Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Breeding Tip: Tame 1 Male & Female, level them only in food. These will be your starting breeders since without high food, jerboa babies die within 15 seconds of birth. One you have a baby born with high starting food, take it a mate and level that mate in health only, breed them until you have a baby with high starting health. Now tame a mate for that baby and level it only in weight, mate it with your Food & Health Jerboa to create your Main Breeding Pair and go for the ever popular mutated Cotton Candy Jerboa.
More Jerboa Utility Tips
Despite past tips these little guys DO in fact reduce the weight of their inventory but it does not show in their weight stat, only when you pick them up. So say you are holding 100w worth of meat, and place it on your little fuzzy friend it may not show in their inventory as half (it will still show 100) but now when you pick them up you will notice your weight only goes up by 50, not the full 100 the meat weighed in your own inventory.
Basically, yes weight does half, but only when held! <3