I still watch breeding videos despite being very knowledgeable about it. While I didn’t learn anything, I also don’t have anything to add this is literally everything one could need or want to know in a short easy to understand guide. Great Video Chaotic. It will be the new video I recommend to those looking for info.
Can you help me out i dont know when a tame is good to breed it in to 1 dino. Like when do you know you have the best possible health,stamina,melee etc points distribution
It depends on what you want to do with them and what tames your talking about. Rexs for bosses you'll want give or take 10k hp as a base line. 350% ish damage. And then mutate those with 20 mutations into health and another line with 20 mutations into melee. 80ish armor saddles and they can take on most bosses easily on any difficulty.
@@Chaotic_Gaming What about max level cap? aren't you supposed to not combine multiple stats in servers whit max level cap enabled if you want to cap a particular stat like health or melee? also what about breeding whit low level females to get rid off undesired stats and lower the dino level in order to not hit the level cap?
Me watching this video 3 times before breeding my Desmo's since I'm going all out in the mutations for boss fights. Ive never bred to the extent I am and was confused by the 20+ mutations, but this was a breeze to watch and learn! Love the video, thank you!
I've never really gotten into breeding my dinos, and my friend and i on a boosted server just kept anything that had either a melee or hp mutation and continued breeding with those, etc. this is a really easy to follow guide, and i think my dinos will be much more efficient from now on, cus i finally understand how to do this properly :)
I just started a new rex line using a male and 3 females all identical levels and stats and just got my first mutation Health. your guide helped so much. Thank you
Little tip before you get to the egg incubator stage place down 6 fire places. 6 is enough heat to hatch the hottest eggs an 1 is cool enough to hatch cooler eggs you just gotta turn the fireplaces on and off to range to heat
know what? even though I didn't register everything, this tutorial is way better than any other I have watched. It will probably fully register once I apply this after wiping my horrible unknowledgeable attempts. (I was leveling and imprinting and just wow that makes sense why I wasn't going anywhere with it lol)
I had to rewatch a few times certain parts, but I made a written guide and I get it. Thanks a lot! Even after a few thousand hours of play, I didn't know all this.
Finally a video about mutations that didn't involve spreadsheets and just completely overwhelmed the viewer! This was so awesome, and clear, and slow, I think I finally understand (with some notes) on how to actually try and breed. I never took into account on how to properly use the mutations, or to keep a clean line. Thank you so much for making it so much more understandable!
I remember back when ARK released and I didn’t know anything about how breeding worked. I would just breed my Dino’s so I can get a baby that I could imprint. Had no clue that you could add the best stats to 1 dino. The day I figured out how to properly breed and mutate absolutely changed my ARK experience to another level. I remember my stat capped Rex’s on a official server. That took me probably a year if not longer to do. My Rex’s got me invited to do bosses on the daily. I can’t see myself ever doing that grind again but I still find enjoyment doing breeding on my own server with increased breeding rates. I can’t wait for ARK Ascended to release though!
Great video I love to breed dinos and thought I had learned it all but I picked up a few new things so thank you also probably one of the most straight forward breeding videos I have watched
The ONLY thing in this video I didnt know about is the mutagel, as I stopped playing ark after GEN1. However, The way you explain the breeding process is PERFECT for new breeders. Excellent vid
Great tutorial. I’ve been working on one myself but you absolutely nailed it. You covered everything. I’ll share this with anyone interested in breeding. I do breed out my useless stats out of habit. My base stat rexes are 120 and my Carchs are 140. I have a player that keeps trying to give me his lvl 259 carch eggs wit 3 mutations. I keep telling him my base stats are higher than his and his mutations are all oxy or food. LOL
So, use one high level pair to make a bunch of potentials. Of those potentials, take the ones that have stats that you want that are higher than the others. Then breed that high stat one with the opposite gender of the original to replicate that one but as a mating pair to then use to start breeding for mutations. I’m this far in the process of understanding and will need to review the mutations to know how to stack those. Assuming the same way
I miss one little thing, and that's mods. I've heard Awesome Spyglass can help find Dino's with good base stats by being able to see the point distribution before taming it (similar to what the incubator shows iirc) But mentioning some mods without going into detail would be really helpful for those who have the power to install them or for those who have them on the server. I run a small server with 2 friends and anyone can suggest a mod. Then we'll discuss it, play devil's advocate to bring up any balance concerns, and then decide if we want to install it. Breeding is very tedious and we don't have infinite time, so having some mods to assist us in the taming process would be very helpful. And a video like this is imo a good place to introduce some mods. The introduction can be the same as how you talk about that thing on the genesis map. I don't know what that item is, how to get it or how to use it, but I know that that feature exists and I know what to look for. So, if anyone has any suggestions for mods then I'd really appreciate it :D
Awesome spy glass is incredibly over powered in its base form in my opinion. I use other mods for breeding on my cluster. I invite you to my discord and you can check them out, ask questions if you want.
Just a heads up, mating is incorrectly in the chapters. But besides that, this was by far the best breeding guide I have seen so far. So thank you so much for the time put into making this video.
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I'll need to watch this video again a lot because the literal science of it is going over my head. I tried breeding on my own to get a feel for it and unsurprisingly, the children had lower levels and stats than the parents which I spent hours leveling up.
@@Chaotic_Gaming so I've noticed. Thanks for replying. I'm rewatching your video like I said and managing my questions based on what I can and cannot understand. I'll be back once I've trimmed down what has been answered and what needs clarification.
Fun little fact - if you knock a tame out, but don't give it food, it will slowly lose hunger, but the taming effectiveness won't go down until the food is in the creatures inventory very high taming effectiveness even with using lower grade food note that it won't change the taming time
Food gives the same same taming effectiveness regardless of if it was starved or not. The only bonus starving gives is if it gets hit you don't waste food letting it wake up to reset it.
The video was insane man this is the first time I've ever really looked at breeding and mutations seriously and holy hell my head feels like it's gonna burst 🤣
Lots of great information. Just listened to it on my commute into work and had to save it to my watch later so that I can give it a proper watch with pencil and paper to take notes later! 😂
Bro just saying this is THE BEST guide on taming and breeding. There are some that pretend to be beginner friendly, but you present all the information assuming no prior knowledge, perfect for old thickos like me. Honestly this video puts some other Million+ views from other overrated youtubers on the same subject to shame. Side note, once you have your base pair at the muating stage, if you want to there is a s+ mod called the mutator that will force a mutation on a baby. You can also use Awesome spyglass if you like to quickly identify a dinos stats both base and pumped
Oh man! I've messed up so many Rex's ugh! Now I have to figure a way to kill them all lol I'm on a PVE server that has no damage to pets and no mods. I have beautiful colors (like pink and blue) and lots of mutations but that's because I bred mutations with mutations. I have a few that are showing Stat increases but couldn't figure out how to get the stats I want .... thanks for this! Back to the proverbial drawing board. 🤦🏾♀️
Man, this is a great tutorial. I managed to figure the process out somewhat myself right up until I got to the mutations and then I was out in the weeds. Still in the weeds, but slowly figuring it out lol
Thanks a ton for this. I have to say I may need to watch this abo;ut 8 times because I was lost after a few min but thanks because this is a confusing aspect of ARK that I had never really learned. I hope I can get the hang of it because am more lost than before the video hahahaha. I am so glad people like you do these vids though. I would have never figured this out
@@Chaotic_Gaming I just got back into official pve, I’m looking to breed carnos because I saw a 150 right at my base and I feel like they don’t get any love.
Loved the video man! You just earned yourself a new subscriber! I’ll definitely be back to this video to brush up on some stuff definitely the best breeding video I’ve seen man. Keep up the good work!
I keep coming back to this guide to check if I'm breeding right. After a few false starts, I'm mutating my fluffy raptors for the first time! Thank you so much!
Once I got 2 mutations at the same time (four levels higher) and they were BOTH in the stat I was looking for, mele. Plus, it was a male!!! Great vid btw.
Fantastic guide. I agree with all rest of the comment section, best vid out there! I recently found a great PVE server that just started fresh with an excellent group of people. I had played a few hundred hours of Ark solo before, (the few pvp experiences I had were pretty shit) but I had never really gotten into breeding more than just ensuring a steady supply of Dinos. Now I'm looking to get into it a lot more as I build my new home in Ragnarok. This vid fills me with both dread and anticipation. There's just soo much I didn't know... but now I have a clue!
Proud of you for fixing the title spelling :P In all seriousness though, this is a pretty solid video. I learned a few things I hadn't before. Great job!
Been playing ark for many years on / off now. Always gotten to the point where I have everything I need, but never tryed the breeding. Always thought it was to timeconsuming and complicated. Guess I need to try this time after I started from scratch again.
this is the first video that finally made me understand how to get past 20 mutations in a single stat. i always get confused in other videos because some of them hinted you can but you must not go over the max 255 stat points, and they never shown doing anything past 20 and my small brain just keep thinking if the mutation cap is 20 how to get 255stat points?! difficulty 20 server? but i see now haha
I might have got a triple mutation on like my first major try but idk I’m a noobie btw I watched this like five times thanks for the help I’ll probably watch it again
This is an amazing and well thought out video. Perfectly covers breeding start-to-finish. But, as an avid breeder myself, I would HIGHLY recommend using the Smart Breeder that you briefly mentioned, it takes all of the guesswork out of the process and neatly keeps track of all of your dinos/stats/mutations/etc
@@woozii.capalot breed your stats male with your stats females untill you get a male with a mutation you want (say hp) it'll be 2 levels higher then the parents and have a higher health. Grow it up and then breed it with the females until a new mutation is born. It will be 2 levels higher then its father and 4 levels higher then the mothers. Make sure it has higher hp then the father. Grow it up and repeat.
