do you have a discord or somthing im having a few issues with breeding at the base pair does it have to be 3 different rexes do all the stats have to be the same cause i hatched alot of eggs and can never git same stats if theres any other way to explain my issue i would defiently appreciate some assistance
@@warboy716-4 I use Nooblets discord at the moment. Let me ask you this. Start off with what dino exactly you are breeding? How many starting dinos do you have? Do you know what the best stats are out of how many you currently have? Are you trying to get your base pair right now?
@@seeshellgaming6883 rexs and i have about 10 224s i picked 2 with the stats I'd love to join this discord and chat more about this but yes im trying to achieve base pair
@@warboy716-4 Noobs does a patreon system for his channel. Tell me about the two rexes you have in stats? what are the two best stats from each? Tell me what are the stats exactly from first and second even weight and oxygen if you can. You can do it with two dinos. you don't have to do it with three dinos. You can do it with two or you could even do it with four dinos. But let me know what the stats for both and I can try to help you through chat the best that I can.
I just watched a two hour tutorial of how to make mega-rexes while sitting in my thatch hut with my 2 lvl 20 dodos 2 years later and I have finally built a 20/20 mutation Theri army. Best guide!!!
I'm on my boosted single player watching this while I'm lvl 98 but with the base of a lvl 40 player. But I'll just apply this concept to make a paraceratherium. Need that weight boi!!!
@@louieggg213 oh yea! I'm tired of my parasaur dying lol! I lost my entire inventory to a sarco cuz I was glitching out in my raft. At least a paracer can defend itself for some time!
Why are there 2 months between the release date and your comment? I would expect you to be the first to comment. Especially since your base was the center of attention :)
I first watched this over a year ago and have reviewed it several times since as a refresher. This is the definitive guide for the average player wanting to breed correctly with stat stacking. An amazing job on this video .... a year and a half later I'm still in awe at the time put in, effort to keep it clear and simple, and the quality editing done in this video. You see everything you need to see and she lays out a precise blueprint on how to be successful. I even find her naming convention to be a must. Don't waste your time anywhere else as this is the best guide ever put out hands down and we are blessed she did this for us. Thank You MeShell!
Although it's 2 hours long and every other RUclipsr calls their video "The best breeding guide" or some crap, I think *this* video is actually the best one.
Essentially to sum up the vid: 1: search for the wild tames with the best stats to mate for the best base pair. 2: have 1 base male and multiple base females 3: once you get mutations on one stat, continue to breed for that stat only in order to get a consistent chain and the most amount of mutations for that stat 4: if the chain is on a female mutation, breed that female with the base male in order to get a male with 0 on the patrilineal mutation chain and transfer the moms matrilineal chain onto the newbreds patrilineal chain. 5: Once the mutations for one stat is complete, breed that for another stat with the base and search for another stat boost and a new mutation chain
I know right, it's so rare to find AN ACTUAL GOOD guide, most people skip everything and show you results without steps like this idiot I found a bit ago, He had in the title: "best single-player guide to get a quetzal" or something and in one of his tips he mentioned: "To get a Quetzal just use another Quetzal " HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@@Pugnut21 on any other video I would say that is a your opinion, even if its a bad one. But it is a fact that this is the best breed guide ever. Yes, it is a long video but it literally gives you all info on breeding. Syntac video isn't bad but its not the best because it is short and doesn't simply the breeding process. Seashell guide could most probably even teach a 10 year or less how to breed.
Of course. Repetition is key for learning. Explaining something this complicated needs to be explained properly so me repeating was very important for people doing this for the first time. Thank you very much for watching.
An extra tip. If your starter base pair isnt 150, you can potentially breed up a better pair as long as you make sure it doesnt have a mutation. For example i have a tamed 150F giga and an 84 male from taming. As long as it doesnt have a mutation, you can breed the 2 together to get a higher level male to make a base pair from. It can be useful for some more tedious, harder to tame creatures.
Thing is, your Giga will almost never have better stats in any of the areas because the best stats you've got are probably the ones from your 150. How it works is that wild dinos have a system to give them levels randomly up to 150, if you get lucky one of the wild ones you get might get a lot less points in say Oxygen which is a worthless stat and in turn get his other stats boosted. That is why she recommends to tame a lot of 150 and see who has the better stats, because breeding another 150 will only inherit the stats of the parent with the highest ones. There's a neat mod I use to make this a little better that's called "Awesome Spyglass!" that shows exactly how many points wild dinos have in each stat, so you can just search for the one boosted stat you want with just your spyglass, a plus from it is that there is a possibility to get a
@@sandwich3495 in a way she did mention it, at the beginning she spawned in 36 rexes. And picked the ones with the highest stats in certain fields. So before even mutating you have to get the best health and melee together for example. So your two 150s are level like 200. Then you start mutating. If you only use the 150 and an 80, odds are the 80 won’t even have any stats better then the 150, so you would only have a 150 still
@@gurren_kaijuan8968 she targeted the color bc the color change indicates a mutation. So if you’re having trouble searching in the crowd fast enough. Look for the one with differing colors than the rest
Finally a good in-depth guide for people. It took me a long time to figure out this whole process through trial and error because all of the other guides were not nearly as detailed. Very good video!
i’ve watched SO many videos on breeding and could never understand how mutations works.. you are AMAZING! you explained it so well that i feel 100% confident i can do this right. Thank you for all the effort you put into making this; it helps A TON!
I finally started getting back into Ark and they changed it immensely since it was first released on Steam. I was completely clueless but have spent the past week trying to catch up. This is by far the best and most informative video for breeding. And bonus points for adding timestamps in the description!
As someone who is autistic and struggles to translate written directions, or even spoken directions with the basic information into an actual action plan, this video is fantastic. The repetition in particular was wonderful. Thank you so much!!
yes !!!!!! I’m so glad it was like that, and to the people complaining about it being repetitive, you can skip through. the repetition really helped people who couldn’t fully understand this entire process !!
Been playing ark for a few years now, but I never understood how to properly stack up mutations. Thank you so much! This guide is perfectly laid out for new players as well as old veteran players. Thank you again!
I had to be repetitive and show people how to do it. There is no proper guide up until now that explains the details of this process. Someone doing this for the first time will be very overwhelmed and not know what I am talking about. But yes I was going to show one chain completely done so that people really understood.
