Troodon Egg

An egg from the Troodon

Troodons drop this egg at random in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Players can eat it or cook with it, and its item text says: "Tremendously nourishing by itself, this egg provides regular nutritional value in many cooking recipes." A fertilized variant also exists.

Kibble made from it

Besides being food on its own, the egg goes into Regular Kibble. The ARK Wiki lists a long range of creatures tamed with that kibble, for example the Sabertooth, Stegosaurus, Pteranodon, Carnotaurus and Velonasaur, plus any creature that takes Basic Kibble or Simple Kibble.

Hatching a baby Troodon

When two Troodons mate, the egg they produce can hatch into a baby Troodon. Hatching takes 1h 8m 10.582s. The egg needs between 28 and 32 °C (82 to 90 °F); outside that range it starts losing health. An Egg Incubator set to the best temperature can cut the time by up to 20%. A female can lay again after a wait of 18h to 2d.

Taking eggs from the wild

Picking up an egg while wild Troodons are around turns them hostile, and the ARK Wiki warns that this can mean almost instant death. Its advice is to scout the area first, take the egg carefully, then run to the nearest water and cross it: Troodons are quick on land but swim badly.

Weight, spoiling and maps

An egg weighs 3 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 300. It spoils after 691200 seconds, which is 192 hours or 8 days, and the wiki gives it a decompose time of 1800 seconds. Our records list it on 8 maps, among them The Island, Astraeos, Valguero and Lost Colony. The egg was added in patch 253.0.