This is INCREDIBLY confusing, and I hate it. My head is spinning. Anyone else who feels this way, I recommend repeatedly watching this video over time (and to use dododex) because he really does a great job explaining this here. Play solo, change the settings, and practice. I'm getting there myself, and it's actually thanks to CG's and his video getting played over and over again.
recently got a double mutation in my argi stamina line. one in stam and 1 in health. desided to keep her as an inbetween upgrade from my curent argi in use. (better base stam then my leveled unmutated argi and better health. she has nice blue wingtips. gonna pump some points in weight and it ll begood enough for now
Amazing I was just watching to see wut other do but this is a amazing guide as some one with 5 years of this game and I have had maybe over 10k mutations I have had the triple mutation 2 times in that time it was really use full when it happened lol good job on this
I am both super interested in breeding in Ark, and super intimidated by the process. I think the hardest part is finding higher level dinos around the same level. Unless that is less important? Regardless, thank you for the video.
14:10 "If you're still getting random levels between your babies, you have the stats wrong on the parents - you need to fix this here and now" After I started practicing while rewatching this video, I realized his base pair were the same levels. My babies are either the dads, the moms or the grandpas level, so I guess they're stats aren't wrong, but it made me think about it. I guess my question is when you're looking for mutations, do you want the base pair you're using to have identical levels?
@@Chaotic_Gaming Thank you yet again. I've been playing on and off since it first launched, so I'm determined to finally fully understand this process, so your help is invaluable
I’m seeing a lot of people loving this video for its super in depth content. I agree, lots of info. And it’s because of this video, I realize that breeding is not for me lol. Other than the fact that I understood, less than half of what you said, it also sounds very, very tedious. So thank you for telling me the entire process now before I start to dive into it and regret it later!
I'm about 20-30 hours in as I just took the leap into this game and this video just showed me that as I thought I was getting the hang of it, how new I really am lol I'll just keep learning step by step. I'm probably doing a lot of things wrong, but it's fun. THIS seems extremely tedious though. Either way, I still gave a like because even though I didn't really follow everything, I could tell that, not only was there a lot of thought put into it, along with the grind of learning to do it all in the first place, I can also tell that anyone who's ready for this information could easily understand what you're talking about and implement right away. Maybe one day I'll be there........maybe...
@@Chaotic_Gaming I appreciate the reply. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I do but I found mused playing for about 8-10 hours over multiple days without realizing it. I had to make myself take a break 😂 not trying to develop an unhealthy addiction. It just draws you in!!
@@Chaotic_Gaming AAAAAAND I'm back! So I've been playing a lot since I replied to this a short while back and I THINK I might be ready to tackle this video again hahaha
You tame a bunch of wild dinos. Keep the ones with the best stats you want. Breed them together until you get all the stats you want on the same dino, without mutations. Then you take two of those dinos with exactly the same stats, and no mutations, and breed them together. Once you get a mutation on a stat you like, you breed it back to one of it's parents that has no mutations. The key, as Chaotic said, when breeding to get more mutations is to always breed the mutated dino back to a parent that has no mutations.
Unless I missed it, you mentioned the elixir giving a 30% taming affinity, but it's worth noting that same elixir can be used to gain 30% imprint as well.
One thing I didn't quite understand after watching. Is all of this just wild and taming levels? How do domestic level-ups behave with breeding? Are they inherited (except for movement) or are they dropped? If yes, do they inherit as tamed levels or domestic level-ups?
Impressive effort put into this guide, thankyou. However I really must ask people... Why would anyone bother with so much time and effort when all it takes is for your dino to get stuck on a pebble with no way to free it or some other bug to render all the time and effort obsolete? I am genuinely asking, what keeps you going when things like that can happen through no fault of the player? And so frequently too.
Well generally generally braking bugs that wipe out your dinos are not that common. If they get stuck. Cryopods. Breeding also allows you to replace lost dinos with the next generation.
thanks for posting this it is the most clear and concise video ive seen on breeding and one that i fully understand lmfao. Thanks for the hard work and know that it will get a lot of replays from me lmafo! (short term memory loss is a bitch)
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I still watch breeding videos despite being very knowledgeable about it. While I didn’t learn anything, I also don’t have anything to add this is literally everything one could need or want to know in a short easy to understand guide. Great Video Chaotic. It will be the new video I recommend to those looking for info.