MeSheel if you write timestamps in description of video RUclips automatically create chapters visible on position slider . Very handy for long videos! 00:00:00 Start (obligatory start at zero position) 00:00:49 Pick your dino 00:01:36 Tame/Pick Stats 00:05:00 Getting a Base Pair 00:15:49 Starting a Chain 00:28:37 Getting a Female Chain 01:24:10 Finishing a Chain 01:37:50 Correct Final Chains 01:44:25 Combining Final Stats 01:51:20 Final Combination 01:54:58 Testing
@@XM8A1 It was added long after my comment which I made a year ago. Exactly same timestamps suggests my comment was used as a source so I am glad it was helpful...
As a bonus side effect of gaining a Mutated Female, whilst breeding her with the Base Male, you can also let the Base Females also breed, which will then also potentially net you 1) More Base Females to add to the breeding line which will exponentially increase the speed of gaining mutations, and 2) Possibly a new mutation chain beginner, say a Damage mutated male that you can put aside for when you want to start that line off.
I was following this guide and the first line I did, after getting my first health mutation in a rex, was I got a female that got a random attack mutation as well. Talk about luck! How do you take this female and give its attack stat to a base male, despite having a 1/20 patr and 1/20 matr now?
The best video on breeding dinos, but what the most amazing thing in all this is the level on patience YOU got Meshell! Thank you for making this pretty complicated topic completely idiotproof.
I've watched a lot of videos on breeding. This is the best by far! Thank you for putting lots of detail into it and not just putting out a short video for more views!
I have watched my fair share of mutation videos, and while I'm only 10 mins in, I can tell you this is the best guide ever, it really is. I just finished mutating my rexs from 5,900 to 13,400 health (bad) and from 371 to 611 melee (good), but it took a lot of videos to understand, this video is 2 hrs long, yea, this is "The Guide" I know this is old, but good job.
I love this guide. I was so confused about the "base" dino. Started over 3 times until I came across this video. Talk about time consuming! Omg, took me a couple weeks to get my base dinos. I've rewind this video so many times, im pretty sure I could quote word by word lol. I appreciate the patience it took you to make this tutorial.
@@derpderp8270 probably late but yes if you base already has good base stats the mutations can get higher because it’s the bottem point and goes up gradually
Honestly I'd suggest not even trying this on official unless you have around 64 females. I've speced weight and can carry 32 eggs at once so it's just a solid number for me. But 64 should allow you to get mutations a lot easier. I'm playing solo currently and I only have 8, so I wait til they lay 4 eggs and hatch at the same time. About the time those are hatching the other 4 are just about or already there waiting to be incubated and hatched. Sadly theres times when i have to go 8+ cycles. I've legit gone passed 256 eggs a handful of times before getting a proper mutation for the chain I'm working on. Just bad luck I guess Haha. Only reason I get by with 8 is because I've cranked the intervals. If doing on official I'd lose my mind unless I had at least 4 groups to minimize the downtime for breeding to alleviate the headache of the cooldowns (at least for rexes) 4 pods of 16 would work decently well. Been a nightmare but having my rexes having an additional ~250% damage boost from birth is quite nice. Next chain is health. Gonna have me some boss rexes soon!
THANK YOU FOR ACTUALLY EXPLAINING THINGS. I’ve been trying to figure out breeding for damn near a year now and every guide I watch or read skips over little details. I didn’t know you were supposed to keep your base females, nor did I know to look for higher levels than the parents.
I give even more props now for the time it must've taken to make this video. I'm breeding rexes finally and I'm referring to this video for concise instruction. It took me 100+ rexes (thanks to the scorched earth rex triangle for quick respawns) to find decent starters, 70+ eggs to get my 1 base male and 8 females and 96 eggs to get my first mutation in a worthy stat (damage). The length of time it's taken me to get to this point with RNG makes you really appreciate a video of this nature. I can only imagine how nuts this would be on official without boosted mating and hatching.
I wanted to start breeding seriously and all the other guides were too short and I was confused but with this I fully understood how it worked, thank you!
Very well made guide with meticulous step-by-step explanations. The only real thing missing is showing that you can continue mutating infinitely. If you breed the Final females with the first base male, there is a (half) chance that you can get a mutation on the patrilineal side, as the first base male has 0/20 - this also has to coincide with the fact that the new born babies have to inherit stats from the final females. As there are still mutation slots avalible (on the first base male), you can actually continue to compound stats along the way by breeding the new mutations into the line. This is how alphas do it now - infinite breeding: If you breed a 20/20 male with a 20/20 female there is a 0 % chance of getting a mutation. The chance of getting a mutation is about 3 %, if both parents have avaliable mutation slots (ie. 19/20 patrilineal and 19/20 matrilineal). In very rare cases (0.06 % of the time) you can get a double mutation - this is because a mutation can happen on both the fathers and mothers side. Having a father 0/20 and a mother 20/20 (or a 200/20 mother) will essentially half the chance of mutations, and will also nulify any chance of a double mutation, because there are no mutation slots left on the mothers side. There is a 50/50 chance that if a mutation occurs the father mutates the mothers stats on the baby, and this is why you can mutate infinitly. You could breed your final females with a 19/20 melee male base to continue making better rexes, adding mutations to your line as you go. I believe this fact was also in the video, but I want to underline it: The max level a dino can be on official is level 450 - any dino above 450 will get deleted with server-restart. Make a new base pair by breeding a base with a level 1 rex to transfer level 1 food and/or oxygen stat - that way you can have even more points in the other stats, and still be at or below level 450. Thank you so much for this contribution - I can't imagine how long it must have taken you.
Thanks for this that was what I wasn't sure about was the limits and why you didn't want the mutations on the female side or two different ones together example health and damage but now I get it
Thanks for the extra info that's kind of what I was wondering was what you were trying at the end goal to build health and damage one on mother after final on mother
I always thoroughly enjoy watching these detailed tutorials/guides! The breeding mechanics in ARK are very simple, but the correct process for stacking mutations and min-maxing tames has no room for error which is what makes it exceptionally confusing. This is magnificently put together (:
Oh my gosh watched through the whole video and can honestly say I went from knowing nothing about mutations to being able to do it with no problem at all, thank you!
This is by far the most comprehensive breeding guide I have watched! Thank you for the simple explanations and the reiterating of the important points.
This was the vid I discovered the channel with; refreshing, thorough, and informative (even as an Alpha tribe member with some significant breeding experience). And ya hang with nooblets? Sold. Great guide here.
