bile, and leech blood
-It took 19 total tends to pop. No matter lvl ( i used 15, 90, 130)
-Shovel does effect tend timer ( took timer from 5 mins to 4:07 sec)
-First 5 tends is 4:07 min then it goes mildling
-2 after mildling is no timer then 1 at 4:07 min.
-2 after that double tend time to around 8:30 min, then goes to growthling.
-Next 3 after going growthling is no timer.
-Then last 1 was 3 min timer
- Total time was 45 mins with shovel and 300% greenhouse effect
Traits do pop out of eggs on wild baby eggs. And u can see stat of the wild lvl stat on the plant.
When grown if you dont miss any timers the lvl will come out like any hand feed 100% tame effectiveness. Like my 130 came out 195. As of right now x2 event does not effect wild eggs
If you are on the Astreaos Map they spawn on Lemnokis in the redwood area. Searched the entire map but thats the only place I have found them.
You CAN imprint on the babies instead of going through the seeding process
Keep an empty spot in the large plot to temd to it
1) Kill a wild Elderclaw and loot their seed
2) Plant seed in crop plot the way you would anything else (greenhouse effect, shovel, fertilizer, water)
3) It'll ask for cravings much like a dino carrying a rhynio baby. The ones I've seen so far are Black Pearls, Ammonite Bile, Sap, Biotoxin and Giant Bee Honey.
4) Once cravings are done it'll give you the option to harvest which turns it into a baby (babies seem to eat normal herbivore stuff to replenish food)
These guys take maybe 10 minutes to go through the tend and see growth stages when you plant them in a tek plot, but you need to stay on top of them with all the tend items handy in your inventory.
For those playing on Xbox and you are trying to feed the freshly planted seedling 'baby' whatever its tending 'craving item' is:
Face the seedling, hold down the Y button to access a radial dial and then at the top of the radial is the item it wants to be fed. As long as you have it in your inventory, click on the item to feed it, and it'll remove it from your inventory.
When I looked at the seedling, it showed what it wanted to be fed, but it did not say what button to press to feed it, which is dumb. I couldn't find this info anywhere, and discovered this in a last minute panic trying to feed it.
Use the Tek Crop Plots that were introduced with Lost Colony for the seeds. 500% + Shovel-Effect… you'll be done in a few minutes (max. 30 seconds instead of 4 minutes per phase like with normal Crop Plots).
They do not require tending after you breed them wild ones do require tending
1) kill adult elder claw
2) get seed from corpse
3) plant in large crop plot that is irrigated, fertilized and has 300% greenhouse effect. It WILL NOT GROW IF THESE ARE NOT ALL MET
4) Complete cravings similar to a Rhynio implantation. Can be one of any of the following: Black Pearls, Giant Bee honey, Leech Blood, Ammonite Bile or Biotoxin. Only one is needed per craving.
5) once completed it will goce the option to "Harvest". The plant will disappear and a baby Elderclaw will pop up.
6) raise as normal on any herbivore raising method