Thanks for the kind words bud 🤘
Same
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Can you help me out i dont know when a tame is good to breed it in to 1 dino. Like when do you know you have the best possible health,stamina,melee etc points distribution
It depends on what you want to do with them and what tames your talking about.
Rexs for bosses you'll want give or take 10k hp as a base line. 350% ish damage. And then mutate those with 20 mutations into health and another line with 20 mutations into melee. 80ish armor saddles and they can take on most bosses easily on any difficulty.
Love to see the update guide here and available for all to learn how to breed like a mad scientist!
Muhahaha
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@@Chaotic_Gaming What about max level cap? aren't you supposed to not combine multiple stats in servers whit max level cap enabled if you want to cap a particular stat like health or melee? also what about breeding whit low level females to get rid off undesired stats and lower the dino level in order to not hit the level cap?
I have almost 4900 hours in the game. This is the best and most comprehensive guide for breeding and mutations I have ever seen. Great work!
Thanks bud 🤘
Same and nearly same ingame time
Me watching this video 3 times before breeding my Desmo's since I'm going all out in the mutations for boss fights. Ive never bred to the extent I am and was confused by the 20+ mutations, but this was a breeze to watch and learn! Love the video, thank you!
Glad I could help 🤘
This was the most informative and easy to follow breeding guide I've seen on youtube thus far!
Thanks 💪
Have you watched Syntac's? I learned how to breed from him.
@@kamar1171 Don't tell you're partner in life that. ;)
Yes I too found this very helpful. Most of others tutorials do not mention what babys to get rid of
I've never really gotten into breeding my dinos, and my friend and i on a boosted server just kept anything that had either a melee or hp mutation and continued breeding with those, etc. this is a really easy to follow guide, and i think my dinos will be much more efficient from now on, cus i finally understand how to do this properly :)
Awesome bud 🤘
I sometimes watch breeding videos
Like what kind?
I just started a new rex line using a male and 3 females all identical levels and stats and just got my first mutation Health. your guide helped so much. Thank you
Nice bud. Good luck with the rest of your breeding lines!
Little tip before you get to the egg incubator stage place down 6 fire places. 6 is enough heat to hatch the hottest eggs an 1 is cool enough to hatch cooler eggs you just gotta turn the fireplaces on and off to range to heat
That depends on the temperature of the area you live
know what? even though I didn't register everything, this tutorial is way better than any other I have watched.
It will probably fully register once I apply this after wiping my horrible unknowledgeable attempts. (I was leveling and imprinting and just wow that makes sense why I wasn't going anywhere with it lol)
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This helped me a lot more than the other popular channels explaining it! 🙏 Your way of explains was more simple and straightforward.
Glad I could help 🤘
I had to rewatch a few times certain parts, but I made a written guide and I get it. Thanks a lot! Even after a few thousand hours of play, I didn't know all this.
Glad I could help 🤘
Very nicely put together!!
Love that you covered everything from start to finish!
Thanks bud 🤘
Flyers can have speed leveling if you allow it in the settings not sure if this was a thing at the time but it exist now 👍
It's was a thing. If memory serves I'm pretty sure I mentioned it. But maybe I didn't 🤔
Finally a video about mutations that didn't involve spreadsheets and just completely overwhelmed the viewer! This was so awesome, and clear, and slow, I think I finally understand (with some notes) on how to actually try and breed. I never took into account on how to properly use the mutations, or to keep a clean line. Thank you so much for making it so much more understandable!
Glad it was helpful! Good luck
I am about to get into this myself and I still feel overwhelmed. I am not very good at math XD
1 step at a time and feel free to ask questions here or on my discord (links in the description)
@@Chaotic_Gaming I do believe I will thank you for the gracious invite.
I remember back when ARK released and I didn’t know anything about how breeding worked. I would just breed my Dino’s so I can get a baby that I could imprint. Had no clue that you could add the best stats to 1 dino. The day I figured out how to properly breed and mutate absolutely changed my ARK experience to another level. I remember my stat capped Rex’s on a official server. That took me probably a year if not longer to do. My Rex’s got me invited to do bosses on the daily. I can’t see myself ever doing that grind again but I still find enjoyment doing breeding on my own server with increased breeding rates. I can’t wait for ARK Ascended to release though!
Great video I love to breed dinos and thought I had learned it all but I picked up a few new things so thank you also probably one of the most straight forward breeding videos I have watched
Thanks bud, glad to have helped
The ONLY thing in this video I didnt know about is the mutagel, as I stopped playing ark after GEN1. However, The way you explain the breeding process is PERFECT for new breeders. Excellent vid
in fact, ill add a sub to that like
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This video made mutations very easy to understand. My son and i are gonna have one easy time breeding dinos now. Thank dude!
