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Baby Tracker Guide

Practical guidance for using Ark Baby Tracker's live UI to plan food, track batches, and time trough depletion.

🚀 Quick Start
  • • Click Open Baby Tracker
  • • Add batches via the UI (creature, count, food)
  • • Start trough depletion timers by adding troughs per food type
🍖 Food Planning
  • • Use Total Food and Baby Food panels to plan farm runs
  • • Tek Troughs have 100 slots; standard have 60; Maewings have 300.
  • • Enable “Account for spoiling” to factor spoilage into ETAs
  • • Customize stack sizes for modded servers in Change Rates → Stack Sizes
🕒 Staying On Schedule
  • • Trough Analysis shows phase‑by‑phase consumption and stage transitions
  • • Imprint timers preserve their original countdown when rates change

Creature selection

Start by adding a batch: choose your creature, set the batch amount (how many), and optionally set the current maturation % if they aren't newborns. Use the ASA / ASE toggle on the main page to switch game versions before adding.

  • Food type auto-fills based on the creature. You can change it later from the batch card.
  • Maturation % controls time-to-stage and consumption rates immediately.
  • Each new batch gets a Batch # for quick reference in analysis.

Adding troughs

In Trough Management, pick a trough type and food, then either enter a number of full troughs or a precise item count. Maewings support an optional Food stat and Preserving Salt for more accurate ETAs.

  • Feeding Trough: 60 slots. Tek Trough: 100 slots. Maewings: 300.
  • Enable Account for spoiling to include spoilage in depletion timing.
  • Click the info button next to any running ETA to see a full phase breakdown.

Batch cards

Each batch shows maturation %, time remaining, and live consumption rate. Click the food on the right to change food for that batch. Use the pencil icon to edit the count.

  • 🍼 Baby🧒 Juvenile🎓 Adolescent🦖 Adult stages update live.
  • Imprint timers appear on batches that support imprinting.
  • Special feeders (Wyvern/Rock Drake) include manual reservoirs with countdowns.

Areas

Areas let you group batches and troughs by base, outpost, or breeding location. Each area has its own list of batches and troughs.

  • Rename the current area from the Area header.
  • Use the Areas menu to add, switch, or remove areas.
  • Timers, totals, and trough ETAs are scoped to the currently selected area.

Rates, presets, and stack sizes

The Change Rates window lets you choose a preset for official servers or set custom rates for an unofficial server. This window also lets you define stack sizes for common foods so that spoilage is calculated accurately in trough ETAs.

You can open this window from two places: the header of the expanded batch view, or the gear button at the top of the Baby Tracker sidebar.

Food Stat Buffer

Use the Food Stat Buffer button (near the gear button in the Baby Tracker sidebar) to assume additional Food gained as creatures mature. This refines per‑minute consumption and total food projections for edge cases and Food‑heavy creatures.

Server Down / Back Up controls

At the top of the Baby Tracker sidebar you’ll find Server Down and Server Back Up controls. These are visible only in the normal sidebar view (not in expanded batch view). Use them to pause/resume live ticking so countdowns and catch‑up logic stay accurate while your server is offline.

Core UI concepts

  • Total Food Needed: lifetime food to reach adulthood per food type.
  • Baby Food (Maewing): food needed to reach juvenile (10%).
  • Trough Management: add troughs by type and food; start depletion timers.
  • Trough Analysis: click the info button to the right of the ticking trough depletion time to see consumption phases, stage changes, and spoilage tails.
  • Change Rates: apply presets or set custom multipliers and stack sizes.

Expanded Batch View

Use Expand Batch View (above the batches list) to switch to a full‑screen layout focused on batches. In this mode, the header includes quick actions:

  • Imprint Batch: record an imprint on any tracked batch.
  • Change Rates: open the rates window from the header.

Applying Imprint

For creatures that support imprinting, the batch card shows a Next imprint timer. In Expanded Batch View, use the Imprint Batch button in the header to record an imprint for the desired batch. The tracker updates the imprint progress and the timer to the next cuddle automatically.

  • Open Expanded Batch View and click Imprint Batch.
  • Select the target batch and confirm the imprint.

Using Baby Tracker on Mobile

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🙏 Credits

Along our journey, we were inspired and assisted by the incredible ARK resource apps and communities that came before us. We wish to extend our gratitude to the following for paving the way: