Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
🐲 Basics of Wyvern Raising
Wyverns in Ark can’t be fed like normal dinos while growing — they require Wyvern Milk until they reach adulthood.
Key Timings Depend On:
• Maturation Time (Total time to become an adult)
• Baby Food Drain Rate
• Food Value of Wyvern Milk
• Server settings (e.g., maturation speed and food drain multipliers)
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🕒 1. Base Maturation Time
In official rates on Ark: Survival Ascended:
• Wyvern total maturation time: ~3 days, 20 hours (~92 hours total)
• At 100% maturation, the phases break down to:
• Baby: 0% – 10% (first ~9.2 hours)
• Juvenile: 10% – 50%
• Adolescent: 50% – 100%
These times are faster on boosted servers (e.g., 2x maturation = ~46 hours total).
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🍼 2. Wyvern Milk Feeding Details
• One Wyvern Milk restores 1200 food.
• Wyvern babies have around 350 food when born (varies by type/level).
• Food drains at around 0.1 food per second on official rates.
🧮 Feeding Interval Calculation
Formula:
Time Between Feedings = (Food Value of Milk) / (Food Drain per Second)
Example:
1200 food / 0.1 per second = 12,000 seconds ≈ 3.33 hours
✅ So, you should feed your baby Wyvern every 3–3.5 hours on official settings.
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⚠️ Tips to Manage Feeding
• Milk spoils in 3 hours unless refrigerated or in a preserving bin.
• You can cryopod the Wyvern to pause food drain (great when offline).
• Starve-timing works: Let food drop to ~0 before feeding to avoid waste.
• Always have 1–2 spare milks for emergencies or server lag.
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🔄 Adjusting for Custom Server Settings
If your server has a different maturation or food drain rate, plug those into the equation:
Feeding Interval = (Milk Food Value) / (Food Drain per Sec * Drain Multiplier)
You can use online calculators like Dododex or ARK Smart Breeding for tailored data.
🧠 Summary
Aspect Official Values
Total Maturation ~92 hours
Baby Phase Duration ~9 hours
Food Drain Rate 0.1 per second
Wyvern Milk Food 1200 per milk
Time Between Feedings ~3.3 hours
Feed every 3–4 hours during the baby stage, keep milk cold, and monitor food closely. Let me know if you’re on custom rates, Travis, and I can calculate exact feeding times.
More Wyvern Utility Tips
Easier way than milk:
My bf and I decided 2 days into the server we were gon yoink an egg with low pteras, so we did, 3 players dead 10 times, 3 pteras dead. But got a 45 egg, so worth it... We werent gon deal with wyverns for a bit so we straight up yoinked a snow owl, lvl 150. Cranked its stamina up to 4k. And every 10 to 20 min u go heal the wyvern after it hatched. You must just be very responsible and not forget abt it. 1k health drains in 30 min so u gon have to be quite active, once it reaches full maturity it can eat normal meat. I wouldnt recommend a deaodon, considering they munch food like crazy and if they run out of 20k food in 2 hours ur wyvern will most likely be toast when u wake up, just keep cryoing the wyvern when u cant check it. Then take it out when u ready to raise it with owl.
To know how much time need to the next feeding just do the next. Look the Food number# then that number multiply x 10, then divide /3600 and the result will be the number of hours until the next time need to be fed. F.E the food number is 1850.5 1859.5x10=18595 /3600 = 5.1 hours
Fun facts if you want to know more about wyverns!
-There are 4 types: Fire, Lightning, Poison, and Ice.
-Each wyvern has different uses, for example poison wyverns are good for pvp, and lightning wyverns have the highest damage output.
-To tame one you must steal an egg from one and raise it as your own.
-Baby wyverns only eat wyvern milk, which is obtained from kncoking out female wyverns or killing alpha wyverns.
-Wyverns do not spawn on every map. They spawn on maps such as Scorched Earth, Ragnorok, and Fjordur.
That's all!