No problem bud, glad I could help
Great tutorial. I’ve been working on one myself but you absolutely nailed it. You covered everything. I’ll share this with anyone interested in breeding. I do breed out my useless stats out of habit. My base stat rexes are 120 and my Carchs are 140. I have a player that keeps trying to give me his lvl 259 carch eggs wit 3 mutations. I keep telling him my base stats are higher than his and his mutations are all oxy or food. LOL
Thanks bud. I lost the breed out the useless stats habbit a long time ago thankfully, waste of time on all my series and 100 days servers 😅
As someone who as over 7000hrs in ark most as a tribe breeder on official servers I approve you covered everything very well great video
Thanks bud 🤘
PC or console?
@@MoIds0 console and pc combined
So, use one high level pair to make a bunch of potentials. Of those potentials, take the ones that have stats that you want that are higher than the others. Then breed that high stat one with the opposite gender of the original to replicate that one but as a mating pair to then use to start breeding for mutations. I’m this far in the process of understanding and will need to review the mutations to know how to stack those. Assuming the same way
I miss one little thing, and that's mods. I've heard Awesome Spyglass can help find Dino's with good base stats by being able to see the point distribution before taming it (similar to what the incubator shows iirc) But mentioning some mods without going into detail would be really helpful for those who have the power to install them or for those who have them on the server.
I run a small server with 2 friends and anyone can suggest a mod. Then we'll discuss it, play devil's advocate to bring up any balance concerns, and then decide if we want to install it.
Breeding is very tedious and we don't have infinite time, so having some mods to assist us in the taming process would be very helpful. And a video like this is imo a good place to introduce some mods.
The introduction can be the same as how you talk about that thing on the genesis map. I don't know what that item is, how to get it or how to use it, but I know that that feature exists and I know what to look for.
So, if anyone has any suggestions for mods then I'd really appreciate it :D
Awesome spy glass is incredibly over powered in its base form in my opinion. I use other mods for breeding on my cluster. I invite you to my discord and you can check them out, ask questions if you want.
@@Chaotic_Gaming Thank you! After your tip I quickly found Super Spyglass which is nicely balanced :D
@@AnimilesYT nice bud 👍
Creature Finder Deluxe as well.
Just a heads up, mating is incorrectly in the chapters. But besides that, this was by far the best breeding guide I have seen so far. So thank you so much for the time put into making this video.
Thanks bud and I'll look into fixing the chapters
Super helpful, finally figured out how to work with mutations. Thank you!
No problem 😊
Watched the whole thing, it just went in one ear and right put the other. Now I gotta rewatch it
Feel free to ask questions here or in my discord!
Never did I think that I would understand this mechanic so easily, thank you so much.
Awesome to hear bud 🤘
Thanks for that great and bery easy follow guide chaotic!!! Surely even pro ish players will find it amazing to follow along!! 😺🍪
Glad I could help 😌
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So there was something I forgot to mention 😅
@@Chaotic_Gaming yea I guess but i was able to breed my theri within minutes thank you
keep coming back! this is a lot of great information! the cryopods used on the server I play on currently show the mutations and their locations.
Glad I could help!
I'll need to watch this video again a lot because the literal science of it is going over my head. I tried breeding on my own to get a feel for it and unsurprisingly, the children had lower levels and stats than the parents which I spent hours leveling up.
That because experience gained levels do not get passed down.
@@Chaotic_Gaming so I've noticed. Thanks for replying.
I'm rewatching your video like I said and managing my questions based on what I can and cannot understand. I'll be back once I've trimmed down what has been answered and what needs clarification.
Just started play ark with my brother who’s played since it launched he told me to go to RUclips and learn all I could
Hope you learn lots bud
Fun little fact - if you knock a tame out, but don't give it food, it will slowly lose hunger, but the taming effectiveness won't go down until the food is in the creatures inventory
very high taming effectiveness even with using lower grade food
note that it won't change the taming time
Food gives the same same taming effectiveness regardless of if it was starved or not. The only bonus starving gives is if it gets hit you don't waste food letting it wake up to reset it.
It's been over a year since I hard-core bred anything, but this is just what I needed to maybe try again 😁
Hope it helps bud 🤘
Ayyy, been waiting on this one for a while, can't wait, this will be so helpful.
I know it will be bud 🤘
Bro, this is the best breed guide on RUclips. Well done.