Yknow i kind of hate that and sometimes ark fucks you and erases evidence, like ill have some rex eggs hatching>go watch a video>leave them unclaimed for about 5 mins>apparently they starve and died? but bodies take 30 mins to despawn on my server but there are no bodies. Ark is sus
damn girl ... you can explain the mysteries of ARK creation ... I'm trying to do this with some TEK REX on my private server, with increased rates for months ... Congratulations for your patience ... I always get distracted and go do other stuff... By the way... nice base, can't wait for the making of :P
Thank you. I tried to be as thurough as possible since this is a very difficult process to start especially for someone who has never done this before.
I tried this with my thylacoleos and dude, it's a looooot of damage that the mutation 20/20 does, before i forget, thanks a lot for this great tutorial :)
I could not thank you enough. After countless guides this is the best guide. I went from confused to understanding and the way you explained is top tier. God bless❤
thank you so much. I am glad that after all of these years that this is still helpful! If you have any questions about breeding you are more than welcome to join my discord on my main RUclips page (link is at the top right) cheers!
This is a perfect guide, take a little while to get it into your head when the females come along but works a treat. I am now a master breeder! Thank you for taking the time to make this video!
I've bred some impressive creatures, but now I can up my game. Finally, a detailed, clear, and comprehensive guide to breeding. I had to learn the hard way, as there was no such guide when I started. Well done meshell. Great to see the shard in action too 😉
This has to be the best single source for breeding info I have ever seen (7000 hours i ARK) and I now know what I am doing the next few weeks... Thank You.
This is a perfect guide, the fact you took your time to do this for people is awsome 10/10. There is only 1 thing I'm sad about, not seeing them in action after all the time you put in to it. Keep up the good work
As others have said: This is truly the best guide I could find for a beginner to mutations. Other guides do provide correct information, but they're short, cramming information into 20-30min which leaves out details. This is detailed, and shows clearly how to do it. Straight and to the point. Not just saying how and only showing the results, but the detail of what it should look like as you go, and reminders.
Ty so much for posting this video. I've spent a very long time trying to breed higher level Rex's and couldn't get it "quite right" You explained it perfectly. I play on official so it's going to take me a really long time but it'll be very worth it. Thnx again :)
After I’ve learned every step on breeding 1 year later I still watch this video every time i start breeding again 😂 this by far is the best breeding tutorial ever 👏👏👏 well done and thank you for this 🙏
Very informative and helpful. This is the only video on this subject so far that I've watched that has actually helped me understand the topic and not walk away scratching my head feeling like an idiot. Lol. Thank you!
Newish to Ark, even newer to breeding and trying out mutation stacking. I have watched this video a fee times and can now honestly say I have a better understanding of it thanks to you. Started with beryonyx (never been in a cave and heard he was pretty beast at them) I'm currently at the point of breeding for my Base females. Getting the best stats on your base dinos takes time but it's gonna be worth it. Going for Tek Rex's after the beryonyx.
I find it quite easy. One time I was teaching a friend how to breed and showed him all the cute babies and while he was admiring them I proceeded to slaughter them all, I like dark humor.
I jus want to say that I watched all the 15 minute guides from RUclipsrs that claimed they had the ultimate guide however I didn't even remotely understand mutations and how to stack them until this video. Thank you for taking the time and actually putting it ALL on video and explaining it. U have earned my sub forever
What a wonderful video you made, thanks for the insane amount off work you put in, i finally understand how this works now. I also liked on Steam because its the least i can do.
Hands down the best guide on RUclips very well explained and easy to follow tyvm for the guide can only imagine how much times gone in to this. Subbed and liked P.S can you add exact server settings you are using so i can use them please. keep up the good work.
ruclips.net/video/3oqQTqTV2wE/видео.html I am on Nooblets. Server. He just put out his server settings for the maps. This is exactly what I have been using. Hope this helps.
Best part is this is how you get rid of "the excess" Worst part it the game volume... the stomping.... by far the best guide i've seen so far! Fool proof!
Very informative video. Just curios with the “FINAL FEMALE” and “FINAL MALE” is it possible to get color mutations when breeding them or does the mutation cap prevent this?
I don't believe you can. You need a mutation for a new color. You can try however to breed those final rexes with already colored dinos but I don't think the result will be the highest possible level.
Amazing video, making one of if not the most complicated things in ark as simple as possible but still giving all the info needed. This has to be the best and easiest guides to help with mutations.
You can run those chains farther than 20 mutations on one side as long as you are breeding with a base dino. I currently have Rex line with over 32k hp and 1213 melee at birth. You also need to talk about the dino level cap and how to breed while keeping dinos under the ultimate level cap. Dinos that break the cap can disappear (on official servers) and you lose the dino and all items in the inventory when that happens. The cap used to be 450 (in the past a dino would disappear if leveled above 450 the next time the server reset so we wanted our dinos born at 376 or under so the last level would be at 449 and there would be no risk of the dino disappearing.) but when they changed max level up for Dinos from 73 to 88 that probably changed to top cap and I have not seen a video on that yet. (Also eggs that hatched with a birth level over 450 would hatch without a baby because it disappeared at birth) Sometimes lesser stats like food or oxygen need to be bread down to make room for levels in more desirable stats. I also wonder if you were limited to 61 levels because 389+61 was 450. If you found a dino with lower food and/or oxygen and bread it with your final dinos to bring down the birth level under 376 I am willing to bet you max level increase would be greater than 61 levels.
more than 61 one levels could have been added on there, it just didn't have enough experience. the xp bar was not full after pumping the levels, also fairly sure the mutation cap is a setting which can be changed and default is 20 and if you continue after 20 mutations with the cap of 20 it will say 21/20 mutations and will get a colour change but no stat difference. or at least that is my understanding of it
So would you stop getting the next level in a chain of mutation if your dino level reached a certain percentage or stat number. We have been trying to find the next level in our chain, but our dino's were pretty high level to start and we can't seem to get past the fourth mutation in our chain. I am wondering with this cap if it can tell when a dino stat is at a max capacity and then will no longer give a mutation for that stat. We do however keep seeing different mutations. Any insight?
Wyatt Derp not sure if you’ll answer back or not but I bred a female melee/health with a male Stam Rex. I got triplets, and it’s the base stats for health/melee/health. I looked at them and it has a mutation on all three. There all lvl 303 I need them and got a 305 mutation with 2 mutations on it but not on something showing like it doesn’t show a an increase in any stat. If you could help that would be great
@@akcristianv9152 mutations that do not show are normally in movement speed and are wasted mutations since that is a fixed number. Sometimes it could be in one of the stats you are not focused on like food or oxygen.
In case anyone makes the same as me, I just started breeding and I was getting levels that were all over the place. I had forgotten to do step 3. And get flat stats across the board for the base pairs
I've watched a lot of mutation vids recently. This is the most thorough and fully explained guide to breeding and clean stacking. Thank you for your time, cheers!
Great guide. At the end of all that you could have also bred in low oxy/food/speed to lower their level, and have more room for levelups before hitting the level cap at 450. I believe that way you could have gotten a total of 88 levelups instead of 61.
Wait so if you do all the highest level of stats in all categories at the end of your final birds.. you can then breed that top bird with a low bird and lower oxygen, food, speed? Which will give you your points back in a sense ? Is that what I'm understanding?
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do you have a discord or somthing im having a few issues with breeding at the base pair does it have to be 3 different rexes do all the stats have to be the same cause i hatched alot of eggs and can never git same stats if theres any other way to explain my issue i would defiently appreciate some assistance
@@warboy716-4 I use Nooblets discord at the moment. Let me ask you this. Start off with what dino exactly you are breeding? How many starting dinos do you have? Do you know what the best stats are out of how many you currently have? Are you trying to get your base pair right now?
@@seeshellgaming6883 rexs and i have about 10 224s i picked 2 with the stats I'd love to join this discord and chat more about this but yes im trying to achieve base pair
@@seeshellgaming6883 there isnt enough space to really type stats here lol
@@warboy716-4 Noobs does a patreon system for his channel. Tell me about the two rexes you have in stats? what are the two best stats from each? Tell me what are the stats exactly from first and second even weight and oxygen if you can. You can do it with two dinos. you don't have to do it with three dinos. You can do it with two or you could even do it with four dinos. But let me know what the stats for both and I can try to help you through chat the best that I can.
I just watched a two hour tutorial of how to make mega-rexes while sitting in my thatch hut with my 2 lvl 20 dodos
2 years later and I have finally built a 20/20 mutation Theri army. Best guide!!!
I'm on my boosted single player watching this while I'm lvl 98 but with the base of a lvl 40 player. But I'll just apply this concept to make a paraceratherium. Need that weight boi!!!
Jason Basant Nice mate, paracers are one of my favorite dinos because they can have a platform saddle and they are quicker than a bronto
@@louieggg213 oh yea! I'm tired of my parasaur dying lol! I lost my entire inventory to a sarco cuz I was glitching out in my raft. At least a paracer can defend itself for some time!
Aww wow you have a thatch house!
Lol
The BEST Guide Ever!
Hi guys, Steve here
Thanks Nooblets!
Ye
Ye man the title says it
Why are there 2 months between the release date and your comment? I would expect you to be the first to comment. Especially since your base was the center of attention :)
Step 1 - Pick your Dino 00:00:49
Step 2 - Tame/Pick Stats 00:01:36
Step 3 - Getting a Base Pair 00:05:00
Step 4 - Starting a Chain 00:15:49
Step 5 - Getting a Female Chain 00:28:37
Step 6 - Finishing a Chain 01:24:10
Step 7 - Correct Final Chains 01:37:50
Step 8 - Combining Final Stats 01:44:25
Step 9 - Final Combination 01:51:20
Step 10 - Testing 01:54:58
For my own navigational, purposes. ^_^
My hero
thankyou for this man
Please pin this!!!
literally my hero!
And for mine also haha thanks.
I first watched this over a year ago and have reviewed it several times since as a refresher. This is the definitive guide for the average player wanting to breed correctly with stat stacking. An amazing job on this video .... a year and a half later I'm still in awe at the time put in, effort to keep it clear and simple, and the quality editing done in this video. You see everything you need to see and she lays out a precise blueprint on how to be successful. I even find her naming convention to be a must. Don't waste your time anywhere else as this is the best guide ever put out hands down and we are blessed she did this for us. Thank You MeShell!
thank you
shell - don't look for colours, colours not important
Also shell - dangit I wanted a pink one.
I just use admin cheats for colors lol
@@trentglasgow7114 I did not know that was a thing! Oh shit, I'm about to be a cheating bastard haha
@@Super__Goliath just be careful, it's a rather slippery slope with commands
who doesn’t want pink dinos
Honnestly, I'm keeping the colors and I reintroduce them once I have all the stats I want XD
Although it's 2 hours long and every other RUclipsr calls their video "The best breeding guide" or some crap,
I think *this* video is actually the best one.
I agree 100%
its the only one that actually made sense and completely explained how to breed the dino you want. it brought a tear to my eye
Essentially to sum up the vid:
1: search for the wild tames with the best stats to mate for the best base pair.
2: have 1 base male and multiple base females
3: once you get mutations on one stat, continue to breed for that stat only in order to get a consistent chain and the most amount of mutations for that stat
4: if the chain is on a female mutation, breed that female with the base male in order to get a male with 0 on the patrilineal mutation chain and transfer the moms matrilineal chain onto the newbreds patrilineal chain.
5: Once the mutations for one stat is complete, breed that for another stat with the base and search for another stat boost and a new mutation chain
I know right, it's so rare to find AN ACTUAL GOOD guide, most people skip everything and show you results without steps like this idiot I found a bit ago,
He had in the title: "best single-player guide to get a quetzal" or something and in one of his tips he mentioned: "To get a Quetzal just use another Quetzal "
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@@Pugnut21 on any other video I would say that is a your opinion, even if its a bad one. But it is a fact that this is the best breed guide ever. Yes, it is a long video but it literally gives you all info on breeding. Syntac video isn't bad but its not the best because it is short and doesn't simply the breeding process. Seashell guide could most probably even teach a 10 year or less how to breed.
The repetition of the process made it so much easier to understand and remember. By far the best breeding guide. Worth the 2 hours lol
Of course. Repetition is key for learning. Explaining something this complicated needs to be explained properly so me repeating was very important for people doing this for the first time. Thank you very much for watching.
@@seeshellgaming6883 You imprinted on us, didn't you. Sneaky.
