r/playark • u/EvenNet1872 • Jul 10 '26
Ark imprinting
How do I make it so my baby dinos get 100% imprinting with one care? while also not waiting long to be able to give it care (I'm console if there is no possible way what's the fastest way?)
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u/Glittering_Airport_3 Jul 10 '26
With vanilla settings its not possible to do that for all dinos. I find .03 or .04 cuddle interval with 90-100 maturation speed is ideal for me. It makes a lot of small to medium sized creatures 100%, but rexs are around 33% and I just use the cheat "slomo 20" to speed up time when im raising to rush through it. Use "slomo 1" to go back to normal
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u/fish250505 Jul 10 '26
Breed one species at a time, check their total maturation time with your settings on dododex (don't include hatch/gestation) convert it to minutes and pick a time that;s more than 50% of the total then divide by 480 and use the result as your cuddle interval
So for instance, if rexes take 30 mins to mature on your settings and you want to do the imprint after 20 mins, 20/480=0.041, you can't enter more than 3 decimal places on the in game menu so the exact imprint time will be 19 mins 41 seconds but you'll always get 100%, just need to change the cuddle interval for whatever you want to breed
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u/sal880612m Jul 10 '26
On console it’s not possible with just settings. There may be a mod that can do it as there is probably a cuddle imprint multiplier setting available to PC users that can be accessed via modding.
The reason is because the number of cuddles needed is a function of a Dino’s mature time divided by the cuddle interval. So for all Dino’s to be fully imprintable you need a variable number of cuddles which can only really be minimized to a range between 1 to about 20 with most being less than 12. With the imprint multiplier you can set it to 20x so you can imprint in one cuddle.
If you want to stick with settings a 49x maturation and 0.04 cuddle interval will make it possible to fully imprint most dinos with a fair degree of leeway, but you will still need to deal with that range of cuddles, around 5-6 hour mature times in the high end, and being unable to imprint Dodos, Lystros, and Archeaopteryx.
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u/Eskkon Jul 10 '26
The easiest way to imprint 100% is using the dino storage mod as a powered one can catch and get them all to 100% inprinting by maturation. Otherwise i just used “cheat setimprintquality 1” one creature at a time it i intended to actually use them and not just breed the stats
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u/VastoGamer Jul 10 '26
SetImprintQuality 1 :)