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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Utility Tips

What is a hesperornis used for? hesperornis utility tips and strategies in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
I know im abit late on giving advice on this game but just started playing it. Anyhow... these still go after dead fish and still lay eggs but the fish need to be in water. Ive been experimenting as i have just tamed my first along with my first ichthyornis.
Stand in water
Use hunt and retrieve on your ichthyornis
Get your Hesperornis to eat the fish and get golden eggs.
Saves swimming about everywhere trying to find fish then aiming at it to send your Hesperornis
Breeding these guys
Well, after being kicked by these guys some times, I decided to breed them myself, so here goes some tips:
Mating: they can mate on ground so no need to be in the water
Hatching time: 1:30 hour
Baby feed: regular fish meat - raw or cooked
Growth rate: approx 1% every 10 min - pretty fast
When they reach 10%, normal collective feed on feeder
The higher the lvl, the more they eat meat
These values are based on official PVE server. No clue how it goes on other servers.
How to farm golden goose eggs:
1. Let your hesperornis harvest 5 coel, piranha, or salmon corpses using its dive attack (1)
2. Bring it on land so it can lay a normal egg (1)
3. Let your hesperornis harvest 5 coel, piranha, or salmon corpses using its dive attack (2)
4. Bring it on land so it can lay a normal egg (2)
5. Let your hesperornis harvest 5 coel, piranha, or salmon corpses using its dive attack (3)
6. Bring it on land so it can lay a normal egg (3)
7. Let your hesperornis harvest 5 coel, piranha, or salmon corpses using its dive attack again (4)
8. Bring it on land so it can lay a golden egg
9. Repeat the entire process for more golden eggs
Remember that this process requires no luck but purely work and perserverance