100%
Crazier process then breeding chocobos in FF7
An extra tip. If your starter base pair isnt 150, you can potentially breed up a better pair as long as you make sure it doesnt have a mutation. For example i have a tamed 150F giga and an 84 male from taming. As long as it doesnt have a mutation, you can breed the 2 together to get a higher level male to make a base pair from. It can be useful for some more tedious, harder to tame creatures.
^This, idk why anybody hasn't mentioned this...
Thing is, your Giga will almost never have better stats in any of the areas because the best stats you've got are probably the ones from your 150. How it works is that wild dinos have a system to give them levels randomly up to 150, if you get lucky one of the wild ones you get might get a lot less points in say Oxygen which is a worthless stat and in turn get his other stats boosted. That is why she recommends to tame a lot of 150 and see who has the better stats, because breeding another 150 will only inherit the stats of the parent with the highest ones. There's a neat mod I use to make this a little better that's called "Awesome Spyglass!" that shows exactly how many points wild dinos have in each stat, so you can just search for the one boosted stat you want with just your spyglass, a plus from it is that there is a possibility to get a
@@sandwich3495 in a way she did mention it, at the beginning she spawned in 36 rexes. And picked the ones with the highest stats in certain fields. So before even mutating you have to get the best health and melee together for example. So your two 150s are level like 200. Then you start mutating. If you only use the 150 and an 80, odds are the 80 won’t even have any stats better then the 150, so you would only have a 150 still
@@serenabissanti9104 Hence "A Start" doesn't mean you'll use it entirely throughout your playthrough
@@Asdfboy_ the most useful is Dino Storage v2. You can pod them all and see the mutations immediately without inspection.
"Color doesn't matter... Oooo a red one" HAHAHA
every time a color popped up she went to it 1st on my life she was reflaxing but that cyan one she know she loved it...
Clever
@@gurren_kaijuan8968 she targeted the color bc the color change indicates a mutation. So if you’re having trouble searching in the crowd fast enough. Look for the one with differing colors than the rest
I got a pink one
Finally a good in-depth guide for people. It took me a long time to figure out this whole process through trial and error because all of the other guides were not nearly as detailed. Very good video!
Thank you
The amount off effort in this video is insane finally a video that actually explain mutations great video
Thank you. I tried to be as thorough as possible to help out people with their own breeding.
@@seeshellgaming6883 you did an AMAZING JOB.............thanks for your time and effort!!!
i’ve watched SO many videos on breeding and could never understand how mutations works.. you are AMAZING! you explained it so well that i feel 100% confident i can do this right. Thank you for all the effort you put into making this; it helps A TON!
I finally started getting back into Ark and they changed it immensely since it was first released on Steam. I was completely clueless but have spent the past week trying to catch up. This is by far the best and most informative video for breeding. And bonus points for adding timestamps in the description!
As someone who is autistic and struggles to translate written directions, or even spoken directions with the basic information into an actual action plan, this video is fantastic. The repetition in particular was wonderful. Thank you so much!!
Same! Also on the spectrum and i neeeded this to actually understand it.
:)
this is wholesome for some reason
yes !!!!!! I’m so glad it was like that, and to the people complaining about it being repetitive, you can skip through. the repetition really helped people who couldn’t fully understand this entire process !!
Same for me, I watched so many tutorials and I still couldn't understand but this one really helped me out
Can we just appreciate how much effort went into making this video, must’ve took a long time to record all this, thank you
Been playing ark for a few years now, but I never understood how to properly stack up mutations. Thank you so much! This guide is perfectly laid out for new players as well as old veteran players. Thank you again!
Even though it seemed a little repetitive at first, I'm actually glad you showed every mutation because now I won't forget how to do it.
I had to be repetitive and show people how to do it. There is no proper guide up until now that explains the details of this process. Someone doing this for the first time will be very overwhelmed and not know what I am talking about. But yes I was going to show one chain completely done so that people really understood.
MeSheel if you write timestamps in description of video RUclips automatically create chapters visible on position slider
. Very handy for long videos!
00:00:00 Start (obligatory start at zero position)
00:00:49 Pick your dino
00:01:36 Tame/Pick Stats
00:05:00 Getting a Base Pair
00:15:49 Starting a Chain
00:28:37 Getting a Female Chain
01:24:10 Finishing a Chain
01:37:50 Correct Final Chains
01:44:25 Combining Final Stats
01:51:20 Final Combination
01:54:58 Testing
I think this video was made before that addition to RUclips rip
They're in the description
@@XM8A1 It was added long after my comment which I made a year ago. Exactly same timestamps suggests my comment was used as a source so I am glad it was helpful...
@@Graviphoton I was just letting you know, wasn't sure if you knew or not
I dont know who you are. You literally just popped up in feed but as soon as I saw this was near 2hrs you got my sub. Legendary.
As a bonus side effect of gaining a Mutated Female, whilst breeding her with the Base Male, you can also let the Base Females also breed, which will then also potentially net you 1) More Base Females to add to the breeding line which will exponentially increase the speed of gaining mutations, and 2) Possibly a new mutation chain beginner, say a Damage mutated male that you can put aside for when you want to start that line off.
I was following this guide and the first line I did, after getting my first health mutation in a rex, was I got a female that got a random attack mutation as well. Talk about luck! How do you take this female and give its attack stat to a base male, despite having a 1/20 patr and 1/20 matr now?
The best video on breeding dinos, but what the most amazing thing in all this is the level on patience YOU got Meshell! Thank you for making this pretty complicated topic completely idiotproof.
I've watched a lot of videos on breeding. This is the best by far! Thank you for putting lots of detail into it and not just putting out a short video for more views!
Thank you.
How cool is it that you’ve made a WHOLE MOVIE just to help us
@@saikyue4462 what? tf u mad for
pfp and name
@@saikyue4462 ok, and? Stfu you stupid pos.
@@saikyue4462 stfu
@@kevinvelazquez3381 No U
I have watched my fair share of mutation videos, and while I'm only 10 mins in, I can tell you this is the best guide ever, it really is. I just finished mutating my rexs from 5,900 to 13,400 health (bad) and from 371 to 611 melee (good), but it took a lot of videos to understand, this video is 2 hrs long, yea, this is "The Guide"
I know this is old, but good job.
