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ARK: Survival Ascended - Breeding Guide for Mutations (2025)
This guide explains how to breed creatures in ARK: Survival Ascended to obtain mutations, improve stats and colors. It covers the mechanics of inheritance, breeding setup, mutation transfer, and the use of mutable traits to optimize the breeding process.
1. 🧬 Introduction to Mutations in ARK: Why are they important?
- ✅ Mutations are crucial for improving creatures in ARK, impacting boss fights, resource gathering, and PvP survival.
- ✅ Mutations affect both the stats and colors of creatures.
- ✅ The base probability of obtaining a mutation is 7.3% when both parents have fewer than 20 mutations in their family tree.
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1. 🧬 Introduction to Mutations in ARK: Why are they important?
- ✅ Mutations are crucial for improving creatures in ARK, impacting boss fights, resource gathering, and PvP survival.
- ✅ Mutations affect both the stats and colors of creatures.
- ✅ The base probability of obtaining a mutation is 7.3% when both parents have fewer than 20 mutations in their family tree.
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2. 🔢 Mutation Probabilities and How to Identify Them
- ✅ The probabilities of obtaining two or three mutations are low (0.18% and 0.004% respectively).
- ✅ The mutation probability decreases to 4.07% when one parent has more than 20 mutations.
- ✅ Mutations are identified by the increase in the creature's level and in the family tree.
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3. 🌳 Understanding the Ancestry for Mutation Breeding
- ✅ The family tree shows the breeding history of a creature, divided into maternal and paternal lines.
- ✅ The number of mutations on each side of the family tree is crucial for selective breeding.
- ✅ It is important to avoid random breeding to avoid inflating the number of mutations without obtaining real benefits.
- ✅ Once both parents exceed 20 mutations, no new mutations can be obtained.
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4. ⚙️ Effective Breeding: Setup and Partner Selection
- ✅ The first step is to tame a wild breeding pair and compare their stats.
- ✅ It is crucial to breed creatures with the same stats and base level to control where mutations appear.
- ✅ In the example, Daththeriums with 49 points in health and 50 in melee damage, both level 244, are used.
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5. 👩🌾 Creating Base Breeding Lines and Using Mods
- ✅ Multiple base females (with 0/20 mutations) are bred to mate with a mutated male.
- ✅ It is recommended to have different breeding groups for each stat (health, attack, etc.).
- ✅ Mods can be used to facilitate breeding and stat tracking, but the video focuses on vanilla breeding.
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6. 📈 Organization of Mutation Lines and Nomenclature
- ✅ Breeding lines are separated by stats (health and melee damage in the example).
- ✅ Mutations are named according to the points they add (e.g., "Health 2" indicates a mutation in health that adds 2 points).
- ✅ Base females are bred with mutated males to obtain new mutations in each stat.
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7. ♀️♂️ Handling Female Mutations and Male Line Efficiency
- ✅ If a female is born with a mutation, she can be bred with a base male until a mutated male is obtained.
- ✅ It is more efficient to use the male line to transmit mutations to multiple females.
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8. 💪 Combining Lines and Exceeding the 20 Mutation Limit
- ✅ Once satisfied with the mutations in each line, they are combined by breeding a male from one stat with females from another.
- ✅ Although the probability decreases, breeding can continue after reaching 20 mutations, preferably with mutated males and base females.
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9. 🔄 Mutation Transfer in ASA
- ✅ ASA allows mutations to be transferred to better stats.
- ✅ Example: If a creature has 35 points in attack and is bred to obtain 10 mutations (55 points), and then a creature with 50 base points is found, the mutations can be transferred to obtain 70 points.
- ✅ This feature is not available in ASE.
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10. 📉 Negative Mutations and Their Utility
- ✅ Excessive breeding of mutated creatures can result in negative mutations.
- ✅ Creatures with negative mutations can still obtain new mutations, even after exceeding the limit of 20.
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11. ✨ Mutable Traits and Genetic Scanners
- ✅ ASA introduces mutable traits that increase the probability of mutation in a specific stat.
- ✅ A genetic scanner is needed to extract and apply these traits to the offspring.
- ✅ Traits do not guarantee mutations, but they increase the chances.
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12. 🎨 Breeding for Colors: Tips and Strategies
- ✅ Each mutation comes with a color, but not all color regions are shown on all creatures.
- ✅ It is recommended to save the desired colors and combine them separately before combining them with the stats.
- ✅ It is not recommended to combine colors in the main breeding line to avoid inflating the number of mutations.
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13. 👋 Conclusion and Additional Tips
- ✅ Viewers are encouraged to share their own tips and tricks in the comments.
- ✅ Help is offered to answer questions in the comments section.