How does the egg incubator work ark?

The Incubator cuts the hatch time down. The maximum boost is 20%, which can be reached if the device is set to maintain the egg's best temperature (which is the middle point of the temperature range needed to hatch the egg, rounded half up).
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Why is my egg not incubating in Ark?

To incubate, the egg must be placed directly on the floor/ground; if the temperature is not correct, the egg will lose health until it dies. The incubation can be "paused" by picking up the egg. Place the egg in a refrigerator to preserve it longer, the incubation progress will be saved.
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How do you keep eggs warm in Ark?

To heat an egg up, get some fire near it. To cool it down, either dip it in water or set up air conditioning. Keeping the egg at the proper temperature will eventually hatch it in ARK. How long the egg takes to hatch will vary based on the species, larger creatures usually taking longer to hatch.
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How do you force hatch eggs in Ark?

The Admin Command is Cheat hatchegg. This will instantly Hatch any egg. I am not sure if it works on Gestating Mammals I have not yet Tested it. Is it a target command?
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How do you speed up gestation in Ark?

For the first one, make it smaller to decrease the interval between when a female can mate again. For the last two, you make them bigger to decrease the mature/egg hatching/gestation speed.
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How does breeding work in Ark?

Once the mating bar is completed, non-mammalian females drop a single fertilized egg , and mammalian females start gestating. If there are too many tamed creatures in the server or in the tribe, the pair will refuse to mate until there is a free spot.
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How do I make eggs not cold in Ark?

Unfortunately, the only real source of cooling the egg down (other than dunking it in water) is an air-conditioning which can be costly to build. For heat you can simply use a combination of torches and/or campfires surrounding the egg to get an adequate source of warmth.
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Can you hatch an egg without an incubator?

Ways to Incubate Eggs. Unfortunately, there's no way to hatch eggs without a proper incubator or willing hen.
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What puts off the most heat in Ark?

Lava- Lava creates pockets of hot air (typically above & near the lava) that will raise the player's Temperature dramatically, and decrease hydration faster.
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What does gestation monitoring do in ARK?

New Egg Incubator Buff "Gestation Monitoring" - activating this buff grants your character the ability to view the embyro's stats of gestating creatures or reset the creature's gestation.
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How do you set the temperature in an incubator?

How do I adjust the temperature in the incubator? The electronic thermostat incubators are self regulating. You need do nothing. If you do not have an electronic thermostat incubator then the temperature is adjusted by loosening the wing nut and turning the L shaped metal dial on the top of the incubator.
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Can you fertilize unfertilized eggs in Ark?

Females will produce non-fertilised eggs every so often on their own. There's no way to fertilise these. To get a fertile one you have to lock a male and female in close proximity to each other and enable wandering mode, then they will mate and produce a feritle egg which can be hatched.
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How many campfires does it take to hatch a Rex egg?

I use 6 of them to hatch all my eggs but that really depends on the temp ranges of where your base is at. It is possible (via use of Dimetrodons if you don't want to watch the eggs constantly with standing torches).
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Can you hatch unfertilized eggs in Ark?

These eggs are not fertilized, and cannot be used to hatch a creature. They can, however, be used for kibble and thus are extremely valuable.
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How do you cool a fertilized egg in Ark?

If you go to the volcano the temperature should sit just right for you at night. Add in an ac for day time and fire just in case and you're set :) 3x3 foundation building, 8 ac units in a horseshoe, eggs in the center; has worked fine for every egg I've done.
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Can you have human babies in Ark?

Two players can mate and have an ai offspring. It's capable of defending and stuff. But if you abandon the ai human it has a chance of finding other abandon ai humans and start forming a tribe.
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What determines baby level ark?

Baby dino levels are a sum of their stats. So if you have two rexes, one with ten levels in HP and ten in melee, and another with just one level in both HP and melee - The baby could inherit both the lower stats, in which case it's level will be 2. Or it could inherit the higher, so it's level will be 20.
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Does breeding level matter ark?

The actual level is kinda irrelevant since a lower level creature with a lot of points in health or melee is better than a higher level creature that got a completely average distribution of points or most points in food/oxygen. You just want each stat to be as high as possible so it can be passed on to its baby.
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