Thanks bud 🤘
I love this vid so much...just started to really get into breeding mutations...thank you so very much for this vid :)
No problem bud. Hope it helps 🤘
@@Chaotic_Gaming oh it really does...been watching it a lot
The video was insane man this is the first time I've ever really looked at breeding and mutations seriously and holy hell my head feels like it's gonna burst 🤣
Hope it helped 😅
Lots of great information. Just listened to it on my commute into work and had to save it to my watch later so that I can give it a proper watch with pencil and paper to take notes later! 😂
Nioce bud 🤘
Bro just saying this is THE BEST guide on taming and breeding. There are some that pretend to be beginner friendly, but you present all the information assuming no prior knowledge, perfect for old thickos like me. Honestly this video puts some other Million+ views from other overrated youtubers on the same subject to shame.
Side note, once you have your base pair at the muating stage, if you want to there is a s+ mod called the mutator that will force a mutation on a baby.
You can also use Awesome spyglass if you like to quickly identify a dinos stats both base and pumped
Thanks bud 🤘
First time listening all the way through. Definitely still feel lost, but now I feel like I understand it enough to try. 😂😌😊
Thank you. ☺️
You got this!
Oh man! I've messed up so many Rex's ugh! Now I have to figure a way to kill them all lol I'm on a PVE server that has no damage to pets and no mods. I have beautiful colors (like pink and blue) and lots of mutations but that's because I bred mutations with mutations. I have a few that are showing Stat increases but couldn't figure out how to get the stats I want .... thanks for this! Back to the proverbial drawing board. 🤦🏾♀️
If you have a surplus of cryopods you could always grind them in a grinder 🤘😜
@@Chaotic_Gaming ahh yes! Thanks a bunch!
The best mutation video on RUclips
Thanks bud 🤘
@@Chaotic_Gaming can you make a video about how to gather a lot of hide , I have been farming a lot for good saddles , I need 200k hide for this
Lot of information 😂thx my head hurts now. Can’t wait to rewatch it 20+ times
Great timing, decided to try Ark again and I wanna give breeding a serious try this time
Nice bud good luck 🤘
Man, this is a great tutorial. I managed to figure the process out somewhat myself right up until I got to the mutations and then I was out in the weeds. Still in the weeds, but slowly figuring it out lol
If you git any questions feel free to ask.
Thanks a ton for this. I have to say I may need to watch this abo;ut 8 times because I was lost after a few min but thanks because this is a confusing aspect of ARK that I had never really learned. I hope I can get the hang of it because am more lost than before the video hahahaha. I am so glad people like you do these vids though. I would have never figured this out
This is the best breeding video I have ever seen. Really well explained, I have seen a lot of confusing videos.
Thanks bud. I put a lot of work into this one for that very reason 🤘
@@Chaotic_Gaming
I just got back into official pve, I’m looking to breed carnos because I saw a 150 right at my base and I feel like they don’t get any love.
Loved the video man! You just earned yourself a new subscriber! I’ll definitely be back to this video to brush up on some stuff definitely the best breeding video I’ve seen man. Keep up the good work!
Glad I could help
I never knew about the gestation option on the incubator before, I wish I had when I was mutating megatheriums FML
It was fairly new added sometime after the egg incubator was released.
I keep coming back to this guide to check if I'm breeding right. After a few false starts, I'm mutating my fluffy raptors for the first time! Thank you so much!
Awesome to hear bud 🤘
Once I got 2 mutations at the same time (four levels higher) and they were BOTH in the stat I was looking for, mele. Plus, it was a male!!! Great vid btw.
Sick I love it when that happened
Fantastic guide. I agree with all rest of the comment section, best vid out there! I recently found a great PVE server that just started fresh with an excellent group of people. I had played a few hundred hours of Ark solo before, (the few pvp experiences I had were pretty shit) but I had never really gotten into breeding more than just ensuring a steady supply of Dinos. Now I'm looking to get into it a lot more as I build my new home in Ragnarok. This vid fills me with both dread and anticipation. There's just soo much I didn't know... but now I have a clue!
Glad it helped but. Good luck on your new adventures on rag with some super powerful tames 🤘
You featured in the community Crunch. Congrats. This was in anyway a cool & very informative video.
Thanks Arindam 💪
Thanks for the video ive been playing for 5 years and it was still helpfull. You are getting yourself a new sub hehe
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Think im going to have to watch this more than a few times, just got back into Ark after years away and cant get my head around breeding XD
If you have any questions feel free to ask
Proud of you for fixing the title spelling :P
In all seriousness though, this is a pretty solid video. I learned a few things I hadn't before. Great job!
Well I couldn't leave it 🤣
I just started breeding today for the first time and got a triple mutation, melee weight and torp.
Sounds like a double because torp isn't a stat that mutates
Been playing ark for many years on / off now. Always gotten to the point where I have everything I need, but never tryed the breeding. Always thought it was to timeconsuming and complicated. Guess I need to try this time after I started from scratch again.
Good luck
Thanks a lot. Going all in on making the strongest Primal Griffin now. So far they are getting pretty good.@@Chaotic_Gaming
@@NickPaulsen nice!
