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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for rock drake? Tips and strategies for rock drake in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
-85 C in the incubator gains 20% boost
When you enter the trench, you need a hazard suit and if the nameless are too annoying, get a light pet. Also, when you see a drake, kill it if you can. The nests are in the yellow lighted area and the eggs spawn in the cliffs. When you get the egg, climb out of there and run back to the portal. Then, go to the nearest obelisk at 20 Lat, 80 Long
Make sure you have protection when getting a egg
Make it fast to because u can get away for ok them and they loose agro on you
The rock brake is affected by large bear traps
If You go to the deepest spot of the map were there is purpul crystals and Water as far down as You can You Will se like yellow holes big holes in the Stone Walls and don't bring glide suit and climb pick You Will die trust me.
Tame an megalosaurus whit 130 level or higher and just pump meele and health and it Will make the rock drakes and the animals down there look like cats don't forget to get 1 extra radiation armor set and an fully Charged bulldog whit 600-1000 chargé of light Good Luck and the rock drakes babies eat Nameless venom just use the mega to kill them GL
From baby to adolescent (1-50%) they lose 1 food every ~10 seconds not 15. From 50%-100% they lose 1 food every ~45 seconds. To calculate use this formula (food) x (seconds) ÷ 60 ÷ 60 = (time) for example : the rock drake I have has 4800 food 1070/4800 is what it is at and it is below 50% growth. The formula would then be 1070 x 10 ÷ 60 ÷ 60 = 2.972222222222222. This means that I have almost 3 hours before fully depleted.
With a glide, hazard suit, about 15-20 climbing picks, 2 water jars and 40 cooked meat you can do it.
jump of from a good height in fertile forest and glide all the way down to the spine (the big metal thing going down) once you reach one of the lower metal circle things you can land if you like (or keep going if you are familiar) at that point locate the giga skull and glide to HIS left, following a little the stream and into the nest path that will be on YOUR right.
Glide there looking for an egg on a HIGH nest, land, grab and jump. Follow the pathway back as the creatures will be swarming you but wont hit you if you dont get terrible luck and didnt wait after grabbing the egg.
Once you get out of the cave (gliding) go to your left following the river straight to the base of the spine. Once there you are relatively safe and can do your long climb up.
Once at top or near it you can jump and glide through all bioluminescent right to the fertile lands.
Good luck
You cant tame it in extinction
Full Raising babys without Nameless Venom with the Cryo Hospital; especially during double rates. It refills the food. More details at tips on „Cryo Hospital“ happy love Ascended ✌️
People always say you need a tame that is invincible to radioactivity but in ASA you can just use the gather all the mushrooms and sap and throw it in a cooking pot to create the mushrooms broth or whatever that grant 15 min immunity. For those who have bobs tall tales just us a cosmo. Now go tame yourself everyone’s favorite petafile
So after some testing and calculations, I think I figured out the food depletion times.
At the 'baby' stage(0%-9.9% maturity), the food goes down one point every ≈ 11.5secs ±0.1secs. So for example, 2000food × 11.5secs = 23,000secs ÷ 60 = 383.33mins ÷ 60 ≈ 6.38hrs.
At the 'juvenile' stage(10%-49.9% maturity), the food goes down one point every ≈ 23secs ±0.1secs. So 2000food ≈ 12.7hrs.
At the 'adolescent' stage(50%-100% maturity), the food goes down one point every ≈ 32secs ±0.1secs. So 2000food ≈ 17.7hrs. This is until fully mature.
(I did not check if the depletion time is different during 50%-75% maturity vs. 75%-100% maturity. I'll update this if there is a difference)
So with this you can figure out how long you can leave the rock drakes for and if you pair this with the maturity calculator, you can figure out how much food you need till full maturity.
Disclaimer: I ran a couple few several multiple tests to the best of my abilities and i thought I'd share it since I'm raising 29 rock drakes at different stages at the same time. However, a 0.1sec discrepancy can make a difference.
So when calculating and setting your timer, give yourself 1-2hrs of time before the food runs out so you can acquire nameless venom, maybe 3-4hrs if you're raising 29 rock drakes at the same time >.<