Were you able to beat alpha with those stats, that’s around where I’m going to land and just want to make sure my work isn’t for nothing haha
@@TheTeeheed don't remember 100% if that was before I turned singleplayer off, which nerfs the bosses.
tip for anyone of you don’t no what to do with extra eggs i always just turn them into kibble
I dropped a stack of eggs in the swamp and came back to many tamed snakes xD
Or give some to other people if the server you play on is pve
Really wanted you to go attack something with that Max Dmg Rex to see the damage.
you know this is probably the best guid on breeding ive ever seen keep making great content
thank you
Finally someone explained it well! Be proud knowing this is helping people years later
thank you so much. i am glad that it still helps
"all my base females are turned on"
*SeeShell Gaming* Dec 8 , 2019
I've already turned on all the females
@@sepp7665 💀
It was actually me
I was looking for this comment
Very well done u take after nooblets very clear clean instructions u make a complicated task easy to understand
Thank you
I love this guide. I was so confused about the "base" dino. Started over 3 times until I came across this video.
Talk about time consuming! Omg, took me a couple weeks to get my base dinos. I've rewind this video so many times, im pretty sure I could quote word by word lol.
I appreciate the patience it took you to make this tutorial.
Yo do levels matter because like that’s the hardest part about mutations
@@derpderp8270 probably late but yes if you base already has good base stats the mutations can get higher because it’s the bottem point and goes up gradually
@@ps1hagrid268 so I should get higher lvls?
@@derpderp8270 well the level you tame your dino on is kind of becomes your base
And if your base is higher that’s the lowest stats so the mutations begin at that point
4 years later and this is still the best, most concise guide I cold find on the subject. Tank you for this
no problem, glad it is still helping!
This is genuinely the most helpful guide I've ever seen for Ark.
I first saw this a year ago and still use it now, still the best Ark guide I've seen.
Thanks to this I finally understood mutations... definitely one of the best guides.
Super late but just wanted to say thank you for making a long in depth breeding guide so even my dumbass can understand it. Really appreciate it
no you're not late. Thank you for your support. Breeding is very complicated in Ark and takes getting used to. It is a real learning curve.
@Hella Raged Cookie my dumbass doesn't understand anything but this I do
This guide is so beautiful, I was having so much trouble being a newcomer an all trying to have boss destroying tames. Thank you!
As a new player to ark, thank you putting this together. I cannot imagine the amount of time and effort this took so I really appreciate it!!!!
"14-15 base females... that's a little overkill" she said
* looks over at his 85 females *
* whistles *
I hope that was a whistle stop. That's quite a harem. Whistle passive pleeease.
Honestly I'd suggest not even trying this on official unless you have around 64 females. I've speced weight and can carry 32 eggs at once so it's just a solid number for me. But 64 should allow you to get mutations a lot easier. I'm playing solo currently and I only have 8, so I wait til they lay 4 eggs and hatch at the same time. About the time those are hatching the other 4 are just about or already there waiting to be incubated and hatched. Sadly theres times when i have to go 8+ cycles. I've legit gone passed 256 eggs a handful of times before getting a proper mutation for the chain I'm working on. Just bad luck I guess Haha. Only reason I get by with 8 is because I've cranked the intervals. If doing on official I'd lose my mind unless I had at least 4 groups to minimize the downtime for breeding to alleviate the headache of the cooldowns (at least for rexes) 4 pods of 16 would work decently well. Been a nightmare but having my rexes having an additional ~250% damage boost from birth is quite nice. Next chain is health. Gonna have me some boss rexes soon!
Such an incredible guide. I’ve come back to this video for tips and guidance 4 times now
Only 4 times ? Lol 😂
Seeshell: attempts to change name*
Keyboard: /////eeeeee//eee//e///////eeeeeeeeeee//////////e/e///////////
Reminds me of Patrick leedle leedle lee
I am impressed that you recorded so much just to show viewers all the details of breeding! You did a great job and it was very informative!
THANK YOU FOR ACTUALLY EXPLAINING THINGS. I’ve been trying to figure out breeding for damn near a year now and every guide I watch or read skips over little details. I didn’t know you were supposed to keep your base females, nor did I know to look for higher levels than the parents.
This is the single best breeding guide on youtube. Thank you for actually understanding amd showing the process.
thank you very much
I give even more props now for the time it must've taken to make this video. I'm breeding rexes finally and I'm referring to this video for concise instruction. It took me 100+ rexes (thanks to the scorched earth rex triangle for quick respawns) to find decent starters, 70+ eggs to get my 1 base male and 8 females and 96 eggs to get my first mutation in a worthy stat (damage). The length of time it's taken me to get to this point with RNG makes you really appreciate a video of this nature. I can only imagine how nuts this would be on official without boosted mating and hatching.
I wanted to start breeding seriously and all the other guides were too short and I was confused but with this I fully understood how it worked, thank you!
Very well made guide with meticulous step-by-step explanations. The only real thing missing is showing that you can continue mutating infinitely. If you breed the Final females with the first base male, there is a (half) chance that you can get a mutation on the patrilineal side, as the first base male has 0/20 - this also has to coincide with the fact that the new born babies have to inherit stats from the final females. As there are still mutation slots avalible (on the first base male), you can actually continue to compound stats along the way by breeding the new mutations into the line. This is how alphas do it now - infinite breeding:
If you breed a 20/20 male with a 20/20 female there is a 0 % chance of getting a mutation.
The chance of getting a mutation is about 3 %, if both parents have avaliable mutation slots (ie. 19/20 patrilineal and 19/20 matrilineal). In very rare cases (0.06 % of the time) you can get a double mutation - this is because a mutation can happen on both the fathers and mothers side. Having a father 0/20 and a mother 20/20 (or a 200/20 mother) will essentially half the chance of mutations, and will also nulify any chance of a double mutation, because there are no mutation slots left on the mothers side. There is a 50/50 chance that if a mutation occurs the father mutates the mothers stats on the baby, and this is why you can mutate infinitly. You could breed your final females with a 19/20 melee male base to continue making better rexes, adding mutations to your line as you go.
I believe this fact was also in the video, but I want to underline it: The max level a dino can be on official is level 450 - any dino above 450 will get deleted with server-restart.
Make a new base pair by breeding a base with a level 1 rex to transfer level 1 food and/or oxygen stat - that way you can have even more points in the other stats, and still be at or below level 450.
Thank you so much for this contribution - I can't imagine how long it must have taken you.
