Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
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 >.<
More Rock Drake Taming & KO Tips
They lose 1 point of food every 15 seconds, so to time how long until they start starving, multiply their current amount of food by 15 and then divide by 60 twice. This will give you the number of hours left untill the food stat reaches 0.
Equation:
((15 x food)÷60)÷60
THE ULTIMATE SURVIVOR’S GUIDE TO FJORDUR:
Rock Drakes
Encountering - Drake Cave is hidden in one of the purple forests in Asgard, beware of radiation! It’s situated in one of the corners of the biome I believe.
Egg Stealing - Bring a strong mount, drakes pack a punch! 10k hp tame and 500 base damage recommended for higher level drakes. Andrewsarchus’ protection from radiation and raw power is recommended.
Egg Hatching - Eggs need around 2k hypothermic insulation (very cold) so use a dimetrodon with high melee (found in balheimr) or use air cons.
Raising - Baby drakes only eat nameless venom, mine this from orange cracked rocks in the aberration cave, purple geode cave in the southeastern Vannaland beaches. Drakes also imprint with the venom. Remember to grab some red gems in the cave for the next step!
Saddle - The saddle requires 225 fiber, 350 hide, 125 metal ingots and 85 red gems (remember the last step?) They also have an expensive TEK saddle for those end game players.
Congrats! You now have the perfect traveling/combat/stealth tame! The drake can be used for stealing Wyvern eggs under invisibility mode, and to escape in a pinch. Thanks for reading this ARK Guide!
- BrokeGibbon
As of october 14th 2021 rock drakes are now breedable
Obtaining this creature will require you to enter the tek trench where puprle liquid and the nests of these creatures lay past the bioluminescent chamber, there you must steal an egg and raise in a cold environment feeding it nameless venom you can get by killing nameless
The rock drake trench can be found at 57,56 at the area of the map called grave of the lost. Recommend u bring a glider suit and climbing picks and if u have a good tame to fight the drakes. In the wild they can be invisible and can glide in the wild so watch out also wear a HAZARD SUIT it's needed. Lastly there are a lot of nameless in the area so bring a light source. Good luck and ohh it needs to be cold to hatch so air cons
Heads up:
Something sus is happening in Fjourd. These creatures spawn in the Aberrant zones dotted around the map, what’s more alarming is that there are skin coloured rocks that when harvested produce NAMELESS VENOM!!! Please can someone add to wikis or put a tab on here if you find any rock drake nests in Fjourd…
Their eggs are the opposite of wyverns, they need to be very cold to hatch. It took mine 20 air conditioners to get to the right temp! You feed them Nameless venom when they hatch.
I recommend using cryopods when raising drakes, it’s slower but it’s less stressful and you don’t ruin your sleep schedule
Just use egg incubator to hatch it is way cheaper than 20 ac units
They are really easy to raise. In 10 minutes they lose about 57 food and in 1 hour they lose 343 , also , 1 nameless venom gives 400 food.