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4391 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 16, 2017   Report

Egg laying buff doesn't stack.

1 point   🔧 Utility   3 days ago ✨ NEW   Report

Will NOT collect fertilized eggs on ARK Ultimate Mobile Edition.

2700 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 5, 2016   Report

Tame the lowest level one so you don't waste your eggs, no matter what level it is it will do the same thing

1503 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 29, 2020   Report

Everyone needs to know and it is dev confirmed that Oviraptors DO NOT buff chances of mutations or twins or triplets. This is a long going myth that needs to be shut down. Any twins or triplets you are getting is purely coincidence. This was said by one of the devs on twitter!

1995 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 6, 2016   Report

Don't try to hold in a cage it will glitch out just fill it with wood or stone and place in wandering and it will give the egg laying buff but will not move

13 points   ⚔️ Encountering   May 8, 2025   Report

Oviraptor running in fear = Danger

Nothing attacks these guys, but they do run flee from corpses, so it means a creature's been killed near it by something dangerous.

393 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jun 19, 2022   Report

the oviraptor can steal eggs wiithout making the dinosuar that layed the egg angry just find a egg and lead it to the egg and it will pick the egg up!!! btw if u r planning to tame these they only eat eggs up if it is helpful!

543 points   🔧 Utility   Apr 21, 2021   Report

These guys can steal eggs without aggroing surrounding dinos! You can get easy wyvern and rock drake eggs! Put it in a cryo pod, sneak into a nest, pop it out of the pod and have it set to follow close, run to the other side of the nest and when it gets to the nest it will take the egg. Once it has the egg you can take the egg from it and there won't be any aggro. Just make sure you don't switch the egg out of your inventory because you'll get the aggro then. Rinse and repeat for super easy wyvern and rock drake eggs!

486 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 9, 2021   Report

Egg-stealing dinosaur was innocent,

THE rare discovery of a fossil embryo has cleared the name of a dinosaur

called “egg stealer”. Oviraptor, first discovered apparently making a meal of

another dinosaur’s eggs, was, it now turns out, simply trying to hatch its own

offspring.

In 1923, an expedition from the American Museum of Natural History in New

York found the first Oviraptor skeleton on a nest of eggs in the Mongolian

desert. The scientists thought the elongated eggs belonged to Protoceratops, a

plant-eating dinosaur whose fossils were common in the area. They chose the

name Oviraptor because they assumed the animal, a predator with sharp claws

and a parrot-like beak, was trying to eat the eggs when it was caught in a

sandstorm and died.

No one could confirm that a Protoceratops had definitely laid the eggs,

however. The contents of fossil eggs are hardly ever preserved. But in the

latest issue of the journal Science, a team of researchers from Mongolia and

the American Museum report on their discovery of a very similar egg containing

a tiny Oviraptor skeleton, almost ready to hatch. The egg was found 300

kilometres from the site of the 1923 excavations.

The 80-million-year-old embryo is the first found from the group of

dinosaurs related most closely to birds. Like birds, dinosaurs brooded their

young, says Mark Norell of the American Museum.

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The same nest contained another curious find – the skulls of two tiny young

carnivores belonging to the same family as the velociraptors, best known as

the terrors of Jurassic Park. It is possible that these small carnivores were

raiding the nest. However, Norell says the absence of any other bones suggests

the skulls “were brought to the nest by adult [oviraptors] who had cleaned out

a Velociraptor nest” and like modern ospreys, brought their catch home to

eat

1020 points   🔧 Utility   Feb 27, 2017   Report

It eats raw meat once tamed,don't waist precious eggs on it

571 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Sep 5, 2020   Report

Remember after taming they WILL EAT MEAT DONT WASTE ANYMORE EGGS ON THEM THEY'RE NOT LIKE TITANBOAS.

10 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Apr 29, 2025   Report

You may be wandering, HOW TO TAME THEM. To tame them, knock them out, (fists, club, tranq arrows, etc.) and feed them eggs. Not meat or berries, eggs. IT DOES NOT MATTER, FERTILIZED OR NOT. The bigger the egg, the better. In conclusion, that is how to tame an oviraptor. Hope you find my little tidbits helpful!

-dbeastcali-

385 points   🔧 Utility   Jun 12, 2020   Report

I feel like they should be able to steel magmasaurus and wyvern eggs without drawing their attention. Or maybe just collect eggs for us in our kibble farms.

332 points   🔧 Utility   Nov 19, 2020   Report

People need to stop saying this it’s very annoying. they. Don’t. Boost. Chances. Of. Twins. triplets. or. mutations. Stop spreading this it isn’t true

109 points   🔧 Utility   Dec 6, 2023   Report

Tame a high level one and fly around the map with it close to the floor it will pick up all nearby eggs laid by untamed dinos

357 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Mar 11, 2020   Report

Tried using Magmasaurs eggs but they are classed as other eggs and only gave 1%.

41 points   🔧 Utility   Oct 24, 2024   Report

The higher the melee on the oviraptor the farther away it

Can collect eggs. 700 melee will cover a 25×30 barn and then some

479 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Oct 10, 2016   Report

Encumber them so they don't move around

126 points   🥚 Taming & KO   Jan 8, 2023   Report

How to tame:

Step 1: FIND IT

Step 2: STEAL ITS CRAPPED OUT EGG

Step 3: BEAT THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF IT

Step 4: FEED IT ITS OWN EGG

Step 5: CONGRATS, NOW CHUCK IT IN THE SEAAAAA

47 points   🔧 Utility   Jul 9, 2024   Report

Level matters in Ascended, it affects range for pickup.

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