Arthropluera Egg

An egg that stays where it is laid

Arthropluera Eggs appear once two Arthroplueras have mated, and hatching one gives a baby Arthropluera. The in-game text reads: "Eat it to gain tremendous nourishment, or use it in recipies, or..." The egg has records in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and our database lists it on The Island, Scorched Earth and The Center.

What sets it apart, per the ARK Wiki, is that a survivor has no way to pick it up. It has to hatch on the spot where it was laid, with a fire place close by to incubate it. The other option is to move the female next to several Air Conditioner units before she lays, so the egg ends up near them.

Hatching temperature and timing

The egg needs between 18 and 22 °C (64 to 72 °F); outside that band it starts losing health. Hatching takes 2h 29m 59.28s, and an Egg Incubator set to the best temperature can cut that time by as much as 20%. After laying, a female needs between 18h and 2d before she is able to produce another egg.

Weight, spoiling and history

Our records give the egg a weight of 16, a stack size of 100 and a spoil time of 192 hours (8 days). The wiki notes that before patch 316.18 the Arthropluera had no gender and could not be bred; the egg itself was added in 316.18. In ASE it shares its icon with the Bloodstalker Egg, while the ASA icon shows the egg's real in-game colours.