Really important info on down-breeding the useless stats to make more room for continued mutes. ty
Thanks for this that was what I wasn't sure about was the limits and why you didn't want the mutations on the female side or two different ones together example health and damage but now I get it
Thanks for the extra info that's kind of what I was wondering was what you were trying at the end goal to build health and damage one on mother after final on mother
“That’s an ugly color” she says as I think to myself “wow what cool color”
nah man. I would love to have a vibrant red rex dominating the server. make it look like an alpha t rex.
I thought it was cool too! Liked the purple and pink one but I really want a red one.
@@seeshellgaming6883 wouldn't u be able to breed for color after the mutations are filled out?
@@Tru3Spart3n yes
I always thoroughly enjoy watching these detailed tutorials/guides!
The breeding mechanics in ARK are very simple, but the correct process for stacking mutations and min-maxing tames has no room for error which is what makes it exceptionally confusing.
This is magnificently put together (:
Oh my gosh watched through the whole video and can honestly say I went from knowing nothing about mutations to being able to do it with no problem at all, thank you!
This is by far the most comprehensive breeding guide I have watched! Thank you for the simple explanations and the reiterating of the important points.
Thank you very much for your support.
"Ive cleared out all the other ones..." LoL Slaughterhouse Great video!!!
Thank you very much.
This was the vid I discovered the channel with; refreshing, thorough, and informative (even as an Alpha tribe member with some significant breeding experience). And ya hang with nooblets? Sold. Great guide here.
Thank you.
a year later and i still come back to this anytime i get back into ark after a hiatus, damn good vid and beyond helpful
*Watches video about breeding, forgets he has dinos hatching* they were all dead
Oh wow lmao what dinos were they?
Yknow i kind of hate that and sometimes ark fucks you and erases evidence, like ill have some rex eggs hatching>go watch a video>leave them unclaimed for about 5 mins>apparently they starve and died? but bodies take 30 mins to despawn on my server but there are no bodies. Ark is sus
This finally learned me how to breed properly after 2 months of searching
THX SOOOO MUCH!!!
I play this game for 6 damn years and only now understand how to properly do it
damn girl ... you can explain the mysteries of ARK creation ... I'm trying to do this with some TEK REX on my private server, with increased rates for months ... Congratulations for your patience ... I always get distracted and go do other stuff...
By the way... nice base, can't wait for the making of :P
Yes, this took about a month to complete in total Not my base by the way. You should check out NOOBLETS most recent ARK video, it's his base.
This is the only video i could find where you actually do what you are explaining! I really appreciate this!
This deserves so much more credit
thank you for your support.
This is literally the only video I found that managed to explain it well. Thanks!
Thank you. I tried to be as thurough as possible since this is a very difficult process to start especially for someone who has never done this before.
Finally a video that is detailed and explained very well. I understand the process now! Thank you
I literally- I'm speechless on how descriptive and useful this video is thank you so much!
thank you for your support.
Amazing guide! I think we all can appreciate how much work was put into this.
Glad you think so!
I tried this with my thylacoleos and dude, it's a looooot of damage that the mutation 20/20 does, before i forget, thanks a lot for this great tutorial :)
I commend you on reaching 20/20 with a non-egg laying dino
@@Travnorton5 yessss, a 20/20 on offi settings with Mossas 🤣
I could not thank you enough. After countless guides this is the best guide. I went from confused to understanding and the way you explained is top tier. God bless❤
thank you so much. I am glad that after all of these years that this is still helpful! If you have any questions about breeding you are more than welcome to join my discord on my main RUclips page (link is at the top right) cheers!
This is a perfect guide, take a little while to get it into your head when the females come along but works a treat.
I am now a master breeder!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video!
I've bred some impressive creatures, but now I can up my game.
Finally, a detailed, clear, and comprehensive guide to breeding. I had to learn the hard way, as there was no such guide when I started.
Well done meshell. Great to see the shard in action too 😉
Imagine that therizinosaur is Anakin qnd the baby rexes qre the younglings
*Sorry little ones*
That would be a great name for that Therizino
Hey
You are making me want to take a month off of work and breed like a mad man.
Normally when someone says this on RUclips it is SOOO inappropriate! Finally a time where it’s not! 🤣
@@babybirdhome LOL! I mean her voice tho... LOL
I have been playing ark for awhile and been completely clueless on breeding thank you so much you explained it sooo soooo well
This has to be the best single source for breeding info I have ever seen (7000 hours i ARK) and I now know what I am doing the next few weeks...
Thank You.
This is a perfect guide, the fact you took your time to do this for people is awsome 10/10. There is only 1 thing I'm sad about, not seeing them in action after all the time you put in to it. Keep up the good work
"Color means nothing to me."
*5 minutes later*
"Omg this blue is so ugly lets hope it goes away"
Color was fire
@@jsnoozy513 No... the color was blue.
@@jsnoozy513 yeah I agree
As others have said: This is truly the best guide I could find for a beginner to mutations. Other guides do provide correct information, but they're short, cramming information into 20-30min which leaves out details. This is detailed, and shows clearly how to do it. Straight and to the point. Not just saying how and only showing the results, but the detail of what it should look like as you go, and reminders.
I really appreciate the feedback. Thank you very much
Ty so much for posting this video. I've spent a very long time trying to breed higher level Rex's and couldn't get it "quite right" You explained it perfectly. I play on official so it's going to take me a really long time but it'll be very worth it. Thnx again :)
You play on official? Kudos to you for sticking with it. I'm very glad the video helped. Ty
After I’ve learned every step on breeding 1 year later I still watch this video every time i start breeding again 😂 this by far is the best breeding tutorial ever 👏👏👏 well done and thank you for this 🙏
Oh my gawd! I've never really understood how breeding works, but this made it so easy to understand. THANK YOU!
Thank you.
Very informative and helpful. This is the only video on this subject so far that I've watched that has actually helped me understand the topic and not walk away scratching my head feeling like an idiot. Lol. Thank you!
kudos for making 2h long breeding/mutation vid still helps 2022 newbies like me 😁 thanks !
ty
Newish to Ark, even newer to breeding and trying out mutation stacking. I have watched this video a fee times and can now honestly say I have a better understanding of it thanks to you. Started with beryonyx (never been in a cave and heard he was pretty beast at them) I'm currently at the point of breeding for my Base females. Getting the best stats on your base dinos takes time but it's gonna be worth it. Going for Tek Rex's after the beryonyx.
