Dino, level, stats.

[frolda39]

hi i am trying to breeding rex. female lvl 283, and male 280 lvl. it's always baby lvl 210-220 but stats still keep the same, healt 7900, stat1700, ox630, food 11000, weight 960, dmg 481.. baby when I do max level so 283 more can not go. how do i make more lvl and more stats?

[PrimalBroom744]

On 9/13/2017 at 7:55 AM, frolda39 said:

hi i am trying to breeding rex. female lvl 283, and male 280 lvl. it's always baby lvl 210-220 but stats still keep the same, healt 7900, stat1700, ox630, food 11000, weight 960, dmg 481.. baby when I do max level so 283 more can not go. how do i make more lvl and more stats?

You need to change your blood lines around. The only thing that matters is what the lvl/stats are when it was hatched or tamed out at. If you constantly breed the same pair or rexs from the same blood line you will constantly get the same stats as nothing new has been added to the blood line. As far as the line your talking about these sound like they are 4th/5th gen rexs . You should still be fine to look for 150 rexs to add into the blood line to help increase the stats if they have high stats for instance you would do good to find a higher food, oxygen, stam. You will need to find rexs that have stats that are higher than normal. as far as lvl is concerned it doesn't really matter what stats it is. High food and oxygen will even help increase lvl but, adding in new blood to create multiple blood lines will be important early on so that you can really help boost your bloodlines as you get latter on into 10-15 gen rexs.

[devid20]

use the smart breeding program https://github.com/cadon/ARKStatsExtractor

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On 9/13/2017 at 10:55 AM, frolda39 said:

hi i am trying to breeding rex. female lvl 283, and male 280 lvl. it's always baby lvl 210-220 but stats still keep the same, healt 7900, stat1700, ox630, food 11000, weight 960, dmg 481.. baby when I do max level so 283 more can not go. how do i make more lvl and more stats?

The fact that the parents are currently Lvl 283 and 280 does not matter for breeding, what matters is what level they were when you first tamed them. When you tame a dino, when it finishes taming and the window pops up to name that dino - that is the level that matters for breeding, and those are the stats that matter for breeding. It doesn't matter what levels and what stats they get after taming.

[RossBoys3]

Basically, tame more wild dinos with better base stats and then try to breed those specific stats into the line and that will raise the dino's level

 

[MrNobody1]

Is the level relevant on the wild dinos?

 

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On 1/11/2018 at 11:51 AM, MrNobody1 said:

Is the level relevant on the wild dinos?

Short answer: Yes.

 

Why? Because the level of the dino dictates the number of stat upgrades the dino has had.

Think of it this way, imagine that wild a dino is born at Lvl 1, every Rex is born with exactly the same stats at Lvl 1. Now, the dino grows a little bit and levels up to Lvl 2 - when this happens that level gets applied to only one stat, let's say it's health. Then it grows a little more and becomes level three. Now another level gets added to one of the stats, let's say it's health again. At this point the baby Rex is Lvl 3, with the basic Lvl 1 stats plus 2 levels of Health. Now it gains a fourth level, and that level goes to Oxygen, so now we have a Lvl 4 Rex with the base Level 1 stats, plus 2 levels in Health and 1 level in Oxygen.

It keeps "growing" this way until it reaches the max level when you find it in the wild. You find that Rex in the wild, let's say it's a Lvl 120 - this means that the Rex has the level 1 stats, plus it has 119 more levels distributed among the 7 stats. You might get lucky and that Rex got a lot of Melee, or you might get unlucky and it got a lot of Oxygen or Food (or even worse, it got a lot of levels in Movement Speed, which does absolutely nothing for you or the dino and just completely wastes those levels.

Now let's compare that Lvl 120 to a Lvl 150 - the 150 has 30 more levels that have been applied to its stats, which means that on average all of its stats will be a little bit higher than the 120, or if you got lucky it will have a lot of levels in a single stat. Those are the dinos you want to keep for breeding, the ones that have a lot of levels in a single stat. You want to start breeding them together with the goal of having offspring that have the best stats from both parents. Then you breed that offspring with a dino that has some other stat unusually high. By adding in one good stat at a time into your bloodline you eventually create a bloodline that combines the best stats from a bunch of lucky ancestors.

Mind you, it's possible for a Lvl 120 to have an unusually high stat, but it's more likely for a 150 to have it, especially if you do a perfect tame (use kibble and do everything just right). If you're taming for every day use, then Lvl 120's are perfectly fine for almost everything in the game. But if you're taming dinos in the hope that you'll get dinos with one stat being unusually high, you have a better chance of this happening with Lvl 140-150 dinos.

[MrNobody1]

Never really looked at it that way, thanks for the effort and making this topic a little clearer!