Get a few females bison. Breed out a baby bison and milk the females every hour. Cryo baby bison after every milking so you have an endless supply. Have a grown ice wyvern and store bison milk there, it stays for 3-4days in the inventory. Use low timer milk for baby wyverns. They don't eat a whole lot so you can put 3 milks in it and they're good for hours. I left mine out for days and only kept 2-3 milks at a time in its inventory, on official. Pve, 5041.

So two things:

First, I have a cobalt blue lvl 185 lightning baby that has amazing stats that I can’t wait to breed.

Second, while it was maturing, I conducted an experiment with the lightning wyverns lightning attack to see what the torpor could do.

I took my lvl 245 black lightning with 603% melee and basically just went to town on my fire wyvern of the same lvl with 25k health. It took maybe five hits before it did enough torpor to knock my fire dragon out(that’s 10k torpor…), and it only had 4k health left.

So yeah. There yall go. Hope it was interesting😂

🐲 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.