The hardest part is killing all the babies with bad stats :(
HasteWolf yeah my wife doesn’t like that part, I’ve killed maybe 10000 babies at this point lol
.-. This hit right on the feels
I find it quite easy. One time I was teaching a friend how to breed and showed him all the cute babies and while he was admiring them I proceeded to slaughter them all, I like dark humor.
I showed my dad the game while I was breeding for stats, he’s never looked at me the same. 🥴🥴🥴
i keep the females for eggs hoping they can still pump out good stats how do u think i got
my 1.2k melee giga line
I jus want to say that I watched all the 15 minute guides from RUclipsrs that claimed they had the ultimate guide however I didn't even remotely understand mutations and how to stack them until this video. Thank you for taking the time and actually putting it ALL on video and explaining it. U have earned my sub forever
What a wonderful video you made, thanks for the insane amount off work you put in, i finally understand how this works now.
I also liked on Steam because its the least i can do.
Thank you. It did take a very long time to put this together.
but there is still a better way
@@Luis-md9wp well when you made a video about it let me know :-)
Hands down the best guide on RUclips very well explained and easy to follow tyvm for the guide can only imagine how much times gone in to this. Subbed and liked P.S can you add exact server settings you are using so i can use them please. keep up the good work.
Thank you very much. It did take a while.
ruclips.net/video/3oqQTqTV2wE/видео.html I am on Nooblets. Server. He just put out his server settings for the maps. This is exactly what I have been using. Hope this helps.
Great video, my only question is after all 60 stat mutations have been fulfilled, can a color mutation come out of breeding the final Male and Female?
Best part is this is how you get rid of "the excess" Worst part it the game volume... the stomping.... by far the best guide i've seen so far! Fool proof!
This answered almost every confused question I had. VERY THOROUGH. Thank you so much. you have a sub and like from me!
Thank you for checking this out. I wanted to be thorough so that everyone can learn how to do this.
Very informative video. Just curios with the “FINAL FEMALE” and “FINAL MALE” is it possible to get color mutations when breeding them or does the mutation cap prevent this?
you can still get color muts on final.
I don't believe you can. You need a mutation for a new color. You can try however to breed those final rexes with already colored dinos but I don't think the result will be the highest possible level.
Fantastic guide, I just wished you had done an imprint on a 4th one at the end
1 year later and I’m still referencing this guide, thank you for taking time out of your day to make this video!
i appreciate it, thx
Absolutely fantastic tutorial, Thank you!
of course thank you
Amazing video, making one of if not the most complicated things in ark as simple as possible but still giving all the info needed. This has to be the best and easiest guides to help with mutations.
You can run those chains farther than 20 mutations on one side as long as you are breeding with a base dino. I currently have Rex line with over 32k hp and 1213 melee at birth. You also need to talk about the dino level cap and how to breed while keeping dinos under the ultimate level cap. Dinos that break the cap can disappear (on official servers) and you lose the dino and all items in the inventory when that happens. The cap used to be 450 (in the past a dino would disappear if leveled above 450 the next time the server reset so we wanted our dinos born at 376 or under so the last level would be at 449 and there would be no risk of the dino disappearing.) but when they changed max level up for Dinos from 73 to 88 that probably changed to top cap and I have not seen a video on that yet. (Also eggs that hatched with a birth level over 450 would hatch without a baby because it disappeared at birth) Sometimes lesser stats like food or oxygen need to be bread down to make room for levels in more desirable stats. I also wonder if you were limited to 61 levels because 389+61 was 450. If you found a dino with lower food and/or oxygen and bread it with your final dinos to bring down the birth level under 376 I am willing to bet you max level increase would be greater than 61 levels.
more than 61 one levels could have been added on there, it just didn't have enough experience. the xp bar was not full after pumping the levels, also fairly sure the mutation cap is a setting which can be changed and default is 20 and if you continue after 20 mutations with the cap of 20 it will say 21/20 mutations and will get a colour change but no stat difference. or at least that is my understanding of it
So would you stop getting the next level in a chain of mutation if your dino level reached a certain percentage or stat number. We have been trying to find the next level in our chain, but our dino's were pretty high level to start and we can't seem to get past the fourth mutation in our chain. I am wondering with this cap if it can tell when a dino stat is at a max capacity and then will no longer give a mutation for that stat. We do however keep seeing different mutations. Any insight?
From memory unless it has changed it is 255 levels per stat then they cap
Wyatt Derp not sure if you’ll answer back or not but I bred a female melee/health with a male Stam Rex. I got triplets, and it’s the base stats for health/melee/health. I looked at them and it has a mutation on all three. There all lvl 303 I need them and got a 305 mutation with 2 mutations on it but not on something showing like it doesn’t show a an increase in any stat. If you could help that would be great
@@akcristianv9152 mutations that do not show are normally in movement speed and are wasted mutations since that is a fixed number. Sometimes it could be in one of the stats you are not focused on like food or oxygen.
I’ve had difficulties figuring mutations and now thanks to you I got the understanding of it. Thank you. ❤
thank you so much! glad it still helps after these years
25:23 Without context, this seems like an episode of Dateline in the making.
Yes it does! Lmao! That's hilarious!
You should let that Therizinosaur go so it can enjoy what’s left of its life because it is going straight to Hell when it’s over.
In case anyone makes the same as me, I just started breeding and I was getting levels that were all over the place. I had forgotten to do step 3. And get flat stats across the board for the base pairs
Does that prevent stack mutation ?
@@aqwmba7391 no but u prolly jus wont be able to figure out what stats r mutated. now if u jus care about colors then it shouldnt matter
I've watched a lot of mutation vids recently. This is the most thorough and fully explained guide to breeding and clean stacking. Thank you for your time, cheers!
20 minutes in I know I did my first mutations wrong
Same
Me too. 😞
24:10 Execute order 66
That Theri must be a vegan after that.
@@poptartsmcgee1992 They already are
Wait...
Idk how I didn’t notice that
Great guide.
At the end of all that you could have also bred in low oxy/food/speed to lower their level, and have more room for levelups before hitting the level cap at 450. I believe that way you could have gotten a total of 88 levelups instead of 61.
Wait so if you do all the highest level of stats in all categories at the end of your final birds.. you can then breed that top bird with a low bird and lower oxygen, food, speed? Which will give you your points back in a sense ? Is that what I'm understanding?