This … this has melted my brain but I’m gonna learn lmao
1 step at a time you'll get it
Very helpful and simple. I now know that much more about breeding (I knew nothing before)
Glad I could help bud 🤘
this is the first video that finally made me understand how to get past 20 mutations in a single stat. i always get confused in other videos because some of them hinted you can but you must not go over the max 255 stat points, and they never shown doing anything past 20 and my small brain just keep thinking if the mutation cap is 20 how to get 255stat points?! difficulty 20 server? but i see now haha
Glad I could help!
FINALY!!! 100% best breeding video i have ever watched im in love lol
Thanks bud. Means a lot coming from you bud
Best breeding guide ever. Congrats on getting into the crunch
Thanks bud 🤘 it's a good feeling
I might have got a triple mutation on like my first major try but idk I’m a noobie btw I watched this like five times thanks for the help I’ll probably watch it again
It could be possible, keep at it bud.
Ty you replied so quick lol
I got notifications turned on 😜
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Thank you for more detail on what to do if the mutation land on the female side, was scratching my head with this one.
No problem bud, glad I could help
This is an amazing and well thought out video. Perfectly covers breeding start-to-finish. But, as an avid breeder myself, I would HIGHLY recommend using the Smart Breeder that you briefly mentioned, it takes all of the guesswork out of the process and neatly keeps track of all of your dinos/stats/mutations/etc
Appreciate the kind words, I recommend it to but I still don't use it 😅
This is the simplest way I've ever heard it explained!! Thankyou!!!
Glad I could help bud 🤘
I still don’t get it
@@woozii.capalot what's got you confused? Maybe I can explain it better.
@@Chaotic_Gaming the whole stacking mutations part
@@woozii.capalot breed your stats male with your stats females untill you get a male with a mutation you want (say hp) it'll be 2 levels higher then the parents and have a higher health. Grow it up and then breed it with the females until a new mutation is born. It will be 2 levels higher then its father and 4 levels higher then the mothers. Make sure it has higher hp then the father. Grow it up and repeat.
Very good video even tho I already new all that only thing you didn’t mention was negative breeding
Yah I didn't mention it on purpose.
This is INCREDIBLY confusing, and I hate it. My head is spinning.
Anyone else who feels this way, I recommend repeatedly watching this video over time (and to use dododex) because he really does a great job explaining this here. Play solo, change the settings, and practice. I'm getting there myself, and it's actually thanks to CG's and his video getting played over and over again.
Glad I could help 🤘
Just saying thanks , I just started learning about the breeding from a friend on ark more information and knowledge goes a long ways
No problem bud 🤟
Great video explaining and editing learned everything I needed saved for later
Glad I could help
I still watch breeding guides despite knowing the basics just to see what I can learn
And did you learn anything from this one? 🤔
@@Chaotic_Gaming yes I completely forgot about mutagen and I didn't know it could only be used on the tamed dinos for the stats to be passed down
@@mikeH824 nice bud 🤘
recently got a double mutation in my argi stamina line. one in stam and 1 in health. desided to keep her as an inbetween upgrade from my curent argi in use. (better base stam then my leveled unmutated argi and better health. she has nice blue wingtips. gonna pump some points in weight and it ll begood enough for now
Amazing I was just watching to see wut other do but this is a amazing guide as some one with 5 years of this game and I have had maybe over 10k mutations I have had the triple mutation 2 times in that time it was really use full when it happened lol good job on this
Thank you for this.. I have been doing it wrong but fortunately i have just begun so i can correct it now. thanks.
Glad I could help 🤘
Oh my fucking god, i have been looking video after video, you're the only one i understood
🤘 glad I could help
I am both super interested in breeding in Ark, and super intimidated by the process. I think the hardest part is finding higher level dinos around the same level. Unless that is less important? Regardless, thank you for the video.
You can do it!
g'day chaotic :) love the slang in the intro mate :)
Haha, we all got our catch phrases 😜🤘
Great video, now I understand breeding. You have done a miracle
Awesome to hear bud 🤟🤘
@@Chaotic_Gaming You had my trust, now you have it even more
14:10 "If you're still getting random levels between your babies, you have the stats wrong on the parents - you need to fix this here and now"
After I started practicing while rewatching this video, I realized his base pair were the same levels. My babies are either the dads, the moms or the grandpas level, so I guess they're stats aren't wrong, but it made me think about it.
I guess my question is when you're looking for mutations, do you want the base pair you're using to have identical levels?
Identical stats and level.
@@Chaotic_Gaming Thank you yet again. I've been playing on and off since it first launched, so I'm determined to finally fully understand this process, so your help is invaluable
Glad I could help
I’m seeing a lot of people loving this video for its super in depth content. I agree, lots of info.
