Hesperornis
Spawn command
GMSummon spawns a creature already tamed to you at the chosen level.
Spawn class
Base stats
- Health
- 95
- Stamina
- 200
- Oxygen
- 150
- Food
- 900
- Weight
- 70
- Melee Damage
- 100%
- Movement Speed
- 100%
- Torpidity
- 300
Wild base values at level 1. Stats not shown use the game default.
Taming calculator (passive tame)
Rates come from your server profile — set them once and every calculator updates.
| Food | Use / Max | Time | Effectiveness |
|---|---|---|---|
 Kibble (preferred)85 food · 32.2% per item | /4 | 4m 33s | 99.4% +74 → Lv 224 |
 Raw Mutton50 food · 15.1% per item | /7 | 4m 40s | 97.6% +73 → Lv 223 |
 Raw Prime Meat50 food · 12.1% per item | /9 | 6m 0s | 96.2% +72 → Lv 222 |
 Cooked Lamb Chop50 food · 8.2% per item | /13 | 8m 40s | 92.3% +69 → Lv 219 |
 Spoiled Meat50 food · 8.1% per item | /13 | 8m 40s | 92.2% +69 → Lv 219 |
 Cooked Prime Meat50 food · 6.0% per item | /17 | 11m 20s | 87.1% +65 → Lv 215 |
 Raw Prime Fish Meat25 food · 4.8% per item | /21 | 7m 0s | 81.4% +61 → Lv 211 |
 Raw Meat50 food · 4.0% per item | /25 | 16m 40s | 75.4% +56 → Lv 206 |
 Cooked Prime Fish Meat25 food · 2.4% per item | /42 | 14m 0s | 52.3% +39 → Lv 189 |
 Cooked Meat25 food · 2.0% per item | /50 | 16m 40s | 43.4% +32 → Lv 182 |
 Raw Fish Meat25 food · 1.6% per item | /63 | 21m 0s | 32.8% +24 → Lv 174 |
 Cooked Fish Meat25 food · 0.8% per item | /125 | 41m 40s | 10.9% +8 → Lv 158 |
Passive tame. Approach the unmounted creature and feed it from your last inventory slot — no knockout needed. Set a quantity on any row to plan a mix; higher-affinity foods keep effectiveness up, so feed those first.
Stat calculator
| Stat | Wild level | Domesticated level | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 96 | ||
| Stamina | 200 | ||
| Oxygen | 150 | ||
| Food | 1,035 | ||
| Weight | 70 | ||
| Melee Damage | 280% | ||
| Movement Speed | — | 100% | |
| Torpidity | — | 301 |
Forward calculator. Enter the wild points a creature rolled (and domesticated points you spend after taming) to get each stat's value. Uses official-server rates with no imprint bonus. Melee and movement speed are shown as a percentage; taming effectiveness only boosts stats with a taming bonus (such as melee).
Breeding calculator
Rates come from your server profile — set them once and every calculator updates.
Hand-feed (no trough) for the first 2h 48m — until Tomorrow 2:28 AM.
- Egg hatchesToday 10:09 PMIncubation done+0s
- Hand-feed window endsTomorrow 2:28 AMSafe to use a trough+4h 19m
- Adolescent reachedTomorrow 1:42 PM+15h 32m
- Adult reachedSun 3:44 AM+1d 5h
| Cuddle | After | Clock | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | +8h | Tomorrow 6:09 AM | 33% |
| #2 | +16h | Tomorrow 2:09 PM | 67% |
| #3 | +1d | Tomorrow 10:09 PM | 100% |
Raising. The Baby phase (0–10%) is the dangerous window — the baby can't eat from a feeding trough and must be hand-fed until it reaches Juvenile. Imprint at each cuddle interval for the full bonus. Wall-clock times assume the egg is fertilized now and rescale with your server profile; mating cooldown is unaffected. Imprint counts assume the default imprint amount — tune that on the imprint calculator.
Where to find
Wild Hesperornis spawn zones across the catalogued maps. Each dot is a spawn cluster — open the full interactive map for exact GPS and a teleport command.
Combat & handling
- Base melee damage
- 0
- Land Bite damage
- 1
- Dive Bite damage
- 25
- Atop Water Bite damage
- 10
- Drag weight
- 70
- XP on kill (base)
- 0.5
- Cloning cost (base)
- 625 element shards
Hesperornis guide
The Hesperornis is a carnivore in ARK: Survival Ascended. It spawns wild on The Island and Extinction. This page covers its spawn commands, base stats, taming and breeding — with interactive calculators you can drive by level.
How to tame the Hesperornis
The Hesperornis is a passive tame — no knockout needed. Approach it carefully without weapons drawn and feed it raw meat — with raw prime meat, cooked meat or its preferred kibble taming faster and keeping effectiveness higher from your last inventory slot, waiting for the feeding cooldown between each. Staying out of its line of sight and avoiding sudden moves stops it fleeing or turning hostile.
Hesperornis spawn command
To spawn a wild Hesperornis, open the console and run its Summon command. To spawn one already tamed at a chosen level, use GMSummon instead — both are copy-ready in the Spawn commands panel above, along with the raw spawn class (Hesperornis_Character_BP_C) for use with commands like SpawnDino.
Breeding the Hesperornis
The Hesperornis can be bred. Fertilized eggs must be incubated at the right temperature before they hatch. Use the breeding calculator above to plan mating cooldowns, incubation or gestation time, and the maturation timeline from baby to adult, including the imprinting schedule.