And it’s because of this video, I realize that breeding is not for me lol. Other than the fact that I understood, less than half of what you said, it also sounds very, very tedious.
So thank you for telling me the entire process now before I start to dive into it and regret it later!
Its not for everyone. Hopefully they will make it a little bit more simpler in ASA.
I’m not a New player but I never new how to breed but this Is gonna help ty so much I’ve been playing for 5 years To 6 years
Glad I could help 🤘
Best Breeding guide out there. Myman great job
Thanks bud 🤘
Amazing video finally I found a good guide
Thanks bud. Glad I could help
I'm about 20-30 hours in as I just took the leap into this game and this video just showed me that as I thought I was getting the hang of it, how new I really am lol I'll just keep learning step by step. I'm probably doing a lot of things wrong, but it's fun. THIS seems extremely tedious though. Either way, I still gave a like because even though I didn't really follow everything, I could tell that, not only was there a lot of thought put into it, along with the grind of learning to do it all in the first place, I can also tell that anyone who's ready for this information could easily understand what you're talking about and implement right away. Maybe one day I'll be there........maybe...
Baby steps bud. I'm nearly at 10k hours now myself. And it took me hundreds of hours before I fully understood breeding.
@@Chaotic_Gaming I appreciate the reply. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I do but I found mused playing for about 8-10 hours over multiple days without realizing it. I had to make myself take a break 😂 not trying to develop an unhealthy addiction. It just draws you in!!
@@xXDEUC35Xx oh yah Ark has an uncanny ability to delete days in a row. 🤣
@Chaotic Gaming oh boy. Wish me luck! I'm gonna have to limit myself to a couple hours when I get on lol
@@Chaotic_Gaming AAAAAAND I'm back! So I've been playing a lot since I replied to this a short while back and I THINK I might be ready to tackle this video again hahaha
I believe I need to get more formal with the game. Just starting…..an this was super insane amount of information.
Yah it is a lot. Just take it one step at a time bud
1. Thanks for the information
2. I think I got a 3-4 mutations on shadowmanes randomly
No problem bud. 😊
Yah mutations can easily sneak in there on you.
I’m still very confused as to whether or not the parents have to be the same level or not
The have to be the same level and stats for mutations after combining the stats.
You tame a bunch of wild dinos. Keep the ones with the best stats you want. Breed them together until you get all the stats you want on the same dino, without mutations. Then you take two of those dinos with exactly the same stats, and no mutations, and breed them together. Once you get a mutation on a stat you like, you breed it back to one of it's parents that has no mutations. The key, as Chaotic said, when breeding to get more mutations is to always breed the mutated dino back to a parent that has no mutations.
Excellent video thanks for the help
Glad it helped
Unless I missed it, you mentioned the elixir giving a 30% taming affinity, but it's worth noting that same elixir can be used to gain 30% imprint as well.
I might of missed mentioning it. Not some I would use for imprinting with the nanny from SS and S+ 😅
@Chaotic_Gaming I am completely ignorant when it comes to ss and s+ so I didn't even know about that. Thanks for letting me know!
One thing I didn't quite understand after watching. Is all of this just wild and taming levels? How do domestic level-ups behave with breeding? Are they inherited (except for movement) or are they dropped? If yes, do they inherit as tamed levels or domestic level-ups?
The levels gain from experience do not pass down. Only base levels and levels gained from mutations and taming are passed down.
Oh god. Yeah im gonna wait till i have some days off work to even start this😂 will just try to tame as many dinos as i can in the meantime
Good luck 🤘
I just had a brain aneurism. After watching this 6 times I think I get it...... hopefully........
Putting it in practice helps
I would love to lean more about breeding this was very helpful
Glad I could help bud 🤘
I came to this video thinking it was just informative. Now I’m 14 minutes in thinking the most tryhard strategies to mate my Dinos
Lol 😆
Impressive effort put into this guide, thankyou. However I really must ask people... Why would anyone bother with so much time and effort when all it takes is for your dino to get stuck on a pebble with no way to free it or some other bug to render all the time and effort obsolete? I am genuinely asking, what keeps you going when things like that can happen through no fault of the player? And so frequently too.
Well generally generally braking bugs that wipe out your dinos are not that common. If they get stuck. Cryopods. Breeding also allows you to replace lost dinos with the next generation.
thanks for posting this it is the most clear and concise video ive seen on breeding and one that i fully understand lmfao. Thanks for the hard work and know that it will get a lot of replays from me lmafo! (short term memory loss is a bitch)
Glad I could help bud 🤘 and I more then understand the short term memory loss 😅
I just started playing ark so didn't under stand a single thing but thanks
It's takes time and practice to start getting it. You'll get it once you start breeding and this guide will be hear when you're ready